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Guides the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. This book offers various techniques for gathering data on the self and shows how to transform this information into a study that looks for the connection with others present in a diverse world.

A guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in corporate consumer environments. It is suitable for students, who are likely to both study and work in corporate environments.

The contributors to this volume take advantage of the diversity of landscape archaeology to examine the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out of landscape studies, using examples from New York to Northern Ireland, Africa to the Argolid.

Outlines the basic principles and practices of constructivism for use in social sciences, the final work of leading constructivist theorist Egon Guba and his partner Yvonna Lincoln.

Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely the influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. This biography of Kenyon recounts not only her many achievements in the field but also her personal side, known to very few of her contemporaries.

Talks about young, bright women who are mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mould them into their own masculine ideals. Using the tropes of mythology and Jungian psychology, the author characterizes the many paths these women's academic lives take: as muse for an older scholar, as mistress or wife, or as the dutiful daughter.

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."

Shows how sorcery, typically associated with ""traditional culture"", and conspiracy, usually analyzed in terms of national politics and international inequality, are in fact closely linked and mutually operationalized. This book helps readers understand the cultural dimensions of health and disease.

Takes you inside the trenches of one of the world's most important archaeological excavations and the biggest prehistoric village ever discovered: 9,500 year old Catalhoeyuek, in south-central Turkey. This book details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of this spectacularly well-preserved early farming settlement.

Using criteria, such as comfort, reinforcement, and meaningfulness, a group of museum professionals have produced a useful tool for other museum professionals to better evaluate the effectiveness of museum exhibitions. This step-by-step approach to evaluation of exhibitions is useful for museum directors, exhibit developers, and evaluators.

This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.