What is historical archaeology and why is it important? Well-known archaeologist Barbara Little addresses these key questions for introductory students in this concise, inexpensive, and well-written text.
"First published in French 2014: Howard S. Becker, Paris: Editions L'Harmattan."
Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, Van Arsdale and Smith offer this important and revealing guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safety.
Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors’ needs.
This innovative multimedia, interactive ethnography, researched over a period of four decades, explores the changing life of a community in central Mexico as it comes more and more directly into contact with an increasingly global world.
Using criteria such as comfort, engagement, reinforcement, and meaningfulness, renowned museum researcher Beverly Serrell and colleagues have... Læs mere
Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth Lord Carnarvon-- who found his tomb-- share many... Læs mere
In this masterful, summative work, David L. Altheide describes how media formats and media logic shape our expectations of, and reactions to, both public and personal events and its implications for living in a contemporary world.
Mixed Methods Research: A Personal History captures the dynamic history and development of mixed methods research in a narrative of personal discovery, growth, and experience.
This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users.
In this wise but witty Western-themed graphic textbook, Shane the Lone Ethnographer attains a strong grounding in the theory, practice, and methodologies in the ethnography of childhood, in turn developing an understanding of its special nature.