Books published by AltaMira Press

Offers case studies to guide indigenous communities and their partners in protecting their intellectual property. This title addresses the poor fit between western regimes of intellectual property rights and the requirements for safeguarding indigenous cultural resources. It describes positive efforts at protecting indigenous knowledge.

Brings together essays on the distinct experiences of minority Muslim communities from Detroit, Michigan to Perth, Australia and the wide range of issues facing them. This text traces the broad contours of the Muslim experience in Europe, America and other areas of European settlement and sheds light on the common questions minority Muslims face.

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.

Covers traditional anthropological fieldwork techniques and applies them to contemporary applied research problems. This book shows how ethnographic work can be accomplished in a matter of weeks. It is suitable for fieldworkers in anthropology and sociology.

This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups.

Part 1 Introduction: What is Deviant Behavior?Chapter 2 Criminology: An Integrationist PerspectiveChapter 3 Psychological Theories of DeviancePart 4 Traditional Theories of DevianceChapter 5 The Normal and the PathologicalChapter 6 Social Structure and AnomieChapter 7 Illegitimate Means and Delinquent SubculturesChapter 8 Evaluation of Structural-Functionalist and Anomie TheoriesChapter 9 The Theory of Differential AssociationChapter 10 Evaluation of Differential Association TheoryChapter 11 A Control Theory of DelinquencyChapter 12 Evaluation of Social Control TheoryPart 13 Contemporary Theories of DevianceChapter 14 Group Conflict Theory as an Explanation of CrimeChapter 15 A Radical Perspective on CrimeChapter 16 Evaluation of Conflict TheoryChapter 17 Secondary Deviance and Role ConceptionsChapter 18 OutsidersChapter 19 Evaluation of Labeling TheoryPart 20 Studying DevianceChapter 21 Accessing the Stigmatized: Gatekeeper Problems, Obstacles and Impediments to Social ResearchChapter 22 Personal Safety in Dangerous PlacesPart 23 The Deviance-Making EnterpriseChapter 24 Moral Entrepeneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant CategoriesChapter 25 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered WomenChapter 26 The 'Discovery' of Child AbuseChapter 27 The Legislation of Morality: Creating Drug LawsChapter 28 Medicine as an Institution of Social Control: Consequences for SocietyPart 29 Organizational Deviance¿Beyond the Interpersonal LevelChapter 30 The Making of Blind MenChapter 31 Record-keeping Practices in the Policing of DeviantsChapter 32 Constructing Probationer Careers: Revocation as Censure Transformation and Tertiary Deviance in the Deviance Amplification ProcessChapter 33 The In-patient Phase in the Career of the Psychiatric PatientChapter 34 Being Sane in Insane PlacesPart 35 Organizing Deviants¿Subcultures and Deviant ActivitiesChapter 36 The "Mixed Nutters" and "Looney Tuners:" The Emergence, Development, Nature, and Functions of Two Informal, Deviant Subcultures of Chronic Ex-psychiatric PatientsChapter 37 Constructing Women and Their World: The Subculture of Female ImpersonationChapter 38 Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and DeathChapter 39 The Urban Speed Gang: An Examination of the Subculture of Young MotorcyclistsChapter 40 The Culture of Gangs in the Culture of the SchoolChapter 41 Parade Strippers: A Note on Being Naked in PublicChapter 42 Knives and Gaffs: Definitions in the Deviant World of CockfightingChapter 43 Policing Morality: Impersonal Sex in Public PlacesPart 44 Becoming DeviantChapter 45 Paranoia and the Dynamics of ExclusionChapter 46 Creating Crazies/Making Mentals: The Pre-patient Phase in the Moral Career of the Psychiatric PatientChapter 47 A Model of Homosexual Identity FormationChapter 48 Becoming an Addict/AlcoholicChapter 49 Drifting into Dealing: Becoming a Cocaine SellerChapter 50 Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant CareerPart 51 Managing Stigma/Managing Deviant IdentitiesChapter 52 Stigma and Social IdentityChapter 53 Deviance as Disavowal: The Managment of Strained Interaction by the Visibly HandicappedChapter 54 Return to Sender: Reintegrative Stigma-Management Strategies of Ex-Psychiatric PatientsChapter 55 Double Stigma and Boundary Maintenance: How Gay Men Deal with AIDSChapter 56 Ostomates: Negotiating and Involuntary IdentityPart 57 Transforming DevianceChapter 58 The 'Post' Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug TraffickersChapter 59 Becoming Normal: Certification as a Stage in Exiting from CrimeChapter 60 Recovery through Self-HelpChapter 61 Gaining and Losing

