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The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals. This book examines these developments from tribal perspectives and articulates native views on the identification of cultural resource.

This volume examines the growth of precolonial states in Southern Zambezia, and its historical and cultural developments through the evolution of the small-scale, farming societies.

Presents an overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. This work explores how these communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation.

Explores how religious concerns influence those who shape and those who are shaped by policies. This work queries the social teachings of global denominations and local congregations, as well as the implicit religious stances taken by national governments and international NGOs.

Presents an introduction to the RAP group of ethnographic methods and techniques that provide field-based research findings for policymakers and program planners. This book provides guidelines on producing quality research.

Shows how Eastern thought has dealt with Western contact in the 19th and 20th centuries. Suitable for students familiar with Western philosophy, this book also shows how Indian, Chinese and Islamic traditions responded to these questions: How did philosophy arise? What is the origin of order in the universe? What is human nature? What is truth?

States that despite the economic utopianism brought on by globalization, effective solutions to the plight of urban blacks throughout the African diaspora eludes scholars, politicians, and community leaders. This book investigates the interface of the historic racism faced by these urban communities and contemporary trends of globalization.

Section 106 is a critical section of an obscure law, the National Preservation Act. It has saved thousands of historic sites, archaeological sites, buildings, and neighborhoods across the country from destruction by federal projects. This title de-mythologizes Section 106, explaining its origins and its rationale.

This volume examines the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care, within historical and socio-cultural contexts.

Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this revised and updated text, hailed as the "best general text on religion in anthropology available," offers an introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they interpret or explain it since the late 19th century.

Global Tourism: Cultural Heritage and Economic Encounters explores the connections among economy, sustainability, heritage, and identity that tourism and related processes make explicit. It illustrates how emerging theories of the economics of tourism can lead to the rethinking of traditionally non-touristic enterprises.

Key Themes in Qualitative Research is an attempt by three well-respected ethnographic researchers to present a balanced view of qualitative methodology and research. The book is structured around classic texts, written by methodological pioneers, which comprise the basic foundation of modern qualitative research.

This volume examines how gender, social class and ethnicity colour the storylines of those who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz, and asks whether we can or should make sense of Auschwitz.

Introduction to designing an archaeological project, in both academic and contract contexts.

This is a collection of essays examining the Goddess Movement in its many facets. It explores the ways women in the US and Britain have abandoned Western patriarchal religions and have embraced a spirituality based in a celebration of the Goddess and the female body as sacred text.

Introduces deviance from an interactionist perspective, placing the study of deviant behavior within the broader terrain of cultural meaning. This book examines the persistence of gender inequality and the formation of youth subcultures. It helps in the study of deviance and crime and for courses in sociology on deviance and social control.

Edited volume exploring key issues in ethics for archaeologists.

Demonstrates the position of Asian Pacific Americans in the US workforce. This book examines personal accounts of discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, and familial relations. It offers Asian Pacific Americans strategies to cope with discrimination.

Reflects the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. This book offers experiences and perspectives from various Native settings.

This work provides an introduction to some of the important researchers, issues, and methodological and stylistic approaches in Yiddish and Jewish studies.

Recent immigrants are creating their own unique religious communities within existing denominations or developing hybrid identities that combine strands of several faiths or traditions. Covering groups from across the US and a range of religious traditions, this work provides an overview to this subfield.

Takes a look at the impact on masculinity of the women's movement. This book is informed by research carried out during 1969-1970. It offers insight into the early impact of the women's movement on college-aged men.

Reflecting on arguments that the natural biological differences between women and men dictate different social roles, this title demolishes these arguments by reviewing studies that find sex differences in cognitive abilities, achievement, and psychological predispositions.

Addresses the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the explosion of Internet communication. This book is suitable for those with an interest in ethnographic methods, cultural studies, feminist studies, and technologies.

From different geographical and ideological points across the contemporary Arab world, this book demonstrates the range of views on just what Islam's legal heritage in the region should be.

What do evangelicals believe when they believe in the Bible? Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals believe that there is a stable text - the Bible - which is the authoritative word of God.

A collection of essays which show how findings from cognitive science can offer directions to debates in religion. It demonstrates how knowledge of the mind's workings can help deconstruct such concepts as god, ideology, culture, magic, miracles, and religion. It is suitable for scholars of religion or for scholars of the mind-brain.

Explores the interplay between literary and ethnographic writing.

Education without ethics, without sentiments, without heart, is simply soulless, factual academics and nothing more. This work features essays that poetically evokes the spiritual aspects of life in a seemingly dispassionate field.

Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.