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This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.

In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop.

The first resource to focus specifically on oral history practices with immigrant narrators, this book provides the tools to effectively plan and execute an oral history project in an immigrant community and includes case studies, additional resources, and templates of important oral history processes.

This book examines the profound impacts of the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (1945-1969) on the development of American archaeology.

Provides practical advice, forms, and examples for any museum store manager who wants to increase visibility and sales and expand their customer base.

Investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities.

This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.

Explores the relationship between the individual and the many cultures to which he or she belongs simultaneously--cultures that make it possible for people to act as teams with a shared moral vision of what they can and should accomplish.

This volume marks a significant departure from previous symbolic approaches in post-processual archaeology, bringing together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge approaches to chart a new direction in material culture studies.

The first comprehensive work on the burgeoning field of business anthropology, this innovative reference book, including more than 60 international scholar-practitioners, provides a foundation for the field for years to come.

Using a decade of participant observation research, including serving as an instructor at some of the schools, the author explores the contemporary experience of military school life. He describes how these schools endeavor to realize their mission of creating educated, mature young men from largely at-risk youth and the challenges.

Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, RussiaAEs foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines KlejnAEs wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology.

This book uses engaging narratives to illustrate that mental illnesses are not only problems individuals face but problems that need to be understood and treated globally at the social and cultural levels.

Describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy.

Valerie J. Janesick describes how qualitative inquiry can be informed and improved through an understanding of Zen principles and practices.

Marginalized by an increasingly top-down, assessment-driven university system, the fifteen contributors from a variety of disciplines show the responses of qualitative scholars in their research, writing, advocacy, and teaching, both inside the university and in the broader society. Drawn from key presentations at the influential 2014 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth Lord Carnarvon-- who found his tomb-- share many parallels. Brian Fagan¿s artful narrative weaves these two lives together, showing how archaeological information can effectively tell the story of real lives of people in the past.

This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view.

In this critical reader, the best writing of two dozen key figures in qualitative research is gathered together to help students to identify emerging themes in the field and the latest thinking of the leaders in qualitative inquiry.

A complete, hands-on guide for museum professionals covering all planning stages of opening a new museum store.

Critical approaches to qualitative research have made a significant impact on research practice over the past decade. This comprehensive volume of contemporary, original articles places this trend in its historical context, describes the current landscape of critical work, and considers the future of this turn.

Provides a framework for understanding and studying social and ecological systems. This book, featuring contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, presents and assesses both the evolution of our thinking and research.

Provides an accessible introduction to statistical thinking for anthropologists and other social scientists who feel some mixture of dread and loathing when it comes to quantification and data analysis. It is not so much an introduction to statistics as a primer on how to think statistically in order to do precise ethnographic studies.

Nicola Bulled's in-depth ethnographic account of how HIV prevention messages are selected, transmitted, and reacted to by young adults in the AIDS-torn population of Lesotho provides a crucial example of the importance of a culture-centered approach to health communication.

Authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in ancient Africa were made and unmade in their intersection with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power.

Explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches which incorporate and critique memory-work.

This book examines the profound impacts of the Smithsonian Institution¿s River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (1945¿1969) on the development of American archaeology.

This critical history of Peruvian archaeology makes a significant contribution to Andean archaeology, to the history of archaeology, and to our understanding of the social context of research.