Altamira Press: 384 books
The Small Nation Solution
How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is...
Darwin's Legacy
Scenarios in Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution compares ideas about human evolution Darwin published in The Descent of Man in 1891 to 30 scenarios about the evolution of such unique human characteristics as bipedalism, hairless skin, secondary sex characters, language and culture that anthropologists...
Saharan Rock Art
Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
The Neolithic rock images of Iheren, Algeria are the starting point for Augustin Holl's careful analysis of the iconography of Saharan rock art. Created in the third millennium B.C., the Iheren murals are over 3 meters wide and contain multiple compositions that present an allegorical depiction of...
Presenting Archaeology to the Public
Digging for Truths
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1997
In the face of increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are collaborating with historians, museum curators, and exhibit designers to devise the best strategies for translating archaeological information to the public. This book opens doors for public involvement. It highlights...
by Marietta Stepaniants
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Marietta Stepaniants' introductory text allows a distinctively Eastern way of thinking to come forth. Four interpretive essays open the book showing how Indian, Chinese and Islamic traditions responded to these questions: How did philosophy arise? What is the origin of order in the universe? What...
Sexual Revolutions
Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2002
The change from a hunting-gathering lifestyle to one dependent upon farming constitutes a truly 'revolutionary' event in the human career. Most archaeologists agree that how ancient people organized their work and family groups was crucial to the success of early attempts at farming. Yet little serious...
Cultural Resources Archaeology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers the jobs and provides the funding. Few textbooks,...
Becoming Chinese American
A History of Communities and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2004
Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of Chinese migration to the United States, followed...
UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value
Value-based Analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of...
Surface Collection
Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in an engaging and accessible way. In each chapter the author makes the past relevant to the present through his encounters with archaeological sites....
Burial Terminology
A Guide for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
With archaeological practices being as varied as the cultures they study, little advance has been made to standardize the nomenclature used in the Western scientific world to describe the physical aspect of burial and other forms of body disposal, which would allow researchers to describe and precisely...
Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands
The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks...
Writing in the San/d
Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
The San/Bushmen are one of the most studied people in anthropology, subjects of research going back one hundred years, of documentaries, and even of popular movies (The Gods Must Be Crazy). This intriguing new work on the San is a team-based ethnography, collaborative (one of the writers is married...
The Manner Born
Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, such as attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the influence of societal...