Addresses the issues of race and mixed race at the turn of the 21st century. Representing multiple academic disciplines, this volume invites readers to consider the many ways that identity, community, and collectivity are formed, while addressing the challenges that multiracial identity poses to our understanding of race and ethnicity.

This is an abridged student edition which contains the essence of Montagu's argument, its policy implications and his thoughts on contemporary race issues.

Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization.

This authors of this guide aim to provide a reliable resource and easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that historical editors deal with daily in their profession.

In this call for better public history, Robert Archibald explores the intersections of history, memory and community to illustrate the role of history in contemporary life and how we are active participants in the past.

This text examines the parallels which exist between Western germ theory and indigenous contagion theory in the developing world.

In this comprehensive treatment, Borowskisy nthesises what is known about the use of animals for clothing, transportation, food and cult practices in biblical times. Essays on pastoral systems and agricultural economics are included.

Highlights case studies in which specialists have been provided the opportunity and necessary tools for learning about archaeology.

This text shows the leaps of inspiration, the challenges, the thought processes, and the errors inherent in completing a field work project.

Legal and economic factors have thrust American archaeology into a period of intellectual and methodological unrest. Issues such as reburial and repatriation, land and resource "ownership," and the integration of tradition and science have long divided archaeologists and Native American communities. Both groups recognize the need for a dramatic transformation of the discipline into one that appeals to and serves the greater public. This book tackles these and other issues by elucidating successful strategies for collaboration. It includes detailed discussions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), enacted in 1990 in effort to legislatively redefine ownership of cultural items. Perspectives range from Native American representatives from tribes throughout the U.S., professional archaeologists and anthropologists working for tribes, federal and state agency representatives, museum specialists, and private archaeology and anthropology consultants. Published in cooperation with the Society for American Archaeology.

This anthology explains the basics of oral history, and how to make use of it in research. It includes a significant collection of classic readings by oral historians.

In this work readers can discover the role local historians play, find out what the experts see as the values of the local history while exploring their theories, and see how local history has been practised by those who have dedicated their lives to it.

Tells you how to start an oral history program in your community, how to select the right equipment, and how to interview people whose memories are a living connection to the past. This book demonstrates what to do when the interviews are collected and to instruct how to transcribe and index them, store them, and make them available to the public.

Uses a microenthnographic approach to analyze a single occupation within urban American society. This book applies anthropological concepts and methodology to the realm of education.

Deals with the study of a Kwakiutl Indian village. This book looks into the educational training of Indian children.

Discusses frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary US race relations. This volume contains essays that challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities.

Examining gender roles in social movements, this title shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. It is a suitable text to introduce a sophisticated view of race and gender into social movement courses.

Global assessment of the rise of Western capitalism using Ireland as a key case study.

Study of the development of foraging strategies in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present.

This introduction to conducting life history research shows that the process is now one of mutuality, empathy, sensitivity and caring. The book carries the reader through the steps of life history research, from conceptualizing the project to the various means of presenting the results.

In Pursuit of Gender advances the study of gender in archaeology with detailed data, a world-wide scope and carefully reasoned conclusions that move into new territory, paving the way towards further research in gender-based theory.

States that karaoke creates its own culture, while reflecting much about the wider culture and the place of popular music as a media form. This book presents an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional rollercoaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer.

Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach,Second Edition, is a comprehensive treatment of analysis strategies used inethnographic research, addressing the "crunching" and manipulation of bothqualitative and quantitative ethnographic data.