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From the Baltic to the Black Sea
Studies in Medieval Archaeology
Av Leslie Alcock, David Austin
Inbunden, 1990
2585 kr
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Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban …
Meanings of Things
Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
Av I. Hodder
Häftad, 2011
1298 kr
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This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western …
What is an Animal?
Av Tim Ingold
Inbunden, 1988
2510 kr
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This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.
Signifying Animals
Av Roy Willis
Inbunden, 1989
2585 kr
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A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.
Origins of Human Behaviour
Av Robert Foley
Inbunden, 1990
764 kr
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This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject.
Excluded Past
Archaeology in Education
Av Robert MacKenzie, Peter Stone
Inbunden, 1989
2585 kr
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A ground-breaking book that examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education. Argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past. Contributors from different countries and disciplines show how the exclusion of aspects of the …
Archaeology and the Information Age
Av Sebastian Rahtz, Paul Reilly
Inbunden, 1992
787 kr
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Traditional methods of making archaeological data available are becoming increasingly inadequate. Thanks to improved techniques for examining data from multiple viewpoints, archaeologists are now in a position to record different kinds of data, and to explore that data more fully than ever before. …
Archaeology of Africa
Food, Metals and Towns
Av Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
2585 kr
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Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an 2xtraordinary range of environmental situations.At long last the archaeology of …
Politics of the Past
Av Peter Gathercole, David Lowenthal
Häftad, 1994
772 kr
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'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America, …
Signifying Animals
Av Roy Willis
Häftad, 1994
846 kr
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A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.
What is an Animal?
Av Tim Ingold
Häftad, 1994
866 kr
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This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.
Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity
Häftad, 1994
1186 kr
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Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity.
Who Needs the Past?
Indigenous Values and Archaeology
Av R. Layton
Häftad, 1994
822 kr
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This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.
Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
Av R. Layton
Häftad, 1994
938 kr
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The first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and peoples they study and can easily disturb.
Presented Past
Heritage, Museums and Education
Av B. L. Molyneaux, P. G. Stone
Inbunden, 1994
2977 kr
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The Presented Past is concerned with the differences between the comparatively static, well-understood way in which the past is presented in schools, museums and at historic sites compared to the approaches currently being explored in contemporary archaeology. It challenges the all-too-frequent …
Sacred Sites, Sacred Places
Av David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
3063 kr
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Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. It looks at why people regard some parts of the land as special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.Archaeologists, legislators and …
Tropical Archaeobotany
Applications and New Developments
Inbunden, 1994
2585 kr
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Tropical Archaeobotany fills the need for a substantial reference work on plant remains from the tropics. It covers the examination, identification and interpretation of plant remains in tropical archaeology, whilst also the origins, spread, investigating the origins, spread, distribution and past …
Archaeology and Language III
Artefacts, Languages and Texts
Av Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
Inbunden, 1999
2585 kr
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Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory. Individual chapters present case studies of artefacts and fragmentary textual materials, …
Excluded Past
Archaeology in Education
Av Robert MacKenzie, Peter Stone
Häftad, 1994
799 kr
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A ground-breaking book that examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education. Argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past. Contributors from different countries and disciplines show how the exclusion of aspects of the …
Archaeology of Africa
Food, Metals and Towns
Av Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
966 kr
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Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations.At long last the archaeology of …
Archaeology and Language I
Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
Av Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
Inbunden, 1997
2585 kr
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Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination.Archaeology and historical linguistics have …
Archaeology and Language II
Archaeological Data and Linguistic Hypotheses
Av Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
Inbunden, 1998
2585 kr
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Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results …
Time and Archaeology
Av Tim Murray
Inbunden, 1999
2585 kr
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The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and …
Early Human Behaviour in Global Context
The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record
Av Ravi Korisettar, Michael D. Petraglia
Inbunden, 1998
3063 kr
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Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context will be of use to students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology. Those interested in our ancestors and their place in the natural world will also benefit from the information presented in this …
Prehistory of Food
Appetites for Change
Av Chris Gosden, Jon G. Hather
Inbunden, 1999
3155 kr
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The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case …
Archaeology of Difference
Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania
Av Anne Clarke, Robin Torrence
Inbunden, 2000
2510 kr
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The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies …
Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape
Shaping Your Landscape
Inbunden, 1998
3155 kr
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The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.
Constructed Past
Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public
Av Philippe Planel, Peter G. Stone
Inbunden, 1999
3155 kr
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The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education.Using various case …
Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society
Perspectives on Managing and Presenting the Past
Av Alf Hatton, Francis P. MacManamon
Inbunden, 1999
2510 kr
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This innovative collection of essays from an international range of contributors describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development, competing claims of "ownership" of particular cultural resources, modern uses of …
Archaeology and Language IV
Language Change and Cultural Transformation
Av Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs
Inbunden, 1999
1566 kr
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Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel …
