This volume experiments with ‘worldliness’ as found in theory, method, and fieldwork practice. It provides readers with ten unique case studies that grapple with worldliness as an affective, relational, sensory, and multimodal experience.
Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work, establishing a framework for performative research and including many of their own performance works.
In this innovative volume, twelve leading scholar-practitioners from corporate research labs and independent consultancies tackle the most fundamental and contentious issues in corporate ethnography.
Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how a version of Indians, one that existed only in the western imagination, was commodified and sold to a global audience.
This volume brings together articles that reveal the Archaic period of the American Midwest to be one of innovation and technological achievement.
Examines some of the most important events in the development of a socially engaged archaeology concerned with issues in the contemporary world.
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans... Læs mere
Ideal for applied researchers, students, training programs, and technical assistance projects in any field, this comprehensive guide to applied ethnography distills the expertise of the distinguished anthropologist and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career.
This absorbing volume examines cultural role of rock art for the Apsáalooke, or Crow, people of the northern Great Plains by examining collective concepts of landscape as well as shared memories of historic Crow culture.
This is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in North American archaeological sites.
Focuses specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent... Læs mere