Bitgood, a leading visitor researcher, offers an important new model of visitor attention and shows how museum practitioners can apply it to create more effective museum environments that capture and sustain visitor attention.
In this volume, Carey and Asbury provide a brief, systematic introduction to developing, implementing, and analyzing focus groups in research projects.
The final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories, takes the reader... Læs mere
Packed with instructive case studies, practical examples, and expert advice, the fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from the interview preparation through the follow-up.
The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit leads project managers through the management of people, money, technology, publicity, and administrative tasks from the beginning to the end of the project.
The second volume of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit walks you through all the planning steps to travel from an idea to a completed collection of oral history interviews.
The first book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit introduces the field of oral history, sets the stage for an oral history project and offers a theoretical basis for the practical steps outlined in the remaining volumes.
The first major work to analyze the heritage and sustainability, this global, comparative study examines both direct environmental threats to... Læs mere
This guide to identification of California Indian olivella shell beads provides a well developed typology-- including descriptive, temporal, and metric characteristics and illustrated with almost 200 color photographs-- for use by archaeologists in field and laboratory work.
A documentary filmmaker and historical archaeologist team up to provide a concise guide to filmmaking designed to help archaeologists navigate the unfamiliar world of documentary film.
This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, forensic, and excavation methods to identify both individuals and group affiliations—cultural, religious, and organizational—in a multiethnic historical cemetery.
This book brings together, for the first time, W.E.B. Du Bois’s writings on Africa across half a century in magazine and journal articles, poems and book chapters, highlighting his role among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought.