Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity In the mid-nineteenth-century
United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood …

The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the
urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring …

The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic
shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural …

Indigenous claims about “culture loss” pose a problem for contemporary definitions of
culture as a process that continually undergoes change rather than something which can be …

A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding
Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City …

This study was designed to examine the relationships among perceptions of racial climate,
multicultural support services, and ethnic fraud among American Indian college students …

In the 1970s, a network of families from Santa Barbara, California, asserted local indigenous
identities as “Chumash.” However, we demonstrate that these families have quite different …

How is rural community development practice changing in our increasingly complex
society? Previous models of rural community development saw the community developer as …

Driven by the participation of Native American people in the contemporary political, cultural,
and academic landscape of North America, public and academic discussions have …

Issues of identity figure prominently in Native North American communities, mediating their
histories, traditions, culture, and status. This is certainly true of the Mi? kmaw people of Nova …