Archaeological theory Books

Book SynopsisKurt Weitzmann demonstrates that the postulated miniatures of the handbook that goes under the name of Apollodorus migrated into other texts, of which the commentary of Pseudo-Nonnus--attached to several homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus--and the Cynegetka of Pseudo-Oppian are the most important. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton LegacyTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xvii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*I. PSEUDO-NONNUS, pg. 6*II. PSEUDO-OPPIAN, pg. 93*III. BYZANTINE IVORY CASKETS, pg. 152*IV. EPILOGUE, pg. 189*INDEX, pg. 209*PLATES, pg. 219

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Book SynopsisRobin Skeates is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Durham and author of Visual Culture and Archaeology: art and social life in prehistoric South-East Italy and Debating the Archaeological Heritage.

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Book SynopsisColin Renfrew was formerly Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeology, University of cambridge, UK, where he is now Senior Fellow. His publications include Figuring It Out: Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists (2003); Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos, 1974-77, and Prehistory: the Making of the Human Mind (both 2007).

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Book SynopsisCressida Fforde is an independent researcher and consultant, working for various indigenous groups and, most recently, the Auckland War Memorial Museum. She is co-editor of 'The Dead and Their Possessions: repatriation in principle, policy and practice' (2001).

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Book SynopsisDuncan Sayer is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). He is co-editor of Mortuary Practice and Social Identities in the Middle Ages (2009) and a founding member of the Association for the Study of Death and Society.

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Book SynopsisUntil recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this ground-breaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond the artifacts,into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship, and ritual sacrifice. From the Nile''s black land to the Aztec''s world of the Fifth Sun, from Stonehenge to Jericho, Fagan describes how Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Geographic Information Systems, Computer Automated Design-mapping and other sophisticated scientific methods are helping us to decode the religious and spiritual beliefs of our forebears. This new archaeology of the mind blends a wealth of scientific disciplines,from botany, zoology, and geology to neuropsychology, palynology, and nuclear physics. With vivid imagery and a transporting voice, Fagan revolutionizes our understanding of the inner lives of ancient people.Table of Contents* The Archaeology of the Intangible * Dark Caves, Obscure Visions * San Artists in Southern Africa * Fertility and Death * Power and the Ancestors * Avebury: Landscapes of the Ancestors * Stonehenge and the Idea of Time * Two Livings: Agriculture and Religion * The Moundbuilders of Eastern North America * The Bull Beneath the Earth * A Shrine at Phylakopi * Divine Kings Along the Nile * Xunantunich: The Maiden of the Rock * The World of the Fifth Sun * Epilogue

