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Compelling personal stories of five diverse young women, plus the author s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis, vividly convey the lived experience of bullying to help understand how this form of violence shapes identity, relationships, interactions, and the construction of meaning among youth."

Renowned scholar and founder of the practice of narrative inquiry, D. Jean Clandinin, and her coauthors provide researchers with the theoretical underpinnings and processes of narrative inquiry for working with the special populations of children and youth.

World-renowned autoethnographers Arthur P. Bochner and Carolyn Ellis present the first comprehensive text to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, they address key issues in a literary and pedagogical fashion and use numerous examples from their own work and other evocative autoethnographers.

A team of fifteen researchers from various disciplines and nationalities offer ethical strategies unique to qualitative researchers for those big ethical moments beyond what can be predicted by ethics committees."

Vera Caine and Judy Mill outline the basic steps and issues in the community-based research process. Using examples from numerous projects from around the world, they discuss topics from collaboratively designing and conducting the research with community members, to building community capacity and negotiating complicated questions of researcher control and ethics.

Challenging the critique that autoethnography is too self-focused, Tami Spry calls for a new performative autoethnography that is transgressive, liberatory, and decolonizing. She uses a variety of examples, literary forms, and theoretical traditions to demonstrate this innovative approach in action.

The third edition of the seminal textbook Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology has been brought completely up to date for both instructors and students. The collection of 49 readings (17 of them new to this edition) offers extensive background description and exposes students to the breadth of theoretical, methodological, and practical perspectives and issues in the field of medical anthropology. The text provides specific examples and case studies of research as it is applied to a range of health settings: from cross-cultural clinical encounters to cultural analysis of new biomedical technologies and the implementation of programs in global health settings.

This engaging volume critically examines previous theories of collapse of ancient complex societies and offers a new one, that of social hubris. The concept is evaluated through examination of ancient Egypt, Rome, Maya, and others.

In the student friendly textbook, Just Relationships, Douglas Kelley provides a conceptual framework for understanding social justice within an interpersonal context through the use of existing social science theory.

Written by a diverse group of anthropologists, environmental researchers, environmentalists, and policy-makers, The Carbon Fix closely examines the current model for dealing with global warming¿paying for carbon capture¿and the negative effects this model has on rural communities, indigenous groups, and others in less developed regions who depend on or control carbon- sequestering lands.

Based on a multi-year international study of 20 innovative museums, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer key questions regarding the processes and problems involved in transforming a collections-based museum to a visitor-centered approach.

Recent empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and the development of human culture has sparked heated debates about what it means to be human. Conversations on Human Nature brings these debates to life for teachers, students, and general readers.

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.

Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact.

Provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a brief introduction to a health-care model, Community Participatory Involvement, which for 20 years has proved successful in fighting global health problems. CPI differs from other community-based models in that it involves a unique synergy of local, civil, and political authorities.

Focuses specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space.

The author interrogates the communicative forms and practices that have been central to the establishment of neoliberal governance, and offers an alternative strategy for a grassroots-driven, participatory form of global organizing of health.

In this detailed comparative study, Rebecca and Glenn Storey examine the cultural changes marking the fall of two well-known ancient complex societies: the Classical Maya and the Ancient Roman Empire. Utilizing the concept of slow collapse, the authors show how the two experienced comparable problems that ultimately led to the parallel processes of decline despite their cultural dissimilarities.

In an era of budgetary belt-tightening, policymakers must prove that their programs work or face drastic cuts in spending. This book discusses in plain prose the theory and methods of culturally-competent evaluation across a number of disciplines, such as health and education, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professionals.

A group of experienced, innovative teachers explore methods of teaching about food and using food to teach the basics of various disciplines.

Examines two kinds of encounters: encounters which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands; those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary lands. It provides a clear account of the subject and will be a stimulating read for scholars, students or the interested public.

Written by a diverse group of anthropologists, environmental researchers, environmentalists, and policy-makers, The Carbon Fix closely examines the current model for dealing with global warming-paying for carbon capture-and the negative effects this model has on rural communities, indigenous groups, and others in less developed regions who depend on or control carbon- sequestering lands.

This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.

In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop.

The first resource to focus specifically on oral history practices with immigrant narrators, this book provides the tools to effectively plan and execute an oral history project in an immigrant community and includes case studies, additional resources, and templates of important oral history processes.