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Taking a multi-sited, cross-cultural approach, this book investigates the relationship between cultural institutions in presenting intangible heritage. "

Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum.

This book provides a concise, unbiased and practical resource for those tasked with navigating the complicated and rapidly changing legal and ethical landscape governing the acquisition of cultural property and archaeological material.

Using a narrative epistemology approach against the backdrop of popular culture and the history of science, Manderson shows how people remake their bodies, identities, and biographies after catastrophic bodily loss and change.

Offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in California archaeology, including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonisation, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others.

This book shows how leading applied anthropologists use complex and fluid new concepts of culture and community--such as globalization, translocality, ethnoscape--to solve pressing human problems in public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare.

Offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in California archaeology, including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonisation, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others.

Timothy Rowlands brings a diverse mix of ethnographic, semiotic, and analytical approaches to analyze the massively multiplayer online game "EverQuest."

Both personal and theoretical, autoethnographic and analytical, this book offers a performative, arts-based narrative about the aftermath of abusive marriages, using the stories, drawings, songs of other women to compare with Tamas's own lived experience.

Richard Gelles explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don t work in sector after sector and why they should be replaced with a universal entitlement at lower cost."

Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic, political, and social processes.

This brief, student-friendly introduction to the study of semiotics uses lively examples from 28 iconic locations in the United States, such as Coney Island, Las Vegas, the World Trade Center, and the Grand Canyon.

As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fills a significant gap in the literature by providing the fine-grained, candid accounts of this changing work environment and provocative dialogues about the way practitioners negotiate ethics and professional identity.

As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fills a significant gap in the literature by providing the fine-grained, candid accounts of this changing work environment and provocative dialogues about the way practitioners negotiate ethics and professional identity.

Introduces archaeologists to the basic principles and applications of DNA research so they can properly collect DNA samples and interpret the laboratory results with greater confidence.

Explore with Ronald Pelias the physical space between people, and learn the metaphorical importance of leaning, in this personal, performative narrative about relationships.

Explores how a wide range of academics understand and express how they deal with spirituality in their professional lives and how they integrate spirituality in teaching, research, administration, and advising. The contributors also analyse the culture of academia and its challenges to the spiritual development of those involved.

A brief, accessible guide for students and novice researchers to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing, both formal and unstructured.

In this engaging, thought-provoking book, Dwight Read explores the fundamental scientific debate about how culture and social organization separate humans from our primate cousins.

In this passionate defense of the use of narrative work for progressive purposes, Goodall shows how to use stories effectively in moving the world away from extremism and toward social justice.

Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories.

Presents a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provides an intellectually rich overview of its significance in the field, as well as its evolving potential. The authors envision a broadening of the social sciences, making it more accessible to non-experts and opening up new dialogues between society and science.

Qualitative researchers are increasingly being called upon to become human rights advocates, to help individuals and communities honor the sanctity of life, and to promote the core values of privacy, justice, freedom, peace, and human dignity. This title shows the various dimensions of the human rights work being done by the scholars.

Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of its ancient cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed.

Founded in 1944, ""Seventeen"" magazine was an immediate success. It became iconic in establishing the tastes and behaviors of successive generation of teen girls covering the last half of the 20th century. The author provides the cultural history of the origins of ""Seventeen"" and its role in shaping the modern teen girl ideal.

Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnography including examplars and exercises for the novice.

George E. Hein explores the impact on current museum theory and practice of early 20th-century educational reformer John Dewey s philosophy, covering philosophies that shaped today s best practices."