Section 106 is a critical section of an obscure law, the National Preservation Act. It has saved thousands of historic sites, archaeological... Læs mere
Section 106 is a critical section of an obscure law, the National Preservation Act. It has saved thousands of historic sites, archaeological... Læs mere
This volume examines the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care, within historical and socio-cultural contexts.
What was it like to be a woman when England was ruled by a queen, but women had almost no legal power? When marriage cost women their property... Læs mere
The authors present narratives on ethnic identity written by first and second generation Asian American professionals. This book aims to prove the ethnicity is a dynamic process, not a fixed state.
This volume assembles a cross-disciplinary team of contributors to collectively describe the successes and failures, and the complexity and diversity of Native American political life in the 1990s.
This volume brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. The book is arranged into four areas of concern: representation, subjectivity, critique, and postmodern discourse.
By weaving together a life-histories approach to ethnography and with a concept of culture, the author presents an intimate and complex picture of Opportunity House, a highly functional community of mentally-retarded adults.
Archaeology beyond Postmodernity introduces to archaeology a new concept of culture as well as many valuable interpretive techniques that have emerged in sociology to study culture scientifically.
This food biography focuses on how people have experienced the bounty of the City by the Bay.
Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast to examine American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, and aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of th...