Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

<p>Including the languages of Spanish, Portuguese, French, and their Creoles, and encompassing an interdisciplinary range of sources, this volume is a dictionary of 21,000 terms related to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality used in Latin America over the past five centuries.</p>

This exciting new book explores the role of government, politics, and policy in American lives. Full of real life applications and scenarios, this text encourages and enables political thinking.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Presenting case studies and regional overviews, this book offers insights and strategies for transforming the ethics of archaeological practices in the Caribbean to bring about a positive future for the discipline.

Designed to support introductory undergraduate courses in forensic anthropology, this versatile laboratory manual provides basic training in relevant methods of biological profile estimation and trauma assessment for use in medico-legal contexts.

Any corporate history is a suspicious undertaking, and the author writes in the preface that he was wary at the outset, recognizing that "the&nbsp;<em>Times's</em>&nbsp;extraordinary story had taken on mythical dimensions as told by true believers among its executives." The book is nevertheless as objective as biography can be. The author has interwoven Poynter's life and death not only with the tempestuous and highly relevant history of his own family but also with the major themes in the newspaper's evolution, and he locates all of these in the context of national and state history and of journalistic development.&nbsp;

<em>Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration</em>&nbsp;brings together these new methods in one volume and addresses innovative approaches to migration research that emerge from the collective effort of scholars from different intellectual backgrounds. Its contributors present a comprehensive anthropological exploration of the many topics related to human migration throughout the world, ranging from theoretical treatments to specific case studies derived primarily from the Americas prior to European contact.