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George E. Hein explores the impact on current museum theory and practice of early 20th-century educational reformer John Dewey s philosophy, covering philosophies that shaped today s best practices."

Presents a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom of 'the global AIDS industry' and offers an alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV prevention. This book is suitable for those working in HIV/AIDS prevention. It gives an introduction to the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical anthropology.

A guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safety. It is suitable for those who want to understand the realities of the humanitarianisms, and for the fields of international relations, anthropology, development studies, and peace studies.

Presents an overview of the variety of methods used in field archaeology, from research design, to survey and excavation strategies. This title deals with issues such as cultural resource management, relations with indigenous people, and database management as well as standard methods of archaeological data collection and analysis.

Includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises and discussion of poetry writing as a method. This book helps students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry.

These collected essays address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA and similar legislation.

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.

Field research can consist of anything from trekking across the globe to study people in exotic cultural setting to strapping on your running shoes and going down the street to a local market. This book provides guidance to researchers on developing relationships in their field research.

The museum profession began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This anthology collects 52 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. It is suitable for those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history.

Erica Gibson s comprehensive guide provides a much-needed catalogue of ceramic makers' marks of British, French, German, and American origin found in North American archaeological sites."

Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Examining the phenomenon, this title discusses the commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated centuries ago.

Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in museums and other cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

One of the best-known practitioners of the ethnotheatre research tradition outlines its key principles and practices in this clear, concise volume, which covers the preparation of a dramatic presentation from the research and writing stages to the elements of stage production.

Examines the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation. This work presents an account of the landscapes of southern England and the people who inhabited them.

The contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.

This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to provide a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire.

The first major work to analyze the heritage and sustainability, this global, comparative study examines both direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, as well as issues of social and economic inequality faced by local, national, and international cultural organizations.

A collection of over 400 quotes from archaeologists and others about the science of archaeology or the mysteries of history and the past. It is suitable for students, academics and others browsing for suitable quotes for use in classroom presentations, student papers, and research articles.

Entanglement theory posits that the interrelationship of humans and objects is a delimiting characteristic of human history and culture. This edited volume of original studies by leading archaeological theorists applies this concept to a broad range of topics, including archaeological science, heritage, and theory itself.

The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrative¿often kinship based¿sectors. This is the first volume to examine storage practices in ancient complex societies from a comparative perspective. With 14 original papers by leading archaeologists from four continents, the bookd emonstrates the importance of understanding storage for the study of cultural evolution.

This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. Using Cypriote museums as a focal example, the authors show how museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building.

Kristine Munoz's volume of short narrative works-- autoethnographies and fictional stories--explore many dimensions of silence, a crucial but often overlooked communication phenomenon, one that drives much of everyday talk and relationships. This volume is an essential work for those who study and teach interpersonal communication.

With more than 30 years of experience in the fields of applied anthropology and international health, former Harvard AIDS Prevention Project Director Edward Green calls for new emphasis on promoting sexual fidelity in Africa and the developing world's battle against AIDS.

Who wants archaeology? Who should pay for it? Who should do it? And how? Making Archaeology Happen is an attempt to answer these questions campaigning for a more liberated, imaginative and productive field profession."

A long overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time.

This is the first English-language study and catalog detailing ethnographic work and material collections of the indigenous populations done by early Russian travelers to California.

Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, and other fields to show how culture and environment have shaped the history of malaria and will make it one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century.

This critical investigation highlights the politics of cultural heritage management, including authenticity and conservation, and its effects on the everyday lives of the peoples it claim to be representing through the example of Djenne in Mali."

Two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity and curriculum, with the editors highlighting key tenets of this collaborative research methodology.

Two dozen scholars present the first wave of duoethnographic writings on topics as diverse as gender, identity and curriculum, with the editors highlighting key tenets of this collaborative research methodology.