Editors Chen and Sharp present students, academics, researchers, policy makers, and professionals working in a wide variety of fields with a collection of academic essays and articles that argue colle
African American Katherine Dunham was a published anthropologist and political activist, as well as a dancer who led the first black modern dance company. Papers from a June 2010 seminar detail her ac
Social scientists and historians look at the experience of the US and Canada with guestworker programs designed to permit a controlled flow of workers across national borders. They cover critical move
Cultural anthropologists and human geographers present research on the political and cultural worlds of street economies (street vendors being the most iconic actors of street economies) in the global
US anthropologists describe and interpret archaeological and ethnographic evidence for changes in the structure of prehistoric and modern societies that parallel the establishment of permanent, or at
This book is a series of essays that offers a framework for the study of lowland Maya settlement patterns, surveying the range of interpretive ideas about ancient Maya remains. Suggesting hypotheses t
The contributors to this book scrutinize the data, survey external influences on the early Maya, and consider economics, ecology, demography, and warfare - as well as social and ideological factors -
The articles in this book explore relationships between demographic variables and culture, emphasizing cultural and biological structures and processes connected to population trends. In addition, the
This book is the outcome of the advanced seminar, "Reassembling the Collection: Indigenous Agency and Ethnographic Collections," hosted by the School for Advanced Research in New Mexico in September 2
The introductory essay discusses the history and scope of bioarchaeology, emphasizing that the field nurtures a range of approaches and encompasses both specialized and holistic studies. The nine cont
This volume brings together a diverse set of new studies--archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic--that focus on agricultural intensification and hydraulic systems around the world. Fifteen ch
This collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. Rather than a
What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to an interest in the concept of structural vulnerability? And can a consideration of structural vulnerability enhance applied an
Puebloan sociocultural formations of the past and present are the subject of the essays collected here. The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology t
Spatial analysis reaches across all the subdisciplines of anthropology. A cultural anthropologist, for example, can use such analysis to trace the extent of distinctive cultural practices; an archaeol
Microfinance began as the disbursement of tiny loans to the poor, which they could use to undertake informal income-generating activities. It went on to become one of the most popular international de
The average size of human bodies all over the world has been steadily rising over recent decades. The total count of people clinically labeled “obese” is now at least three times what it was in 1980.
Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be trac
A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a hetero
Foraging persists as a viable economic strategy both in remote regions and within the bounds of developed nation-states. Given the economic alternatives available, why do some groups choose to maintai
This collection is the first to specifically address our current understanding of the evolution of human childhood, which in turn significantly affects our interpretations of the evolution of family f
This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-known stories of slavery in North America and reve
As bodies are revealed, so are hidden and often incommensurate understandings of the body after death. The theme of "disturbing bodies" has a double valence, evoking both the work th
The collaborations, cooperatives, and conundrums described in this collection reaffirm ancient traditions even as artisan production and the preservation of cultural identity interact to create a sust
In 11 essays based on a School for Advanced Research seminar, “Things in Motion: Object Histories, Biographies, and Itineraries,” held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in May 2012, seminar participants use th
With the sequencing of the human genome during the early 2000s, geneticists who sought to support the role of genes in explaining race challenged the social-construction model of race that had been do
The 11 chapters in this volume arise out of the "Images without Borders" seminar held at the School for Advanced Research in May of 2008. The concern of this work is the inter-cultural circulation of
The seminar "Towards a Global Human History: Agency and the Explanation of Long-Term Change" was held in September-October 2009. Archaeologists from Europe and the US consider such topics as theorizin
By observing changes in ancient midden deposits, or modern waste, the ethnoarchaeologist is able to theorize about relationships between these material remains and the human behavior that produced the
This collection of eleven essays considers the interdependence between indigenous people of the North Pacific and the salmon on which so many of them have relied upon for subsistence and cultural mean
Houston (anthropology, Brown U.) unites works by US contributors in classics, anthropology, and Near Eastern languages to shed light on principles and patterns of the birth, maintenance, and death of
This collection of ten ethnographic studies of "middle classness" around the world, presented by Heiman (social sciences, The New School for Public Engagement), Freeman (anthropology and gender studie
This collection of ten essays presents case studies where religious and scientific views about nature and humans relationships with it over-lap and interact. Each essay looks at how people from around
Policymakers and strategists have found ethnographic data useful in military decision-making, note McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico) and Rubinstein (sociology and anthro
Anthropologists and other social scientists from the US and Latin America look at physical evidence for the resistance of Native Americans first against Spanish conquest, and later against occupation
This collection of essays, edited by Bornstein (anthropology, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Redfield (anthropology, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), examines the relatively recent transformation o
