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Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.

InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country, which continues on a massive scale to this day. This book details the disasters that have befallen Iraq's cultural heritage, analyzes why all efforts to protect it have failed, and identifies new mechanisms and strategies to prevent the mistakes of Iraq from being replicated in other war-torn regions.

Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of the Globalization presents an anthropological perspective on the various strains and disruptions caused by modern global systems.

A virtual Who's Who of Native American scholars, activists, and community leaders reflect on the problems and achievements of Native American peoples over the last several decades.

Part III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, now available in paper for classroom use.

This study is the result of decades of analysis of the skeletal material from the Early Bronze Age I tombs at the site of Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan.

This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us?

This travelogue tackles the pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in Southern Asia by examining archaeological sites in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, among other countries.

Re-riting Woman is an ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca, a modern Pagan religion in which the divine is solely feminine. Kristy S. Coleman explores Dianic Witchcraft, what it really means to practice Wicca today, and how our understanding of womanhood can change with the experience of a divine feminine.

Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.

This book examines the most common reasons that foundation managers fail, and details the steps they must take in order to succeed. In overcoming the seven vexing challenges and strategizing the seven inescapable trade-offs, foundation managers can learn to maximize their positive social impact and avoid unintended lousy results.

Examines ethnic identities in countries around the globe, including Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the US, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. This title is a useful teaching tool for courses in race and ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

Offers an introduction to the issues faced every day in archaeological practice. This volume covers looting, reburial and repatriation, relations with native peoples, and professional conduct.

A former Hollywood screenwriter and producer (Zulu Dawn) recounts his experiences and relates them to communication and cultural theory.

Examines how food systems are changing around the globe. This book offers a cultural perspective and provides ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. It is suitable for professionals in economic and environmental anthropology: economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior and nutritional sciences.

Explains the cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches. This book offers lessons learned from the experiences of people of different cultures and historical periods, as well as knowledge, on how to resist, reduce, and dance away stress in the disquieting times of the 21st century.

Including reflections on teaching oral history, this book offers suggestions for educators seeking to create curricula, engage students, gather community support, and meet educational standards.

Evaluates children's books about Native Americans written between the early 1900s and 2003, accompanied by stories, essays and poems from its contributors. The authors critique some 600 books by more than 500 authors, arranging titles A to Z and covering pre-school, and K-12 levels.

Challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials, focusing on a problem normally thought of as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. This book reveals unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images.

Thriving in the Knowledge age provides an entirely new way of envisioning the business model for your cultural institution.

A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations

Examines stories of Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. This book offers stories of people and how they are made, their social force, and what they collectively create.

A group of distinguished environmentalists offer an in-depth analysis of and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. They review the emergence of this transnational movement and how it has forged links between environmental management and social justice agendas.

This book provides a description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of changes in climate and how they affected social and political developments. It includes three major case studies of the Neolithic, Early Bronze, and Roman/Byzantine periods.

Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa

Charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings. This book focuses on the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century.

Addresses the interaction between archaeology and nationalist, political, and commercial policies. This book is suitable for archaeologists, applied anthropologists, tourism and economic development specialists, and historic preservationists alike, as well as others with an interest in the preservation of archaeological sites as historic locales.

In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application.

Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work.