Both personal and theoretical, autoethnographic and analytical, this book offers a performative, arts-based narrative about the aftermath of abusive marriages, using the stories, drawings, songs of other women to compare with Tamas's own lived experience.
This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users.
Richard Gelles explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don’t work in sector after sector and why they should be replaced with a universal entitlement at lower cost.
The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit, updated to incorporate advances in research, theory, and practice in the museum field over the last twenty years.
This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification and reburial from nearby mass graves.
This brief, student-friendly introduction to the study of semiotics uses lively examples from 28 iconic locations in the United States, such as Coney Island, Las Vegas, the World Trade Center, and the Grand Canyon.
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.
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.
This plenary volume from the Sixth International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry highlights the variety of roles played by qualitative researchers in addressing contemporary global crises.
Eighteen chapters primarily by Latin American scholars describe the range of relations between indigenous peoples and archaeology in the first major attempt to describe indigenous archaeology in Latin America for an English speaking audience.
As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by... Læs mere
The leading figure in qualitative health research, Janice M. Morse, asserts that this research area is its own separate discipline—distinct from... Læs mere