Archaeology Books

Book SynopsisYoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought over by the first slaves and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa's Chain, Andrew Apter locates that culture, both spatially and analytically, and offers a Yoruba-focused perspective on rethinking African heritage in Black Atlantic Studies. Focusing on Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision that allows him to identify formative Yoruba influences without resorting to the idea that culture and tradition are fixed. Apter shows how the association of African gods with Catholic saints can be seen as strategy of empowerment, explores historical locations of Yoruba gender ideologies and their manifestation and change in the Atlantic world, and more. He concludes with a rousing call for a return to Africa in studies of the Black Atlantic, resurrecting a critical notion of culture that allows us to go beyond the mirror of Africa that the West invented.

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Book SynopsisYoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought over by the first slaves and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa's Chain, Andrew Apter locates that culture, both spatially and analytically, and offers a Yoruba-focused perspective on rethinking African heritage in Black Atlantic Studies. Focusing on Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision that allows him to identify formative Yoruba influences without resorting to the idea that culture and tradition are fixed. Apter shows how the association of African gods with Catholic saints can be seen as strategy of empowerment, explores historical locations of Yoruba gender ideologies and their manifestation and change in the Atlantic world, and more. He concludes with a rousing call for a return to Africa in studies of the Black Atlantic, resurrecting a critical notion of culture that allows us to go beyond the mirror of Africa that the West invented.

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Book SynopsisIn conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduced starting in the 1990s in an effort informed by the fossil record condor skeletal remains had been found in the area's late Pleistocene cave deposits. The potential benefits of applying such data to conservation initiatives are unquestionably great, yet integrating the relevant disciplines has proven challenging. Conservation Paleobiology gathers a remarkable array of scientists from Jeremy B. C. Jackson to Geerat J. Vermeij to provide an authoritative overview of how paleobiology can inform both the management of threatened species and larger conservation decisions. Studying endangered species is difficult. They are by definition rare, some exist only in captivity, and for those still in their native habitats any experimentation can poten

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Book SynopsisJeannette Mirsky has here drawn from Sir Aurel Stein's books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival materials to produce a definitive biography of this archaeological explorer, geographer, historical topographer, and linguist.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This powerful book will be of particular importance to those working in museum and tribal settings, but is highly appropriate for anyone interested in cultural heritage and the legal efforts to manage claims for Native patrimony. Essential."--Choice "Colwell ably and sensitively tells the often conflict-ridden story of how and why museums in the US relinquished their hold over this material. . . . Colwell finds himself squarely in the middle of each quandary: a practising anthropologist who works alongside Native Americans every day and is sensitive to their cultural dynamics. Colwell's account favours the Native American perspective--a sensible approach for a book aimed at scientifically literate readers who may lean the other way. Readers will come away with a deeper appreciation of Native American cultural imperatives and the complexity of the situation."--New Scientist "A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Indian artifacts and the study of Indian culture."--Wall Street Journal "Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work. . . . Colwell's book raises provocative questions about who owns the past, and is surely an important work for curators--or anyone--interested in America's treatment of its cultural legacy."--Publishers Weekly "Without ever descending into sensationalistic tones, the author exposes delicate facts about massacres, beliefs, desecrations, and illegal activities, deploying evidence with a measured distance that is difficult to argue against. Native American voices are given plenty of space to support their cases. They emerge as strong and determined and this is what the author wants us to perceive as a way to sensitise the public to the deep ethical implications that these, like many other cases, present us with. . . [Colwell] explicitly make[s] the theme of objects' agency and personhood the core of [his] most poignant arguments about repatriation, ethics, and conservation."--Transmotion "In this beautifully written meditation on the vexed relationship between museums and Native American communities, Colwell reveals as never before the human dimensions of our recent struggles over repatriation. Important, necessary reading for all those who grapple with the essential question of how best to respect and honor the past."--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits breaks new ground. Colwell's dual roles of museum curator and human rights advocate offers a narrative of personal growth and professional practice that couples a humanist's sensitivities with a historian's insistence on primary documentary sources. The resulting breath of fresh air contributes mightily to still-controversial conversations about American reburial and repatriation. The message sounds loud and clear: Twenty-first century museums can indeed stand tall in addressing their own complex histories. Why do some still feel obliged to cover up past performance, to lock out qualified researchers from their archives and to sugar-coat their past in the hopes that nobody will notice?" --David H. Thomas, author of Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity "A lightly written, insider's account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America's culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider's account--just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield." --Spectator "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits uses the story of one museum to show how Native American symbols of identity and ceremony and ancestral bones were initially appropriated as objects of cultural patrimony, but recently have become part of a complicated struggle of ownership. As Colwell profoundly shows, the emotional price paid by everyone involved--Native American, archaeologist, and museum curator--is never small." --Larry J. Zimmerman, author of The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is a sobering peek into the controversy that surrounds tribal artifacts and human remains found in museums throughout the United States. His eloquent narration details several unique cases of repatriation. . . . Colwell has a unique perspective. He provides the reader with a firsthand look at the repatriation process, sympathetically including tribal perspectives--something that few museum directors have sought to do when writing on this subject in the past."--Science

