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  • von Theodore D. Graves
    74,00 - 171,00 €

    A collection of essays which convey the challenge of conducting systematic behavioral science research cross-culturally. It is suitable as a reference and teaching tool for those concerned with a behavioral, scientific approach to anthropology.

  • - Age, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family
    von Nick Trujillo
    45,00 €

    Collecting narratives of his grandmother's life, communication researcher NickTrujillo learns how family members use stories to define the family's sense of itself and create collective views on intergenerational relations, social history, gender, class, and ethnicity in this experimental ethnography.

  • - Tying Knots in a Handkerchief
     
    182,00 €

    Reader outlining key developments in the recent history of interpretive social science methods.

  • - You Are What You Tweet
    von Signe Rousseau
    71,00 - 128,00 €

    Social media has been a factor in the explosion of interest in food and democratization of food criticism, and this book explains and critique the phenomena and key issues in a lively and anecdotal manner that will appeal to scholars and the interested general public alike.

  • - A Mixed Methods Approach
    von Margaret D. LeCompte
    78,00 €

    Ethics in Ethnography (Book 6 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit series) explores the burgeoning field of research ethics and addresses how ethical considerations-formally-imposed as well as informal, "everyday" concerns-underpin good ethnographic research.

  • - A Food Biography
    von Elizabeth M. Williams
    81,00 €

    New Orleans' celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography.

  • - A Guide for Students and Young Professionals
     
    64,00 €

    Anthropology graduate students and newly minted professionals now have a one-stop source that demystifies the all-important task of getting their work published. How to Get Published in Anthropology provides tried-and-true advice from anthropologists who share their experiences and from publishing professionals on how to publish, where to publish, and what publishing efforts will be most effective for individual career paths.

  • - Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational
     
    192,00 €

    The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textile production and exchange represent a key node for the intersections of multiple aspects of ancient and modern economies, including social-class relations, gender, tourism, exchange, commerce, and transpolity relationships. A political economy of textiles, discussed from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, offers ways to understand cloth and clothing as parts of mutually constitutive processes that shape and reflect economic practices, cultural ideologies, and sociopolitical rank.

  • - Shamans and Immortals, Allies against Chaos
    von Jay Courtney Fikes
    141,00 €

    The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual. The scope and length of Fikes's research, combined with the depth of his participation with four Huichol shamans, enable him to convey with empathy details of shamanic initiation, methods for diagnosis and treatment of illness, and motives for performing funeral, deer and peyote hunting, and maize-cultivating rituals.

  • - Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
    von Terry Huffman
    141,00 €

    Featuring readings on four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education - cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality theory, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory - this book provides a comparison of each theoretical perspective's basic premise, fundamental assumptions regarding American Indian education, implications, and associated criticisms.

  • - A Reader
     
    91,00 €

    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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    73,00 €

    Small museums need affordable ways to provide care for their collections and the tools to lobby for additional funds for their long-term health. In this book, we offer practical tips for collections care, including preservation strategies for historic properties, strategies for managing collections, developing policies, and planning for the future of your museum's holdings.

  • von Carol R. Ember & Melvin Ember
    80,00 - 170,00 €

    Cross-Cultural Research Methods is an introductory teaching tool that shows students and potential researchers how to describe, compare, and analyze patterns that occur in different cultures. This text explains how to form and test hypotheses about cultural variation, whether it be anthropological, sociological, psychological, medical, or political.

  • - The Ambum Stone
    von Brian Egloff
    71,00 €

    Bones of the Ancestors tells the shadowy story of the Ambum Stone, a 3,000-year-old carving from Papua New Guinea that found its way onto the antiquities market and then into an important modern museum.

  • von Victor C. de Munck
    106,00 - 164,00 €

    A concise methods book, Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures emphasizes that all methods are related as parts of a research design and must be chosen with respect to the larger research objective of anthropology.

  • - Urban Risk and Public Culture
    von Carl A. Maida
    167,00 €

    In Pathways through Crisis, Carl Maida describes how communities tend (and need) to develop "grass roots" solutions in responding to critical social problems.

  • - The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig
    von Steve Beard
    70,00 - 163,00 €

    Part novel and part memoire, Not Far Away recounts the life of a female Ojibwe schoolteacher in northern Michigan as she endures the most caustic forms of racism.

  • von Christopher A. Pool & Lisa Cliggett
    77,00 €

    Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.

  • - Gender Strategies for Archaeology
     
    155,00 €

    InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

  • - Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
     
    181,00 €

    As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country, which continues on a massive scale to this day. This book details the disasters that have befallen Iraq's cultural heritage, analyzes why all efforts to protect it have failed, and identifies new mechanisms and strategies to prevent the mistakes of Iraq from being replicated in other war-torn regions.

  • - The Anthropology of Global Systems
    von Jonathan Friedman & Kajsa Ekholm Friedman
    85,00 - 169,00 €

    Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of the Globalization presents an anthropological perspective on the various strains and disruptions caused by modern global systems.

  • - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
     
    169,00 €

    A virtual Who's Who of Native American scholars, activists, and community leaders reflect on the problems and achievements of Native American peoples over the last several decades.

  • - Theories and Applications
     
    86,00 €

    Part III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, now available in paper for classroom use.

  • - The Globalization and the Environment Reader
     
    85,00 €

    This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us?

  • - Dianic Wicca and the Feminine Divine
    von Kristy S. Coleman
    79,00 - 158,00 €

    Re-riting Woman is an ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca, a modern Pagan religion in which the divine is solely feminine. Kristy S. Coleman explores Dianic Witchcraft, what it really means to practice Wicca today, and how our understanding of womanhood can change with the experience of a divine feminine.

  • - From Classical to Contemporary
    von Hisham M. Ramadan
    67,00 - 159,00 €

    Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.

  • - 14 Challenges of Philanthropic Leadership--And How to Outfox Them
    von Joel J. Orosz
    56,00 - 139,00 €

    This book examines the most common reasons that foundation managers fail, and details the steps they must take in order to succeed. In overcoming the seven vexing challenges and strategizing the seven inescapable trade-offs, foundation managers can learn to maximize their positive social impact and avoid unintended lousy results.

  • - Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century
     
    85,00 €

    Examines ethnic identities in countries around the globe, including Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the US, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. This title is a useful teaching tool for courses in race and ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

  • - Seduction, Obsession, Dread
    von Nathaniel Kohn
    62,00 - 148,00 €

    A former Hollywood screenwriter and producer (Zulu Dawn) recounts his experiences and relates them to communication and cultural theory.

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