Books published by AltaMira Press

In this book, experts in the field explore the 'new' city museum, examining the role of the city museum in urban development, the problems posed in dealing with contemporary history, and the impact of intangible heritage on the work of city museums.

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is intended to satisfy the needs of students in undergraduate courses in the anthropology of religion and comparative religion. It may be used either as a stand-alone text or as a supplement. This is a text that is more instructor- and student-friendly than any other anthology currently available.

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Ethnographic Archaeologies examines the role of ethnography in public archaeology, offering fresh insights into theories that advocate the engagement of archaeologists and archaeological investigations with the communities that are being studied.

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.

InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

Chicanas in Charge offers profiles, in the form of oral histories, of the careers of female community and political leaders from the Chicano community in Texas.

This book consists of fourteen interviews with Mexican-American community activists of various stripes in San JosZ.

This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East.

Focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (ethno) nation that influence the dynamics of human rights conflicts in different parts of the world. This collection of essays investigates human rights conflicts in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Ecological Futures argues that history can be used as a guide to possible socioeconomic, political, and ecological scenarios that will transform our globalized world.

This important book tackles the problem of comparing phenomena- social roles, forms of activities, institutions- across cultures.

Presents an analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises. This title is suitable for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.

Collection of original writings on legal aspects of cultural resources protection from practicing lawyers and judges.

Presents a theory of magical actions based on an array of findings in the cognitive sciences. This book argues that focusing on the underlying cognitive processes not only explains why magical rituals look the way they do, it also supplies insights into the role of magic in the formation of institutionalised religion.

Museums and libraries inspire us to cross the limits of routine thought, into experiences of reflection and possibility. Each of the essays in A Place Not a Place examines the ways these and other cultural institutions influence us and proposes ways to strengthen their roles as advocates for critical thinking and inquiry.

Draws upon a body of scholarship on the economics and organizational theory of nonprofit organizations to offer a set of practically applicable principles that guide nonprofits towards firmer financial ground.

Examines ethnic identities in countries around the globe, including Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the US, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. This title is a useful teaching tool for courses in race and ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

Chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. The author describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the increasing interest by the biomedical profession in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system.

Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's ("Bushmen") living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa.

Using the archaeological record, the author traces the rise of the state in Southeast Asia in a general synthesis.

Explores the world of opera through the author's fieldwork with the Welsh National Opera company. This book demonstrates how cultural phenomena are produced and enacted by taking readers on stage and behind the scenes into the collective social action that goes into the realization of an opera.

Offers a domestic and international view of processes of delinquency and gang formation and identity. This collection is an introduction to the study of gangs: how we define them, what we know and don't know about gangs. It is suitable for criminal justice, sociology and social work.

Examines how food systems are changing around the globe. This book offers a cultural perspective and provides ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. It is suitable for professionals in economic and environmental anthropology: economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior and nutritional sciences.

Represents an analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. This book asserts that men created an economic dependence that has prevented women from success in the workplace. It is suitable for those interested in power and gender structures in the workplace.

As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect, Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. This experimental autoethnography provides a model to the ethnographer and rewards the student of gender studies with a rare perspective.

Collection of original articles exploring theatricality in the ancient world and how it affected social life and politics.