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The Zimbabwe Culture

Innocent Pikirayi, Joseph O Vogel

• Hardcover | Engels | African Archaeology
• Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long cont... Lees meer

The Green Museum

Sarah S Brophy, Elizabeth Wylie

• Hardcover | Engels
• Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green beha... Lees meer

The Time at Darwin's Reef

Ivan Brady

• Hardcover | Engels | Ethnographic Alternatives | nr. 12
• The Time at Darwin's Reef is primarily a book of storytelling through mixed genres--verse, prose, and painting. Brady's work is designed to draw out k... Lees meer

Lithics After the Stone Age

Steven A Rosen

• Paperback | Engels
• Steven A. Rosen's Lithics After the Stone Age is the first in-depth analysis of post-Stone-Age tools. For Near Eastern archaeologists, he provides the... Lees meer

California Prehistory

• Hardcover
• Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California. Lees meer

Curating Archaeological Collections

Lynne P Sullivan, Terry S Childs

• Hardcover | Engels | Archaeologist's Toolkit | nr. 6
• Curation is rarely the first topic raised in an archaeological seminar or addressed in a fieldwork design. And, the authors point out, it is too rarel... Lees meer

Collecting Cultures

Sally K May

• Hardcover | Engels | Indigenous Archaeologies
• In February 1948, a team of Australians and Americans embarked upon one of the largest scientific expeditions that had ever taken place in Australia. ... Lees meer

In Contact

Diana Dipaolo Loren

• Paperback | Engels | Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
• The first two centuries of contact between Native and non-Native groups set into motion new social practices, definitions of personhood, and hierarchi... Lees meer

Healing by Hand

• Paperback | Engels
• Anthropologists have routinely overlooked the practice of body therapists, one of the primary providers of "traditional" medicine. Healing by Hand pre... Lees meer

Contemporary American Religion

• Hardcover | Engels
• No single narrative or theory can describe the varieties of religious experience in North America today. The tidy dichotomies of liberal/ conservative... Lees meer

Ancient Maya Political Economies

• Paperback | Engels
• Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks ... Lees meer

Concerning Children

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Gender Studies | nr. 2
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood. In this volume,... Lees meer

Handbook for Small Science Centers

• Hardcover | Engels
• There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This hand... Lees meer

Unhealthy Health Policy

• Hardcover | Engels
• This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailin... Lees meer

Gender in Archaeology

Sarah Milledge Nelson

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender and Archaeology
• This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the... Lees meer

Kaleidoscope Notes

Stacy Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnographic Alternatives | nr. 3
• Striving to express the lived experience of women's music at The Club, Stacy Holman Jones has created a text that is itself performative, and the read... Lees meer

Gaining Access

Martha S Feldman, Jeannine Bell, Michele Tracy Berger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Gaining access is a critical part of doing research, not only because one must 'get in' in order to gain information, but also because the quality of ... Lees meer

The Chinese in America

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans | nr. 10
• This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Volume e... Lees meer

Handbook of Early Christianity

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Christian movement emerged amidst complex social tensions, power politics, ethnic diversity, economic stress, and cultural changes. Both biblical ... Lees meer

One Night

Cathy Winkler

• Hardcover | Engels
• One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woma... Lees meer

A Cosmos in Stone

David J Lewis-Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Archaeology of Religion
• J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in h... Lees meer

Marketing Heritage

• Hardcover | Engels
• What are the implications of mass tourism and globalization for the field of archaeology? How does this change popular understandings of the past? Inc... Lees meer

Cultural Resource Laws and Practice

Thomas F King

• Paperback | Engels | Heritage Resource Management
• With its updated analysis and treatments of key topics, this new edition is a must-have for archaeologists and students, historic preservationists, tr... Lees meer

Ocasi

George E Marcus, Fernando Mascarenhas

• Hardcover | Engels | Alterations | nr. 4
• Anthropologist George Marcus and Fernando Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna, reveal the key relationship between anthropologist and subject... Lees meer