This book examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the... Læs mere
This pragmatic guide to consultation in cultural heritage and environmental impact management distills decades of experience to show government agencies, project sponsors, and community groups how to engage in a meaningful consultation process that meets the needs of all parties.
Davis takes readers behind the scenes of qualitative research projects, using the work of ten top communication scholars, interviews with them, and her analysis.
Renowned scholars give the term "creolization" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place.
The first major work to analyze the heritage and sustainability, this global, comparative study examines both direct environmental threats to... Læs mere
This book examines the profound impacts of the Smithsonian Institution’s River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (1945–1969) on the development of American archaeology.
In concise entries, this dictionary analyzes ideas and concepts about advertising and its social, economic, psychological and cultural significance.
Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions.
Examining interpretive materials, exhibits, and films at major US historic sites where controversy has erupted... Læs mere
Thomas C. Patterson’s large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago through the present using a political economic framework.
John H. Stanfield II, a leading historian of Black social science, distills decades of his research and thinking in a set of articles—some original... Læs mere
In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity.