הוצאת AltaMira Press
הספרים של הוצאת AltaMira Press
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Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946: Volume I, 1933-1938 (Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context)
מאת JYrgen MatthSus
Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's _final solution_ from the Jewish perspective. This first volume, taking us from Hitler's rise to power through the aft...
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Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life (American Association for State and Local History Book)
מאת Tammy S. Gordon
Private History in Public examines history exhibits in small community museums and non-museum settings like bars, churches, and barberships and argues that these exhibits promote dialogue on historical topics by engaging visitors with individualized perspectives....
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Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)
מאת Lynn D. Dierking
Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? What roles can museums serve in a learning community? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking investigate these questions in Learning from Museums. Synthesizing theories and research f...
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The Oral History Manual (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)
מאת Barbara W. Sommer
The Oral History Manual grounds oral historians in the practice of oral history, taking the reader through the entire process, from the idea for a project through the completed, archived interviews....
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The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement
מאת Armando Navarro
Political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at four hundred years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which immigrants have been received. The book provides a political, historical, and theoreti...
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Cross-cultural researchers describe, compare, and test patterns that occur in different, discrete cultures. In this brief textbook, two of the world's leading cross-cultural researchers describe both the logic of and process of doing research in this tradition. The Embers take the reader through a s...
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The Green Museum shows museum professionals how they can incorporate green design into new construction and day to day operations, using sustainable practices to save on operating costs and make museums attractive to new fundraising sources....
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Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition (Indigenous Archaeologies)
מאת Sally K. May
Collecting Cultures investigates colonial museum collecting practices in indigenous communities based upon the case of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land....
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Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
מאת Gail Anderson
Reinventing the Museum gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their development....
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Moving the Rock tells the stories of a group of African American women who belong to a small storefront church in central Seattle....
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Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This sociology from womens standpoints reveals the present but largely unseen social relations of everyday life. This will be a foundational t...
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This compelling account of the effect of technology and development on indigenous peoples throughout the world examines major issues of intervention: social engineering, economic development, self-determination, health and disease, and ecocide. Victims of Progressprovides a provocative contex...
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Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches (Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs)
מאת B. Milgram
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior in particular kinds of economic systems....
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Part III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, now available in paper for classroom use....
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The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement
מאת Armando Navarro
Political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at four hundred years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which immigrants have been received. The book provides a political, historical, and theoreti...
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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 their conception of racial identity must be developed. Raising Biracial Children provides parents, educators, social workers, and anyone interested in multiracial issues ...
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Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums and Other Informal Educational Settings (American Association for State and Local History)
מאת Judy Diamond
Practical Evaluation Guide provides the necessary tools to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and exhibits in informal educational settings_museums, science centers, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and parks....
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Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology (Critical Issues in Anhropology)
מאת George R. Lucas Jr.
Anthropologists in Arms traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with national military, security, and intelligence organizations and analyzes the moral and ethical debates provoked by the rise of _military anthropology_--particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists w...
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Violence and Mental Health in Everyday Life: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Children and Adolescents (Violence Prevention and Policy)
מאת Daniel J. Flannery
Clinical psychologist Daniel J. Flannery reveals the impact of violence and victimization in the lives of children and adolescents from a developmental perspective. He offers case studies and professional resources, including web sites and readings related to violence and mental health. It is an ess...
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifest...
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of illness, emphasizing the importance of lifest...
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Historical Transformations presents a comprehensive look at global systemic anthropology, relying on the authors three decades of research in the social sciences. Historical Transformations...
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When asked their religious identification, more people answer none in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual...
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Consumer Research for Museum Marketers creatively instructs museum staff on how to study their visitors to make their museums, exhibits, and programs more appealing for all segments of the public. The author's approach explains how all museum personnel can participate in valuable consumer research w...
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Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the Oemployees onlyO doors to uncover the stories buried--along with the objects--in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Weavin...
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Computing Our Way to Paradise?: The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization (Globalization and the Environment)
מאת Robert Rattle
Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. While globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected network of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and...
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Cross-Cultural Research Methods is an introductory teaching tool that shows students and potential researchers how to describe, compare, and analyze patterns that occur in different cultures. This text explains how to form and test hypotheses about cultural variation, whether it be anthropological, ...
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This workbook contains a series of professional development exercises for students developing a career in anthropology....
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