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Yellowstone - Sacagawea - Lewis & Clark - Transcontinental railroad - Indians as college mascots - all are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. This title interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning.

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter professional lives - illness, sorrow, death? This work shows you the survival strategies of The Trickster.

Original research articles show the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by contemporary managers of heritage sites around the world.

In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory, heritage, identity and conservation play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts at the local, ethnic, national and global level .

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

Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism.

An accessible and moving research account of parents' experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life, drawing from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her own experience, and a range of qualitative methods.

In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice.

Renowned scholars give the term "creolization" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place.

This phenomenological study investigates the lived experience of cancer and burn patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments.

Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners - they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. This book uses ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations.

The contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its relationship to power, and explore how archaeologists can become more overtly agents of social change for individuals and communities.

The contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its relationship to power, and explore how archaeologists can become more overtly agents of social change for individuals and communities.

This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

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.

This book presents novel and interesting ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. Seeking alternatives to the formal lecture format, the various contributions seek better ways of communicating the complexities of human behavior and of engaging students in active learning about the past.

How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional archaeologists. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, many with media backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.

Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology.

Puschnigg's detailed study of Merv's Sasanian pottery creates a benchmark for other work on this ceramic corpus. She dissects the frequency, dates, wares, and profiles of hundreds of securely excavated pieces and compares them with the finds from earlier Russian studies, generally unavailable to western researchers.

Examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. This book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority.

Represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. This work is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape.

The Wisdom of Egypt examines the sources of evidence about Ancient Egypt available to scholars, and the changing visions of Egypt and of Egypt's role in human history that they produced.

This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology using examples from European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka and other Andean cultures.

This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from the formative period of the profession, written by many of the American and European founders of the field, with contextualizing introductions by the editors.

Narrates the life histories of members of the Red Thread Development Corporation, a group of women activists in the Caribbean. This book explores the impact of their work on these women's lives and, in the process, discovers differences of class and nation that overshadow the gender and race.

Critiques the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and compares them with the images found in books, movies, and posters. This book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries.

The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. This title examines the cult of heads in the Andes to develop a theory of its place in indigenous cultural practice and its relationship to political systems.

The contributors ask critical questions about historic preservation and commemoration methods used by modern societies and their impact on the perception and identity of Native American peoples, who are generally not consulted in the commemoration process.

Provides a summary and synthesis of the rock art of the American High Plains, from Archaic times to the historic period. This book presents a combination of Plains archaeology, rock art sites, and holistic archaeological research. It shows archaeologists how rock art integrates with other materials available for study.