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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.

Introduces archaeologists to the basic principles and applications of DNA research so they can properly collect DNA samples and interpret the laboratory results with greater confidence.

Explore with Ronald Pelias the physical space between people, and learn the metaphorical importance of leaning, in this personal, performative narrative about relationships.

Explores how a wide range of academics understand and express how they deal with spirituality in their professional lives and how they integrate spirituality in teaching, research, administration, and advising. The contributors also analyse the culture of academia and its challenges to the spiritual development of those involved.

A brief, accessible guide for students and novice researchers to the principles and practices of qualitative interviewing, both formal and unstructured.

In this engaging, thought-provoking book, Dwight Read explores the fundamental scientific debate about how culture and social organization separate humans from our primate cousins.

In this passionate defense of the use of narrative work for progressive purposes, Goodall shows how to use stories effectively in moving the world away from extremism and toward social justice.

Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories.

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.

Scholars have long insisted that the Amazonian ecosystem placed severe limits on the size and complexity of its ancient cultures, but leading researcher Denise Schaan reverses that view, revealing a major civilization in ancient Amazonia that was more complex than anyone previously dreamed.

Founded in 1944, ""Seventeen"" magazine was an immediate success. It became iconic in establishing the tastes and behaviors of successive generation of teen girls covering the last half of the 20th century. The author provides the cultural history of the origins of ""Seventeen"" and its role in shaping the modern teen girl ideal.

Tami Spry provides a methodological introduction to the budding field of performative autoethnography including examplars and exercises for the novice.

George E. Hein explores the impact on current museum theory and practice of early 20th-century educational reformer John Dewey s philosophy, covering philosophies that shaped today s best practices."

Presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of 'the global AIDS industry' and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. This book is suitable for those working in HIV/AIDS prevention. It gives an introduction to the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical anthropology.

A guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safety. It is suitable for those who want to understand the realities of the humanitarianisms, and for the fields of international relations, anthropology, development studies, and peace studies.

Includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises and discussion of poetry writing as a method. This book helps students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry.

These collected essays address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA and similar legislation.

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.

Field research can consist of anything from trekking across the globe to study people in exotic cultural setting to strapping on your running shoes and going down the street to a local market. This book provides guidance to researchers on developing relationships in their field research.

The museum profession began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This anthology collects 52 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. It is suitable for those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history.

Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Examining the phenomenon, this title discusses the commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated centuries ago.

Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in museums and other cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

One of the best-known practitioners of the ethnotheatre research tradition outlines its key principles and practices in this clear, concise volume, which covers the preparation of a dramatic presentation from the research and writing stages to the elements of stage production.

Examines the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation. This work presents an account of the landscapes of southern England and the people who inhabited them.

The contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.

The first major work to analyze the heritage and sustainability, this global, comparative study examines both direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, as well as issues of social and economic inequality faced by local, national, and international cultural organizations.

A collection of over 400 quotes from archaeologists and others about the science of archaeology or the mysteries of history and the past. It is suitable for students, academics and others browsing for suitable quotes for use in classroom presentations, student papers, and research articles.

Entanglement theory posits that the interrelationship of humans and objects is a delimiting characteristic of human history and culture. This edited volume of original studies by leading archaeological theorists applies this concept to a broad range of topics, including archaeological science, heritage, and theory itself.