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Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red by Ethan Nebelkopf 9780759106079
Booksplease Price: £43.33Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health... -
Du Bois on Religion by Phil Zuckerman 9780742504219
Booksplease Price: £44.31W.E.B. Du Bois shaped 20th century America to an extent rivaled by few others. The first black to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard, he helped create the discipline of sociology and was one of the... -
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness by Judith Lorber 9780759102378
Booksplease Price: £112.13Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to... -
Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights by Faye V. Harrison 9780759104815
Booksplease Price: £112.43Faye V. Harrison's collection of essays focuses on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality that exert a huge influence on human rights conflicts around the world... -
Ethics and Anthropology: Ideas and Practice by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban 9780759121867
Booksplease Price: £103.11Ethics and Anthropology comprehensively embraces issues and dilemmas faced in all four of the discipline's fields. Not merely a subject to be considered when seeking the approval of institutional... -
Native American Studies in Higher Education: Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations by Duane Champagne 9780759101241
Booksplease Price: £113.11In this collection, Champagne and Stauss demonstrate how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In the face of... -
War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America by David Dye 9780759107465
Booksplease Price: £43.76Archaeologists, ethnohistorians, osteologists, and cultural anthropologists have only recently begun to address seriously the issue of Native American war and peace in the eastern United States. New... -
Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education by Barry A. Lanman 9780759108530
Booksplease Price: £56.42Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the... -
Social Change and Cultural Continuity among Native Nations by Duane Champagne 9780759110007
Booksplease Price: £112.43This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne... -
Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest by Christine S. VanPool 9780759109674
Booksplease Price: £56.12Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even... -
Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power by Francisco Jimenez 9780759111004
Booksplease Price: £113.41Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power is an oral history of Mexican-American activism in San JosZ, California, over the last half century. The authors present... -
Not Far Away: The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig by Steve Beard 9780759111189
Booksplease Price: £113.41In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and... -
Organizational Management by Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko 9780759113374
Booksplease Price: £45.75Effectively managing people, facilities, and partnerships can make or break an institution. Museum operations encompasses responsibility for the maintenance of your structure, the safety of your... -
Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia by Denis Byrne 9780759110182
Booksplease Price: £43.76Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in an engaging and accessible way. In each... -
Beyond Relativism: Comparability in Cultural Anthropology by Robert C. Hunt 9780759110809
Booksplease Price: £33.84Can elements of one culture-kinship relations, for example-be profitably compared to similar elements in other cultures? According to much anthropological thinking of recent decades, the answer is... -
Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War by Lawrence Rothfield 9780759110984
Booksplease Price: £112.43As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. The museum's looting grabbed headlines worldwide and public attention briefly focused... -
Muslims' Place in the American Public Square: Hopes, Fears, and Aspirations by Zahid H. Bukhari 9780759106130
Booksplease Price: £51.50Once a year Muslims from around the world-representing a vast range of ethnicities, incomes, ages, and attitudes-perform the Hajj (pilgrimage) and converge in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia... -
Asian Pacific Americans in the Workplace by Diana Ting Liu Wu 9780761991229
Booksplease Price: £44.76This collection of case studies incorporates many voices from the Asian Pacific American business community. Through numerous interviews, Diana Wu demonstrates the unique position of Asian Pacific... -
Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century by Lola Romanucci-Ross 9780759109735
Booksplease Price: £51.50In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The... -
Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History by Barbara J. Howe 9780761989295
Booksplease Price: £37.42This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's... -
The Pull of the Earth: Participatory Ethnography in the School Garden by Laurie Thorp 9780759107823
Booksplease Price: £113.11The Pull of the Earth is Laurie Thorp's dirt-under-the-fingernails ethnography of four years in an elementary school garden and the ways in which this garden catalyzed cultural transformation and... -
The Man in the Principal's Office by Harry F. Wolcott 9780759105294
Booksplease Price: £51.20Harry Wolcott's ground-breaking anthropological study into the life of an elementary school principal is now reprinted in a new edition. One of the first studies of its kind, Wolcott uses an... -
Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion by Harvey Whitehouse 9780759106161
Booksplease Price: £122.05Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to... -
Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics by Lillian Trager 9780759107755
Booksplease Price: £43.76Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural and social forces. Individual essays consider... -
The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community by Luke Eric Lassiter 9780759104846
Booksplease Price: £43.33Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous community study by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors... -
Federal Planning and Historic Places: The Section 106 Process by Thomas F. King 9780742502581
Booksplease Price: £112.13Section 106. A critical section of an obscure law, the National Preservation Act. It has saved thousands of historic sites, archeological sites, buildings, and neighborhoods across the country from... -
Places That Count: Traditional Cultural Properties in Cultural Resource Management by Thomas F. King 9780759100701
Booksplease Price: £112.43Places That Count offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) valuable practical advice on dealing with traditional cultural properties (TCPs). Responsible for coining... -
Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the 21st Century by Victor Roudometof 9780759105362
Booksplease Price: £86.73Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention. While more-covered religions emerge as powerful transnational forces, Eastern Orthodoxy appears... -
Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective by E. Paul Durrenberger 9780759105836
Booksplease Price: £43.33This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case... -
Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery by Arthur Asa Berger 9780759108653
Booksplease Price: £33.49A murder, just four hours before the Royal Duchess is scheduled to sail for Alaska, and inspector Solomon Hunter and his assistant, Talcott Weems, are summoned to investigate this latest mystery... -
Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women by Monica Chiu 9780759104556
Booksplease Price: £102.21Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about "Asian Americans" and "dirt" through dialogues that... -
The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation by Sing C. Chew 9780759104518
Booksplease Price: £113.41In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a... -
Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscape by Paul A. Shackel 9780759102637
Booksplease Price: £43.76As a nation we bring many perspectives to our commemorative places and our ideas may change over time, especially on difficult topics like slavery and racism. Why a place is saved and how it is... -
Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women by Monica Chiu 9780759104563
Booksplease Price: £40.38Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about 'Asian Americans' and 'dirt' through dialogues that... -
Presenting the Past by Larry J. Zimmerman 9780759100251
Booksplease Price: £40.94Using the right media, archeologists can and must educate and excite the people who need their information. Larry Zimmerman's earnestly engaging guide to reporting archaeological findings argues that... -
Narratives of Mexican American Women: Emergent Identities of the Second Generation by Alma M. Garcia 9780759101814
Booksplease Price: £113.11Alma Garc'a offers a bold new interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal their journeys of... -
Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us by Sing C. Chew 9780759104532
Booksplease Price: £95.49Ecological Futures, the final book in Sing C. Chew's trilogy on world ecological degradation, proposes that our own era exhibits ecological conditions similar to those of the past. The climate... -
The Lost Legions: Culture Contact in Colonial Australia by Alistair G. Paterson 9780759106840
Booksplease Price: £51.20The Lost Legions explores the cultural interactions between Indigenous peoples and European settlers. Paterson draws especially on archaeological evidence from central Australia, where European... -
Historical Transformations: The Anthropology of Global Systems by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 9780759111110
Booksplease Price: £51.70Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider... -
California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity by Terry L. Jones 9780759119604
Booksplease Price: £62.42Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange,...