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Shows how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In twelve case studies, the authors provide contextual histories of Native programs, discussing successes and failures and battles over curriculum content, funding, student retention, and community collaborations.

A study of Alaskan indigenous communities. It explores the relationship between land and education. It reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. It proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty.

Reflects the various changes in the study of gender and archaeology. This title covers issues such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy. It also covers the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology.

Presents the challenge to anthropologists to engage in a dialogue concerning their commitment to professional ethical conduct. This title redefines what it means to conduct anthropological research ethically, as the discipline comes to terms with the global changes that affect its practice.

Methodists to Congregationalists, Church of God to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel - the story of religion in the US is in part the story of its paradoxical religious organizations. This text brings coherence to the shifting picture of 200 years of American religious history.

Unpublished book manuscript and related correspondence by famous symbolic interactionist Herbert Blumer concerning the work of George Herbert Mead, the founder of symbolic interactionism. Includes an introduction and notes by Thomas J. Morrione.

Presents essays on the intersections of money and religion. This book investigates how money moves and how it affects religious organizational behavior. It explores how attitudes toward money have altered over time.

Examines personal and organizational networks that exist between members in US immigrant religious communities and individuals and religious institutions left behind. This title examines how religious remittances flow between home and host communities, how they affect religious practices in both settings, and how influences change over time.

Lays emphasis on performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture.

Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles, and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people. Does this behavior serve as a red flag?

Offers an analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the world order. This work investigates global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveals the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks.

From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world. This book attempts to outline internal geographic, environmental, sociopolitical and economic factors over the long period of modern human history, to find their commonalities and development over time.

An examination of social memory developed within communities from the perspective of anthropology. Many case studies from around the world.

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

This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.

Explores various methods and techniques used to prepare, protect, and analyze artifacts once they are in the lab. This book outlines the basic principles of identification, classification, quantification, data manipulation, and analysis. It draws from 16th century Spanish sites in the Americas to show the hows and whys of archaeological lab work.

Introduction to field survey and mapping methods for archaeologists.

Use of investigative poetics to describe the American justice and penal systems.

Crystallizes the issue of work as a rehabilitative instrument in the modern correctional environment. This book explores the effect of employment on crime and recidivism, with its implications for correctional programs and operations as well as for ex-offender reintegration into the community.

Looks at the role of women in Chinese archaeology.

Places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the phenomenal development of the international anti-slavery movement. This book demonstrates how the problems of eradication seem greater and more intractable than they had ever been with the expansion of slaving to include forced labor, prostitution, and the exploitation of children.

Hannah Green has been asked to manage a contract archaeology project and needs to teach her team about research design, survey methods, archival research, professional ethics, curation and field safety. This textbook-as-novel introduces the hows and whys of field methodology in an entertaining way.

Merges archaeological and cultural theory. This book seeks to redefine the term archaeology. It is of interest to students and teachers in archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies and human geography, as well as professionals in heritage management and museums.

Introduction to curation and preservation of archaeological materials.