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.
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.
A group of experienced, innovative teachers explore methods of teaching about food and using food to teach the basics of various disciplines.
This book argues for the importance of historical perspectives in strengthening public awareness of modern food-related issues, and advocates the delivery of these perspectives through museums and heritage sites.
Community-based research (CBR) is the most commonly used method for serving community needs and effecting change through authentic, ethical, and meaningful social... 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 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.
Intimacy at Work shows how portable, digital media allow people to bring their private lives into the workplace, thus softening and humanizing what is often a hard, isolating business world.
This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view.
This book, informed by the author’s many years of practice in program evaluation and expertise as an anthropologist, discusses in plain prose the theory and... Læs mere
Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times.