This book is an ethnography of the native people of the Bajo Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia. Gow attempts to account for the fact that the people of this region appear to be very acculturated when compared to better-known indigenous Amazonian peoples. He argues that when native people's claims are viewed from the perspective of their own values, and in the context of their creation of life through the productive transformation of the forest and the commodity economy, they can be seen to form a coherent part of kinship. Historical change is thus revealed as interior to the ongoing creation of kinship for native people, rather than alien to it.

Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

History

Gow, Peter

Americas

Clarendon Press

Quaker Nantucket: The Religious Community Behind the Whaling Empire

Based on original research in records long thought lost, Quaker Nantucket explores the spectacular growth of Quakerism on the Island and its equally astonishing decline amidst the collapse of the whaling industry a century later.

Leach, Robert J.

Mill Hill Press

Based on original research in records long thought lost, Quaker Nantucket explores the spectacular growth of Quakerism on the Island and its equally astonishing decline amidst the collapse of the whaling industry a century later.

Mill Hill Pr

Leadership through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals

Review\nAn empowering resource for educational leaders is in vital need at this point in history. Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principal’s Confidence and Skill offers relatable examples to assist in the development of effective supervisory and managerial strategies. Impactful leaders emerge as a result of purposeful analysis of problem-solving methodologies, global perspectives, and successful examples of effectiveness. This text will help principals and administrators strengthen their leadership skills and formulate progressive visions for their schools. 
-- Lisa Battaglino, Dean Emeritus, College of Education and Health Sciences, Bridgewater State University\nDuring my first of 40 years of heading private schools, another head of school who served on my board offered me perspective-saving mentoring that played a key role in my staying at that school for eight years, helping the community find its own song. Years later I paid it forward, mentoring his son as he started his own career heading schools. Today, as schools and their leaders face an unprecedented set of challenges, they need the support of mentors, and this book offers a roadmap for shaping the process from one generation of school leaders to another.\n-- Don Grace, founder of Schooling for Hope\nBased on their decades of commitment to schools, students, teachers, and leadership in academic communities, Phyllis Gimbel and Peter Gow have produced a book will be a valuable support to veteran, beginning, and aspiring school leaders. -- John C. Gulla, Executive Director, The Edward E. Ford Foundation\nLeadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders. With principal turnover at an all-time high, it is urgent that schools and districts find ways to help newly appointed leaders grow into effective supervisors, managers, and strategic thinkers who can also find personal and professional satisfaction in their careers. Using examples from several established and successful state programs, Leadership Through Mentoring shows how new school leaders’ effectiveness, vision, and engagement can be grown through intentionally designed and executed programs that offer supportive guidance and wise counsel from experienced leaders. Thoughtfully created and appropriately resourced, such programs can pave the way to longer and more successful principal tenures, which research shows lead directly to significant improvements in schools’ cultures, educational efficacy, and teacher and student performance. This is a book for leaders and governing bodies in all kinds of schools.

Education & Teaching

Gimbel, Phyllis A.

Schools & Teaching

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Drawn from a decade's worth of blog posts first published on multiple sites, PUBLIC GOODS consists of over sixty essays by lifelong independent school educator Peter Gow on the ways in which American independent schools might become more engaged in the work of spreading opportunity, democratic ideals, professional expertise, and social justice education on behalf of the future of children and education.

Public Goods: Expecting the Best in Ethical Rigor, Moral Excellence, and Civic Engagement from America's Independent Schools

One Schoolhouse

An Admirable Faculty: Recruiting, Hiring, Training, and Retaining the Best Independent School Teachers

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Books by Gow, Peter

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Of Mixed Blood: Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Quaker Nantucket: The Religious Community Behind the Whaling Empire

Quaker Nantucket: The Religious Community Behind the Whaling Empire

Leadership through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals

Public Goods: Expecting the Best in Ethical Rigor, Moral Excellence, and Civic Engagement from America's Independent Schools

An Admirable Faculty: Recruiting, Hiring, Training, and Retaining the Best Independent School Teachers