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Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
Gail Anderson

AltaMira Press, 2004

Reinventing the Museum gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their development.

Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya (Sacred Literature ...

4 reviews

AltaMira Press, 2000

a gem
Excellent selection with a wonderful introduction. Words of wisdom that express some of the key ideas of the Master with a focus on advice for lay people and those who are undergoing the Training. A good primer for those who are preparing to tackle the major nikayas such as the Digha, Majjhima and Samyutta.

The Words of My Perfect Teacher: A Complete Translation of a Classic Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Sacred ...

14 reviews
Patrul Rinpoche

AltaMira Press, 1998

Excellent
I stumbled into Dharamsala a few years ago when it happened to be Losar. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, gave a talk on this text and since then, it has been one of my favorites. I am not Tibetan Buddhist, I follow a Japanese tradition, but the first half of the book dealing with arousing the desire to enter the path will resonate with any Mahayana Buddhist. I truly appreciate the tone of Patrul ...

Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

3 reviews
H. Russell Bernard

AltaMira Press, 2005

A newly updated and expanded fourth edition
Now in a newly updated and expanded fourth edition, "Research Methods In Anthropology: Qualitative And Quantitative Approaches" by H. Russell Bernard (Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida) is a basic, comprehensive, 803-page introductory textbook on the research methods used in anthropology today. Written in a thoroughly 'reader friendly' conversational style that combines rigorous ...

Recording Oral History, Second Edition: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences

1 review
Valerie Raleigh Yow

AltaMira Press, 2005

good service
I needed this book for a class. It is direct a great text book. It is informative and useful.

Introduction to Museum Work (Aaslh Book Series)

1 review
George Ellis Burcaw

Altamira Press, 1997

Museums 101
This is a text book on museum science. It covers all phases of designing, building, financing and operating a museum from the very basics. I have used it extensively to develop policies and procedures for the Minnesota Transportation Museum as we grow from a trolley ride to a major museum site. Everyone in the museum/history center/science center business should read this and see that other ...

Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)

3 reviews
David E. Kyvig, Myron A. Marty

Altamira Press, 2000

Thumbs Up for Nearby History
I just finished reading Nearby History and would recommend this book for any aspiring local historian. This is a great source book, not only thought provoking, but also full of useful references and internet sites.

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach: An Interpretive Approach

1 review
Beverly Serrell

AltaMira Press, 1996

I use it all the time
Even though the information in this book is almost nine years old, it is still relevant and useful. People tell me so, and I find myself going back to see what I said when I get questions about label length, typesize, levels of information, or how long it takes to write. Do not buy the other book listed here, Making Museum Labels, because it is out of date (and out of print), and all the good ...

Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, Second Edition
Thomas F. King

AltaMira Press, 2004

Renowned cultural resource management consultant Thomas F. King demystifies this web of regulations surrounding this field, providing frank, practical advice on how to ensure regulatory compliance in dealing with archaeological sites, historic buildings, urban districts, sacred sites and objects, shipwrecks, and archives. In this new edition, King reports on changes in cultural resource laws, regulations, and executive orders in the past five ...

A Graveyard Preservation Primer (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)

5 reviews
Lynette Strangstad

AltaMira Press, 1988

By far, this is the most comprehensive book out on the topic
The Graveyard Preservation Primer is a must read for anyone interested in the reasons to save old graveyards and how to go about doing so in a respectful and historically accurate manner. Her book is well researched and well written. It is straightforward and simple enough for novices, yet has enough insightful information for even the most informed reader. Her topics range from how to organize ...

The World We Want: New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change
Peter Karoff

AltaMira Press, 2007

In The World We Want, Peter Karoff presents a collective vision of an ideal world. The book weaves together multi-sector, multidiscipline strategies, butin large partit is about the power of human connection, reinforced by personal stories of motivation and the human capacity for caring. Without ignoring the institutional and cultural obstacles, and the courage needed to face down the dark side of human behavior, Karoff shows how citizen ...

Victims of Progress

4 reviews
John Bodley

AltaMira Press, 2008

Other Worlds
This book is amazing in what it achieves - a thorough, comprehensive view of expansive, global civilization and its affects on local, indigenous, autonomous peoples around the world. Bodley clearly and succinctly summaries the last two and a half centuries of colonial and imperial expansion, the people who resisted and continue to resist that expansion, and the negative consequences of being ...

Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research (Ethnographer's Toolkit , Vol 1)

1 review
LeCompte Margaret Diane

AltaMira Press, 1999

To The Point Skills Teaching
This text provides an excellent overview of the processes and considerations in good ethnographic research. Chapter 1 provides a discussion that introduces the reader to the term ethnography. Those who assume that they already know about ethnography may also want to peruse this chapter for a refreshing and concise review of rationale and terminology. The next chapter describes processes for ...

The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (Ethnographic Alternatives Book Series)

2 reviews
Carolyn Ellis

AltaMira Press, 2004

"I" recommend this book completely.
This is a fascinating read -- methodological theory presented in the form of a novel, a college prof teaching a class on a fairly new, "post-postmodern" form of reflexive qualitative writing, auto/ethnography. Could be seen as the manifesto for the sub-genre. Auto/ethongraphy is not embraced by all in the sicial sciences, such as anthropology, sociology, communications, psychology, medical ...

Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action
Merrill Singer, Hans Baer

AltaMira Press, 2007

A new text in the growing field of medical anthropology.

Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red (Contemporary Native American Communities)

1 review
Ethan Nebelkopf

AltaMira Press, 2004

Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: speaking in Red
I feel this is a very comprehensive book on exisiting programs and can lead to resourses that may help others begin a program that canbe equally as beneficial to help/healing the Native People of this Nation.

Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans: Disease, Health, and Survival among ...
Clifford E. Trafzer

AltaMira Press, 2001

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in "Medicine Ways" examine the ways people from a multitude of ...

The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System ...

3 reviews
Blackaby James R.

AltaMira Press, 1995

History Museums Would Be Lost Without This Book
When I started in the museum field over seven years ago, I initially found Nomenclature confusing and cumbersome. Now that I have cataloged thousands of objects using the system, I can think of no other way. To catalog for five different institutions using Nomenclature allowed for continuity and opened my mind to new terms and classifications. Science and history, in essence, meet.

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums
Alexander Mary

AltaMira Press, 2007

In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established professionals looking for an expanded understanding of their own ...

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