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jacobs tells the story of how the cultural relics of northwest China were collected, dispersed, and sometimes destroyed, in a new and refreshingly nonjudgmental way. Drawing on insights from literature on similar processes in the ailing Ottoman Empire as well as on primary sources in English, French, and Chinese, he narrates this story in granular detail and with a keen sense of the motives of the individual actors on both the Western and Chinese side of the story. Clearly the result of a very meticulously researched project, The Compensations of Plunder is a well-crafted and tremendously enjoyable read.” * Pär Cassel, University of Michigan *"This revisionist work challenges Chinese nationalist discourse of how China lost its treasure during the turn of the 20th century to reevaluate the rational historical actors—Western archaeologists who went on expeditions in Xinjiang—through a new explanatory framework: the compensations of plunder." -- G. Li * Choice *"This beautifully written and theoretically sophisticated study focuses on Western expeditions to Xinjiang and the Dunhuang region from 1900 to 1930, particularly those of Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot... The Compensations of Plunder also speaks to the politics of the Chinese frontier, Western culturalism and racism, and the development of Chinese archaeology." * Journal of Asian Studies *"The Compensations of Plunder makes an important intervention in studies of the Silk Roads, cultural heritage preservation, and modern Chinese history. It lays the groundwork for further thinking about the intersection between empires, nation-states, and cultural heritage in ways that complicate and augment our understanding of the troubled history of twentieth-century collecting." * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sahibs in the Desert 2. Accumulating Culture 3. Gentlemen of Empire 4. The Priceless Nation 5. Rise of the Apprentices 6. Foreign Devils Begone Conclusion Acknowledgments Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Jacobs tells the story of how the cultural relics of northwest China were collected, dispersed, and sometimes destroyed, in a new and refreshingly nonjudgmental way. Drawing on insights from literature on similar processes in the ailing Ottoman Empire as well as on primary sources in English, French, and Chinese, he narrates this story in granular detail and with a keen sense of the motives of the individual actors on both the Western and Chinese side of the story. Clearly the result of a very meticulously researched project, The Compensations of Plunder is a well-crafted and tremendously enjoyable read.” * Pär Cassel, University of Michigan *"This revisionist work challenges Chinese nationalist discourse of how China lost its treasure during the turn of the 20th century to reevaluate the rational historical actors—Western archaeologists who went on expeditions in Xinjiang—through a new explanatory framework: the compensations of plunder." -- G. Li * Choice *"This beautifully written and theoretically sophisticated study focuses on Western expeditions to Xinjiang and the Dunhuang region from 1900 to 1930, particularly those of Aurel Stein and Paul Pelliot... The Compensations of Plunder also speaks to the politics of the Chinese frontier, Western culturalism and racism, and the development of Chinese archaeology." * Journal of Asian Studies *"The Compensations of Plunder makes an important intervention in studies of the Silk Roads, cultural heritage preservation, and modern Chinese history. It lays the groundwork for further thinking about the intersection between empires, nation-states, and cultural heritage in ways that complicate and augment our understanding of the troubled history of twentieth-century collecting." * Journal of Chinese History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Sahibs in the Desert 2. Accumulating Culture 3. Gentlemen of Empire 4. The Priceless Nation 5. Rise of the Apprentices 6. Foreign Devils Begone Conclusion Acknowledgments Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArgentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 20012002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the flight of foreign capital. Protests and street blockades punctuated a moment of profound political uncertainty, epitomized by the rapid succession of five presidents in four months. Since then, Argentina has fought economic fires on every front, from inflation to the cost of utilities and depressed industrial output. When things clearly aren't working, when the constant churning of booms and busts makes life almost unlivable, how does our deeply compromised order come to seem so inescapable? How does critique come to seem so blunt, even as crisis after crisis appears on the horizon? What are the lived effects of that sense of inescapability? Anthropologist Sarah Muir offers a cogent meditation on the limits of criTrade Review"By looking at the discursive practices through which members of the Argentine middle class construct and interpret the crisis and its aftermath, Muir shows how a semiotic, language-focused approach can help us to ask new questions regarding social upheaval and its consequences in communities worldwide... a needed challenge to overly optimistic approaches that fail to account for the realities of how people interact with crisis in their day-to-day lives." * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Routine Crisis offers a novel approach in anthropological studies of crisis. Muir tracks the production and productive capacity of disillusion, and in doing so challenges political anthropologists to focus not only on the possibility of new beginnings, but also on the lived experience of endings. Thematically, Routine Crisis will be of interest to anyone involved in studies of crisis, corruption, or Argentina. The book deserves a broader readership, however, due to Muir’s compelling writing, the way she renders the often-complex tools of linguistic anthropology easily comprehensible, and her impressive capacity as an ethnographer to untangle the messy, often seemingly contradictory ways in which her interlocutors express the experience of disillusion." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Argentina’s economic crisis of 2001–02 led its government to unpeg the peso from the US dollar, impoverishing millions. Successive governments sought remedies with varying degrees of success. Muir arrived in Buenos Aires in 2003 and spent several years conducting ethnographic research on the reactions of the self-described middle class to the financial collapse. The result is a compelling analysis of her informants’ 'crisis talk,' their disillusionment and loss of faith in the future. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Routine Crisis is a sophisticated, well-written, and thought-provoking book that makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on late-capitalist temporality, crisis, and critique, not to mention Argentina." * Anthropological Quarterly *“In this lucid and challenging ethnography, Muir opens a window into the historical sensibility of inevitable and recurrent crisis and its consequences for the imagination of alternative futures. This book does nothing less than demand we reframe history itself—disallowing comfortable beginnings and endings—and linger in the routines of crisis, querying its aftermaths, and forgoing our obsolete utopias.” * Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine *“Routine Crisis is a stunning ethnography of the tumultuous lives of Argentineans in economic crisis. Muir’s analytical acumen shines through in her semiotically-informed ‘listening’ to what she calls ‘crisis talk’. She deftly shows us how the linguistic and cultural form of crisis talk produces a normalcy of crisis out of the perennial predicament of political economy in Argentina. This is a must-read book on not only how the Global South lives, but also on how ethnography is enriched by the methods of linguistic anthropology.” * Miyako Inoue, Stanford University *

