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

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.

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.

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. .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A collection of essays which show how findings from cognitive science can offer directions to debates in religion. It demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as god, ideology, culture, magic, miracles, and religion. It is suitable for scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain.

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.

Brings together essays on the distinct experiences of minority Muslim communities from Detroit, Michigan to Perth, Australia and the wide range of issues facing them. This text traces the broad contours of the Muslim experience in Europe, America and other areas of European settlement and sheds light on the common questions minority Muslims face.

This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups.

Part 1 Introduction: What is Deviant Behavior?Chapter 2 Criminology: An Integrationist PerspectiveChapter 3 Psychological Theories of DeviancePart 4 Traditional Theories of DevianceChapter 5 The Normal and the PathologicalChapter 6 Social Structure and AnomieChapter 7 Illegitimate Means and Delinquent SubculturesChapter 8 Evaluation of Structural-Functionalist and Anomie TheoriesChapter 9 The Theory of Differential AssociationChapter 10 Evaluation of Differential Association TheoryChapter 11 A Control Theory of DelinquencyChapter 12 Evaluation of Social Control TheoryPart 13 Contemporary Theories of DevianceChapter 14 Group Conflict Theory as an Explanation of CrimeChapter 15 A Radical Perspective on CrimeChapter 16 Evaluation of Conflict TheoryChapter 17 Secondary Deviance and Role ConceptionsChapter 18 OutsidersChapter 19 Evaluation of Labeling TheoryPart 20 Studying DevianceChapter 21 Accessing the Stigmatized: Gatekeeper Problems, Obstacles and Impediments to Social ResearchChapter 22 Personal Safety in Dangerous PlacesPart 23 The Deviance-Making EnterpriseChapter 24 Moral Entrepeneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant CategoriesChapter 25 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered WomenChapter 26 The 'Discovery' of Child AbuseChapter 27 The Legislation of Morality: Creating Drug LawsChapter 28 Medicine as an Institution of Social Control: Consequences for SocietyPart 29 Organizational Deviance¿Beyond the Interpersonal LevelChapter 30 The Making of Blind MenChapter 31 Record-keeping Practices in the Policing of DeviantsChapter 32 Constructing Probationer Careers: Revocation as Censure Transformation and Tertiary Deviance in the Deviance Amplification ProcessChapter 33 The In-patient Phase in the Career of the Psychiatric PatientChapter 34 Being Sane in Insane PlacesPart 35 Organizing Deviants¿Subcultures and Deviant ActivitiesChapter 36 The "Mixed Nutters" and "Looney Tuners:" The Emergence, Development, Nature, and Functions of Two Informal, Deviant Subcultures of Chronic Ex-psychiatric PatientsChapter 37 Constructing Women and Their World: The Subculture of Female ImpersonationChapter 38 Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and DeathChapter 39 The Urban Speed Gang: An Examination of the Subculture of Young MotorcyclistsChapter 40 The Culture of Gangs in the Culture of the SchoolChapter 41 Parade Strippers: A Note on Being Naked in PublicChapter 42 Knives and Gaffs: Definitions in the Deviant World of CockfightingChapter 43 Policing Morality: Impersonal Sex in Public PlacesPart 44 Becoming DeviantChapter 45 Paranoia and the Dynamics of ExclusionChapter 46 Creating Crazies/Making Mentals: The Pre-patient Phase in the Moral Career of the Psychiatric PatientChapter 47 A Model of Homosexual Identity FormationChapter 48 Becoming an Addict/AlcoholicChapter 49 Drifting into Dealing: Becoming a Cocaine SellerChapter 50 Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant CareerPart 51 Managing Stigma/Managing Deviant IdentitiesChapter 52 Stigma and Social IdentityChapter 53 Deviance as Disavowal: The Managment of Strained Interaction by the Visibly HandicappedChapter 54 Return to Sender: Reintegrative Stigma-Management Strategies of Ex-Psychiatric PatientsChapter 55 Double Stigma and Boundary Maintenance: How Gay Men Deal with AIDSChapter 56 Ostomates: Negotiating and Involuntary IdentityPart 57 Transforming DevianceChapter 58 The 'Post' Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug TraffickersChapter 59 Becoming Normal: Certification as a Stage in Exiting from CrimeChapter 60 Recovery through Self-HelpChapter 61 Gaining and Losing

Addresses the issues of race and mixed race at the turn of the 21st century. Representing multiple academic disciplines, this volume invites readers to consider the many ways that identity, community, and collectivity are formed, while addressing the challenges that multiracial identity poses to our understanding of race and ethnicity.

Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization.

This authors of this guide aim to provide a reliable resource and easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that historical editors deal with daily in their profession.

In this comprehensive treatment, Borowskisy nthesises what is known about the use of animals for clothing, transportation, food and cult practices in biblical times. Essays on pastoral systems and agricultural economics are included.

This text shows the leaps of inspiration, the challenges, the thought processes, and the errors inherent in completing a field work project.

This anthology explains the basics of oral history, and how to make use of it in research. It includes a significant collection of classic readings by oral historians.

Examining gender roles in social movements, this title shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. It is a suitable text to introduce a sophisticated view of race and gender into social movement courses.

Study of the development of foraging strategies in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present.