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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.

Yellowstone - Sacagawea - Lewis & Clark - Transcontinental railroad - Indians as college mascots - all are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. This title interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning.

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter professional lives - illness, sorrow, death? This work shows you the survival strategies of The Trickster.

Original research articles show the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by contemporary managers of heritage sites around the world.

In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory, heritage, identity and conservation play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts at the local, ethnic, national and global level .

Meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practaices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements.

Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism.

This participant observer study chronicles the stories of a group of poor Canadian women, their experience with exclusion by health and social service providers, and their involvement in a feminist action research project.

An accessible and moving research account of parents' experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life, drawing from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her own experience, and a range of qualitative methods.

This grounded theory study explores how parents grieve, the meanings and casual explanations they attribute to Suddden Infant Death Syndrome, the effects of their grief on family relationships, and the strategies they use to cope and carry on.

In this narrative collage of ancient and contemporary storytelling, modern theory, and personal reflection, Ian William Sewall seeks to infuse western pedagogy with a folkloral teaching voice.

Renowned scholars give the term "creolization" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place.

This phenomenological study investigates the lived experience of cancer and burn patients in pain and of the professionals who inflict pain in the context of medically prescribed treatments.

Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners - they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. This book uses ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations.

The contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its relationship to power, and explore how archaeologists can become more overtly agents of social change for individuals and communities.

The contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its relationship to power, and explore how archaeologists can become more overtly agents of social change for individuals and communities.

This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

This volume highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian regions, including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, to present a more balanced view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe.

Draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, this title shows how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity.

This book presents novel and interesting ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. Seeking alternatives to the formal lecture format, the various contributions seek better ways of communicating the complexities of human behavior and of engaging students in active learning about the past.

How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional archaeologists. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, many with media backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.

Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology.

Puschnigg's detailed study of Merv's Sasanian pottery creates a benchmark for other work on this ceramic corpus. She dissects the frequency, dates, wares, and profiles of hundreds of securely excavated pieces and compares them with the finds from earlier Russian studies, generally unavailable to western researchers.

The Wisdom of Egypt examines the sources of evidence about Ancient Egypt available to scholars, and the changing visions of Egypt and of Egypt's role in human history that they produced.