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Book SynopsisBig catstigers, leopards, and lionsthat make prey of humans are commonly known as man-eaters. Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become crooked. Building upon fifteen years of research in India, this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet, uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists. Crooked Cats explores in vivid detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer startling new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. Through creative ethnographic storytelling, Crooked Cats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical waTrade Review“In this captivating book, Mathur offers a sensitive examination of ordinary ethical struggle with cruelties and injustices spawned by human domination of the earth. She writes gripping stories of big cats, mostly from within the villages and towns of Himalayan north India, to bridge the different ways in which the global climate crisis has been imagined, understood, and explained. This is precisely the bridge that must be crossed to reach solutions that are locally meaningful and globally just.” * K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University *“At a time when scholarship is highlighting the phenomenon of extinction, Mathur offers an important intervention that redirects attention from this accelerating absence by focusing instead on imaginatively constituted interactions between humans and animals under threat. Introducing many innovative, intriguing, and witty concepts, Crooked Cats is a distinctive contribution to the ongoing and ever-evolving conversation about human-animal conflict and coexistence.” * Kath Weston, University of Virginia *"While Mathur focuses on personal experience of an unusual occurrence, her persuasive arguments, with supporting resources and notes, successfully connect the observed phenomena to issues of interest to many... Highly recommended." * Choice *"Nayanika Mathur’s Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene is a hard-hitting argument by a political scientist about the cultural (both human and leopard) and institutional ways in which big cats, particularly leopards, cohabit with humans in India. The book is a fascinating look at the political ecology of human-eating big cats and the responses of humans from the relatively powerless to the more powerful as mediated through governmental bureaucracy." * Oryx *Table of ContentsPrologue: Of Two Reigns of Terror Introduction: The Beastly Tale of the Leopard of Gopeshwar 1. Crooked Becomings 2. Murderous Looks 3. The Cute Killer 4. A Petition to Kill 5. The Leopard of Rudraprayag versus Shere Khan 6. Big Cats in the City 7. Entrapment 8. Three Beastly Tales to Conclude Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world. From off-brand products to elevator music, the generic is discarded as the copy, the knockoff, and the old. In The Copy Generic, anthropologist Scott MacLochlainn insists that more than the waste from the culture machine, the generic is a universal social tool, allowing us to move through the world with necessary blueprints, templates, and frames of reference. It is the baseline and background, a category that orders and values different types of specificity yet remains inherently nonspecific in itself. Across arenas as diverse as city planning, social media, ethnonationalism, and religion, the generic points to spaces in which knowledge is both overproduced and desperately lacking. Moving through ethnographic and historical settings in the Philippines, Europe, and the United States, MacLochlainn reveals how the concept of the generic is crucial to understanding how things repeat, circulaTrade Review“It seems fitting that this wildly imaginative book should defy easy classification. Is it a major work of social theory, offering a sweeping model of cultural circulation, or an exquisite ethnographic monograph, lavishly detailing Christian Filipino worldmaking? Most importantly, MacLochlainn demonstrates that without the generic, any such questions of classification are not just unanswerable, but unthinkable.” -- Graham M. Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Innovative in its form, lucid in its prose, The Copy Generic explains and refuses the tendency to denigrate the generic as inauthentic, barren, or simply irrelevant. Instead, MacLochlainn brilliantly draws out what so many overlook: that is the social and semiotic generativity of the generic." -- E. Summerson Carr, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisThrough an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, the grave of the graves (o-haka no haka) houses acres of unwanted headstonesthe material remains of Japan's discarded death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead became venerated ancestors through sustained ritual offerings at graves and at butsudan, Buddhist altars installed inside the home. But in twenty-first-century Japan, this intergenerational system of care is rapidly collapsing. In noisy carpentry studios, flashy funeral-goods showrooms, neglected cemeteries, and cramped kitchens where women prepare memorial feasts, Hannah Gould analyzes the lifecycle of butsudan, illuminating how they are made, circulate through religious and funerary economies, mediate intimate exchanges between the living and the dead, andas the population ages, famTrade Review“From graves for abandoned gravestones to the craft and care by which workers tend to butsudan still today, this book is an electrifying read. Ethnographically intimate, analytically astute, and refreshingly clear, When Death Falls Apart brilliantly tracks both the challenges and attachments to necro-care as once practiced and getting recrafted today.” * Anne Allison, author of Being Dead Otherwise *“When Death Falls Apart is well-crafted and thoughtful, and it significantly advances scholarship on death studies. At the same time, Gould’s excellent study is a model for rich anthropological description of particular people, places, and objects that challenge the reader to think about other places, other deaths, and other bodies.” * S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5½ Objects *Table of ContentsTextual Conventions Introduction: The Stuff of Death and the Death of Stuff 1. Crafting 2. Retail 3. Practice 4. Disposal 5. Remaking Conclusion: When Death Falls Apart Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated sixth edition of a classic classroom text is essential reading for core courses in archaeology.Archaeology: An Introduction explains how the subject emerged from an amateur pursuit in the eighteenth century into a serious discipline and explores changing trends in interpretation in recent decades. The authors convey the excitement of archaeology while helping readers to evaluate new discoveries by explaining the methods and theories that lie behind them. In addition to drawing upon examples and case studies from many regions of the world and periods of the past, the book incorporates the authors' own fieldwork, research and teaching. It continues to include key reference and further reading sections to help new readers find their way through the ever-expanding range of archaeological publications and online sources as well as colour illustrations and boxed topic sections to increase comprehension.Serving as an accessible and lucid textbook, an

