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Including evidence from cognitive science, this book shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence.

Offers parents, educators, social workers, and those interested in multiracial issues with a framework for understanding healthy mixed-race identity development and to translate those findings into practical care-giving strategies.

Clarifies the need for and the use of transcription methodology and provides a useful, efficient guide to creating good transcripts for a variety of people using ethnographic methods. This title is a suitable tool for transcriptionists, ethnographers, researchers, oral historians, and even amateurs who plan to write their family history.

Through authors' letters and commentaries, this book reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject. It is a reflection on the survival of contemporary Portuguese nobility. It is suitable for scholars of anthropological methods and fieldwork, and to researchers interested in the anthropology of elites and in Portuguese culture.

Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the rest of the world, Smith illuminates key topics ranging from material culture and rituals, to future prospects for pastoralists.

Examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment over the years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, this work analyses historical, ethnographic, and quantitative data.

Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous study by Lynd and Lynd, "Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture", this book uncovers the neglected part of the story of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. It is a useful resource for community research.

This volume examines the growth of precolonial states in Southern Zambezia, and its historical and cultural developments through the evolution of the small-scale, farming societies.

Presents an introduction to the RAP group of ethnographic methods and techniques that provide field-based research findings for policymakers and program planners. This book provides guidelines on producing quality research.

Shows how Eastern thought has dealt with Western contact in the 19th and 20th centuries. Suitable for students familiar with Western philosophy, this book also shows how Indian, Chinese and Islamic traditions responded to these questions: How did philosophy arise? What is the origin of order in the universe? What is human nature? What is truth?

Section 106 is a critical section of an obscure law, the National Preservation Act. It has saved thousands of historic sites, archaeological sites, buildings, and neighborhoods across the country from destruction by federal projects. This title de-mythologizes Section 106, explaining its origins and its rationale.

States that despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora eludes scholars, politicians, and community leaders. This book investigates the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization.

One of anthropology's premier writers on fieldwork methodology looks at the essential elements that constitute the art of his discipline. In The Art of Fieldwork, Wolcott compares the fieldworker to the artist, while recognizing the inherent differences between the labors of each.

Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the "best general text on religion in anthropology available," offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they interpret or explain it since the late 19th century.

Key Themes in Qualitative Research is an attempt by three well-respected ethnographic researchers to present a balanced view of qualitative methodology and research. The book is structured around classic texts, written by methodological pioneers, which comprise the basic foundation of modern qualitative research.

This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz.

Global assessment of the rise of Western capitalism using Ireland as a key case study.

Introduces deviance from an interactionist perspective, placing the study of deviant behavior within the broader terrain of cultural meaning. This book examines the persistence of gender inequality and the formation of youth subcultures. It helps in the study of deviance and crime and for courses in sociology on deviance and social control.

This text examines the parallels which exist between Western germ theory and indigenous contagion theory in the developing world.

This text looks at how women were described, and prescribed to act, by men during the Tudor-Stuart period in England. Suzanne Hull elucidates what the rules were for women, and discusses health habits, food and theories on conception.

Demonstrates the position of Asian Pacific Americans in the US workforce. This book examines personal accounts of discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, and familial relations. It offers Asian Pacific Americans strategies to cope with discrimination.

The authors present narratives on ethnic identity written by first and second generation Asian American professionals. This book aims to prove the ethnicity is a dynamic process, not a fixed state.

Captures the life stories of thirteen visionary museum leaders who helped transform the 19th century's collection of curios into institutions of public service and education. This book recounts the stories of pioneers in American history, science, art, and general museums. It is suitable for those interested in the history of the museum.

Chosen by God, saved by Jesus, Messianic Jews identify themselves as both Christian and Jewish while breaking away to form a new community of their own. This text brings the complex movement to life with an ethnographic look at Adat haRuach, a Messianic Jewish congregation in Southern California.

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.

This new edition contains the full text of the original volume along with two related articles by the author and a new introduction. This work is suitable for advanced students and academics in anthropology.

In this comprehensive treatment, Borowskisy nthesises what is known about the use of animals for clothing, transportation, food and cult practices in biblical times. Essays on pastoral systems and agricultural economics are included.

Takes a look at the impact on masculinity of the women's movement. This book is informed by research carried out during 1969-1970. It offers insight into the early impact of the women's movement on college-aged men.

Looks into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces. This book explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations.

Reflecting on arguments that the natural biological differences between women and men dictate different social roles, this title demolishes these arguments by reviewing studies that find sex differences in cognitive abilities, achievement, and psychological predispositions.