Sociology and anthropology

From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate.

In the last decade, a new conception of culture has emerged in sociology, out of the ashes of modernism and post-modernism, that has the potential to radically change how we think about cultural objects and groups in archaeology.

Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world.

Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present-utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people.

This is Book 6 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

All peoples and cultures face environmental issues-but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history.

This is Book 7 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level.

This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for developing meaningful exhibits and programs for specific educational purposes.

el-Aswad introduces the concepts of worldviews/cosmologies of Muslims, explaining that the different types of worldviews are not constructed solely by religious scholars or intellectual elite, but are latent in Islamic tradition, embedded in popular imagination, and triggered through people's everyday interaction in various countries and communities.

In Through Our Eyes, William Hunter and some of the children he fostered share their experiences within these unique social welfare phenomena.

In 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.

Throughout history and in contemporary times, people worldwide have danced to cope with the stresses of life.

Global tourism is perhaps the largest scale movement of goods, services, and people in history.

Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people.

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe.

The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.

Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia.

Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s.

Since the early 1990s, there has been a critical shortage of marriageable women in farming and fishing villages in Korea.

The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental principles of Huichol shamanism and ritual.

One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies.

The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s.

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values.

The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America.

In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided.

The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings.

Contested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality.

Participant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection.

Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates surrounding the recent development of "e;military anthropology"e;-particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The inherent dangers of war zones constrain even the most ardent researchers, with the consequence that little has been known for certain about the effects of war on stable environments.

This is a practical guidebook for conducting field research on cultural issues.

The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology.

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft.

This ethnographically based murder mystery is set within New York City's Indian community.

Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results.

The best known, most often cited history of anthropological theory is finally available in paperback!

Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes.

As 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.

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development.

Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century.

This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory.

In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent.

Brad-a schizophrenic school dropout and 'sneaky kid'-first appeared as a squatter near Harry Wolcott's forest home.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood.

In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present.