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Book SynopsisIn Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, youâll take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how you can quell the damaging tradition of silence.Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems helps you see leaders of religious institutions in a way that the world has been afraid to see them--in a glass clearly. Enriched with metaphoric myths and fairy tales instead of technical jargon, its unique systemic perspective reveals the psychodynamics behind the obsession with family secrets and lets you understand this dysfunction from the perspectives of victim, abuser, and counselor. These specific areas will both inform and aid you in dealing with this difficult subject: the religious institution as a fTable of ContentsContents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Congregation as a Family System The Role of Rules Power and Projection The Impact of History The Religious Institution as a Family System The Congregation as a Marriage Summary Chapter 2. The Illusion of Eden and the Fortified City A Lack of Emotional Nourishment and the Hunger to Be Filled Faith, Belief, Trust, Commitment, and the Hope of Security The Fear of Conflict The Fortified City: The Public Face of Prosperity That Hides the Private Face of Poverty God in the Garden: The Idolization of the Spiritual Leader Summary Chapter 3. God-Transference, The Good Object, and the Make-Up of Ministers God Transference and the Good Object The Makeup of Ministers Summary Chapter 4. Mirroring God: Clergy in Relationship Relationship as Marriage Relationship as Vocation Summary Chapter 5. The Issue of Clergy Sexual Misconduct Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse The Issue of Power: Abandonment, Authority, and Animal Force How It Happens: Misconduct from the Part of the Perpetrator Summary Chapter 6. Vulnerability and the Psychology of the Victim How the Primary Victim Becomes Involved Why the Victim Doesn’t Disclose Secondary Victims False Accusations A Matter of Ethics Summary Chapter 7. The Scapegoat as the Bearer of Evil Scapegoating in Families Scapegoating in Communities Scapegoating in Congregations The Price They Pay: The Destructive Effects of Scapegoating Summary Chapter 8. Untold Tales and Skeletons in the Closet Pandora’s Box Institutional Patterns and the Painful Footprints of a Secret Incestuous Systems and Collegial Collaboration in the Service of the Secret Summary Chapter 9. The Case of Hope Church The History of Hope Church An Analysis of Behavioral Patterns Chapter 10. Reowning Responsibility Personal Responsibility Ethical Behavior and Ethical Systems An Ethic of Responsibility Corporate Responsibility The Role of Consultants in Reowning Responsibility Reowning Responsibility Through Preventative Maintenance Reowning Responsibility by Creating Boundaries Reowning Responsibility Through Proactive Clergy Training Summary Chapter 11. Postscript: Becoming a Functional Spiritual Family The Creation of Holy Space The Preservation of Tradition The Creation and Maintenance of Ethical Community Developing and Nurturing a Sense of Mission Enabling an Experience of God The Changing Face of Religious Institutions Appendix: Clinical Presentation of Survivors of Sexual Abuse Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisWhat the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons. This unique approach to health care teaches the living how to deal with grief and the bereavement process through faith and prayer. Priests, pastors, chaplains, and psychotherapists will learn how to treat parishioners or patients with the values the dying leave behind, allowing part of their deceased loved one’s beliefs and teachings to guide them through the grieving process. In the end, you will also become aware of your spiritual self while helping others heal and renew their soul.While What the Dying Teach Us concentrates on the values you can learn from the terminally ill, the author includes his own views on: how our tears manifest the depth into which our relationship with a deceased loved one travels how dimensions of reality lead us to appreciate the present exTable of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Lessons on Healing, Hope, and Peace A Moment of Grace Healing Moments I’ll Be with You Lessons of Hope from the Dying A Transformed Life Where the Soul Never Dies Eternal Love A Peace That Passes All Understanding Tears of Honor Part Two: Lessons on Spirituality Words of God The Freeing Power of Questions Perceptions of Reality and Death Keeping the Magic Alive Lamaze Lessons for the Soul Creating Spiritual Awareness Painting Pictures We Cannot See Soul Retrieval Part Three: Evaluative Lessons on Living Spiritual Ethics in the Medical Setting Healing Relationships Facing the Unknown: A Structured Experience Reflections Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLearn to reach out to these hidden Christians! Offering a wide variety of points of view from the welcoming to the traditional, Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity addresses one of the crucial issues facing the church in these shifting times. Pastors of all Christian churches, whatever their denomination or theology, are likely to be faced with pastoral care or counseling of someone who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered. This valuable compendium examines various ways you can meet the spiritual and psychological needs of these members of your congregation. Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity addresses the basic problems of sexual diversity, including definitions of sexual orientations and issues of human development. It offers wise guidance for offering pastoral care and counseling, and it provides tested solutions for the problems counselors face in dealing with these individuals. Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual DTable of ContentsContents About the Contributors Foreword Sexual Diversity: An Issue for Counselors and Churches Changes in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Among Mental Health Professionals: What Pastoral Counselors Need to Know Does “Confidentiality” Have Limits? Relationships Between Pastors and Counselors Pastoral Care of Sexual Diversity in the Black Church Gay and Lesbian Christians: Faith and Coping in the Church Pastoral Care with Marriages and Domestic Partnerships A Developmental Model for Effective Treatment of Male Homosexuality: Implications for Pastoral Counseling Pastoral Care and the Formation of Sexual Identity: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Love the Sinner: A Pastoral Response to Homosexuality A Practical Theology of “Welcoming” What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality? What Does the Bible Call Us, as Christians, to Do on This Issue? A Welcoming Ministry for All God’s Children Counseling Lesbians A Pastoral Theology for the Sinned Against: Adult Christian Women Sexually Abused as Children Disenfranchised Bereavement: Pastoral Care of Complicated Grief Reactions to AIDS-Related Losses AIDS Services Organizations: A Call to Ministry Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisGain fresh perspectives on pastoral care and counseling from international experts!This informative book will show you how pastoral care and counseling are viewed and practiced in Africa, India, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Central America, South America, Germany, and the United Kingdom. You'll find new perspectives on theoretical and practical aspects of pastoral care and counseling as well as fascinating case studies and unique insights on how culture affects this type of ministry.In his Preface, Dr. Howard Clinebell, Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling at the Claremont School of Theology, explains the need for this book: “In the radically new world of the 21st century, pastoral counselors of all races and ethnic backgrounds will be challenged by a growing need to provide competent help to burdened individuals, couples, families, and communities of different cultural backgrounds and worldviews than their own.”InternTable of Contents About the Contributors Preface Introduction Pastoral Counseling in the Philippines: A Perspective from the West Global Issues of Pastoral Counseling: With Particular Attention to the Issues of Pastoral Counseling in the Philippines Cultural Landscapes of Pastoral Counseling in Asia: The Case of Korea with a Supervisory Perspective The Future Landscape of Pastoral Care and Counseling in the Asia Pacific Region Pastoral Counseling in Chinese Cultural Contexts: Philosophical, Historical, Sociological, Spiritual, and Psychological Considerations Pastoral Counseling in Indonesia Pastoral Care and Counseling: An Asian Perspective Pastoral Care in Latin America Pastoral Action in the Midst of a Context of Economic Transformation and Cultural Apathy Planting Pastoral Counseling Seeds in Brazilian Soil: Creating and Recreating Models Journeying on the Margins: Moments in Pastoral Care and Counselling, from the Inner City of Pretoria Complexity and Simplicity in Pastoral Care: The Case of Forgiveness Pastoral Counseling in Multi-Cultural Contexts Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisExplore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation! This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders is a unique resource—there has been very little research published on this important topic. President Bush''s faith-based initiative recognized that religion plays a role in the justice system and corrections that is overlooked but essential—it increases the role of community and caring in the system in a unique and important way. This pathbreaking book points the way toward a system of faith-based programs that are not only effective but also economical, as these programs are often staffed by volunteers. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders addresses imTable of Contents Introduction: Religion-Offenders-Rehabilitation: Questioning the Relationship Prison Religion in Action and Its Influence on Offender Rehabilitation The Reasons for Religious Involvement in the Correctional Environment The Role of the Prison Chaplain in Rehabilitation Intersections of Race, Religion, and Inmate Culture: The Historical Development of Islam in American Corrections Resistance to Conversion to Islam Among African American Women Inmates Prisoners, Prison, and Religion: Religion and Adjustment to Prison Religiosity and Drug Use Among Inmates in Boot Camp: Testing a Theoretical Model with Reciprocal Relationships Denominational Differences in Self-Reported Delinquency Evaluating Religious Initiatives in a Correctional Setting: Do Inmates Speak? Shame and Religion as Factors in the Rehabilitation of Serious Offenders Social Theory, Sacred Text, and Sing-Sing Prison: A Sociology of Community-Based Reconciliation The Prisoner as Scapegoat: Some Skeptical Remarks on Present Penal Policy Rethinking God, Justice, and Treatment of Offenders Index Reference Notes Included

