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Kristine Munoz's volume of short narrative works-- autoethnographies and fictional stories--explore many dimensions of silence, a crucial but often overlooked communication phenomenon, one that drives much of everyday talk and relationships. This volume is an essential work for those who study and teach interpersonal communication.

With more than 30 years of experience in the fields of applied anthropology and international health, former Harvard AIDS Prevention Project Director Edward Green calls for new emphasis on promoting sexual fidelity in Africa and the developing world's battle against AIDS.

Who wants archaeology? Who should pay for it? Who should do it? And how? Making Archaeology Happen is an attempt to answer these questions campaigning for a more liberated, imaginative and productive field profession."

A long overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time.

This is the first English-language study and catalog detailing ethnographic work and material collections of the indigenous populations done by early Russian travelers to California.

Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, and other fields to show how culture and environment have shaped the history of malaria and will make it one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century.

This critical investigation highlights the politics of cultural heritage management, including authenticity and conservation, and its effects on the everyday lives of the peoples it claim to be representing through the example of Djenne in Mali."

Two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity and curriculum, with the editors highlighting key tenets of this collaborative research methodology.

Two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity and curriculum, with the editors highlighting key tenets of this collaborative research methodology.

Details the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. It uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia.

With contributions from over thirty specialists in archaeology and industrial heritage, Industrial Heritage Re-tooled establishes the first set of comprehensive best practices for the management, conservation, and interpretation of historical industrial sites.

Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact.

Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago through the present using a political economic framework.

Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in the studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done in a single volume with her latest thinking on the development of gender studies in the field.

Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of black feminist thought for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve historical archaeological practice.

This lively and provocative book refutes the claim that the Hobbit is a new species, and makes a forceful critique of the cultural and political pressures that lead to the wide acceptance of unsupported theories in science."

A brief, useful guide to Glaserian grounded theory methods for the novice.

Over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework.

Provides benchmarks, gives insight, and enables you to make smart business decisions to maximize sales in your museum store. The report includes hundreds of pages of valuable information and over 200 tables, including comparisons by geography, size, gross sales, and museum type.

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practise in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practise, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives - water, earth and millet.

This volume marks a significant departure from previous symbolic approaches in post-processual archaeology, bringing together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge approaches to chart a new direction in material culture studies.

From antique beer bottles to closely guarded recipes and treasured historic architecture, brewery culture has a special place in American history. Focusing on American breweries, this book presents the material culture of breweries in the United States, from many regions of the country and from the early productions of the sixteenth century.

Challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy is a universal desire, offering a model case study of Mongolian democratization that ties culture, history, and values to the study of political systems.

Tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesises of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication.

Considers how Ancient Egypt was dislocated from Africa, drawing on a range of sources. This work examines key issues such as the evidence for actual contacts between Egypt and other early African cultures, and how influential, or not, Egypt was on them. It focuses on cultural interactions between Egypt and Nubia from 1000 BCE to 500 CE.

Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects.