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Empire and Local Worlds: A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology (Critical Cultural Heritage Series) מאת Mingming Wang Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th ce...

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Mixed Method Design: Principles and Procedures (Developing Qualitative Inquiry) מאת Janice M. Morse The use of mixed methods designs for conducting research has become a major trend in social science research. Renowned methodological experts Janice Morse and Linda Niehaus present a guide to intermediate and experienced researchers on the possibilities inherent in mixed method research. They offer ...

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Petrie's Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis (University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications) מאת Sally-Ann Ashton Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders. For too long, its importance during this critical p...

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A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition מאת Mike Morwood In the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century, an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood discovered a new, diminutive species of human on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed the “Hobbit,” this was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three ...

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Speaking Out: Storytelling for Social Change (Int'l Inst Qualitative Methodology Serie) מאת Linde Zingaro Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity—they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are com...

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Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work (Writing Lives) מאת Carolyn Ellis Carolyn Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward personal, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and The Ethnographic I, she has authored numerous stories that demonstrate the emotional power and academic value of aut...

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What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture מאת Arthur Asa Berger Objects, artifacts, and other forms of material culture are studied in many different parts of the university. Yet, to date, there has been no introductory book that allows students to understand the basic ways in which material culture can be studied. Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts ...

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Speaking Out: Storytelling for Social Change (Int'l Inst Qualitative Methodology Serie) מאת Linde Zingaro Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity—they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are com...

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The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory מאת J. M. Adovasio Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio ...

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Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions (Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology) מאת Hans Baer In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, 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 ant...

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What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture מאת Arthur Asa Berger Objects, artifacts, and other forms of material culture are studied in many different parts of the university. Yet, to date, there has been no introductory book that allows students to understand the basic ways in which material culture can be studied. Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts ...

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Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland (Heritage, Tourism & Community) מאת Kelli Ann Costa The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who provide the crucial component in the branding of “people, place, and pace” upon which Irish heritage tourism depends. Kelli Costa’s ethnography of the...

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Betweener Talk: A Dialogue on Decolonizing Class, Knowledge Production, Praxis, and Justice (Qualitative Inquiry & Social Jusice) מאת Marcelo Diversi In this literary, co-constructed narrative, two Brazilian scholars explore the spaces “in-between”—between their own biographies, one raised privileged, the other poor; between the experience of being raised in Brazil and finding acceptance in United States universities; between their lives in...

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Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach מאת Dwight W. Read Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a metho...

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Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Endangered Amazonian People (University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications) מאת Gustavo Politis From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fra...

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Archaeological Parenchyma (University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications) מאת J.G. Hather The parenchymous remains of roots and tubers are increasingly becoming recognized as an important category of plant remain alongside seeds, fruits and wood charcoal. Identification is however frequently viewed as problematical and such important indicators of past diet are often left unidentified. ...

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Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research: An Applied Approach מאת Elisa J. Sobo Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insigh...

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Military High Schools in America מאת William Trousdale Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today’s private military academies are often regarded as expensive holding facilities for unwanted, incorrigible boys who have nowhere else to go. Their depiction in popular media has reinforced the impression that they ...

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Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing מאת Murphy Halliburton People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies—from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In M...

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Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition Conrad Phillip Kottak

Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition מאת Conrad Phillip Kottak A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the author’s research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new Introduction....

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Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland (Heritage, Tourism & Community) מאת Kelli Ann Costa The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who provide the crucial component in the branding of “people, place, and pace” upon which Irish heritage tourism depends. Kelli Costa’s ethnography of the...

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Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research מאת Patricia L. Sunderland Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research is an essential new guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in consumer environments. Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny argue that, while the recent explosion in the use of “ethnography” in the corporate world has provided unp...

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Spirits with Scalpels: The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil מאת Sidney M. Greenfield “The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move….” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethn...

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Our Unprotected Heritage: Whitewashing the Destruction of our Cultural and Natural Environment מאת Thomas F. King Most Americans agree that our heritage—both natural and cultural—should be protected. Then why does development run rampant, aided—rather than limited—by government inaction? Tom King has been a participant in and observer of this system for decades, as a government worker, heritage consulta...

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Mixed Method Design: Principles and Procedures (Developing Qualitative Inquiry) מאת Janice M. Morse The use of mixed methods designs for conducting research has become a major trend in social science research. Renowned methodological experts Janice Morse and Linda Niehaus present a guide to intermediate and experienced researchers on the possibilities inherent in mixed method research. They offer ...

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Shamanism and the Origins of States: Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia מאת Sarah Milledge Nelson Sarah Milledge Nelson’s bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia—China, Japan, Korea—was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans. Using a mixture of historical documents, mythology, archaeological data, and ethnographic studies of contemporary ...