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Explores how a wide range of academics understand and express how they deal with spirituality in their professional lives and how they integrate spirituality in teaching, research, administration, and advising. The contributors also analyse the culture of academia and its challenges to the spiritual development of those involved.

Norman Denzin shows how artistic representations of Little Big Horn demonstrate the changing perceptions often racist of Native America by the majority culture in this multilayered performance ethnography"

Comprehensive and global in scope, this book critically evaluates the range of management options that claim to have integrated Indigenous peoples and knowledge, and then outline an innovative, alternative model of co-management, the Indigenous Stewardship Model.

A new edition of the classic guide for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and collectors for identifying and analyzing ancient baskets and basket fragments with an extensive new introduction summarizing the work done in this area over recent decades.

Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they 'fail' to seek medical care, are 'non-compliant' patients, or 'lack immunity' enjoyed by the 'mainstream' population. This title shows how it masks fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans.

This volume tells the stories-in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues.

Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnography including examplars and exercises for the novice.

Presents multiple viewpoints on the Kennewick Man case, a lightning rod for conflict between archaeologists and Native Americans over the control of indigenous remains.

Meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practaices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements.

Draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, this title shows how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity.

Written in Berger's friendly, personal style, he shows by example that academics can write good, readable prose in a variety of genres.

What is historical archaeology and why is it important? This book addresses these key questions and covers the goals of historical archaeological work, the kinds of questions asked, and the ethical and political concerns addressed. It shows what historical archaeology can provide that neither of its parent disciplines can offer alone.

The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, updated to incorporate advances in research, theory, and practice in the museum field over the last twenty years.

Josephine Peters, a revered northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural knowledge on personal and tribal history, gathering ethics and preparations, then offers a catalogue of the uses and doses of over 160 plants.

Explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War.

Ideal for applied researchers, students, training programs, and technical assistance projects in any field, this comprehensive guide to applied ethnography distills the expertise of the distinguished anthropologist and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career.

Patricia Leavy, herself both a highly published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience, including a methodological introduction and five stories showing these methods in action.

Gubrium and Harper provide instruction in visual and digital methodologies and show how they can contribute to building a participatory, public-engaged ethnography.

Suitable for those considering a career in museums, this book outlines the nature of the profession, the types of museums, and the types of jobs within museums, including salary ranges. It tells the reader the kinds of training needed, how to secure a job, and how to move up the ladder once you are working in the field.

The long awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwest archaeology, including the latest in current research, debates, and topical syntheses as well as increased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaic periods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon.

This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, forensic, and excavation methods to identify both individuals and group affiliations-cultural, religious, and organizational-in a multiethnic historical cemetery.

Offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in California archaeology, including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonisation, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others.

Suitable for both art-based researchers and research-informed artists, this book explores the theatrical genre known as Collective Creation, or Playbuilding.

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.

Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in museums and other cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

The contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.

Two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity and curriculum, with the editors highlighting key tenets of this collaborative research methodology.

Two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity and curriculum, with the editors highlighting key tenets of this collaborative research methodology.

Details the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. It uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia.

A brief, useful guide to Glaserian grounded theory methods for the novice.