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This volume brings together articles that reveal the Archaic period of the American Midwest to be one of innovation and technological achievement.

Offers a synthesis of archaeological work done in the lower Ohio River Valley, emphasizing population growth and adaptation within an ecological framework in an attempt to explain the area's cultural evolution.

The major international recognition of a World Heritage Site designation can bring important preservation efforts and a wealth of tourist dollars to an impoverished area - but it can also have destructive side effects. This book examines the redevelopment and packaging of Luang Prabans in Laos - one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics-agency, violence, social groups, diffusion-from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives.

Features articles from the 2008 International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. This book demonstrates the potential of the research tradition to make contributions to the betterment of humankind. It highlights the importance of advocating for social justice.

For many the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth. For others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. This book shows how people can use the transformative potential of storytelling for social action.

Offers a history of the field of qualitative inquiry.

Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.

What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in American culture? This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals.

Presents an ethnographic exploration of the sensory and aesthetic experiences of popular Eastern and Western therapies and how they 'cure'. This book investigates the very different ways in which Western, Ayurvedic, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures.

A forceful advocate for historical archaeology as an activist pursuit, the author argues that the way to live in the postmodern period is not simply to chronicle it, but to use the process of interpreting of heritage to develop new understandings the cultural and political issues of our time.

The collected essays in this volume 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.

Discusses the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated centuries ago. This book describes the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system.

Presents research and practice to show how history museums offer a point of entry to the past by empowering children to connect to history through exhibitions. This title covers educational theory and developmental frameworks, how audience and evaluation inform research and development, and the role of experience in delivering content.

Most people agree that our heritage - both natural and cultural - should be protected. Then why does development run rampant, aided - rather than limited - by government inaction? This book offers an analysis of policies and practices, showing the dysfunctional nature of the cultural heritage preservation process.

This reader of original and reprinted articles-many by indigenous authors-is designed to display the array of writings around relationships between archaeologists and indigenous peoples around the globe.

Offers a literary exploration of how scholars can promote global social justice through their work and lives. This book engages in a dialogue that seeks to decolonize the world of American scholarship and promote the use of research toward inclusive social justice.

Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences.

Rarely do archaeological studies provide critical consideration of how historical, archaeological, and scientific data relate to each other, or explicit attempts at demonstrating successful strategies for these kinds of interdisciplinary research. The authors in this volume provide such a critical consideration, examining a wide range of cultures, time periods, and materials.

This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.

Presents multiple viewpoints on the Kennewick Man case, a lightning rod for conflict between archaeologists and Native Americans over the control of indigenous remains.

This volume considers exciting new directions for considering an archaeology of religion, offering examples from theory, tangible archaeological remains, and ethnography.

Intends to re-assess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within a post-9/11 biosecurity framework, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies.

Intends to re-assess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within a post-9/11 biosecurity framework, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies.

Examines some of the most important events in the development of a socially engaged archaeology concerned with issues in the contemporary world.

This is the first volume to introduce the data, theory and methodology of contemporary archaeological work in Japan and other parts of East Asia archaeology in English to western audiences as well as introducing the concept of coexistence into archaeological theory.

This is the first volume to introduce the data, theory and methodology of contemporary archaeological work in Japan and other parts of East Asia archaeology in English to western audiences as well as introducing the concept of coexistence into archaeological theory.

The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology's engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action.

What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? The interdisciplinary, international group of contributors to this volume address these questions in an attempt to create evidential criteria for qualitative work.

What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? The interdisciplinary, international group of contributors to this volume address these questions in an attempt to create evidential criteria for qualitative work.