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Book Synopsis“Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem.”Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at the hands of those entrusted with their care, safety, and well-being. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No Safe Place examines the dark side of nursing homes, where not every employee has the commitment of Mother Theresa. This groundbreaking book applies criminological theory to help develop practical methods of controlling abuse and presents the results of the first and only nationwide study on the theft of patients’ belongings, a form of abuse too often ignored by the nursing home industry. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes surveys employees, administrators, and family members of patients in 47 nursing homes throughout the United States. Their responses pTable of Contents Preface PART I: NURSING HOMES AND THEORIES OF ABUSE Chapter 1. The Nature of Nursing Homes Myths and Facts About Nursing Homes How Nursing Homes Got Started Nursing Homes As Bureaucracies Nursing Homes As Total Institutions Barriers to Nursing Home Abuse Research Chapter 2. Nursing Aides: The Backbone of Care in Nursing Homes Workforce Issues and Problems of Nursing Home Aides Narratives of Nursing Home Aides Chapter 3. Understanding Abuse Why Nursing Homes May Be Good for Abusers Nursing Homes and the Motivated Offender Patients and Their Possessions As Suitable Targets Guardianship in Nursing Homes Countervailing Forces Summary PART II: NURSING HOME THEFT Chapter 4. Employees and Theft Results from the Survey of Employees Conclusions About Employees Chapter 5. The Victims and Their Families Family Members’ Reports of Theft What Is Stolen? Conclusion Chapter 6. Preventing and Reducing Theft Theft Precautions for Patients Theft Precautions for Nursing Homes Reporting of Theft Theft Prevention Training Programs PART III: PHYSICAL AND MENTAL MALTREATMENT Chapter 7. Physical Abuse and Neglect Abandonment, Segregation, and Neglect Government Reform Committee Types of Physical Abuse Sexual Abuse Neglect Chapter 8. Psychological Abuse and Neglect Types of Psychological Abuse Some Effects of Psychological Abuse Neglect Chapter 9. Reducing the Risk of Physical and Psychological Abuse Screening Practices Staff Education and Training Advocacy PART IV: FRAUD, REFORM, AND RECOMMENDATIONS Chapter 10. Exploitation of Nursing Home Patients: Their Finances and Rights Financial Abuse Reform of Nursing Home Regulations Chapter 11. Summary and Conclusions Appendix. Methodology Data Collection Employee Questionnaires Measuring Theft Response Rates from the Survey of Employees Victimization Survey Family Members’ Questionnaire Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisCharles E. Orser, Jr. argues that since race has been used implicitly in archaeology for more than 100 years, the issue must be addressed directly despite the long history of debate, denial, and ignorance.Trade Review"An extraordinarily stimulating and provocative book, rich in ides and suggested new directions for archaeology." * Choice *"Charles Orser outlines a research strategy for studying poverty and racism that is worthy of historical archaeology. . . . Much of this book is devoted to dealing with how people come to be worthy of being despised, usually by being seen as belonging to biologically inferior groups." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Problematizing Race in Archaeology 2. The Prehistory of Race and Archaeological Interpretation, Part I: Inventing Race for Archaeology 3. The Prehistory of Race and Archaeological Interpretation, Part II: Ethnicity over Race 4. Archaeological Interpretation and the Practice of Race 5. Materiality in the Practice of Race 6. A Case Study of Archaeology and the Practice of Race from Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland 7. Race, Practice, and Archaeology References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a facsimile reprint of a 1958 title. It outlines the state of American archaeology at that time. It suggests that little interpretation was taking in place in American Archaeology, and offered an analytical perspective.Trade ReviewThis newly edited edition will give the large number of new millennium archaeologists a chance to read and own a pivotal work in American archaeological theory. - Stephen Williams Harvard University

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Book SynopsisThis work is intended as an approachable introduction aimed at students of archaeology, history or museum and heritage studies. It attempts to take a fresh approach by providing an introduction to themes in the field of heritage as it relates to the material legacy of our past.Table of ContentsPreface: The Aims of this Book Introductory Interlude: A Note About Literature and Discourses of Heritage and Archaeology 1. Heritage All Around Us 2. Components of the Heritage and Their Treatment 3. Institutions of Heritage 4. 'Public' Archaeologies 1: Defining the Public 5. 'Public' Archaeologies 2: Engaging with the Public 6. The Value 'Debate' in Archaeology 7. Relocating Heritage in Archaeology

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Book SynopsisPresents research contributions drawing on radiocarbon dates produced by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator.

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Book SynopsisThese nine papers, based on the 4th World Archaeological Congress held in South Africa in 1999, take a critical view of computer usage in archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and especially in terms of archaeological method and theory.Table of ContentsComputers and archaeological culture change, Jeremy Huggett; archaeological computing and disciplinary theory, Jayne Gidlow; mathematics and computers, Hannah Forsyth; constructs, simulations and hyperreal worlds - the role of virtual reality (VR) in archaeological research, Glyn Goodrick and Mark Gillings; from museum store to data warehouse - archaeological archives for the 21st century, Francis Grew; intellectual excavation and dynamic information management systems, Anthony Beck; English sites and monuments records - information, communication and technology, Ben Robinson; a view from above - can computers help aerial survey?, Rog Palmer; is there such a thing as "computer archaeology"?, Andre Tschan and Patrick Daly.

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Book SynopsisIt is difficult to imagine modern archaeology without radio-carbon dating, geophysics, analytical chemistry, or the input of the social and historical sources. Archaeology is inevitably an interdisciplinary enterprise, perhaps more so than any other field.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive guide with detailed explanations, illustrations and photographs of late-7th century to 11th century Anglo-Saxon Churches and stone sculpture. It is divided into four parts.The first part includes an extensive glossary explaining the terms likely to be encountered, it explains Celtic and Roman Church practices and the Synod of Whitby, how Anglo-Saxon churches were established and their plans, and also provides a summary to the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Hiberno-Norse in England. The second part provides a comprehensive description of the construction and architectural features of extant Anglo-Saxon Churches including their walling, plinths and quoining, archways, doorways, windows and belfry-openings of whatever shape or format or wherever their location. It also explains features such as string-courses, pilaster-strips, pilaster-buttresses, hood-moulding and strip-work. Also included are extant Anglo-Saxon stairways and crypts. Expla

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Book SynopsisProvenance has been one of the major scientific applications in archaeology for a hundred years. The ''Golden Age'' began in the 1950s, when large programmes were initiated focussing on bronzes, ceramics, and lithics. However, these had varying impact, ranging from wide acceptance to outright rejection. This Element reviews some of these programmes, mainly in Eurasia and North America, focussing on how the complexity of the material, and the effects of human behaviour, can impact on such studies. The conclusion is that provenance studies of lithic materials and obsidian are likely to be reliable, but those on ceramics and metals are increasingly complicated, especially in the light of mixing and recycling. An alternative is suggested, which focusses more on using scientific studies to understand the relationship between human selectivity and processing and the wider resources available, rather than on the simple question of ''where does this object come from''.

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Book SynopsisThe thoroughly updated second edition of Archaeological Investigation reviews and explains the practices of field archaeology in the world today. Now co-authored by Madeleine Hummler, the bookâs scope has been enlarged in time and space, reaching out to the different methods and strategies applied in both the academic and commercial sectors in diverse terrain on land and under the sea.Archaeological Investigation accompanies the reader on a journey from absolute beginner to professional. Part 1 (Principles) sets the scene for newcomers, showing the axial role of fieldwork in rediscovering the past. Part 2 (In the Field) is aimed at those setting out to collect primary data by the diverse methods of modern survey and excavation. Word pictures on First day in the field and First day on a dig provide friendly introductions to the high-tech enterprise that fieldwork has become. Now fully engaged in the process, newcomers to archaeology are ready, in Part 3 (Writing Up), to

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Book SynopsisArchaeological Networks and Social Interaction focuses on conceptualisations of human interaction, human-thing entanglement, material affordances and agency.Network concepts in the archaeological discipline are ubiquitous these days. They range from loose concepts, used as metaphors to address a notion of connectivity, to highly formal and mathematically complex predictions of human behaviour. These different networked worlds sometimes clash and rarely converge. Archaeologists interested in network analysis, however, have achieved a much better understanding of the implications of adopting formal methods for studying social interaction and there have been theoretical advancements realising a better synergy between different theoretical perspectives. These nascent concerns are explored further in this volume with regional specialists exploring case studies from Prehistory to the Middle Ages throughout the Ancient and New Worlds, outlining how formal network appTable of Contents1. Archaeological networks and social interaction 2. Relational concepts and challenges to network analysis in social archaeology 3. Entangled identities: processes of status construction in late Urnfield burials4. Distributed feasts: reciprocity, hospitality and banquets in Iron Age to Orientalising central and southern Italy 5. Marble networks: social interaction in houses at Pompeii 6. Objects that bind, objects that separate7. A complex beadwork: bead trade and trade beads in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 AD revisited 8. Social network analysis and the social interactions that define Hopewell 9. Terrestrial communication networks and political agency in Early Iron Age Central Italy (950-500 BCE): a bottom-up approach

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a brief, readable introduction to archaeological theory. Adrian Praetzellis demystifies a pile of tricky contemporary concepts for the theory-phobic undergraduate or beginning graduate student. This new edition adds chapters on Indigenous, cognitive, and behavioral archaeologies and now covers 15 contemporary theories from neoevolutionism to queer theory. Each chapter begins with a description of the concept, its origin and significance. Next up is an example of how an archaeologist has used the idea to understand their site, making the connection between the idea and the archaeology plain and unambiguous. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. A glossary of postmodern discourse (including that word) concludes the book. Using plain English to clarify some of the more baffling ideas used in contemporary archaeology, this book is a vital resource for students studying archaeological theory and the discipline asTable of ContentsChapter 1 How Theory Works; Chapter 2 Neoevolutionism; Chapter 3 Behavioral Archaeology; Chapter 4 Marxism; Chapter 5 Critical Theory; Chapter 6 Postcolonalism; Chapter 7 Indigenous Archaeology; Chapter 8 Feminism; Chapter 9 Queer Theory; Chapter 10 Structuralism; Chapter 11 Agency, Structure, and Structuration; Chapter 12 Transgressive Archaeologies; Chapter 13 Archaeological Biography; Chapter 14 Cognitive Archaeology; Chapter 15 Phenomenology; Chapter 16 Materiality and Thing Theory; Chapter 17 The Next Big Thing, or Where Do We Go From Here?; Chapter 18 Parlez-vous Po-Mo? A Mostly Postmodern Phrasebook.

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Book SynopsisAssessing key questions such as who the foreigners and outsiders in ancient Maya societies were and how was the foreign a generative component of identity, Foreigners Among Us reassess the arrival of foreigners as part of archaeological understandings of Pre-Columbian Maya and questions not only who these foreigners might have been but who were making such designations of difference in the first place. Drawing from identity studies, standpoint theory, and ideas on alterity, Foreigners Among Us highlights the diverse ways being foreign was constituted, imitated, and marked from quotidian practices of making corn tortillas to ceremonial acts between king and captive and their memorialization in scenes on sculpted stone monuments. Rather than treat the foreign as axiomatically determined by geographical distance or fixed at birth, the book considers the foreign as much performed as inherited. It examines practices of captivity, cuisine, body Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Tropes of the Foreigner: From Famous Royals to Humble Migrants, Chapter 3 Captive Performances: Spectacles and the Everyday, Chapter 4 Cuisines and the Relational Making of People, Chapter 5 Pilgrimages to Foreign Places and the Acts of Becoming, Chapter 6 Looking In From Afar: Representations of Mayas, Chapter 7 Conclusion, References.

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Book SynopsisIndo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today's cremations on open pyres in Hinduism.Exploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fires in relation to agriculture and fertility may also explain the enigma of cremation. Cremated remains were ground and used in fertility rituals, and ancestral fires played an essential role in metallurgy and the creation of cosmos. Thus, the rolTable of Contents1: Fire rituals and the Indo-European Heritage; 2: Hearts in hearths – ancestors and deities; 3: Seasonality and fire festivals; 4. Cremation and cultivation in the North; 5. Fires from heaven – The links between East and West; 6. The Indo-Iranian culture and its rituals of fire; 7. Cremation, sacrifice and cosmogony in Hinduism

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Book SynopsisBroken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic.A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne split up between different colonial collections Pieces of the past are everywhere around us. Fragments have a special potential precisely because of their incomplete format as a new matter that can reference its original whole but can also live on with new, unrelated meanings. Deliberate breakage of bodies, places and objects for the use of fragments has been attested from all time periods in the past. It has now been over 20 years since John Chapman's major publication introducing fragmentation studies, and the topic is more present than ever in archaeology. This volume oTable of ContentsChapter 1 - Fragmentation in Archaeological Context - Studying the Incomplete; Part I – Fragmentation and Funerary Practices; Chapter 2 - Marking Boundaries, Making Connections: Fragmenting the Body in Bronze Age Britain; Chapter 3 - Breaking and Making the Ancestors. Fragmentation as a Key Funerary Practice in the Creation of Urnfield Graves; Chapter 4 - Bonded by Pieces: Fragments as Means of Affirming Kinship in Iron Age Finland; Chapter 5 - Revisiting, Selecting, Breaking and Removing: Incomplete and Fragmented Merovingian Reopened Graves in Western Europe; Chapter 6 - Parted Pairs: Viking Age Oval Brooches in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland; Part II – Fragmentation and Archaeological Methods; Chapter 7 - There is Method in the Madness – or how to Approach Fragmentation in Archaeology; Chapter 8 - Four Problems for Archaeological Refitting Studies; Chapter 9 - Describing Identity: The Individual and the Collective in Zooarchaeology; Chapter 10 - Fragmented Reindeer of Stállo Foundations; Chapter 11 - House to House – Fragmentation and Deceptive Memory-Making at an Early Modern Swedish Country House; Part III – Fragmentation and the Manipulation of Objects; Chapter 12 - Multiple Objects: Fragmentation and Process in the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland; Chapter 13 - Breaking, Making, Dismantling and Reassembling: Fragmentation in Iron Age Britain; Chapter 14 - Fusing Fragments: Repaired Objects, Refitted Parts and Upcycled Pieces in the Late Bronze Age Metalwork of Southern Scandinavia; Chapter 15 - Selective Fragmentation: Exploring the Treatment of Metalwork across Time and Space in Bronze Age Britain; Chapter 16 - Pieces of the Past, Fragments for the Future - Broken Metalwork in Nordic Late Bronze Age Hoards as Memorabilia?; Chapter 17 - A Man-of-War in Pieces. Fragmenting the Rikswasa of 1599; Concluding Essay; Chapter 18 - Fragmentation Research and the Fetichization of Independence.

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Book SynopsisMuseums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums. Using the concept of assemblage, this book unpacks relations between visitors, artists, museum staff, and the museum's nonhuman components, providing an analytical framework that celebrates the complexity of museums today. It takes the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania as its primary case study but situates it in global trends by drawing on a range of examples from art museums across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and East Asia. It provides insight into how perceptions around engagement are enabled and constrained in the context of different museums and highlights the necessity of an analytical framework that accommodates the complexity and multiplicity of the contemporary museum landscape. With an emphasis on visitor experience and curatorial strategy, the book is valuable for students and researchers in museum studies, art history, curatorial studiTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Contemporary Museum Practice: The Museum of Old and New Art; 2. Museums as Assemblage: Practice and Potential; 3. The Normative Museum: The authoritative voice of the museum and the visitor-as-spectator; 4. The Responsive Museum: Community and Constituents; 5. The Affective Museum: Atmospherics, aesthesis, and the sensorial’ 6. The Emergent Museum: Dynamic, hospitable, disruptive

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past.This book argues that the materiality of our times, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound and disturbing about modern societies. It examines the political, ethical, aesthetic, and epistemological foundations of contemporary archaeology and characterizes the excess of the contemporary period through its material traces. This book remains the first attempt at describing the contemporary era from an archaeological point of view. Global in scope, the book brings together case studies from every continent and considers sources from peripheral and rarely considered traditions, meanwhile engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, history, and geography. This new edition includes the latest developments in the fiel

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Book SynopsisMutualist Archaeology proposes that the theory of mutualism can transform archaeology from what someconsider to be a discipline in crisis.This book argues that the methodological and practical applications of mutualism can transform both the practice of archaeology and the way that interpretations of the past are created. Nineteenth-century theories of capitalism and Darwinism led many to assume that competition, both in the present and the past, was the most natural process in the world. Despite the tenacity of the competitive argument, this book highlights another way of seeing the natural and human world, beneficial association, or mutualism. Chapters set out how mutualist theory can offer differing perspectives on the many historical contexts archaeologists investigate, such as exchange and social complexity, as well as how archaeologists work together. Until now, no archaeologist has explicitly explored the richness that exists within mutualism, and in addition to

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Book SynopsisThis volume expands perspectives on infrastructure that are rooted in archaeological discourse and material evidence.The compiled chapters represent new and emerging ideas within archaeology about what infrastructure is, how it can materialize, and how it impacts and reflects human behavior, social organization, and identity in the past as well as the present. Three goals central to the work include: (1) expand the definition of infrastructure using archaeological frameworks and evidence from a wide range of social, historical, and geographic contexts; (2) explore how new archaeological perspectives on infrastructure can help answer anthropological questions pertaining to social organization, group collaboration, and community consensus and negotiation; and (3) examine the broader implications of an archaeological engagement with infrastructure and contributions to contemporary infrastructural studies. Chapters explore important aspects of infrastructure, including its relati

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Book SynopsisThis textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.The volume addresses the history and meanings of the concept of environment, provides a theory of the relation between living beings and their environments, and tackles a wide spectrum of key philosophical issues related to the environment and the environmental crisis in a straightforward framework and accessible style. The bookâs unique approach to environmental philosophy addresses the environment of all living beings and extends beyond environmental ethics to include conceptual history and analysis together with insights from evolutionary and developmental biology, ecology, and environmental and conservation sciences. The book consists of five chapters, each built around a specific thesis drawing upon philosophers and concepts including George C

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated actions across broad collectives. It shows that there are many ways that people can work together.How did the worldâs first large-scale collectives come into being? For much of our disciplineâs history, the answer was the state. People learned how to be part of a larger community via political, economic, and social scaffolding that tended to build from earlier ways of living in a region. This scaffolding was often wobbly and always under constructionâits flexibility often a design strength rather than a flaw. This book demonstrate that violence and rulers often played pivotal roles in large-scale collectives, but so did gender complementarity, markets, ritual centers, fictive kinship, and egalitarianism. Earlier evolutionary approaches tended to obscure both the variability and m

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Book SynopsisWeirding Civilization examines the irrational foundations of civilization, from the Bronze Age to the Anthropocene. Inspired by Twin Peaks and Lovecraftian horror, it reveals how weirdness â disorienting, monstrous, and ambivalent â has shaped human society since the rise of the first complex civilizations.Taking âweirdingâ as its conceptual lens, the book examines hallmarks of civilization such as urbanism, money, and writing, uncovering their layered and often non-rational nature. While the concept of weirding has gained traction across disciplines, from literature studies to climate science, this book applies it systematically to early civilizations for the first time. Weirdness emerges as ruptures in experienced reality, arising from the complex interplay between humans and non-humans. The book explores how civilization has unfolded in relation to hidden, invisible, and unknown dimensions of reality. Accessible and thought-provoking, it broadens conceptual h

