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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, …
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, …
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 …
GroundWork for Community-Based Conservation
While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have …
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 …
Killer commodities
Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit …
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 …
Drinking and Sobriety among the Lakota Sioux
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