Fumi Arakawa, a Japanese scholar who was trained in Western archaeology, uses correlative thinking practices, which are derived from an East Asian view of the world that stresses connectivity, to analyze American Southwest artifacts within the prehistoric landscape of their origin.
Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 500-1000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state.
Spaces, Relationships, and Communities in the Philippines
In Designing Social Architecture, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form micro-relationships, social networks, and social structures among inhabitants of Manila, Philippines, and considers whether the architects' aim to promote certain social behaviors was successful or not.
This book explores how a site can turn into a mummification of the past, displaying long-gone splendour, or a living, breathing treasure offering dynamic cultural and educational opportunities.
In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks illustrates that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people are the product of institutions and ideologies that exist both outside and inside of Black and Latinx communities.
Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters
Reciprocity Rules explores the rich and complicated relationships that develop between anthropologists and research participants over time. Focusing on compensation and the creation of friendship and "family" relationships, contributors discuss what, when, and how researchers and the people with whom they work give to each other in and beyond ......
Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience.
Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First
In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork, the contributors to this collection demonstrate in clear, relatable prose how intimate ......