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Erica Gibson s comprehensive guide provides a much-needed catalogue of ceramic makers' marks of British, French, German, and American origin found in North American archaeological sites."

Examining interpretive materials, exhibits, and films at major US historic sites where controversy has erupted over historical interpretation, Exhibiting Patriotism shows how historical narratives change over time, shaped by the dynamic relationship between these museums, their visitors, and the public.

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.

A practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing health services delivery problems. It guides the reader through specific methods such as focus groups, rapid assessment, and interviewing. It considers the social relationships and power dynamics that influence field entry, data ownership, and research deliverables.

This path-breaking, comparative volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe.

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.

Contributors to this volume-from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology-show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and adaptive from the impacts of volcanic eruptions over human history and prehistory.

The life stories included here present the journeys of over 30 indigenous researchers from six continents and many disciplines, including the challenges and oppression they have faced, their strategies for overcoming them, and how their work has produced more meaningful research and a more just society.

Qualitative researchers are increasingly being called upon to become human rights advocates, to help individuals and communities honor the sanctity of life, and to promote the core values of privacy, justice, freedom, peace, and human dignity. This title shows the various dimensions of the human rights work being done by the scholars.

Marshalling new scientific evidence on the musculoskeletal system, this book provides an accessible guide to training that balances athletic performance and bone health over the life span, with information essential for exercise physiologists, endurance athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and coaches.

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.

Taking a multi-sited, cross-cultural approach, this book investigates the relationship between cultural institutions in presenting intangible heritage. "

Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum.

This book provides a concise, unbiased and practical resource for those tasked with navigating the complicated and rapidly changing legal and ethical landscape governing the acquisition of cultural property and archaeological material.

Using a narrative epistemology approach against the backdrop of popular culture and the history of science, Manderson shows how people remake their bodies, identities, and biographies after catastrophic bodily loss and change.

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.

This book shows how leading applied anthropologists use complex and fluid new concepts of culture and community--such as globalization, translocality, ethnoscape--to solve pressing human problems in public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare.

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.

Timothy Rowlands brings a diverse mix of ethnographic, semiotic, and analytical approaches to analyze the massively multiplayer online game "EverQuest."

Both personal and theoretical, autoethnographic and analytical, this book offers a performative, arts-based narrative about the aftermath of abusive marriages, using the stories, drawings, songs of other women to compare with Tamas's own lived experience.

Richard Gelles explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don t work in sector after sector and why they should be replaced with a universal entitlement at lower cost."

Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic, political, and social processes.

This brief, student-friendly introduction to the study of semiotics uses lively examples from 28 iconic locations in the United States, such as Coney Island, Las Vegas, the World Trade Center, and the Grand Canyon.

As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fills a significant gap in the literature by providing the fine-grained, candid accounts of this changing work environment and provocative dialogues about the way practitioners negotiate ethics and professional identity.