James D. Sexton, Regents’ Professor of anthropology, co-edited and translated the bilingual book, The Dog Who Spoke and More Mayan Folktales, which was published this month by University of Oklahoma Press. The book includes 33 Guatemalan folktales in Spanish and English and represents generations of transmitted oral culture. 

These enchanting tales include talking dogs, donkeys, crickets, jaguars, and parrots.  In these stories also appear witches, characoteles, cadejos, duendes, magical objects, sacred caves, transforming supernatural animals and humans, and legendary Mayan heroines and heroes.  These highly entertaining stories reinforce cultural values, instruct readers in proper deportment, and reflect the Mayan culture in which they are told.  Because none of the stories is risqué, they are all suitable for readers of all ages.

ISBN10: 0205345301
ISBN13: 9780205345304
Edition/Copyright: 05

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.

Norman J. Medoff, professor in the School of Communication, has published a second edition of his book, Electronic Media: Then, Now, & Later, which connects the traditional world of broadcasting with the contemporary universe of digital electronic media including both mass electronic media and personal electronic communication. 

Holds up audio documentary as a premiere form of qualitative research which can serve as an inventive method of storytelling.

Genocidal Crimes

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. No corner of the world seems immune from this form of collective violence. While many individuals are familiar with the term, few people have a clear understanding of what genocide is and how it is carried out. This book clearly discusses the concept of genocide and dispels the widely held misperceptions about how these crimes occur and the mechanisms necessary for its perpetration.

Genocidal Crimes differs from much of the writing on the subject in that it explicitly relies upon the criminological literature to explain the nature and functioning of genocide. These criminological perspectives are underpinned by a variety of psychological, sociological, and political science based insights in order to present a more complete discussion of the nature and functioning of genocide.

Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts
Published by Routledge
Authors: C. Michael Hall, Alan A. Lew

There is a clear and growing body of evidence that suggests that the effects of tourism development are far more complex than policy-makers usually suggest and that the impacts of tourism occur not just at the destination but at all stages of a tourist’s trip.

This text provides a clear, accessible and up-to-date synthesis of tourism’s role in our contemporary world, both as an agent of change, and as a response to it.

Human actions are often deeply intertwined with religion and can be understood in a strictly religious context. Yet, many volumes and articles pertaining to discussions of religion in the archaeological past have focused primarily on the sociopolitical implications of such remains. The authors in this volume argue that while these interpretations certainly have a meaningful place in understanding the human past, they provide only part of the picture.

Explores the cultural forces that contribute to suburban sprawl. Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city’s expansion at the rate of one acre per hour comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. For some residents, the American Dream has become a nightmare.

Launching in 2008, this quarterly journal offers research findings, theory, and promising practices to help guide the efforts of institutions of higher education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence.

Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Activism and Advocacy
by Elizabeth Bomberg (Editor), David Schlosberg (Editor)

Environmentalism – defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition – is undergoing significant change in the United States. Under attack from the current administration and direct questioning from its own ranks, environmentalism in the US is at a crossroads. This special issue will explore the changing patterns of and challenges to environmentalism in the contemporary US. More specifically, it will examine the following dynamics:

• the re-conceptualisation of core ideas and strategies defining US environmentalism;
• questions of identity and relations with other advocacy groups (including labour, global justice and women’s groups);
• institutional change (especially the shift away from regulatory policies and approaches);
• the expanding arenas of activism, to both above and below the state;
• environmentalists’ response to Bush administration policies and priorities

A global, peer-reviewed journal that provides a venue for using scholarly, professional, and indigenous knowledge to address broader societal concerns about managing cultural heritage.

Examines the full range of individual differences across the entire criminal justice system. Moving beyond just race and gender, it tackles differences based on experience, age, socio-economic class, disabilities and more.

Alaska Native Juveniles in Detention: A Qualitative Study of Treatment and Resistance
Mellon Press
Banks, Cyndi

This in-depth study of a juvenile institution in Alaska explores the issues of power, resistance, treatment, and culture. Based on original research it seeks to establish the mediated place of culture, in this case of Alaska Native cultures, within the examination and assessment of the workings of the institution.

Women’s Lives
Person Allyn and Bacon
Author: Kathleen J. Ferraro

An anthology of poetry, personal narratives, research reports, and theoretical analysis that depict the ongoing relevance of gender to people's experiences.

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, "Crying Shame" analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent.

• Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context
• Draws on the author’s extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon
• Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity
• An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization

Criminal Justice Ethics Theory and Practice -Second Edition
SAGE Publications, Inc
Cyndi Banks

Following on the success of its First Edition which was praised for its comprehensive coverage and flexible organization, Criminal Justice Ethics, Second Edition continues to explore ethical dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals and discusses how they might be resolved, covering codes of ethics for various players and providing applied examples in the form of illustrative real-life case boxes. The Second Edition also retains the unique, praised organizational style of the previous edition—covering the interaction of ethics and the criminal justice system in Part I to lay a foundation for the ethical theories and perspectives introduced in Part II.

In the past decades, social scientists have observed rising selfishness and callousness among Americans. This book is an anthology of essays discussing the problems of egocentrism, and ways in which egocentrism can be overcome. The theories and research point toward two important considerations: balancing the needs of the self with others, and cultivating such traits as compassion, non-defensive self-awareness, and independent.

There has been little acknowledgment of the positive contributions of Native Americans to the criminal justice system—in rehabilitating offenders, aiding victims, and supporting service providers. This book offers an overview of how the American criminal justice system impacts Native Americans on both sides of the law and is intended to introduce students to the substantive concerns of a range of disciplines that contribute to Native American Studies. Criminal Justice in Native America will interest all readers who are concerned about relationships between Native peoples and prevailing criminal justice systems.

Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James M. Wilce analyzes the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural, and political functions of emotional language around the world. The book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly 100 ethnographic case studies, it demonstrate the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from inguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.