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  • Community-based Heritage in Africa

    Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

    by Peter R. Schmidt ...
    This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects. Schmidt explores how and why local research ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Historical Archaeology in Africa

    Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

    by Peter R. Schmidt ...
    Series series African Archaeology Series
    Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies

    Perspectives from Africa

    Edited by Peter R. Schmidt ...
    Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies: Perspectives from Africa provides new ways to look at and think about the practice of community archaeology and heritage studies across the globe. Long hidden from view, African experiences and experiments with participatory archaeology and heritage studies have poignant lessons to convey about local initiatives, local needs, and local perspectives ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa

    Decolonizing Practice

    Edited by Peter R. Schmidt, Innocent Pikirayi ...
    This volume provides new insights into the distinctive contributions that community archaeology and heritage make to the decolonization of archaeological practice. Using innovative approaches, the contributors explore important initiatives which have protected and revitalized local heritage, initiatives that involved archaeologists as co-producers rather than leaders. These case studies underline ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Gender in African Prehistory

    by John Parkington, Lyn Wadley, Joanna Casey, Barbara E. Barich, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Peter R. Schmidt, Rachel MacLean, Paul J. Lane, Ann B. Stahl, M. Dores Cruz, Alinah Segobye ...
    Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Rethinking the Enlightenment

    Between History, Philosophy, and Politics

    by Henry Martyn Lloyd, Matthew Sharpe, James Schmidt, Karen Green, Peter R. Anstey, Geoff Boucher, Dennis C. Rasmussen, Daniel Brewer, Marguerite La Caze0, Genevieve Lloyd1 ...
    One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models

    by Peter Schmidt, Ann D. Witte ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Our interest in the statistical modeling of data on the timing of recidivism began in the mid 1970s when we were both junior members of the eco nomics department at the University of North Carolina. At that time, methods of analyzing qualitative and limited variables were being developed rapidly in the econometric literature, and we became interested in finding a suitable application for these new ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Color and Money

    How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;* conservatives have used ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Archaeologies of Listening

    Edited by Peter R. Schmidt, Alice B. Kehoe ...
    Archaeologists tend to rely on scientific methods to reconstruct past histories, an approach that can alienate local indigenous populations and limit the potential of archaeological research. Essays in this volume argue that listening to and learning from local and descendant communities is vital for interpreting the histories and heritage values of archaeological sites.Case studies from around ... Read more

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  • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction contributed to and contested new forms of white racial dominance, collectively known as Jim Crow or the "color-line," in the U.S. in the 1880s and after. I focus in particular on the cultural work undertaken by the "command performance" scene in these texts, in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Econometrics

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    Series series Statistics: A Series of Textbooks and Monographs
    "A collection of proofs of fundamental theorems, this volume utilizes a format that is exhaustive and consistent. Every result covered in ``Econometrics''is proved as well as stated. One notation system is used throughout the volume. The topics included in the book cover such areas as estimations and testing in linear regression models under various sets of assumptions, and estimation and testing ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Sitting in Darkness

    New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history.Many rarely ... Read more

    $35.99 USD