Books published by AltaMira Press

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.

Combines an intellectual biography with an overview of the methodological principles of cross-cultural research. This book includes chapters which deal with a specific methodological issue: research design; the role of theory; strategies for measuring behavior; and psychological or situational variables.

Brings together fresh and nuanced understandings of the Orthodox churches - inside and outside of Eastern Europe - as they negotiate an increasingly networked world. This book is suitable for those interested in the role of Eastern Orthodoxy in the 21st century.

Looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. This title is a useful resource for science museum professionals who want to guide their institutions and their visitors toward an understanding of and appreciation for research.

Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.

Addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about Asian American and dirt through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded.

An introduction to the study of biological, osteological, and botanical remains on archaeological sites.

Focuses on religion and the influence of gender. This title demonstrates the ways in which a male driven ideology has produced a religion focused on death, discouraging any attention to the improvement of life on earth. It offers thoughts that advocate a collective change of view.

This balanced textbook looks at emerging religions through the lenses of history, psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. The Second Edition is updated throughout and includes a new foreword by J. Gordon Melton.

An ethnography and examination of a new wave of Pentecostalism in Canada and the US.

Study of the Khanty pastoralists of Siberia and their use of sacred landscapes.

Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what became a century-long struggle.

A sociology textbook/mystery novel, that allows students to join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a fresh area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory.

Professor Saldana briefly discusses the basic elements of longitudinal qualitative data, examines time and change in longitudinal qualitative studies, and then offers sixteen specific questions through which researchers may approach the analysis of longitudinal qualitative data.

Focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. This book describes the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, such as attitudes and techniques in childbirth, and the influence of societal factors that differentiate Western from non-Western maternal birthing positions, the art of midwifery, and customs and beliefs.

Considers the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine. This book offers a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness.

Collection of provocative essays on how to improve cultural resource management practice by the leading consultant in the field.

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.

Offers an interpretation of identity formation for second-generation immigrants in America. This book provides an analysis of Mexican American women in higher education. It reveals the processes by which they negotiate ethnic, gender, and class identities with Mexican immigrant parents and with their university communities.

An anthology of empirical studies of Asian Americans' ethnic or pan-ethnic identities, examining ethnic attachments among second-generation Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans.

Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.

Shows how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In twelve case studies, the authors provide contextual histories of Native programs, discussing successes and failures and battles over curriculum content, funding, student retention, and community collaborations.