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Book SynopsisArborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.Trade Review"William Bryant Logan’s vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit—a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future—is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope." -- Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees"... this vividly insightful exploration of tree regeneration." -- Nature

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide through our whole human past that takes the reader on a tour through time and across the globe to every site of archaeological importance.Trade Review'An excellent accessible reference guide' - Current World Archaeology'Strikes the right balance between detail and readability, and the visuals are well chosen, well reproduced and, well, abundant' - AntiquityTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Deep Prehistory – From Apes to Modern Humans • 2. From Hunters to Farmers • 3. The Bronze Age and the Rise of Civilizations • 4. The Iron Age and the Ancient World • 5. The Medieval World • 6. The Modern World • 7. How Archaeology Works

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Book SynopsisThe ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars and visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-nineteenth century. All are wonderstruck by the beauty and multiplicity of the sculptures that adorn its temples and structures and are overwhelmed by the sheer size of Angkor. There is nothing to equal it in the archaeological world.A great deal was already known about the history of Angkor and the brilliant Khmer civilization that built it thanks to pioneering work by archaeologists and scholars, but our knowledge has now been completely revolutionized by cutting-edge technology. Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) has revealed entire cities that were previously unknown and a complex urban landscape with highways and waterways, profoundly transforming our interpretations of the development and supposed decline of Angkor.Angkor and the Khmer Civilization

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Book SynopsisIn 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to 'internationalize' its society. This book explores the cultural and political dynamics of internationalization in Japan. It is suitable for policy analysts, students of Japan, and prospective and former JET participants.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms 1. JAPAN'S IMAGE PROBLEM: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND GLOBAL INTEGRATION 2. THE SOLUTION: TOP-DOWN "GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONALIZATION" 3· THE START-UP YEARS: THE "CRASH PROGRAM" NEARLY CRASHES 4· MANAGING DIVERSITY: THE VIEW FROM A PREFECTURAL BOARD OF EDUCATION 5. BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES: THE JET PROGRAM IN LOCAL SCHOOLS 6. THE LEARNING CURVE: JETTING INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 7. FINAL THOUGHTS EPILOGUE: MIRROR ON MULTICULTURALISM IN THE UNITED STATES Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, this book scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a biological child often exacts from would-be parents.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Personal Experience to Research 1. Consuming Technologies 2. Confronting Notions of Normalcy 3. The Embattled Body 4. Genes and Generations 5. Experiencing Risks 6. Taking Action 7. Selling Hope 8. Decisions about Donors 9. Embodied Technology 10. Shifting Gears 11. Redefining Normalcy 12. Women Rethinking Parenthood 13. Rewriting the Family 14. Performing Gender

