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People, Parks, and Power


Robert K. Hitchcock , Maria Sapignoli


This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the” parks versus people” debate, also known as the “new conservation debate,” which has pitted indigenous and other local people against nation...

Publication date: 2023-11-08
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Sex Differences in Fear Response


Anne Campbell , Lee T Copping , Catharine P Cross


This book reviews the evolutionary forces behind sex differences in fear responses and, crucially, delves into the mechanisms through which sexual selection might have driven sex differences in connection with fear. Fear is an evolved mechanism that helps us stay alive,...

Publication date: 2021-04-10
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Design Ethnography


Francis Müller


This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes,...

Publication date: 2020-12-14
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Learning with Women in Jail


Jill Mccracken


In this monograph, the ethical implications of engaging in research with vulnerable populations is explored and demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) both enhances the research while addressing these ethical complexities. Although CBPR...

Publication date: 2019-10-21
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The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal


Kalpana Jha


This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and...

Publication date: 2017-03-20
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Remembering the Body


Treena Orchard


This volume explores the arts-based methodology of body mapping, a participant-driven approach wherein people create richly illustrated life-size maps that articulate their embodied experiences with various health issues. First developed in the global South as a...

Publication date: 2016-12-01
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Human Physical Fitness and Activity


Ann E. Caldwell


?The science of human physical activity and fitness is ripe for a novel theoretical framework that can integrate the ecological, genetic, physiological and psychological factors that influence physical activity in humans.  Physical inactivity dominates most...

Publication date: 2016-03-29
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Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China


Susan Dewey , Treena Orchard , Tiantian Zheng


Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from...

Publication date: 2015-12-23
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Download this eBook The Great Awakening and Southern Backcountry Revolutionaries
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The Great Awakening and Southern Backcountry Revolutionaries


Richard J. Chacon , Michael Charles Scoggins


This work documents the impact that the Great Awakening had on the inhabitants of colonial America’s Southern Backcountry. Special emphasis is placed on how this religious revival furrowed the ground on which the seeds of the American Revolution would sprout. The...

Publication date: 2014-07-08
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Download this eBook Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization
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Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization


David Leedom Shaul


The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American...

Publication date: 2014-03-31
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Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence


Ryan P. Harrod , Debra L. Martin


The goal of this monograph is to emphasize with empirical data the complexity of the relationship between climate change and violence. Bioarchaeology is the integration of human skeletal remains from ancient societies with the cultural and environmental context....

Publication date: 2013-11-12
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Mainstream Polygamy


Dominique Legros


This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a...

Publication date: 2013-09-20
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Images and Power


Polly Schaafsma


?Ethics and Rock Art: Images and Power addresses the distinctive ways in which ethical considerations pertain to rock art research within the larger context of the archaeological ethical debate. Marks on stone, with their social and religious implications, give rise to...

Publication date: 2012-11-28
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