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Using the pioneering research of David Lewis-Williams as a foundation, contributors from around the world examine how the availability of ethnographic analogies, or lack thereof, affect the interpretation of rock art.

This volume is an extensive collection of chapters discussing Folsom artifacts and sites, as well as innovative experiments undertaken to understand Folsom technology and lifeways. It is a unique volume in that it examines the variation present in technology and behavior across a wide range of Folsom localities.

One of the most critical issues in film and media studies is how images create a sense of authenticity. Largely absent from debates in this area is the key role of sound in representations of reality. This book tackles the theory and significance of sound and its contribution to systems of meaning and semiotics. Particularly unique to the volume are the insights that emerge from interactions between film theorists and practitioners, who work o...

The allure of Egypt is not exclusive to the modern world. Egypt also held a fascination and attraction for people of the past. In this book, academics from a wide range of disciplines assess the significance of Egypt within the settings of its past. The chronological span is from later prehistory, through to the earliest literate eras of interaction with Mesopotamia and the Levant, the Aegean, Greece and Rome. Ancient Perspectives on Egypt inc...

Adams makes use of interviews, personal narratives, and autoethnography to analyze lived, relational experiences of sexuality, using the closet as metaphor.

This book addresses heteronormativism, a concept that is extremely important for understanding visitors' ability to feel welcome in our spaces. It looks at homophobia and queer identities: the lack of a material culture to represent what is unique about sexual identity in society.

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

Sponsored by the Museum Education Rountable

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

This book promotes the idea and the practice of a scientific culture in science museums, art museums, gardens, libraries, coffee houses, school meetings and social gatherings. It encourages common man to think about, use and sometimes contribute to science.

The contributors ask critical questions about historic preservation and commemoration methods used by modern societies and their impact on the perception and identity of Native American peoples, who are generally not consulted in the commemoration process.

Using the locale of the 9/11 tragedy, Joy Sather-Wagstaff explores the constructive role played by tourists in understanding social, political, and emotional impacts of violent events.

Norman Denzin shows how artistic representations of Little Big Horn demonstrate the changing perceptions--often racist--of Native America by the majority culture in this multilayered performance ethnography

Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.

In increasing numbers, qualitative researchers are leaving their ivory tower perches and entering the fray, focusing their research and actions on the promotion of social justice. In this tightly edited volume of original articles stemming from the 2008 International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, leading figures in qualitative research demonstrate the potential for the research tradition to make contributions to the betterment of humankind.

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinkingaabout what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination.

In this literary, co-constructed narrative, two Brazilian scholars explore the spaces "in-between" their biographies and work looking to decolonize scholarship and promote social justice.

Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.

Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the roles and contributions of the Roths as government servants and anthropologists.

Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism.