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In Collaboration in Archaeological Practice, prominent archaeologists reflect on their experiences collaborating with descendant communities (peoples whose ancestors are the subject of archaeological research).

Offers an introduction to the issues faced every day in archaeological practice. This volume covers looting, reburial and repatriation, relations with native peoples, and professional conduct.

Gathers together Du Bois' writings on religion. This title includes selections from Bois' works such as "The Souls of Black Folks" to poems, prayers, stories and speeches. It traces Du Bois' move from church-attending Christian to relentless critic of religion and evaluates Du Bois' contributions to the study of religion.

Using equality as a measure for policy, this book demonstrates how taking equality seriously changes how our economies could function to provide wellbeing both in the United States and worldwide. It is suitable for readers concerned with transnational economies, global anthropology, and the study of work and labor.

Tells the story of a gang cop who is engaged in battling his street gang opponents. This book reveals the dangers of police elite units when a tough cop begins to rationalize the use of police violence and corruption. It assesses the training and skills of the gang cop, and gaps in our knowledge of street gangs.

Examines the northwest American myth of Bigfoot. This book repudiates the evidence purportedly demonstrating the creature's existence. It argues that Bigfoot exists only in the popular imagination.

Brian Fagan investigates the impact that European contact had on a number of societies around the world. Each case describes the pre-European culture, the short term impact of contact and the enduring changes caused by the clash of cultures.

Offers insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. This book analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing fieldwork in Portugal and many other countries. It is suitable for instructors and researchers in anthropology, race and ethnic studies, and immigration studies.

Gives useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this form of research.

Using engaging case studies and research findings, this lively new book from the Gender Lens Series challenges the notion that care-giving is a 'natural' pattern and demonstrates how it is thoroughly social. Written in an inviting and readable style, the authors address complex issues about caring, making them accessible to undergraduate students and lay people.

Reveals the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. This book examines the bio-cultural intersection of health and the environment and the impact of rapid change, technological development and the expansion of the global economy.

A guide to identifying, testing for, and dealing with contaminated cultural materials archived in museum collections. It features worksheets for performing basic tests, charts of scientific and historical information on known pesticides, data resources, and illustrations. It is suitable for the museum community and tribal groups.

Analyzes and advocates for community-based natural resource management. This book offers an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. It is of interest to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, and cultural geography.

Ancestors and Elites examines the relationship between emergent social complexity and changing ritual practices at the prehispanic site of Paquime, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Free-Choice Learning and the Environment explores the theoretical, practical, and policy aspects of free-choice environmental education for learners of all ages.

Free-Choice Learning and the Environment explores the theoretical, practical, and policy aspects of free-choice environmental education for learners of all ages.

Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism; the first examines the physical body and the second focuses upon psychological and social aspects of aging. This book attempts to bridge this rift: reinserting the physical back into gerontology's study of aging.

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Introductory guide to the analysis of plant phytoliths in archaeology.

While homosexuals continue gaining acceptance in other arenas of American culture, only a tiny minority of religious groups accept gays and lesbians as full members and potential clergy.

Illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. This book considers the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context. It examines issues of historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy.

The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along the lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women, and their treatment in the policy arena.

Broad-based and cross-cultural, this volume is an analysis of policy and the role of the arts and culture in two very different nations - Japan and the United States. The contributors offer their definitions of what culture is.

Dunway brings us a well crafted account of the prolific Huxley's American years using interviews with Huxley's family and frieds, his FBI files, and little-known scripts of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Pride and Prejudice.'

This volume assembles a cross-disciplinary team of contributors to collectively describe the successes and failures, and the complexity and diversity of Native American political life in the 1990s.

The first book-length study of a single congregation breaking in two, Strife in the Sanctuary provides a welcome ethnographic study for sociologists of religion. Plus, its moving story makes it an excellent read for undergraduate classes or anyone interested in religious divisions.

With a focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, this work presents plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and oppression that manage a unique balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.

"The Passion of the Christ" topped box office charts and changed the American religious conversation. The controversies it raised remain unsettled. This work features scholars who ask what Gibson's film and the resulting controversy reveal about Christians, Jews, and the possibilities of inter-religious dialogue in the United States.

With a focus on the personal, immediate and contextual, this work presents plays about marginalized identities, abortion, street life and oppression that manage a unique balance between theoretical research and everyday realism.