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Breaks new ground in both perspective and subject matter." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Beauty, Love, and Sexuality 1. Early Qajar 2. Nineteenth-Century Transformations Part II. Cultural Labor of Sexuality and Gender 3. The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun 4. Vatan, the Beloved; Vatan, the Mother 5. Women's Veil and Unveil 6. The Tragedy of Romantic Marriage 7. Crafting an Educated Wife and Mother 8. Women or Wives of the Nation? Epilogue: Feminism and Its Burden of Birth Notes Glossary Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the historical trajectory of so-called modern globalization. This title challenges the long-held anthropological notion that non-European cultures and people were isolated and static entities before the advent of European colonialism and imperialism.Trade Review"The work of a powerful theoretical intelligence, but one informed by a lived sense of social realities." * Times Literary Supplement *"Wolf's intention is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted their historical accounts of their societies before European intervention. . . . His historical sweep and analytic breadth are astounding, and he gives approximately equal weight to historical 'winners' and 'losers.'" * American Journal of Sociology *"Wolf's empirical knowledge is exceptionally wide. . . . He relies on a skillful selection of phenomena in time and space that are reasonably representative of the totality. . . . The book is very well written and with a profoundly human touch." * Ethnos *"Wolf has created a history of connection rather than one of segregation. . . . This absorbing and stimulating book . . . provides a convincing and, dare I say, new perspective. . . . By emphasizing a common past, Wolf moves away from weary polarities of active 'white' centre and passive 'non- white' periphery and suggests both a more complex and a more informed sense of the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world." * European Update *"In this big and important book, Eric Wolf begins and ends with the assertion that anthropology must pay more attention to history. . . . It is with pleasure, then, that one reads a critical analysis that rejects pseudo- historical oppositions and explores with such care the historical processes by which primitive and peasant pasts have become a fundamentally altered primitive, peasant, and proletarian present." * Dialectical Anthropology *"Wolf's intention is to explain the development and nature of the chains of cause and consequence which linked populations in the post-1400 world. The outcome is a tightly structured and elegant book." * Oceania *Table of ContentsForeword to the 2010 Edition Preface (1997) Preface (1982) Part One Connections 1 Introduction 2 The World in 1400 3 Modes of Production 4 Europe, Prelude to Expansion Part Two In Search of Wealth 5 Iberians in America 6 The Fur Trade 7 The Slave Trade 8 Trade and Conquest in the Orient Part Three Capitalism 9 Industrial Revolution 10 Crisis and Differentiation in Capitalism 11 The Movement of Commodities 12 The New Laborers Afterword Bibliographic Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArchaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. In this title, the author outlines the principles of community-based participatory research and demonstrates how CBPR can be effectively applied to archaeology.Trade Review"Recommended." -- A. B. Kehoe, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Choice

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is not just a publicist-driven fancy... [Paglen's images are] aesthetic and allegorical... A unique tale of human history." Wallpaper "The images are wondrous, paradoxical, and awe-inspiring." -- Dara Solomon PrefixTable of ContentsForeword by Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson Introduction: Geographies of Time 1 Ancient Aliens 2 One Hundred Pictures, Frozen in Time "Belonging": Human/Archive/World by Katie Detwiler 3 One Hundred Pictures Notes on the One Hundred Pictures 4 Field Notes The Artifact Cover Etching by Joel Weisberg Talking Mathematics to Aliens? (Get Real! ... or Have Fun with Anthropomorphism 101!) by Rafael Nunez Putting a Time Capsule in Orbit: What Should It Be Made Of? by Brian L. Wardle and Karl Berggren The EchoStar XVI Mission by EchoStar Corporation Epilogue Acknowledgments Credits

