Altamira Press: 384 books
Crossing Mountains
Native American Language Education in Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Collaboration among contemporary Native American communities and local public schools is vital for nurturing Native languages. Although public schools cannot bear the entire burden, Native-language education will remain on the margins without their support. Using case studies of school districts on...
Re-riting Woman
Dianic Wicca and the Feminine Divine
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Re-riting Woman presents the first in-depth ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca. Its subject, Circle of Aradia, is a branch of the religion based in the Los Angeles area. This religion-of, by, and for women-conceives the Divine as exclusively female, and has infused feminism into Wicca worldwide. Kristy...
Deconstructing Travel
Cultural Perspectives on Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2004
As a visible marker of globalization, the increased role of travel and tourism in our lives makes it a remarkable force in contemporary culture. Deconstructing Travel provides an easily understood framework of the relationship between travel and culture in our rapidly changing postmodern, postcolonial...
Leading with Passion
Change Management in the 21st-Century Museum
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
What does it take to lead the 21st-century museum? Balancing a head for business and working from the heart guided by passion! This is the message Sherene Suchy discovered in her work with more than 80 international museum directors whose thoughts and experiences ground this book on change management in 21st-century cultural organizations.
Public Art
Thinking Museums Differently
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the object-oriented tradition that has long differentiated museums from other institutions similarly committed...
A Place Not a Place
Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Museums and libraries inspire us to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences of reflection and possibility. Each of the essays in A Place Not a Place examines the ways these and other cultural institutions influence us and proposes ways to strengthen their role as advocates for critical thinking and inquiry.
In Defense of Things
Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In much recent thinking, social and cultural realms are thought of as existing prior to—or detached from—things, materiality, and landscape. It is often assumed, for example, that things are entirely 'constructed' by social or cultural perceptions and have no existence in and of themselves. Bjornar...
Legal Anthropology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths...
Longitudinal Qualitative Research
Analyzing Change Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2003
Johnny Salda-a outlines the basic elements of longitudinal qualitative data, focusing on micro-levels of change observed within individual cases and groups of participants. He draws upon his primary experience in theater education to examine time and change in longitudinal qualitative studies; contending...
Spider Woman Walks This Land
Traditional Cultural Properties and the Navajo Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
Spider Woman Walks This Land is a lively and accessible introduction to issues of traditional cultural properties and cultural resource management among native peoples in the United States. Describing her work with the Navajo Nation, Carmean shows how specific geographical locations contain significant...
War and Nature
The Environmental Consequences of War in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments. War and Nature sifts through the available data from past wars to evaluate the actual impact that combat has on...
Phytoliths
A Comprehensive Guide for Archaeologists and Paleoecologists
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
The study of phytoliths—inorganic silica remnants plants leave behind when they die and decay—has developed dramatically over the last twenty years. New publications have documented a diverse array of phytoliths from many regions around the globe, while new understandings have emerged as to how...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2004
Since Europeans first colonized Arab lands in the 19th century, they have been pressing to have the area's indigenous laws and legal systems accord with Western models. Although most Arab states now have national codes of law that reflect Western influence, fierce internal struggles continue over...
Muslim Minorities in the West
Visible and Invisible
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Although they are typically portrayed by the media as dangerous extremists in distant lands, Muslims in fact form a permanent, peaceful and growing population in nearly every Western country. While Westerners are now more commonly seeing mosques in their neighborhoods or scarved Muslim women in their...