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A collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective to real-world problems on local, regional, and global scales. It provides students with a variety of ethnographic and other anthropological materials so they do not have to buy an array of titles.

Alexander's linked essays on the African American male experience.

Reveals how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. In the US, Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala, this work shows how indigenous people preserve their territory, rights to self-government, and culture.

Noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky interviewed 59 families between 1935-36 to study man's role as economic provider. The result is an unprecedented study of masculinity and depression and the effect of social institutions on the individual.

In Women In College, Mirra Komarovsky followed her groundbreaking works on gender roles to focus on the essentialist debate. Komarovsky interviewed post-WWII generation female students about their feelings about gender inequality and domesticity. She makes a strong case for the role of society over biology in shaping gender roles.

This book explores the 8,000 years of hunter-gatherer life in eastern North America, reinterpreting the prehistory of the indigenous peoples living east of the Mississippi.

With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singing-describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.

Reveals the impact of violence and victimization in the lives of children and adolescents from a developmental perspective. This title offers case studies and professional resources, including web sites and readings related to violence and mental health. It is suitable for parents and public health practitioners in school systems.

Third version of a long-standing textbook that examines the self in everyday life.

A brief introduction to the history, archaeology, art, language, and culture of the Indus Valley civilization, written by the leading North American Indus archaeologist.

States that rock art is often one of the strongest lines of evidence available to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideological constructs of prehistoric peoples. This book argues that art is both a product of its physical and social environment and a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society.

Edited volume tracing the state of knowledge of gender in Ancient Mayan society.

Presents a collection of scholarship, poetry, prose, and art - from photography and graffiti to rap and songs - that documents American Indian experiences of urban life.

New immigrants - those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 - have altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. This book combines studies of thirteen congregations in the Houston area with seven thematic essays looking across their diversity.

Museum Exhibition Planning and Design is a comprehensive introduction and reference to exhibition planning and design. This book focuses on both the procedural elements of successful planning, like the phases of exhibit design and all associated tasks and issues, and on the design elements that make up the realized exhibit itself, such as color, light, shape, form, space, and building materials.

This first culinary history of picnics reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more familiar and unusual forms, the history of the word itself, the cultural context of picnics and who arranged them, and, most important, the gastronomic appeal. Drawing on various media and literature, painting, music, and even sculpture, Walter Levy provides an engaging and enlightening history of the picnic.

This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of production and consumption, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and commitment to ongoing economic expansion.

Sharing Our Stories of Survival is a comprehensive treatment of the socio-legal issues that arise in the context of violence against native women-written by social scientists, writers, poets, and survivors of violence.

This book asks an important question: Can we simply accelerate growth under the assumption that increased prosperity and new technologies will allow us to reverse environmental damage? Or do we need to transform our modes of living radically to maintain the health of the world around us?

Killer Commodities addresses the impact of harmful products on consumers throughout the world. These case studies highlight the processes of production and marketing of these products, as well as the nature of relevant public health policies.

Offers a reconstruction of Maya life for introductory archaeology students. This novel is suitable for those interested in archaeological fiction.

Including reflections on teaching oral history, this book offers suggestions for educators seeking to create curricula, engage students, gather community support, and meet educational standards.

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.

An overview of public religion in California, Nevada, and Hawaii.

This, the first volume from the Muslims in the American Public Square research project, gives theoretical and demographic portraits of Muslims in the American civil landscape.

Offers an analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric conditions to global political phenomena. This book shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans.

In 1972, sociologist Colin Campbell posited a cultic milieu, an underground region where true seekers test hidden, forgotten, and forbidden knowledge. Ideas and allegiances within the milieu change as individuals move between loosely organized groups. This work explores Campbell's theory.

One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woman's worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the stranger. This work chronicles her story of triumph over adversity.

Examines feminist theories of class and intersectionality and proposes a theory of gendered and racialized class processes as deeply embedded in capitalist practices. This book is suitable for those interested in a feminist discussion of class as a racialized and gendered process intimately tied to the capitalist economic system.