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The original contributions to this volume highlight the key ethical topics that face contemporary qualitative researchers and those that will likely emerge in the near future.

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

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.

This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy.

This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy.

Used by everyone from survey researchers to oral historians, the interview may be the basic and essential field method in the qualitative researcher's toolkit. This title gives a cogent introduction to the history, types, and methods of interviewing in the social sciences. It outlines the range of ways in which interviews are conducted.

Laurie Charles finished her PhD, then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. This book presents her experiences as a volunteer in West Africa.

They're going to wipe out your neighborhood or drive you off your ranch to put in a transit station. How do you stop it? This work explains the ins and outs of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act - the major US law designed to protect historic places and how it can be used to protect special places in the community.

Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same fields, and anthropology is not different. This book speaks about their challenges and successes as they navigated through their personal and professional lives, riding the changing tides of social and disciplinary history.

This volume is a call to qualitative researchers to respond to the political and methodological conservativism of the new millennium by emphasizing ethical practice and social justice.

This volume is a call to qualitative researchers to respond to the political and methodological conservativism of the new millennium by emphasizing ethical practice and social justice.

The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency, identity and social meaning.

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.

This volume attempts to present a dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian scholars over competing narratives in the 19th and 20th century history of the Middle East to 1948, in the hopes of creating an appreciation, understanding, and respect for the "other."

Archaeology has an impact on the public far beyond what any archaeologist would imagine. This book looks at the public appropriation of archaeology. It explores examples from around the world and across time to help readers understand how the past becomes social currency for both professional archaeologists and the public at large.

Jane Baxter's practical guide about how to run a successful field school offers archaeologists ways to maximize the educational and training benefits of these experiences.

Designed as a supplement for introduction to archaeology classes, this book runs the reader through the major principles of archaeology. It shows how contemporary archaeology, as part of the larger cultural resource management endeavour, acts to help preserve and protect prehistoric and historic sites in the United States and elsewhere.

First major English-language research volume describing the multidisciplinary archaeological research at the famous third millennium BC Syrian site of Ebla, using a regional landscape approach.

A documentary filmmaker and historical archaeologist team up to provide a concise guide to filmmaking designed to help archaeologists navigate the unfamiliar world of documentary film.

Explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used, and contested in a variety of cultural contexts.

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.

Establishes a new, interdisciplinary ground for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of sustainable thinking and practice.

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.

In this volume, Carey and Asbury provide a brief, systematic introduction to developing, implementing, and analyzing focus groups in research projects.

The final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories, takes the reader through all the steps required for good archiving and concluding the project, and gives examples of creative ways community projects have used oral histories.

Packed with instructive case studies, practical examples, and expert advice, the fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from the interview preparation through the follow-up.

The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit leads project managers through the management of people, money, technology, publicity, and administrative tasks from the beginning to the end of the project.

This accessible, concise introduction to understanding agricultural chemicals and public health combines a broad, global synthesis of the issue with rich ethnographic narratives that offer practical lessons for global health.

Explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to create richer visitor experiences.

In a wide-ranging analysis covering popular culture, policy, and underlying social structures, this book shows how drug addicts are socially constructed as useless burdens on society and who benefits from that portrayal.