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Bestselling author Max van ManenΓÇÖs Writing in the Dark brings together a wide range of studies of relevance to qualitative researchers and professional practitioners. Each of the sixteen original chapters by accomplished scholars serves as an example of how a different kind of human experience may be explored, and of how the methods used for investigating phenomena may contribute to the process of human understanding. Van Manen provides the opening and closing chapters for the book, and also an introduction to each selection. This book is a valuable and rich resource for people who would like to learn more about phenomenological reflection and writing.Van Manen and his contributing authors:-Show how the challenge of doing qualitative research can be pursued through the process of inquiry, reflection and writing-Are from a variety of fields such as education, health sciences, psychology, arts and design, communication technology, and religious studies-Include numerous recognizable human experiences including common ones, forgotten ones, and ritualized ones

This second edition of this best-selling introduction to conducting qualitative research in applied and clinical settings retains the clear, practical guidance for researchers and students in health, social service, mental health, and related settings. This edition includes additional material on knowledge synthesis and integration, evidence-based practice, and data analysis.

World-renowned autoethnographers Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis present the first comprehensive text to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, they address key issues in a literary and pedagogical fashion and use numerous examples from their own work and other evocative autoethnographers.

Presents a detailed description of key concepts and leading scholars of phenomenology as it has evolved over the past centurythoughtfully works through the methodological issues of phenomenological reflection, empirical methods, and writing that various phenomenological approaches offer for the applied researcher."

In the first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, Falk and Dierking present research findings to demonstrate people's motivations for visiting museums and how museum professionals can enhance their visitors' experiences.

This benchmark volume is a valuable synthesis of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication in the Near East and Europe.

Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, RussiaAEs foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines KlejnAEs wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology.

This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view.

This book offers a methodology for studying sound, providing a flexible and widely applicable set of elements that can be adapted for use in a broad range of archaeological and heritage contexts.

The set of case studies presented in this volume emphasize the significance of new research in South Asia within the broader universe of archaeological scholarship.

This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to provide a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire.

Authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in ancient Africa were made and unmade in their intersection with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power.

Why did ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs.

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practise in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practise, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives - water, earth and millet.

The blue and white porcelain exported by China in the 18th and early 19th centuries is an important category of artifacts and antiques. This illustrated guide to Chinese export porcelain offers an overview and identification and context information for the most common styles and motifs.

Examining the key components of the museum-community relationship, Authentic Connections looks at both the impact of museums on the cultural and civic lives of local communities, and the impact of local communities on the programs, collections and organisational culture of museums. Advocating an accessible and inclusive approach to museum management, Kadoyama focuses in particular on the role of museum leadership in fostering community relationships. The result offers insights into how relationships between communities and museums can be forged in practice, and how community engagement strategies can be developed, implimented and evaluated successfully.

This book considers modern museum collection stewardship and argues that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Exploring issues such as `quality over quantity¿, emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship, the book aims to inform and innovate collection practices.

Addresses the crucial issue often overlooked by researchers: How do you ensure that the interview you so carefully collected will be preserved and available in the future? This book looks at the various steps that take place after the interview - transcribing, cataloging, preserving, archiving, and making your study accessible to others.

Over the past decade, evidence has been mounting that our ancestors developed skills to sail across large bodies of water early in prehistory. In this fascinating volume, Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation worldwide, then focuses on the Mediterranean.