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Rethinking Environmental History
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, …
Memory in Black and White
As a nation we bring many perspectives to our commemorative places and our ideas may change over time, especially on difficult topics like slavery and racism. Why a place is saved …
In Defense of Things
In much recent thinking, social and cultural realms are thought of as existing prior to-or detached from-things, materiality, and landscape. It is often assumed, for example, that …
Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam
In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Ty Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, …
World We Want
In The World We Want, Peter Karoff presents a collective vision of an ideal world. By sharing his experiences and through conversations with more than forty social entrepreneurs, …
Narratives of Mexican American Women
Alma Garc'a offers a bold new interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal …
Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest
Archaeologists seldom study ancient art, even though art is fundamental to the human experience. The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest argues that archaeologists should …
Textile Economies
Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the …
Ethnographic Archaeologies
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic …
Manual of Museum Planning
As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of people, effective museum planning …
Raising Biracial Children
As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception of racial identity must be …
Cooperation in Economy and Society
The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market …