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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Professors, publish your next book with AltaMira Press!  Learn more here.

Museum Studies

Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord, and Lindsay Martin have updated The Manual of Museum Planning in an indispensable third edition. Learn more here.

Get the single source for your historic district: Preservation Politics: Keeping Historic Districts Vital here.

We’ll also have the Small Museum Toolkit set at the AAM 2012 conference. Learn more here.

Introduce your students to museum thought and theory with Gail Anderson’s Reinventing the Museum. Learn more here.

Anthropology and Archaeology

Review these texts now for your summer and fall 2012 courses:

Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, by John Bodley. Learn more here.

Anthropology and Religion, Second Edition, by Robert Winzeler. Learn more here.

Food Studies

Introducing Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican, Chinese, a groundbreaking new textbook providing a comprehensive history, food theory, and more than 150 original recipes. Learn more here.

More in the AltaMira Studies in Food and Gastronomy series here.