This path-breaking, comparative volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe.
This book helps museums integrate visitors' perspectives into interpretive planning by recognizing, defining, and recording desired visitor outcomes throughout the planning process.
Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences.
Global Social Archaeologies highlights a new approach to archaeology, one that places human rights at the core of archaeological theory and practice.
Part performance text, part art history, part cultural criticism, part autoethnography, noted cultural critic Norman Denzin... Læs mere
The book offers a “how-to” presentation of a health-care model, Community Participatory Involvement, which has been used successfully for 20 years to deal with public-health and other problems around the world.
This comprehensive volume of contemporary, original articles by leading figures in qualitative research places the critical qualitative research in... Læs mere
This book examines the profound impacts of the Smithsonian Institution’s River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (1945–1969) on the development of American archaeology.
Part performance text, part art history, part cultural criticism, part autoethnography, noted cultural critic Norman Denzin... Læs mere
Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist, Leo S. Klejn, has been generally unrecognized by western scholars. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology.
The stunning fragmented poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey and an alternative model of evocative, artistic autoethnography.
This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism, and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos and what it shows about the power dynamics of heritage and ecotourism.