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This is the first book for museum professionals that focuses on this intersection between museum programming and early childhood education.

Packed with valuable ideas and case studies to help increase museum visitation and museum store sales, this valuable resource is a must for everyone in the business of connecting people with the cultural wealth of our museums and parks.

Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, and contemporary African textiles, twelve archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place.

Numbers by the Book is a well-executed road map of the financial side of museum retailing. From cash flow to purchasing to delegation of tasks, this practical pocket guide should be in the hands of every museum store manager!

Chris Webster¿s handy, informative guide outlines what it takes to become an archaeological technician, a field worker in cultural resource management archaeology.

Three of the Europe's leading paleoanthropologists and physical scientists outline here--in student friendly language--the revolutionary changes in the science of studying of human origins and the amazing findings those tools have produced.

In concise entries, this dictionary analyses ideas and concepts about advertising and its social, economic, psychological and cultural significance.

Addresses key questions regarding the extent of the Younger Dryas climate event at the end of the Pleistocene and how hunter-gatherer populations worldwide adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change.

Archaeology for whom? The dozen well-known contributors to this innovative volume suggest nothing less than that transformation of the discipline into a service-oriented, community-based endeavor.

This volume shows how scholars take qualitative inquiry into the outside world, presenting models, cases, and experiences to show how qualitative research can be used as an effective instrument for social justice.

This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.

The first comprehensive work on the burgeoning field of business anthropology, this innovative reference book, including more than 60 international scholar-practitioners, provides a foundation for the field for years to come.

What does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? In The Responsible Methodologist , Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention, an ethical disruption of the norm, an activist stance toward progressive social change.

The life stories in this book present the journeys of over 30 indigenous researchers from six continents and many different disciplines. They show, in their own words, the challenges, paradoxes, and oppression they have faced, their strategies for overcoming them, and how their work has produced more meaningful research and a more just society.

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation.

Focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. This title discusses trade on various scales ranging from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks.

The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.

Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions.

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. This title provides evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research.

Highlights the variety of roles played by qualitative researchers in addressing global communities in crisis. It shows how qualitative researchers can bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understanding to address issues of disparity in race, ethnicity, gender, and environment in the interests of global social justice and human rights.

A concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science, and a basic description of ethnomethodology, a research tradition that he created.

Addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, using a combination of case studies and discursive chapters.

Observation is one of the foundational methods of qualitative inquiry - but only if it is conducted in a systematic fashion that allows for the careful recording of data and the consistent retrieval of those data for purposes of analysis. This book features a brief how-to guide to conducting observations in naturalistic settings.

This distinguished group of archaeologists select key subjects and genres used by Hollywood and provide the historical and archaeological depth that a movie cannot--what really happened in history. Topics include Egypt, the Wild West, Civil War submarines, Vikings, the Titanic, and others.

The first book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit introduces the field of oral history, sets the stage for an oral history project and offers a theoretical basis for the practical steps outlined in the remaining volumes.