AltaMira Press is evolving with the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Food Studies, and Museum Studies, with the mission to publish the best scholarship today on topics that matter to academics, students, professionals, and the general public. We are proud to publish the works of a host of senior scholars and also seek to cultivate enduring relationships with the younger scholars doing important research in a wide variety of subfields. We publish textbooks, series, cutting-edge monographs, professional titles such as toolkits, reference books, general interest titles, and trade books.

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Museum Studies

The Small Museum Toolkit, edited by Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko and Stacy Klingler, is now available! This six book set serves as a launching point for small museum staff to pursue best practices and meet museum standards.

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Are you looking for a comprehensive book to introduce your students to museum thought and theory? Order the second edition of Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift, edited by Gail Anderson.

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Anthropology and Archaeology

The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood, edited by David F. Lancy, John Bock, and Suzanne Gaskins, is now available in paperback.

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Food Studies

Learn how people in Vietnam used food and alcohol to establish their power and social position during the long nineteenth century (from the 1780s to the 1920s) in the culinary history Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century by Erica J. Peters.

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