Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in the studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done in a single volume with her latest thinking on the development of gender studies in the field.
The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures.
This is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in North American archaeological sites.
This book considers changes that have been taking place in museum anthropology as it has been responding to pressures to be more socially relevant,... Læs mere
This book, by a leading scholar and writer on creative industries, reformulates our understanding of the practice of creativity in business, describing the collaboration of people, institutions, and technologies involved in creative work and the production of value.
Using the recent multi-year revision of the American Anthropology Association’s code of ethics as a platform, this volume suggests a set of principles and practices, based on ethical dilemmas common in the social sciences.
This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.
In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop.
Challenging the critique that autoethnography is too self-focused, Tami Spry calls for a new performative autoethnography... Læs mere
The greatly expanded second edition of Curating Oral Histories offers the same practical guidance as the first edition in the same engaging style, but... Læs mere
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities.