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  • The New History in an Old Museum

    Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

    by Richard Handler, Eric Gable ...
    The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through extensive fieldwork—including numerous site visits, interviews with employees and visitors, and archival ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The American Stamp

    Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States

    by Laura Goldblatt, Richard Handler ...
    More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The American Stamp

    Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States

    by Laura Goldblatt, Richard Handler ...
    More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience

    by John J. Bodinger de Uriarte, Elisa Ascione, Gareth Barkin, Melissa S. Biggs, Jennifer Coffman, Neriko Musha Doerr, Aaron Andrew Greer, Aaron M. Lampman, Annie Nguyen, Miroslava Prazak0, Kenneth Schweitzer1, Katharine Serio2, Lisa Breglia4, Don Schweitzer5, Dr. Michael A. Di Giovine6 ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    With contributions from anthropologists and cultural theorists, Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experienceexamines the culture and cultural implications of student travel. Drawing on rich case studies from the Arctic to Africa, Asia to the Americas, this impressive array of experts focuses on the challenges and ethical implications of student engagement, service and volunteering, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Ethnographic Archaeologies

    Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices

    by Queztil E. Castañeda, Richard Handler, Julie Hollowell, Mark P. Leone, K Anne Pyburn, George Nicholas, Larry J. Zimmerman ...
    Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this volume, for example, understand ethnographic ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Vehicles

    Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

    Edited by David Lipset, Richard Handler ...
    Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Vehicles

    Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

    Edited by Richard Handler, David Lipset ...
    Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Schneider on Schneider

    The Conversion of the Jews and Other Anthropological Stories

    by David M. Schneider ...
    To listen to David M. Schneider is to hear the voice of American anthropology. To listen at length is to hear much of the discipline’s history, from the realities of postwar practice and theory to Schneider’s own influence on the development of symbolic and interpretive anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s. Schneider on Schneider offers readers this rare opportunity, and with it an engrossing ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Defining Memory

    Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

    by Tami Christopher, James Connor, J Daniel d'Oney, Jessie Embry, Eric Gable, Lucian Gomoll, Richard Handler, Donna Langford, Amy Levin, Mauri L. Nelson, Stuart Patterson, Heather Perry, Jay Price, Michael Rhode, Eric Sandweiss, Elizabeth Vallance ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's self-identity and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

    Edited by Timothy Yu ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. Offering a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century, this collection highlights the new, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD