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African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly 'come home' to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this book, the author analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.

This volume tells the stories-in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues.

Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they 'fail' to seek medical care, are 'non-compliant' patients, or 'lack immunity' enjoyed by the 'mainstream' population. This title shows how it masks fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans.

This volume tells the stories-in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues.

Abridged and updated version of the basic work on the development of maize, including 20 chapters of interest to Mesoamerican specialists, updated with recent findings and interpretations.

Focuses on two kindergarten classrooms, examining moments of disobedience as children interacted with children, their teachers, and the space and time elements of the classroom environments. This study also examines the elements of school, kindergarten and teachers within the spaces of their intersections with the children.

Paul Bahn has collected dozens of fun tales from the trenches to illuminate what actually occurs when archaeologists go into the field.

Report of excavations on a key archaeological site for understanding first agriculture in the New World, with a new 2009 foreword by Kent Flannery

A comprehensive revision of the classic prehistory of the North American high plains.

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.

This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People's Republic of China.

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders.

In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers. A 2009 Foreword allows for further reflections on this work.

This volume brings together articles that reveal the Archaic period of the American Midwest to be one of innovation and technological achievement.

Offers a synthesis of archaeological work done in the lower Ohio River Valley, emphasizing population growth and adaptation within an ecological framework in an attempt to explain the area's cultural evolution.

The major international recognition of a World Heritage Site designation can bring important preservation efforts and a wealth of tourist dollars to an impoverished area - but it can also have destructive side effects. This book examines the redevelopment and packaging of Luang Prabans in Laos - one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics-agency, violence, social groups, diffusion-from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives.

Features articles from the 2008 International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. This book demonstrates the potential of the research tradition to make contributions to the betterment of humankind. It highlights the importance of advocating for social justice.

For many the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth. For others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. This book shows how people can use the transformative potential of storytelling for social action.

Offers a history of the field of qualitative inquiry.

Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.

What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in American culture? This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals.

Presents an ethnographic exploration of the sensory and aesthetic experiences of popular Eastern and Western therapies and how they 'cure'. This book investigates the very different ways in which Western, Ayurvedic, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures.

A forceful advocate for historical archaeology as an activist pursuit, the author argues that the way to live in the postmodern period is not simply to chronicle it, but to use the process of interpreting of heritage to develop new understandings the cultural and political issues of our time.

The collected essays in this volume address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA and similar legislation.

Discusses the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated centuries ago. This book describes the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system.

Presents research and practice to show how history museums offer a point of entry to the past by empowering children to connect to history through exhibitions. This title covers educational theory and developmental frameworks, how audience and evaluation inform research and development, and the role of experience in delivering content.

Most people agree that our heritage - both natural and cultural - should be protected. Then why does development run rampant, aided - rather than limited - by government inaction? This book offers an analysis of policies and practices, showing the dysfunctional nature of the cultural heritage preservation process.

This reader of original and reprinted articles-many by indigenous authors-is designed to display the array of writings around relationships between archaeologists and indigenous peoples around the globe.

Offers a literary exploration of how scholars can promote global social justice through their work and lives. This book engages in a dialogue that seeks to decolonize the world of American scholarship and promote the use of research toward inclusive social justice.