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Book SynopsisThis vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability and human difference. An Ordinary Future is a deeply moving work that weaves an account of Margaret Mead's path to disability rights activism with one anthropologist's experience as the parent of a child with Down syndrome. With this book, Thomas W. Pearson confronts the dominant ideas, disturbing contradictions, and dramatic transformations that have shaped our perspectives on disability over the last century. Pearson examines his family's story through the lens of Mead's evolving relationship to disabilitya topic once so stigmatized that she advised Erik Erikson to institutionalize his son, born with Down syndrome in 1944. Over the course of her career, Mead would become an advocate for disability rights and call on anthropology to embrace a wider understanding of humanity that values diverse bodies and minds. Powerful and personal, An Ordinary Future reveals why this call is still relevant in the ongoing fight for disability justice and inclusion, while shedding light on the history of Down syndrome and how we raise children born different.Trade Review"[A] moving meditation on difference, disability, and humanity. In 2015, when his newborn daughter, Michaela, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, [Pearson] and his wife were shocked. Soon, though, he asked himself whether that initial response was generated by ideas about normalcy deeply embedded in the culture. . . . Sensitive reflections on human value." * Kirkus Reviews *"In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures of parenting." * Sapiens *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Becoming 2. Features 3. Institutions 4. Potential 5. Belonging 1 6. Vulnerability Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key anthropological articles that illustrate how the conceptual and material dimensions of space are central to the production of social life. Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life Includes introduction that synthesizes existing literature, highlights core issues, and maps potential directions for future research Brings classics in cultural anthropology together with new theoretical approaches Trade Review‘A valuable resource for teaching and research. Bringing older work on the symbolics of space together with more recent analyses of the politics of place and contested spatial practices, it gives a fine overview of the depth, range, and vitality of anthropological approaches to space and place.’ James Ferguson, University of California, Irvine ‘This stunning collection provides an invaluable guide to an exciting new field: The analysis of the spatial dimensions of culture and the cultural meanings of space and place. It features a clear and comprehensive introduction and a wide-ranging set of articles that reveal the power and potential of this new field of anthropological inquiry.’ Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College ‘A rich sourcebook of classic and new perspectives on culture and the physical environment. Encompasses a range of spaces and places from the small-scale to the large-scale; from the body to transnational settings. A terrific resource to spark new questions, ideas, and projects.’ Irwin Altman, University of Utah "Geographers should of course read The Anthropology of Space and Place. Reading this volume also opens up opportunities to refine our strengths as geographers as well as to open up new domains of exploration inspired by the expertise of anthropologists." Progress in Human Geography, Vol 29/1, 2005Table of ContentsIntroduction (Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga). Part I: Embodied Spaces. 1. Proxemics. (Edward T. Hall). 2. Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America. (Miles Richardson). 3. Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape. (Nancy D. Munn). 4. Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities. (Alessandro Duranti). Part II: Gendered Spaces. 5. The Berber House. (Pierre Bourdieu). 6. The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden. (Orvar Löfgren). 7. The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa. (Deborah Pellow). Part III: Inscribed Spaces. 8. Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places. (James Fernandez). 9. Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality. (Margaret C. Rodman). 10. Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms in the Scottish Borders. (John Gray). Part IV: Contested Spaces). 11. The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space. (Hilda Kuper). 12. Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino. (Gary Wray McDonogh). 13. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. (Steven Gregory). Part V: Transnational Spaces. 14. The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism. (Akhil Gupta). 15. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography. (Arjun Appadurai). 16. Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade. (Theodore C. Bestor). Part VI: Spatial Tactics. 17. Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on Urbanism. (Paul Rabinow). 18. A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town. (Michael Herzfeld). 19. After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site. (Eric Gable and Richard Handler). 20. The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear. (Setha M. Low). Index.

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Book SynopsisTraces the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s onwards. This book presents classic works from Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Leach, and Schneider, as well as articles on contemporary debates as surrogate motherhood, and gay and lesbian kinship.Trade Review"One looks to a Reader to be authoritative: this is also a highly imaginative collection. Nuanced as well as balanced, the editors’ compilations bring out the best not just in the study of kinship but in anthropology. A tonic for old hands and new hands alike." Marilyn Strathern, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. General Introduction. Part I: Kinship as Social Structure: Descent and Alliance:. 1. Descent and Marriage:. Introduction: Robert Parkin. Unilateral descent groups: Robert H. Lowie (deceased 1957, formerly of University of California, Berkeley). The Nuer of the southern Sudan: E. E. Evans-Pritchard (deceased 1973; formerly of Oxford). Lineage Theory: a brief retrospect: Adam Kuper (Brunel). African models in the New Guinea Highlands: J. A. Barnes (formally of The Australian National University). The Amerindianization of Descent and Affinity: Peter Rivière (Oxford). Inheritance, Property, and Marriage in Africa and Eurasia: Jack Goody (Cambridge). 2. Terminology and Affinal Alliance:. Introduction: Robert Parkin. Kinship and Social Organization, Lecture One: W. H. R. Rivers (deceased, formerly of Cambridge ). Structural Analysis in Linguistics and Anthropology: Claude Lévi-Strauss (Emeritus, College de France). Concerning Trobriand Clans and the Kinship Category ‘tabu’: Edmund Leach (deceased 1989, formerly of Cambridge). The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage: Louis Dumont (George Mason University, DC). Prescription, Preference and Practice: Marriage Patterns Among the Kondaiyankottai Maravar of South India: Anthony Good (University of Edinburgh). Analysis of Purum Affinal Alliance: Rodney Needham (formally of Oxford). Tetradic Theory: An Approach to Kinship: N. J. Allen (Oxford). Part II: Kinship as Culture, Process and Agency:. 3. The Demise and Revival of Kinship:. Introduction: Linda Stone. What is Kinship All About?: David M. Schneider (deceased 1995, formerly of the University of Chicago). Toward a Unified Analysis of Gender and Kinship: Silvia Junko Yanagisako and Jane Fishburne Collier (Stanford University). Sexism and Naturalism in the Study of Kinship: Harold W. Scheffler (Yale University). The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh). 4. Contemporary Directions in Kinship:. Introduction: Linda Stone. Surrogate Motherhood and American Kinship: Helena Ragoné (Independent Scholar). Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of Jewishness: Susan Martha Kahn (Brandeis University). Gender, Genetics and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship: Corinne P. Hayden (University of California, Berkeley). Has the World Turned? Kinship in the Contemporary American Soap Opera: Linda Stone (Washington State University). Kinship, Gender and Mode of Production in Post-Mao China: Variations in Two Villages: Hua Han (Independent Scholar). Primate Kin and Human Kinship: Robin Fox (Rutgers University). Kinship and Evolved Psychological Dispositions: The Mother’s Brother Controversy Reconsidered: Maurice Bloch and Dan Sperber (London School of Economics and Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Paris). Glossary. Index

