Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, and other fields to show how culture and environment have shaped the history of malaria and will make it one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century.
George E. Hein explores the impact on current museum theory and practice of early 20th-century educational reformer John Dewey’s philosophy, covering philosophies that shaped today’s best practices.
Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark make the case that the most effective AIDS programs are those that encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use.
Report of excavations on a key archaeological site for understanding first agriculture in the New World, with a new 2009 foreword by Kent Flannery
This is a seminal tract on scientific method in archaeology and a series of studies on formative Mesoamerica that has influenced generations of archaeologist. A new Foreword by Jeremy Sabloff is featured in this edition.
In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.
This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People’s Republic of China.
In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers. A 2009 Foreword allows for further reflections on this work.
This textbook provides full coverage of archaeology in the Aztec and Maya areas, and refocuses ideas on writing, architecture, murals, and the Olmec.
This volume describes the archaeology of the Lower Ohio River Valley region.
This interdisciplinary group of scholars—anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, educators, lawyers, heritage administrators, policy analysts, and... Læs mere
This volume tells the story of how the World Heritage Site designation for Luang Prabang, Laos, led to a management plan designed to attract tourists and global capital, which in turn developed the most “appealing” parts of the city while destroying or neglecting other areas.