This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are... Læs mere
The first ethnographic study of American military high schools, showing both their capacity to train young men and the difficulties in doing so.
Prize-winning sociologist Lloyd H. Rogler, a founder of cultural psychiatry, gives us an intimately revealing, brilliantly narrated account of fieldwork from San Juan, Puerto Rico to inner-city New Haven.
In this concise, student-friendly guide, Fontana and Prokos give a cogent introduction to the history, types, and methods of interviewing in the social sciences.
A lyrical, autoethnographic study of a woman's Peace Corps tour, showing the personal, intimate side of development work and the lasting impressions on both the worker and the community.
Dwight Read offers a methodology for producing systematic classifications of objects that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for archaeologists.
Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history discuss the complex ways in which human culture, economy, and demographics interact with ecology and climate change.
This comprehensive guide provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in North American industrial archaeology, including bridges, railroads, factories, water and power generating facilities, and others.
Nicholas Dorochoff offers the heritage management community the benefit of decades of thinking on negotiation from the business world in a brief, practical guidebook.
Senior archaeologist Jeremy Sabloff points students to ways in which archaeology is can be relevant to the understanding and amelioration of modern problems.
Tom King, renowned expert on the heritage preservation process, explains to preservationists and other community activists the ins and outs of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Actand how it can be used to protect special places in your community.
Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same fields, and... Læs mere