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Book SynopsisThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos" - the "center" or "navel" - of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. This book provides the comprehensive narrative history of this sanctuary and city, from its founding to its modern rediscovery.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 Shortlisted for the 2015 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League "[D]eftly combines literary and material evidence... Overall, Scott offers a broad and well-documented history of the Delphic oracle, including an (excellent) epilogue on how the site was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century."--Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education "[O]f absorbing interest... I doubt whether there's a single archaeological report or relevant inscription, however obscure, that has escaped his notice, and no other scholar known to me keeps one so constantly conscious of the realities ... that leave him with the nagging question: 'What motivated the continuation of settlement in this otherwise rather difficult physical habitat clinging to the mountainside?'... [Scott's] final chapters give the fullest and most vivid general account of Delphi's slow excavation over the past century that I've seen... Scott's narrative never falters."--Peter Green, London Review of Books "Judicious, measured and thorough ... Mr. Scott, like Pausanias before him, is a handy companion to what remains--and what we can only wish was still to be seen."--Brendan Boyle, Wall Street Journal "Scott's passion and expertise are readily apparent... An enjoyable resource for scholars and students. Additionally, prospective visitors to the modern site of Delphi will be interested in Scott's brief guide, which is included at the back of the book."--Publishers Weekly "Tells you everything there is to know about Delphi."--Sam Leith, Spectator "A traveler on a typical ten-hour flight to Greece from the United States will find this book to be a valuable and entertaining companion."--About.com Greece Travel "The story is told clearly and engagingly."--Peter Jones, Literary Review "I don't think there can be much about Delphi's history that Dr. Scott has missed out on in this book. I needn't have worried that only one book on the subject wouldn't be enough to give me enough information for my visit. I wanted the definitive book and as far as I'm concerned I picked the right one."--Tales from A Tour Guide "The oracle is not the main concern of this fine, scholarly book. Although you can hardly write about Delphi without writing about the Pythia, Scott's interest is much more in the site itself, the way it developed from a couple of buildings on a mountainside into the elaborate sanctuary of the classical period and beyond... Because Delphi was the focus of so much ancient attention, this rich but remote archaeological site gives us a keyhole view of the history of the ancient world as a whole, as cities are founded and proclaim their existence to the international community; as cities fall and find their monuments encroached on, buried or pecked at by prophetic crows; as dedications to commemorate victories over foreigners at Salamis give way to trophies of victories over other Greeks; as the Spartans inscribe their name on a gift of Croesus and hope no one will notice."--James Davidson, The Guardian "This is an engaging tribute to a site that enjoined its visitors to know themselves--a demand that, in turn, requires us to know the Greeks."--Alex Clapp, Ekathimerini "Excellent... The more important question for [Scott] is not how the oracle functioned, but why it endured as an institution for over a thousand years. For the scholar who wants to see the full range of evidence and possible interpretations--a rounded view--this approach is particularly useful."--Daisy Dunn, History Today "[A] comprehensive and sympathetic history... Scott puts it beautifully: both as an idea and an historical conundrum, Delphi ensures we keep the ground 'insecure' beneath our feet."--Bettany Hughes, BBC History Magazine "Scott's erudition is balanced by a lively style, making for a thoroughly readable work. Copies endnotes, bibliography, and illustrations (including eight in color) accompany the text, as does a brief guide to the site's museum."--Choice "[T]here is much to commend in this new history, which deserves to be widely read."--Hugh Bowden, Anglo-Hellenic Review "[A] thoroughly researched, highly readable, insightful, enjoyable, and comprehensive tour of one of the ancient world's most fascinating sites."--Guy Maclean Rogers, American Historical Review "Well written and enjoyable to read... A brief guide for those touring the site and its surroundings in the appendix makes this book a knowledgeable travel companion for all those visiting Delphi for the first time."--Julia Kindt, European Review of History "A reliable, well-informed, and highly readable account based on the author's considerable knowledge of the site and the archaeological campaigns that have brought it back into the light... [A] fine and lucid book."--Craige B. Champion, The HistorianTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Maps xiii Prologue: Why Delphi? 1 Part I: Some are born great 1: Oracle 9 2: Beginnings 31 3: Transformation 51 4: Rebirth 71 Part II : Some achieve greatness 5: Fire 93 6: Domination 119 7: Renewal 139 8: Transition 163 Part III: Some have greatness thrust upon them 9: A New World 183 10: Renaissance 203 11: Final Glory? 223 12: The Journey Continues 245 Epilogue: Unearthing Delphi 269 Conclusion 285 Guide: A Brief Tour of the Delphi Site and Museum 291 Abbreviations 303 Notes 309 Bibliography 375 Index 401

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Book SynopsisThe Gayer-Anderson Cat has been one of the most admired objects at the British Museum since its arrival in 1947. This book presents a detailed description of the cat and a discussion of its possible meaning and role in ancient times.

