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Valkyries' Loom
The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societiesIn The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While …
Castles, Households, and Their Inventories
Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage
Av Christina Antenhofer, Ingrid Matschinegg m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
921 kr
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In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, inventories as a new form of documenting material culture enjoyed enormous success. Along with recording objects, these sources provide insights into buildings and their rooms and allow a reconstruction of how people worked and lived there. Based on …
Ethnographies and Archaeologies
Iterations of the Past
Av Lena Mortensen, Julie Hollowell
Inbunden, 2009
819 kr
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Ethnographies and Archaeologies explores the many different ways that the archaeological past is used to create meaning in the present. Under the guidance of editors Lena Mortensen and Julie Hollowell, the contributors seek to de-center or reposition the role of archaeologists and archaeological …
Crossroads and Cosmologies
Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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Slavery Behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Häftad, 2016
313 kr
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Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire. At Santa Ana de Biajacas the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall. In the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation by an English speaker, Theresa Singleton explores how elite Cuban …
Race, Place, and Memory
Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina
Inbunden, 2018
1119 kr
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A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit specific narratives, Race, Place, and Memory charts the ebb and flow of racial tension in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the 1730s to the present day.Margaret Mulrooney argues that while …
Archaeology of Structural Violence
Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal Town
Inbunden, 2018
943 kr
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Drawing on material evidence from daily life in a coal-mining town, this book offers an up-close view of the political economy of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. This community's story illustrates the great ironies of this era, showing how modernist progress and plenty …
Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England
Inbunden, 2019
943 kr
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Exploring museums and cultural centers in New England that hold important meanings for Native American communities today, this illuminating book offers a much-needed critique of the collaborative work being done to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of the region.Siobhan Hart examines the …
Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies
Av Phyllis M. Messenger, Susan J. Bender
Inbunden, 2019
1119 kr
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As more and more people are recognizing the need for accurately representing the story of the United States in public narratives, especially those told at museums and historic landmarks, heritage studies is emerging as an important program of study in universities across the country. These two …
History and Approaches in Heritage Studies
Av Phyllis M. Messenger, Susan J. Bender
Inbunden, 2019
1119 kr
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As more and more people are recognizing the need for accurately representing the story of the United States in public narratives, especially those told at museums and historic landmarks, heritage studies is emerging as an important program of study in universities across the country. These two …
Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes
Inbunden, 2017
885 kr
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This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes, paying special attention to sites with deep indigenous histories – Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the Burrup Peninsula along the Pilbara Coast in Australia, the Altai Mountains of northwestern Mongolia, and Prince William …
Heritage at the Interface
Interpretation and Identity
Av Glenn Hooper
Inbunden, 2018
1060 kr
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Bringing together high-profile cultural heritage sites from around the world, this volume shows how the term heritage has been used or understood by different groups of people over time. For some, the term has meant a celebration of a particular culture and history or the promotion of …
Cuban Cultural Heritage
A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation
Inbunden, 2018
1002 kr
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Cuban Cultural Heritage explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Starting with independence from Spain in 1898 and moving through Cuban-American rapprochement in 2014, Pablo Alonso González illustrates how political …
Rosewood Massacre
An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
Inbunden, 2018
943 kr
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The Rosewood Massacre investigates the 1923 massacre that devastated the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. The town was burned to the ground by neighboring whites, and its citizens fled for their lives. None of the perpetrators were convicted. Very little documentation …
Slavery Behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Häftad, 2015
841 kr
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Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with the presentation of the first …
Cultural Heritage Management
A Global Perspective
Av Phyllis Mauch Messenger, George S. Smith
Häftad, 2014
329 kr
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Even as places and objects that have particular cultural significance are increasingly valued in our global world, powerful forces threaten them with destruction. Cultural Heritage Management discusses the efforts of a broad range of contributors devoted to safeguarding our cultural …
Excavating Memory
Sites of Remembering and Forgetting
Av Maria Theresia Starzmann, John R. Roby
Inbunden, 2016
1177 kr
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In this compelling study, Maria Theresia Starzmann and John Roby bring together an international cast of experts who move beyond the traditional framework of the ""constructed past"" to look at not only how the past is remembered but also who remembers it. They convincingly argue that memory is a …
Mythic Frontiers
Remebering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Herritage Tourism
Inbunden, 2016
943 kr
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The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of …
Mythic Frontiers
Remembering, Forgetting, and Profiting with Cultural Heritage Tourism
Häftad, 2019
284 kr
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The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of …
Struggle for Heritage
Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community
Inbunden, 2020
1119 kr
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Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Island's north shore. Through excavations of the Silas Tobias and Jacob and Hannah Hart houses in the village of Setauket, …
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage
Three Case Studies in the Americas
Inbunden, 2021
1119 kr
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Focusing on three communities in North, Central, and South America, Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage layers archaeological research with local knowledge in its interpretations of these cultural landscapes. Using the perspective of earth politics, this book demonstrates a way of reconciling …
Negotiating Heritage Through Education and Archaeology
Colonialism, National Identity, and Resistance in Belize
Inbunden, 2021
1087 kr
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Through an innovative approach that combines years of ethnographic research with British imperial archival sources, this book reveals how cultural heritage has been negotiated by colonial, independent state, and community actors in Belize from the late nineteenth century to the present. Alicia …
Rosewood Massacre
An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
Häftad, 2019
294 kr
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The Rosewood Massacre investigates the 1923 massacre that devastated the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. The town was burned to the ground by neighboring whites, and its citizens fled for their lives. None of the perpetrators were convicted. Very little documentation …
Race, Place, and Memory
Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit specific narratives, Race, Place, and Memory charts the ebb and flow of racial violence in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the 1730s to the present day.Margaret Mulrooney argues that white …
Baseball and Cultural Heritage
Av Gregory Ramshaw, Sean Gammon
Inbunden, 2022
1030 kr
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Theinfluence of baseball heritage in society and culture Baseball’spast has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been writtenabout both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore theunderstudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, …
Struggle for Heritage
Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Island’s north shore. Through excavations of the Silas Tobias and Jacob and Hannah Hart houses in the village of Setauket, …
Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War
Beyond the Battlefield
Av Mark Axel Tveskov, Ashley Ann Bissonnette
Inbunden, 2023
1060 kr
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Countering dominant narratives of conflict through attention to memory and traumaThis volume presents approaches to the archaeology of war that move beyond the forensic analysis of battlefields, fortifications, and other sites of conflict to consider the historical memory, commemoration, and social …
Heritage and Democracy
Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration
Av Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, Jon D. Daehnke
Inbunden, 2023
1060 kr
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Examining cultural heritage within the context of democracyCultural heritage is a powerful tool in society, capable of producing both social harms as well as social goods and benefits, which can be distributed unevenly via political channels. Reaching across disciplines and national boundaries, …
Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation
Heritage of a Nervous Landscape
Inbunden, 2024
1002 kr
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In this book, Megan Bailey uses archaeological data and historical records to document the treatment of enslaved people at L’Hermitage Plantation in Maryland from 1794 to 1827. Bailey uses the concept of the “nervous landscape”-a space where power is not absolute and where resistance is possible-to …
Monuments and Memory
Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration
Av John H. Jameson, Sherene Baugher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1119 kr
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Examining the pasts, evolving meanings, and silenced histories surrounding public monuments This volume examines many different public monuments to increase understanding of the cultural factors that have shaped their creation, maintenance, and—in some cases—removal. The role of monuments in …
