Books published by AltaMira Press

Reveals the social inequalities that often represent significant threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, and women. This book defines an anthropology of policy concerned with decision-making and the impact of health policy on human lives. It is of interest to researchers and practitioners in medical anthropology.

This collection examines new psychological evidence for the modal theory and attempts to synthesize this theory with other theories of cognition and religion.

This text traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, and argues for the use of a scientific, behavioural-based approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism.

This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.

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Seeking to be faithful to the original Greek, this title presents a English translation. It offers a re-imagining of the Christian scriptures and our relationship to them.

Focuses 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. This work considers issues of international and internal migration; of transnational and multilocal networks through which remittances and other flows take place; and of migrants as active agents.

Offers the political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States. This book is suitable for social activists and instructors in Latino politics, US race relations, and social movements.

Introductory guide to the analysis of plant phytoliths in archaeology.

While homosexuals continue gaining acceptance in other arenas of American culture, only a tiny minority of religious groups accept gays and lesbians as full members and potential clergy.

Illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. This book considers the role of gender and work in a cross-cultural context. It examines issues of historical change, the construction of globalization, household authority and entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy.

The foundational books of the Torah - "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers" and "Deutoronomy" - form the basis of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Seeking to be faithful to the original Greek, this title presents a English translation. It offers a re-imagining of the Christian scriptures and our relationship to them.

The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along the lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women, and their treatment in the policy arena.

This definitive guide describes the role of marketing and effective marketing and public relations techniques any museum or heritage site can utilize.

Broad-based and cross-cultural, this volume is an analysis of policy and the role of the arts and culture in two very different nations - Japan and the United States. The contributors offer their definitions of what culture is.

Focusing on the role of labor in world economies, this book offers a range of case studies illustrating labor processes in both western and nonwestern societies. It includes sections with discussions on household labor, firms and corporations, and state and transnational conditions.

This work examines four well-known Civil War-era National Park sites and shows us how public memory shaped their creation and continues to shape their interpretation. It shows that "public memory" is really "public memories", and interpretation may change from one generation to another.

Chosen by God, saved by Jesus, Messianic Jews identify themselves as both Christian and Jewish while breaking away to form a new community of their own. This text brings the complex movement to life with an ethnographic look at Adat haRuach, a Messianic Jewish congregation in Southern California.

Hispanic, African, American and Asian American educational leaders examine the obstacles of climbing up the white-dominated career ladder in American universities and offer strategies for change in governance, management, faculty and curricula.

The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.

The authors present narratives on ethnic identity written by first and second generation Asian American professionals. This book aims to prove the ethnicity is a dynamic process, not a fixed state.

Dunway brings us a well crafted account of the prolific Huxley's American years using interviews with Huxley's family and frieds, his FBI files, and little-known scripts of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Pride and Prejudice.'

This volume assembles a cross-disciplinary team of contributors to collectively describe the successes and failures, and the complexity and diversity of Native American political life in the 1990s.

The first book-length study of a single congregation breaking in two, Strife in the Sanctuary provides a welcome ethnographic study for sociologists of religion. Plus, its moving story makes it an excellent read for undergraduate classes or anyone interested in religious divisions.

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

Ideas and Images presents eleven case studies, walking you through the process of developing interpretive history exhibits. Learn how to identify and build new audiences, work with consultants and experts, cope with institutional change, present temporary and permanent exhibitions, and experiment with new subjects, design techniques and media

This 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 surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles.Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.

Including evidence from cognitive science, this book shows that belief in God is an almost inevitable consequence.

Clarifies the need for and the use of transcription methodology and provides a useful, efficient guide to creating good transcripts for a variety of people using ethnographic methods. This title is a suitable tool for transcriptionists, ethnographers, researchers, oral historians, and even amateurs who plan to write their family history.