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Humans is a concise, jargon-free introduction to four-field anthropology. The book indentifies the most relevant questions in anthropology. It provides students with an understanding of the unity of the human species, the adaptation of societies to their environments, and an appreciation of the power of socialization into a culture.

Humans is a concise, jargon-free introduction to four-field anthropology. The book indentifies the most relevant questions in anthropology. It provides students with an understanding of the unity of the human species, the adaptation of societies to their environments, and an appreciation of the power of socialization into a culture.

Girl Archaeologist illuminates the life and trailblazing career of Alice Kehoe, a woman with a family who was always, also, an archaeologist.

Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. They explored the continent, pioneered its waterways and mountain passes, cleared forests, irrigated deserts, and ranched its great plains.Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence of American Indian civilisations. Using her familiarity with the arch...

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This second edition of America Before the European Invasions has been revised and updated to incorporate new evidence and the latest debates in the field.

Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times.

This second edition of America Before the European Invasions has been revised and updated to incorporate new evidence and the latest debates in the field.

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980: A Generation Reflects" takes an inside look at American anthropology's participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual practitioners. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AA...

Felix Cohen, the lawyer who wrote the Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal neglect Cohen and focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen, who as DOI assistant solicitor wrote the legislation for the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Indian Claims Commis...

Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote the Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal neglect Cohen and focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs. Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen has received less attention.

The Land of Prehistory" reveals the powerful ideological function American archaeology has naively served, from the discipline's construction in Victorian societal reform movements to the present. Alice Beck Kehoe chronicles major movements and influences such as the support of racist Spencerian evolutionism and Manifest Destiny ideologies, and the 1960s New Archaeology pandering to Big Science money. She concludes with a discussion of the rec...

Alice Beck Kehoe offers introductory students a method of evaluating and assessing claims about the past in this reader-friendly, concise text, using examples from Native American origins to ancient astronauts.