Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Democracy: Anthropological Approaches In recent decades, powerful institutions have packaged Western democracy for export around the globe. Although Western democracy is grounded in specific historical experiences and cultural... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural disasters. Capital-intensive, high-technology, large-scale projects compel the... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Elites: Ethnographic Issues This book is a collection of essays focusing on the role that elites play in shaping modern societies. Critiquing the treatment accorded elites as subjects in recent Western social thought, the... $24.13 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas Enduring Conquests presents new interpretations of Native American experiences under Spanish colonialism and challenges the reader to reexamine long-standing assumptions about the Spanish conquests... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Evolution of Leadership: Transitions in Decision Making from Small-Scale to Middle-Range Societies Leaders make decisions that have significant impacts on the lives of others. They have the ability to influence events and impact the evolutionary trajectories of societies. Leaders exist in all... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth Child laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press First Coastal Californians About 13,000 years ago a man died on the steep banks of Arlington Canyon on Santa Rosa Island, one of California's Channel Islands. The early dates for Arlington Springs Man, as he came to be known,... $29.95 $27.60 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Fixing the Books: Secrecy, Literacy, and Perfectibility in Indigenous New Mexico In Fixing the Books, professor Erin Debenport (anthropology, University of New Mexico) presents the research she conducted on an indigenous language literacy effort within a New Mexico Pueblo... $36.71 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook Recognizing an urgent need for Indigenous liberation strategies, Indigenous intellectuals met to create a book with hands-on suggestions and activities to enable Indigenous communities to decolonize... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook For Indigenous Minds Only features Indigenous scholars, writers, and activists who have collaborated for the creation of a sequel to For Indigenous Eyes Only (SAR Press, 2005). The title reflects an... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics Suffering and charity have a long history. Both human sorrows and attempted remedies were familiar features of life in earlier eras and religious traditions, however, during the final decades of the... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Global Health in Times of Violence What are the prospects for human health in a world threatened by disease and violence? Since World War II, at least 160 wars have erupted around the globe. Over 24 million people have died in these... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout the world have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to middle classes and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles,... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Globalization, Water, & Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity This book is about crime and passion, life and death, lofty goals and squalid realities. It is a book about water. Global disparities in health and access to water are two major threats to world... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume... $36.71 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities Extended conflict situations in Northern Ireland or South Africa, the local effects of the rise of multinational corporations, and conflicts in workplaces, households, and academic fields are all... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Images That Move Images play a significant part in projects of "poetic world-making" and political transformation. They participate in the production of commensuration or of incommensurability, enact moments of... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Imperial Formations The contributors to this volume critique and abandon the limiting assumption that the European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be taken as the representative form... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Imprisoned Art, Complex Patronage: Plains Drawings by Howling Wolf and Zotom at the Autry National Center Two small books of vivid drawings--one filled with images by the Southern Cheyenne warrior-artist Howling Wolf and the other with images by Zotom, a Kiowa man--came to the Southwest Museum of the... $39.07 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Indian Policies in the Americas: From Columbus to Collier and Beyond William Y. Adams grew up in an Indian Service family in an Indian Service town in the 1930s. Window Rock, Arizona was the newly founded administrative capital for the vast Navajo reservation, and all... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education Indian Subjects brings together an outstanding group of scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, law, education, literature, and Native studies to address indigenous education throughout... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest Indians and Energy explores the ways people have transformed natural resources in the American Southwest into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s and... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 9% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Kenneth Chapman's Santa Fe: Artists and Archaeologists, 1907-1931: The Memoirs of Kenneth Chapman Arriving in New Mexico in 1899, Kenneth Milton Chapman took on all manner of projects: mapping archaeological ruins, judging Pueblo pottery, teaching art, and studying ancient and modern Indian... $34.95 $31.82 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific The histories and futures of Indigenous peoples and salmon are inextricably bound across the vast ocean expanse and rugged coastlines of the North Pacific. Keystone Nations addresses this enmeshment... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Late Lowland Maya Civilization: Classic to Postclassic 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... $31.02 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawai`i Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands 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... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 12% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Living the Ancient Southwest How did Southwestern peoples make a living in the vast arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view... $59.95 $52.94 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart