Altamira Press: 384 books
Unhealthy Health Policy
A Critical Anthropological Examination
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health...
Communities and Conservation
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable...
Quick Ethnography
A Guide to Rapid Multi-Method Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2001
Quick Ethnography (QE) is an easy-to-read guide to the rapid collection of high quality ethnographic data for use in research, policy analysis, and decision-making. It addresses the needs of social scientists grappling with complex cultural social interactions and cultural change occurring in communities...
Artists, Patrons, and the Public
Why Culture Changes
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
In this book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions of why and how culture changes. They situate their discourse on aesthetic culture within a broad and inclusive definition of culture in relation to material,...
by Toni M. Calasanti, Kathleen F. Slevin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. In this text on gender issues among the aging, Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women,...
Institutional Ethnography
A Sociology for People
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the...
Ethnographically Speaking
Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment,...
Contested Images
Women of Color in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women. The anthology is divided into four parts: film images, beauty images, music, and television. The...
by Lawrence A. Kuznar, Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in anthropology as they have taken shape over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people. JolivZtte and his co-authors challenge and contest these images, demonstrating how Native representation and identity...
Struggle for Ethnic Identity
Narratives by Asian American Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1999
Dr. Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim present a compilation of narratives on ethnic identity written by first-, 1.5-, and second-generation Asian American professionals. In an attempt to reconcile the dichotomies long associated with being both Asian and American, these narratives trace the formation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Champagne and his distinguished coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. Many countries still face extreme differences among ethnic groups and submerged nations, leading to...
Appropriated Pasts
Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture"...
Ritual and Belief
Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author,...