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    79,00 €

    Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.

  • - A Guide for Fieldworkers
    von Billie R. Dewalt & Kathleen Musante DeWalt
    82,00 - 181,00 €

  • - A Sociology for People
    von Dorothy E. Smith
    74,00 €

    Outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This book is of use as a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.

  • von Rodney Harrison & Christine Williamson
    81,00 €

  • - Their Museums and Their Influence
    von Edward P. Alexander
    82,00 €

    Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.

  • - A Mixed Methods Approach
    von Jean J. Schensul
    76,00 €

    In this capstone title to the Ethnographer's Toolkit series, Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte explore how ethnographic research intersects with and enhances numerous areas of applied and practice-oriented social science.

  • - The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic
    von Donald H. Holly
    147,00 €

    History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic offers both a critical history and historiography of the Eastern Subarctic from the point of view of the archaeologists and anthropologists who studied it.

  • - A Mixed Methods Approach
    von Jean J. Schensul
    76,00 €

    Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools for ethnographers and other qualitative researchers and provides detailed instruction to improve the quality and scope of data collection. .

  • - An Archaeological History of an Ancestral Wendat Community
    von Jennifer Birch
    146,00 €

    The Mantle Site is the most detailed analysis of an ancestral Wendat community, discussed in the context of the historical development of Northern Iroquoian societies. It considers themes of identity formation, interaction, and increasing economic and sociopolitical complexity.

  • - Handheld Guides and Other Media
     
    74,00 €

    Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience explores the potential of mobile technologies (cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, PDAs) for visitor interaction and learning in museums.

  • von Timothy R. Pauketat
    70,00 €

    This book sweeps away the last vestiges of social-evolutionary explanations of 'chiefdoms' by rethinking the history of Pre-Columbian Southeast peoples and comparing them to ancient peoples in the Southwest, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia.

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    81,00 €

    Presents data on European youth gangs, describing important characteristics of these groups, and their similarities and differences to American gangs. This title is suitable as a resource on crime, delinquency and youth development for criminologists, sociologists, youth workers, policy makers, local governments, and law enforcement professionals.

  • - History, Representations, and Identities
    von Jun Xing
    72,00 €

    This text surveys Asian-American cinema allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge. The author draws insight from such bodies of scholarship as African-American and Latino film studies, Marxian cultural theory, ethnic studies, and feminism.

  • von William Alderson
    71,00 €

    Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.

  • - Innovators and Pioneers
    von Edward P. Alexander
    72,00 €

    Captures the life stories of thirteen visionary museum leaders who helped transform the 19th century's collection of curios into institutions of public service and education. This book recounts the stories of pioneers in American history, science, art, and general museums. It is suitable for those interested in the history of the museum.

  • - The Evolution of 'Asiatic' Social Formations
    von Jonathan Friedman
    79,00 €

    This new edition contains the full text of the original volume along with two related articles by the author and a new introduction. This work is suitable for advanced students and academics in anthropology.

  • - Relational Archaeology at Chunchucmil
    von Scott R. Hutson
    159,00 €

    Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya offers a new perspective on the ancient Maya that emphasizes the importance of dwelling as a social practice. Contrary to contemporary notions of the self as individual and independent, the identities of the ancient Maya grew from their everyday relations and interactions with other people, the houses and temples they built, and the objects they created, exchanged, cherished, and left behind. Using excavations of ancient Chunchucmil as a case study, it investigates how Maya personhood was structured and transformed in and beyond the domestic sphere and examines the role of the past in the production of contemporary Maya identity.

  • - A Reader
     
    197,00 €

    All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions.

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    164,00 €

    Little and Shackel use case studies from different regions across the world to challenge archaeologists to create an ethical public archaeology that is concerned not just with the management of cultural resources, but with social justice and civic responsibility.

  • - World-System History and Global Environmental Change
     
    202,00 €

    Providing an overview of the ecological dimension of economic processes, this book presents a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world systems. It also contains reflections by Immanuel Wallerstein, originator of the world-system concept, in which he talks about the various implications of global environmental change.

  • - Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia
    von Denis Byrne
    70,00 €

    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.

  • - Agency, Structure, and Identity in the Prehispanic Southwest
     
    176,00 €

    The Social Construction of Communities examines the formation of ancient communities in the Southwest, focusing especially on the fundamental theoretical concepts of structure, agency, and identity construction.

  • - Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
     
    86,00 €

    Killer Commodities addresses the impact of harmful products on consumers throughout the world. These case studies highlight the processes of production and marketing of these products, as well as the nature of relevant public health policies.

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    72,00 €

    An edited volume that tackles the contemporary issues facing Native Americans through community activism, politics, economics, and legislation.

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    87,00 €

    Presents a study of prehistoric religion in Prehispanic Southwest. Drawing on an array of empirical approaches, this book shows the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual for a range of time periods and southwestern societies. It is useful for professional and avocational archaeologists, and for religion scholars and students.

  • - Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans
     
    155,00 €

    Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's ('Bushmen') living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa.

  • von Larry J. Zimmerman, Claire Smith & Heather Burke
    116,00 €

    This comprehensive handbook provides step-by-step instructions on how to do archaeological fieldwork in North America. The wealth of diagrams, photos, maps and checklists clearly illustrate how to design, fund, research, map, record, interpret, photograph, and present archaeological surveys and excavations.

  • - Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations
     
    69,00 €

    Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.

  • - Government Privatization and Accountability
    von Gerald G. Gaes, Scott D. Camp, Julianne B. Nelson & usw.
    63,00 €

    Offers an analysis of public vs private management of prisons, a competition that originated with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system in the 1980s. This book is suitable for public administrators, policy analysts, corrections personnel and criminologists.

  • - Museums and the Public Understanding of Current Research
     
    83,00 €

    Looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. This title is a useful resource for science museum professionals who want to guide their institutions and their visitors toward an understanding of and appreciation for research.

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