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, macroevolution, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.Trade Review'Like a biface, this useful book about stone tool analysis has three sides, describing three evolutionary approaches to lithic assemblages: selectionist, human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission. Those lithic analysts interested in the application of evolutionary theory must read this book, and all the others should read it.' Robert L. Kelly, University of Wyoming'The case studies in Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory apply a diverse array of evolutionary theory and methods to lithic technology, making a strong case for the value of evolutionary approaches to lithics. This is a useful book for teaching the uses of evolutionary theory in archaeology.' Kenneth M. Ames, Portland State University'Is it evolution yet? In lithic technology studies, the answer is yes. Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory is a timely compendium of the latest developments in the application of evolutionary theory to lithic technology - incorporating and integrating both cultural transmission and behavioral ecology approaches to a full range of topics in the field of stone tool technology.' James L. Boone, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsPart I. Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory: 1. Interpreting lithic technology under the evolutionary tent William Andrefsky, Jr and Nathan Goodale; Part II. Culture History and Phylogenetic Evolution: 2. Graphing evolutionary pattern in stone tools to reveal evolutionary process R. Lee Lyman; 3. Theory in archaeology: morphometric approaches to the study of fluted points Michael Shott; 4. Innovation and natural selection in Paleoindian projectile points from the American Southwest Todd L. VanPool, Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman; Part III. Applications of Behavioral Ecology to Lithic Studies: 5. A case of extinction in Paleoindian archaeology Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones; 6. The North China Nanolithic Robert L. Bettinger, Christopher Morgan and Loukas Barton; 7. When to retouch, haft, or discard? Modeling optimal use/maintenance schedules in lithic tool use Chris Clarkson, Michael Haslam and Clair Harris; 8. Procurement costs and tool performance requirements: determining constraints on lithic toolstone selection in Baja California Sur Jennifer Ferris; 9. A model of lithic raw material procurement Raven Garvey; 10. Artifacts as patches: the marginal value theorem and stone tool life histories Steven L. Kuhn and D. Shane Miller; 11. Signals in stone: exploring the role of social information exchange, conspicuous consumption, and costly signaling theory in lithic analysis Colin P. Quinn; Part IV. Cultural Transmission and Morphology: 12. An analysis of stylistic variability of stemmed obsidian tools (mata'a) on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Carl P. Lipo, Terry L. Hunt and Brooke Hundtoft; 13. Cultural transmission and the production of material goods: evolutionary pattern through measuring morphology Nathan Goodale, William Andrefsky, Jr, Curtis Osterhoudt, Lara Cueni and Ian Kuijt; 14. What Steward got right: technology, work organization, and cultural evolution Nathan E. Stevens; 15. Evolution of the slate tool industry at Bridge River, British Columbia Anna M. Prentiss, Nathan Goodale, Lucille E. Harris and Nicole Crossland.

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Book SynopsisQuantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R is the first hands-on guide to using the R statistical computing system written specifically for archaeologists. It shows how to use the system to analyze many types of archaeological data. Part I includes tutorials on R, with applications to real archaeological data showing how to compute descriptive statistics, create tables, and produce a wide variety of charts and graphs. Part II addresses the major multivariate approaches used by archaeologists, including multiple regression (and the generalized linear model); multiple analysis of variance and discriminant analysis; principal components analysis; correspondence analysis; distances and scaling; and cluster analysis. Part III covers specialized topics in archaeology, including intra-site spatial analysis, seriation, and assemblage diversity.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Organization of the book; Part I. R and Basic Statistics: 2. Introduction to R; 3. Looking at data – numerical summaries; 4. Looking at data – tables; 5. Looking at data – graphs; 6. Transformations; 7. Missing values; 8. Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; 9. Relating variables; Part II. Multivariate Methods: 10. Multiple regression and generalized linear models; 11. MANOVA and canonical and predictive discriminant analysis; 12. Principal components analysis; 13. Correspondence analysis; 14. Distances and scaling; 15. Cluster analysis; Part III. Archaeological Approaches to Data: 16. Spatial analysis; 17. Seriation; 18. Assemblage diversity; 19. Conclusions; 20. References.

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Book SynopsisThomas Young (1773â1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and made significant contributions to a variety of other academic disciplines. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1794 and in 1803 published an article establishing the wave theory of light. Young became interested in hieroglyphs in 1814, when he was sent a fragment of papyrus from Egypt. After acquiring a copy of the Rosetta Stone inscriptions Young made rapid progress, publishing his results in 1816 and 1819. When Champollion published his groundbreaking work on hieroglyphs in 1822 Young believed that Champollion had based that work on his earlier translations without acknowledgement, which Champollion denied. This book was published in 1823 in an attempt by Young to lay 'public claim to whatever credit be my due', and provides a summary of his hieroglyphic research.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introductory sketch of the prevalent opinions respecting hieroglyphics; 2. Investigations founded on the Pillar of Rosetta; 3. Additional inferences, deduced from the Egyptian manuscripts, and from other monuments; 4. Collections of the French; 5. Illustrations of the manuscripts brought from Egypt by Mr. Grey; 6. Extracts from Diodorus and Herodotus; relating to mummies; 7. Extracts from Strabo; Alphabet of Champollion; Hieroglyphical and Enchorial names; 8. Chronological history of the Ptolemies, extracted from various authors; Appendix 1. Greek text of the manuscripts and registries; Appendix 2. Specimens of hieroglyphics.

