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Who's Afraid of Women's Studies?
Feminisms in Everyday Life
Av Mary F. Rogers, C. D. Garrett
Häftad, 2002
544 kr
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In Who's Afraid of Women's Studies? the authors ask why there persists a fear of feminism and women's studies in the academy. Rogers and Garrett remind us that this field came into being as the result of women's practical efforts of advocacy and activism, to represent marginalized, excluded, and …
Du Bois on Education
Häftad, 2002
584 kr
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Although W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant educational thinkers of the twentieth century, many are still unaware of his relevance in this field. DuBois on Education corrects this oversight by collecting Du Bois's major writings on education in one volume. Together these selections …
Foundations of Social Archaeology: Selected Writings of V. Gordon Childe
Av Thomas C. Patterson, Charles E. Orser
Häftad, 2004
833 kr
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Mapping Social Relations: A Primer in Doing Institutional Ethnography
Av Marie L. Campbell, Frances Gregor
Häftad, 2004
749 kr
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Raising Biracial Children
Av Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Tracey A. Laszloffy
Häftad, 2005
547 kr
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As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception of racial identity must be developed. A wide divide between academics who research biracial identity, and the everyday world of parents and …
Ritual and Belief
Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
Av David Hicks
Häftad, 2010
1138 kr
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Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the …
Small Museum Toolkit
[6 volumes]
Av Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Stacy Klingler
2011
3239 kr
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As a small museum staff person, you are responsible for a lot, including areas outside of your expertise or training. You need a quick reference that makes the process of becoming a sustainable, valued institution less overwhelming. The Small Museum Toolkit is a collection of six books that serves …
Effective Exhibit Interpretation and Design
Av Tessa Bridal
Häftad, 2013
773 kr
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As the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us “exhibitions are the public face of museums. The effective presentation of collections and information in exhibitions is an activity unique to museums, and it is through their exhibitions that the vast …
Introduction to Eastern Thought
Inbunden, 2002
1384 kr
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Marietta Stepaniants' introductory text allows a distinctively Eastern way of thinking to come forth. Four interpretive essays open the book showing how Indian, Chinese and Islamic traditions responded to these questions: How did philosophy arise? What is the origin of order in the universe? What …
Ancient Maya Political Economies
Av Marilyn A. Masson, David A. Freidel
Inbunden, 2002
1613 kr
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Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Chapters in this book take a hard look at existing models of elite exchange and tribute and address the difficult …
Ancient Maya Political Economies
Av Marilyn A. Masson, David A. Freidel
Häftad, 2002
725 kr
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Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Chapters in this book take a hard look at existing models of elite exchange and tribute and address the difficult …
Lives in Context
The Art of Life History Research
Av Ardra L. Cole, Gary J. Knowles
Inbunden, 2001
1397 kr
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The reflexive turn in qualitative research has transformed the process of doing life history research. No longer are research subjects examined through the lens of the all-knowing but supposedly invisible researcher. As Ardra Cole and Gary Knowles point out in this fresh introduction to conducting …
Chronicling Cultures
Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology
Av Robert V. Kemper, Anya Peterson Royce
Häftad, 2002
615 kr
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Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century. Chronicling Cultures collects articles from principals of many of the longest and best-known anthropology projects from four continents—the Kung, Harvard Chiapas Project, Gwembe Valley, Tzintzuntzan, and Navajo among …
Reflexive Ethnographic Science
Häftad, 2003
562 kr
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Aunger proposes a solution to a fundamental debate in contemporary ethnography: the source of ethnographic authority. He advocates the method of reflexive analysis as a new way of doing ethnography and making it a more effective scientific endeavor. Reflexive Ethnographic Science constitutes a foil …
Inclusive Hebrew Scriptures
The Prophets
Häftad, 2004
575 kr
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Following the ordering of the Palestinian canon, The Inclusive Prophets includes the twelve minor prophets along with the Isaiah, Jeremiah and the historical books of Samuel and Kings. This second volume of the Inclusive Hebrew Scriptures follows the same commitment to inclusiveness, justice and …
Songs for Siva
Vacanas of Akka Mahadevi
Inbunden, 2005
924 kr
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A collection of vacanas - a populist literary form meaning literally to give one's word - which demonstrate the author's radical devotion to Siva and the radical commitment to equality.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
Inbunden, 1998
2952 kr
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The sacred and profane continue to interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, this encyclopedia covers world religious leaders and scholars—past and …
Art of Fieldwork
Häftad, 1995
549 kr
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One of anthropology's premier writers on fieldwork methodology looks at the essential elements that constitute the art of his discipline. In The Art of Fieldwork, Wolcott compares the fieldworker to the artist, while recognizing the inherent differences between the labors of each.
Gender in Archaeology
Analyzing Power and Prestige
Häftad, 1997
566 kr
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Sarah Milledge Nelson takes on the formidable task of attempting the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the flood of archaeological work on gender. She examines the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social …
Clash of Cultures
Inbunden, 1997
1438 kr
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In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian …
