This is the first volume to introduce the data, theory and methodology of contemporary archaeological work in Japan and other parts of East Asia archaeology in English to western audiences as well as introducing the concept of coexistence into archaeological theory.
Using a myriad of examples from projects in a wide range of settings, Kaler and Beres offer helpful hints about how to navigate the personal side of conducting... Læs mere
In the first full-length biography of Kenyon, excavator of Jerusalem, Jericho, and Great Zimbabwe and the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th... Læs mere
What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? The interdisciplinary, international group of contributors to this volume address these questions in an attempt to create evidential criteria for qualitative work.
Part autoethnography, part historical narrative, part art criticism, part cultural theory, Denzin creates a postmodern bricolage of images, staged dramas, quotations, reminiscences and stories that strike to the essence of the postmodern vision of the American West.
Communication scholar Tom Frentz uses the survival strategies of Native American iconic emotional autoethnography of striving for quality through the worlds of academia and medicine.
Original research articles show the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by contemporary managers of heritage sites around the world.
In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory, heritage, identity and conservation play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts at the local, ethnic, national and global level .
Situated in a grade nine multilingual classroom, the work provides a rich description of the research process in the classroom, highlighting issues related to second language acquisition, students’ immigration experiences, teaching, and learning.
This participant observer study chronicles the stories of a group of poor Canadian women, their experience with exclusion by health and social service providers, and their involvement in a feminist action research project.
An accessible and moving research account of parents’ experiences of grief and recovery after losing an... Læs mere
This grounded theory study explores how parents grieve, the meanings and casual explanations they attribute to Suddden Infant Death Syndrome, the effects of their grief on family relationships, and the strategies they use to cope and carry on.