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Book SynopsisHANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES A modern and comprehensive introduction to methods and techniques in archaeology In the newly revised Second Edition of the Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, a team of more than 100 researchers delivers a comprehensive and accessible overview of modern methods used in the archaeological sciences. The book covers all relevant approaches to obtaining and analyzing archaeological data, including dating methods, quaternary paleoenvironments, human bioarchaeology, biomolecular archaeology and archaeogenetics, resource exploitation, archaeological prospection, and assessing the decay and conservation of specimens. Overview chapters introduce readers to the relevance of each area, followed by contributions from leading experts that provide detailed technical knowledge and application examples. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to human bioarchaeology, including hominin evolution and paleopathologyThe use of biomolecular analysis to characterize past environments Novel approaches to the analysis of archaeological materials that shed new light on early human lifestyles and societiesIn-depth explorations of the statistical and computational methods relevant to archaeology Perfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of archaeology, the Handbook of Archaeological Sciences will also earn a prominent place in the libraries of researchers and professionals with an interest in the geological, biological, and genetic basis of archaeological studies.Table of ContentsSection 1. Dating Overview Quaternary geochronological frameworks New developments in Radiocarbon dating Dendrochronology and archaeology Trapped charge dating and archaeology U-series dating Archaeomagnetic dating Obsidian hydration dating with SIMS Amino acid dating An introduction to tephrochronology and the correlation of sedimentary sequences using volcanic ash layers Section 2. Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Overview Modelling Quaternary Palaeoclimates Ice core and marine sediment records of Quaternary environmental change Insects as palaeoenvironmental and archaeological indicators Non-marine molluscs as palaeoenvironmental indicators Mammals as palaeoenvironmental indicators Lake and peat records of climate change and archaeology Archaeological soil micromorphology Pollen and macroscopic plant remains as indicators of local and regional environments Environmental controls on human dispersal and adaptation Holocene climate changes and human consequences Section 3. Human Bioarchaeology Overview Hominin evolution Biological distance (normal variation/non-metrical and metrical analysis) Palaeopathology Integrating bioarchaeology and palaeodemography Palaeodiet through stable isotope analysis Palaeomobility through stable isotopes Preserved human bodies Cremated bone Section 4. Biomolecular Archaeology Overview Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) Archaeological proteomics The use of immunological methods in archaeology Lipids in archaeology Archaeological microbiology Dental calculus The biomolecular archaeology of psychoactive substances Section 5. Archaeogenetics Overview Sex and kinship typing of human archaeological remains Human populations – origins and movement Palaeogenomics of extinct and archaic humans Palaeogenetics and palaeogenomics to study the domestication of animals Domestication of plants Palaeomicrobiology of human infectious diseases Section 6. Biological Resource Exploitation Overview Archaeobotany Human impact on vegetation Zooarchaeology Coprolites/intestinal contents Invertebrates Secondary animal and plant products Section 7. Inorganic Resource Exploitation Overview Lithic exploitation and usewear analysis Ancient binders and pigments Materials analysis of ceramics The archaeometry of glass Mining and resource procurement: methods and approaches to the appropriation of mineral raw materials in past societies Making and using metals Provenancing inorganic materials: biography and mutability Section 8. Archaeological Prospection Overview Approaches to archaeological surface survey Geophysical survey techniques Remote sensing/LIDAR Geochemical prospecting Integrating survey data Section 9. Burial, Decay and Archaeological Conservation Overview Defining the burial environment Metallic corrosion processes and information from corrosion products Post-depositional changes in archaeological ceramics and glass Deterioration of organic materials Diagenetic alterations to vertebrate mineralized tissues Forensic taphonomy Section 10. Statistical and Computational Methods Overview Spatial information in archaeology Multivariate analysis in archaeology The Bayesian inferential paradigm in archaeology Quantification in zooarchaeology and palaeoethno(archaeo)botany The use of kernel density estimates on chemical and isotopic data in archaeology Modelling/Simulations in archaeology Big data in archaeology

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Book SynopsisIn recent years scholars have re-evaluated the parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a profoundly textual task, relying on the writings of rabbis, bishops, and other text-producing elites to map the terrain of the parting. This book takes up the question of the divergence of Judaism and Christianity in terms of material--the stuff made, used, and left behind by the persons that lived in and between these religions as they were developing. Considering the glass, clay, stone, paint, vellum, and papyrus of ancient Jews and Christians, this book maps the parting in new ways, and argues for a greater role for material and materialism in our reconstructions of the past. Trade Review"This well-written and stimulating book fills a significant gap in current scholarship by focusing on material evidence for the relationships between Jews and Christians in late antiquity... Smith makes an excellent case for the inclusion of materiality in any consideration of the parting of the ways and other issues in the study of Jews and Christians in antiquity... The interaction with contemporary thinkers outside the field of biblical studies, archaeology, or ancient history demonstrates persuasively and concretely the ways in which the study of the ancient world is relevant to and also inflected by the currents of contemporary society." - Adele Reinhartz, Review of Biblical Literature 2019"In this creative and groundbreaking study, Smith places material culture front and center as he explores the rich contact zone of the figurative "valley" between the "mountain peaks" that represent late Roman Judaism and Christianity as clearly distinct religions. Building on the recognition that modern concepts of religion, and with it understandings of Judaism and Christianity, distort our understanding of the Roman world, Smith rethinks early Christian/Jewish "relations" through a deep engagement with critical race theory, hybridity, and intersectionality. This accessible and engaging book contributes significantly to the study of early Christianity, Roman Judaism, identity-construction, and religion, and demonstrates clearly the value of the materialist turn." - Christina Shepardson, University of Tennessee, USA"What can the physical remains of the past teach us about religion and community in antiquity? In this exquisitely crafted materialist reexamination of the so-called Parting of the Ways between Judaism and Christianity, Eric Smith reorients our thinking about the "raucous reality" of ancient lives on the ground. Stripping away the modern colonialist imposiTable of ContentsPreface: The Geographies of Identity1: Mountains, Valleys, and Stones2: Mountains: The Construction of World Religions3: Valley: Intersectional, Material Antiquity4: Glass: The Identities of Things5: Clay: The Economics of Belonging6: Marble: Stories in Stone7: Paint: The Hollowness of Symbols8: Vellum: ‘Relations’ in Miniature9: Papyrus: The Practice of Text10: The Mountains from the Valley

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Book SynopsisThe future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism's deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global phenomenon by asking what urbanism is and, more to the point, was. Can we truly understand ancient urbanism by only asking after the human element, or are the properties and qualities of landscapes, materials, and atmospheres equally causal? The nine authors of New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms seek less anthropocentric answers to questions about the historical relationships between urbanism and humanity in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They analyze the movements and flows of materials, things, phenomena, and beingshuman and otherwiseas these were assembled to produce the kinds of complex, dense, and stratified relationships that we today label urban. In so doing, the book emerges as a work of both theory and historical anthropology. It breaks new ground in the archaeology of urbanisTrade Review"The writers have produced an outstanding overview of the flow of antiquities, moving from the source of the looting or excavation, through transit states, and culminating in museums, showrooms, and private collections. This book stands as an excellent summary of the work being done on this illicit trade, and will be an invaluable resource for those familiar with the subject, and for those new to it." - Prof. Derek Fincham, South Texas College of Law Houston, USA"This fascinating book will become the go-to resource on the global market in illicit antiquities. The authors’ in-depth investigations into this devastating global crime problem highlight the importance of collecting and analysing evidence to counter the justifications that can exist in the often grey worlds that thrive around illicit antiquities. Highly accessible, the book engages with theory, research methods and international policy in a manner that provides a valuable counterpoint to much work on the area that is based on conjecture. In presenting their hugely significant Trafficking Culture research, the authors also promote an important future policy approach. The book will inspire future research into the global market in illicit antiquities and serve as an example of how it should be undertaken." - John Kerr, University of Roehampton, UK"Inspired by Deleuzian and other realist philosophies, this provocative book synthesizes New Materialist theories and relational approaches to tackle a mainstay of traditional archaeological research, urbanism and city life in ancient societies. The authors demonstrate that cities defy reduction to essentialized types but must be understood as dense but fluid assemblages of peoples, infrastructures, substances, formless matter, phenomena and objects. The case studies, ranging from across the globe, reveal the fundamental importance of ontology and religion to urban historical process, one mediated by diverse assemblages of non-human entities. The edited volume presents a radically new approach to the analysis of urbanism that stands to revolutionize archaeological approaches to ancient landscapes." - Edward Swenson, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introducing New Materialisms, Rethinking Ancient Urbanisms; 2. From Weeping Hills to Lost Caves: A Search for Vibrant Matter in Greater Cahokia; 3. Chaco Gathers: Experience and Assemblage in the Ancient Southwest; 4. Assembling the City: Monte Albán as a Mountain of Creation and Sustenance; 5. Assembling Tiwanaku: Water and Stone, Humans and Monoliths; 6. Immanence and the Spirit of Ancient Urbanism at Paquimé and Liangzhu; 7. The Gathering of Swahili Religious Practice: Mosques-as-Assemblages at 1000 CE Swahili Towns; 8. Urbanism and the Temporality of Materiality on the Medieval Deccan: Beyond the Cosmograms of Social and Political Space; 9. Cities, the Underworld, and the Infrastructure: The Ecology of Water in the Hittite World; 10. Commentary: The City and the City

