Thomas F. King. Cultural resource management: essays from the edge.

Thomas F. King. Cultural resource management: essays from the edge. xix+196 pages, 1 figure. 2002. Walnut Creek (CA): Altamira;0-7591-0214-7 paperback. Dr KING presents 22 chatty chat��ty?adj. chat��ti��er, chat��ti��est1. Inclined to chat; friendly and talkative.2. Full of or in the style of light informal talk: a chatty letter. pieces on aspects of archaeologicalresource management in the USA. They include five on `CRM' `as anextradisciplinary enterprise', eight on `impact assessment andmitigation', four on `indigenous issues', and a salutory setof three on how CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and archaeology relate to each other. He concludeswith some recommendations for the European Union: `Keep your eye on ...a fair deal for ... diverse cultural values ... and make sure the`experts' are supervised by real people' (p. 176)--wageringthat the EU would sooner enact reform than the authorities in the USA.