"The dynamics of racism, class prejudice, and sexism work differently and only reveal how they gear in with each other at specific historical moments. Findlay has addressed these issues with confidence and eclat; the result is both careful and passionate."--Sidney W. Mintz, author of "Caribbean Transformations" and "Sweetness and Power" "Placing working people--their values, interests, and struggles--at the center of history, Findlay elucidates ...

This twenty-eighth edition of Annual Editions: Anthropology is a compilation of articles selected from the best of the public press including magazines, newspapers, and journals. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student website that provides study support tools and links to related websites. ...

This intriguing book looks at issues of immigration, postmodern identity and difference through the lives of South Asians in Britain. ...

Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers' cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco. David McMurray investigates the local effects of the multiple linkages between Nador and international commodity circuits, and analyzes the profound effect on everyday life of the free flow of bodies, ideas, and commodities into and out of ...

"Res" is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. "Res" also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the ...

Describes a range of methods used by archaeologists to infer ranking from archaeological data. ...

Located in the Thames River valley in southwestern Ontario, the Calvert site encompasses a variety of structures including at least 14 houses, several palisade walls, and thousands of pits, hearths, and artifacts. This inquiry develops a method of unraveling the seemingly chaotic elements of the Calvert site to reveal an orderly evolution in its occupation history. ...

This book contains the findings of the team of Harvard University doctors, as a result of the excavation of the small unconventional site long concealed under a sand dune, and named Toumba tou Skourou, which is located in the Republic of Cyprus. ...

This book presents a collective reflection on the methodological issues faced by social scientists doing qualitative research in a modern complex society. The findings challenge the popular view of French Louisiana as a well-defined geographical or cultural entity and illustrate how it is in fact a changing and diverse reality constructed by those who participate in it. ...

This Handbook deals comprehensively with the pottery of Knossos from the beginning of the Iron Age until Late Roman times. Finds from a century of excavation at Knossos are treated in sufficient depth so as to be useful not only to students seeking a general background, but also to research scholars engaged in Cretan field archaeology and museum work. For all those concerned with recovering the record of ancient Greek and Roman Crete, this volume ...