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Book SynopsisCultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage Trade Review"This book is … about the various ways to engage with cultural heritage in the light of ‘futures thinking’. Through its carefully selected mix of theoretical and practical case studies, it will undoubtedly become a flagship text for anyone interested in exploring the interconnections between cultural heritage and the future." - Antiquity"The book is illuminating and provides a valuable compendium and a fascinating timeline for the last decade of thinking." - News in Conservation, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic WorksTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: Cultural heritage as a futuristic field; Section 1: The future in heritage studies and heritage management; 2. Heritage practices as future-making practices; 3. Heritage, thrift, and our children’s children; 4. Perceptions of the future in preservation strategies (Or: Why Eyssl von Eysselsberg’s body is no longer taken across the lake); 5. The future and management of ICH in China from a legal perspective; Section 2: The future in cultural heritage; 6. Decolonizing the future. Folk art environments and the temporality of heritage; 7. The spectre of non-completion: An archaeological approach to half-built buildings; 8. An archaeology of Cold War armageddonism through the lens of Scientology; 9. Future visions and the heritage of space: Nostalgia for infinity; Section 3: Re-thinking heritage futures; 10. What lies ahead? Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future; 11. The future in the past, the past in the future; 12. Radioactive heritage of the future: A legacy of risk; Section 4: Heritage and future-making; 13. Sustainability, intergenerational equity, and pluralism: Can heritage conservation create alternative futures?; 14. Palliative curation and future persistence: Life after death; 15. The future, atemporality, and heritage: "Yesterday´s tomorrow is not today"; 16. Heritages of futures thinking: Strategic foresight and critical futures; 17. Final reflections: The future of heritage

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Book SynopsisThis exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a Great Tradition focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contesTable of Contents1. New directions in the archaeology of religion and politics in the Americas by Arthur A. Joyce 2. The mobile house: religious leadership at Chacoan and Chacoan revival centers by Erina Gruner 3. The elements of Cahokian shrine complexes and basis of Mississippian religion by Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat 4. Cherokee religion and European contact in southeastern North America by Christopher B. Rodning 5. Unsettled gods: religion and politics in the Early Formative Soconusco by Sarah B. Barber 6. Religion, urbanism, and inequality in ancient central Mexico by David M. Carballo 7. Religion in a material world by Rosemary A. Joyce 8. Political engagement in household ritual among the Maya of Yucatan by Scott R. Hutson, Céline C. Lamb, and David Medina Arona9. Ritual is power? Religion as a possible base of power for early political actors in ancient Peru by Matthew Piscitelli 10. Timing is everything: religion and the regulation of temporalities in precolumbian Peru by Edward Swenson 11. From landscape to ontology in Amazonia: the Llanos de Mojos as a middle ground by John H. Walker 12. The multivalent mollusk: spondylus, ritual, and politics in the prehispanic Andes by Jerry D. Moore 13. Power at the crossroads of politics and religion: a commentary by María Nieves Zedeño

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people. Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural anTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures x List of Contributors xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Part I The New Pragmatism 1 Part II Landscapes, Spaces, and Natures 51 1 The Temporality of the Landscape 59 Tim Ingold 2 Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social 77 Paul S. C. Tacon 3 Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia 92 Eleanor Conlin Casella 4 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape 104 Clark L. Erickson Part III Agency, Meaning, and Practice 129 5 Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm 137 Timothy R. Pauketat 6 Technology's Links and Chaınes: The Processual Unfolding of Technique and Technician 156 Marcia-Anne Dobres 7 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast 170 Kenneth E. Sassaman 8 Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence from Fort Ross, California 191 Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. Schiff Part IV Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood 217 9 Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist Critiques of Science 226 Alison Wylie 10 On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa 244 John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff 11 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica 256 Rosemary A. Joyce 12 Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire 265 Barbara L. Voss Part V Race, Class, and Ethnicity 281 13 The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea 290 Sarah M. Nelson 14 Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology 301 Sian Jones 15 Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology 311 Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman 16 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict 325 LouAnn Wurst Part VI Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence 339 17 Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society 347 Webb Keane 18 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and Social Memory at Chaco 362 Barbara J. Mills 19 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology 385 Paul A. Shackel 20 Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology 404 Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz Part VII Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism 423 21 Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain 432 Margarita Dı´az-Andreu 22 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory 445 Carla M. Sinopoli 23 Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past 459 Zainab Bahrani 24 Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us 470 Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond Part VIII Heritage, Patrimony, and Social Justice 491 25 The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage A Discussion with Arjun Appadurai 498 26 Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the Archaeological Present 508 Lynn Meskell 27 An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research 525 Michael L. Blakey 28 Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland 534 Audrey Horning Part IX Media, Museums, and Publics 551 29 No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI 558 Sonya Atalay 30 The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising 571 Lauren E. Talalay 31 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts 582 Ian Hodder 32 Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology 593 George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister Index 618

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Book SynopsisJohn Carman is Senior Lecturer in Heritage Value, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, UK, Co-Director of the Bloody Meadows Project, and convenor of ESTOC: European Studies of Terrains of Conflict. He is the author of Against Cultural Property: Archaeology, Heritage and Ownership in this series.Table of ContentsIntroduction Archaeology and Conflict Studies Prehistoric Conflict Historic Battlefields Modern Conflict The Potential for Conflict Archaeology Conclusions Bibliography Index

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