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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.

Highlights archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in non-Eurasian regions including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa to present a view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe.

New edition of the practical guide to writing for archaeologists, penned by America s best known archaeological writer. It contains new material on academic writing and working in the digital environment."

Synthesizes materials known through the 1980s and reports on key sites of excavation and survey in the Carolinas, Barbados, Louisiana and other locations.

Looks at the people, the actions, the history and the philosophies behind the ""radical"" environmental movement. Focusing on the work of Earth First!, the Sea Shepherds, Greenpeace, and the Animal Liberation Front, among others, this book contains tales of front-line warriors defending an Earth they see as being in environmental peril.

This volume brings into daylight one of the most explosive episodes of censorship and censure of academic scholarship in recent decades, presenting an extended version of Bruce Rind¿s suppressed essay on sexual relations between male adults and adolescents cross-culturally, accompanied by twelve essays arguing for or against Rind and analysing the controversy.

This volume brings into daylight one of the most explosive episodes of censorship and censure of academic scholarship in recent decades, presenting an extended version of Bruce Rind¿s suppressed essay on sexual relations between male adults and adolescents cross-culturally, accompanied by twelve essays arguing for or against Rind and analysing the controversy.

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.

Presents an ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. This title analyses the social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation.

Uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980.

Tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a look at the primary political mechanism used to 'repair' the many injuries suffered in war. This book examines the array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from genocide to loss of livelihood. It is intended as a contribution to public policy, political science, and human rights.

Shows how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. This volume notes that questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled.

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

This focused collection of original papers addresses the global dynamics of qualitative inquiry, focusing on the changing landscape of social media, human rights, the Global South, and decolonizing methodologies.

This focused collection of original papers addresses the global dynamics of qualitative inquiry, focusing on the changing landscape of social media, human rights, the Global South, and decolonizing methodologies.

A compelling description of lived experience in an extended health care facility and the social, policy, and interpersonal issues raised there, authored by one of the leading literary writers in sociology.

Bitgood, a leading visitor researcher, offers an important new model of visitor attention and shows how museum practitioners can apply it to create more effective museum environments that capture and sustain visitor attention.

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.

This volume identifies relevant ethical principles that can guide novice researchers through the research process with the necessary wisdom and insight to shape a project in sound, meaningful, and thoughtful ways.

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.

Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress.

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

Using data from archaeological excavations, patent filings, and marketing catalogs the book provides a broad view of the introduction, spread, and use of mass-produced coffin hardware in North America.

Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.

A concise and helpful guide through the a qualitative doctorate program, from selecting a research topic through completing and publishing a dissertation.

The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice.

Using the example of China's new Wutai Shan National Park, Robert Shepherd explores the quirky intersections between heritage preservation, religion, and the demands of tourism.

This book presents and analyses the results of the use and adaptation of ancient Egyptian architecture in modern times.