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This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.

This book presents a much-needed review of commercial closures for bottles and jars used in America prior to World War II.

This is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in North American archaeological sites.

In the revised and updated second edition of The Tone of Teaching, bestselling author Max van Manen defines sound pedagogy for both teachers and parents as the ability to distinguish effectively between what is appropriate, and what is less appropriate, in our communications and dealings with children and young people.

In The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every level an original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots in the experience of in loco parentis.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

Why did ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs.

This volume highlights work being done in qualitative inquiry through a variety of critical lenses such as new materialism, queer theory, and narrative inquiry.

This second edition of this best-selling introduction to conducting qualitative research in applied and clinical settings retains the clear, practical guidance for researchers and students in health, social service, mental health, and related settings. This edition includes additional material on knowledge synthesis and integration, evidence-based practice, and data analysis.

Compelling personal stories of five diverse young women, plus the author s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis, vividly convey the lived experience of bullying to help understand how this form of violence shapes identity, relationships, interactions, and the construction of meaning among youth."

Renowned scholar and founder of the practice of narrative inquiry, D. Jean Clandinin, and her coauthors provide researchers with the theoretical underpinnings and processes of narrative inquiry for working with the special populations of children and youth.

A team of fifteen researchers from various disciplines and nationalities offer ethical strategies unique to qualitative researchers for those big ethical moments beyond what can be predicted by ethics committees."

Vera Caine and Judy Mill outline the basic steps and issues in the community-based research process. Using examples from numerous projects from around the world, they discuss topics from collaboratively designing and conducting the research with community members, to building community capacity and negotiating complicated questions of researcher control and ethics.

Challenging the critique that autoethnography is too self-focused, Tami Spry calls for a new performative autoethnography that is transgressive, liberatory, and decolonizing. She uses a variety of examples, literary forms, and theoretical traditions to demonstrate this innovative approach in action.

The third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology has been brought completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies and the implementation of programs in global health settings.

This engaging volume critically examines previous theories of collapse of ancient complex societies and offers a new one, that of social hubris. The concept is evaluated through examination of ancient Egypt, Rome, Maya, and others.

In the student friendly textbook, Just Relationships, Douglas Kelley provides a conceptual framework for understanding social justice within an interpersonal context through the use of existing social science theory.

Written by a diverse group of anthropologists, environmental researchers, environmentalists, and policy-makers, The Carbon Fix closely examines the current model for dealing with global warming¿paying for carbon capture¿and the negative effects this model has on rural communities, indigenous groups, and others in less developed regions who depend on or control carbon- sequestering lands.

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human. Conversations on Human Nature brings these debates to life for teachers, students, and general readers.

Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times.

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

Provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a brief introduction to a health-care model, Community Participatory Involvement, which for 20 years has proved successful in fighting global health problems. CPI differs from other community-based models in that it involves a unique synergy of local, civil, and political authorities.

Focuses specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space.

The author interrogates the communicative forms and practices that have been central to the establishment of neoliberal governance, and offers an alternative strategy for a grassroots-driven, participatory form of global organizing of health.

In this detailed comparative study, Rebecca and Glenn Storey examine the cultural changes marking the fall of two well-known ancient complex societies: the Classical Maya and the Ancient Roman Empire. Utilizing the concept of slow collapse, the authors show how the two experienced comparable problems that ultimately led to the parallel processes of decline despite their cultural dissimilarities.

In an era of budgetary belt-tightening, policymakers must prove that their programs work or face drastic cuts in spending. This book discusses in plain prose the theory and methods of culturally-competent evaluation across a number of disciplines, such as health and education, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professionals.