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Book SynopsisThe Lacock Cup is a rare object with a unique English history. Made in the 1430s, it is one of a handful of pieces of secular silver from the Middle Ages, which both survived the changing culture of Tudor fashion and the turmoil of the Reformation. The remarkable story of this special cup is brought to life in this short and accessible book.

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Book SynopsisThe art and craftmanship of the Anglo-Saxons has been much admired, but this is the first book to look closely at the background to the skilful work and the techniques involved in its creation. The author covers the way in which the objects were made, as well as the materials and tools used in the process - all of which are shown in detailed drawings. Objects explored in this study include brooches, swords, woven materials and buildings, many of which are superbly illustrated in colour.

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Book SynopsisStarting with the dawn of what we would recognise as modern human thought, this book journeys through 35,000 years of our human past. It shows how our earliest ancestors learnt to enter trance states and the revolutionary effect this had on the way they interacted with their world. Moreover, by marrying the very latest research with vivid first-person reconstructions, the book will actually take readers back in time. In its pages we join Stone Age hunting parties, steal food from desperate, starving cannibals, sit eye-to-eye with a mouldy Bronze Age mummy and join the Celts for a feast where you truly are what you eat. The story of our past has never been told this way before and has never been brought to life with such vividness. This is the past as our ancestors would have known it.

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Book SynopsisTeach your baby all about archaeologists with this new board book published in partnership with Smithsonian.

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Book SynopsisUses textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies. Michele 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.

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Book SynopsisFor more than two millennia, African blacksmiths have transformed one of Earth's most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistryshaping African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment to date of the blacksmith's art in sub-Saharan Africa. Interspersed throughout are photographs of more than 250 diverse works from over 100 ethnic groupsincluding tools, blades, currencies, wood sculptures studded with iron, musical instruments, and accoutrementswith field photographs documenting blacksmiths at work and objects in use. Seventeen contributors write from the disciplinary perspectives of art history, art, anthropology, archaeology, history, and astronomy, examining how the blacksmiths' virtuosity can harness powers of the natural and spiritual worlds, effect change and ensure protection, a

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Book SynopsisWritten in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts,Modern Environments and Human Healthdemonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve longstanding questions about the second epidemiological transition. The first book to address the subject from a multi-regional, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective,Modern Environments and Human Healthis a valuable resource for students and academics in biological anthropology, economics, history, public health, demography, and epidemiology.Trade Review"The volume serves as a critical step towards cross-disciplinary communication and shows promise that future research on epidemiologic transitions will draw from an even wider array of cross-disciplinary perspectives (e.g., Klaus, 2014)." (American Journal of Human Biology, 9 February 2015) Table of ContentsContributors vii Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Second Epidemiologic Transition 1 Molly K. Zuckerman Part 1 Causes of the Second Epidemiologic Transition 2 Infectious Disease in Philadelphia, 1690–1807: An Ecological Perspective 17 Gilda M. Anroman 3 Modeling the Second Epidemiologic Transition in London: Patterns of Mortality and Frailty during Industrialization 35 Sharon N. DeWitte 4 The Wider Background of the Second Transition in Europe: Information from Skeletal Material 55 Nikola Koepke 5 The Epidemiological Transition in Practice: Consumption, Phthisis, and TB in the 19th Century 81 Jeffrey K. Beemer Part 2 Epidemic Infectious Disease and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 6 Agent-Based Modeling and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 105 Carolyn Orbann, Jessica Dimka, Erin Miller and Lisa Sattenspiel 7 Does Exposure to Influenza Very Early in Life Affect Mortality Risk during a Subsequent Outbreak? The 1890 and 1918 Pandemics in Canada 123 Stacey Hallman and Alain Gagnon Part 3 Regional and Temporal Variation in the Second Epidemiologic Transition 8 The Second Epidemiologic Transition in Western Poland 139 Alicja Budnik 9 The Timing of the Second Epidemiologic Transition in Small US Towns and Cities: Evidence from Local Cemeteries 163 Lisa Sattenspiel and Rebecca S. Lander 10 Industrialization and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community during the Industrial Revolution 179 Peter M. Kitson Part 4 Marginalized and Underrepresented Communities in the Second Epidemiologic Transition 11 Short Women and Their Stagnating Growth: A Study of Biological Welfare and Inequality of Women in Postcolonial India 201 Aravinda Meera Guntupalli 12 Tracking the Second Epidemiologic Transition Using Bioarchaeological Data on Infant Morbidity and Mortality 225 Megan A. Perry 13 The Biological Effects of Urbanization and In-Migration on 19th-Century-Born African Americans and Euro-Americans of Low Socioeconomic Status: An Anthropological and Historical Approach 243 Carlina de la Cova Part 5 The Environment and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 14 Reassessing the Good and Bad of Modern Environments: Developing a More Comprehensive Approach to Health Trend Assessment 267 Lawrence M. Schell 15 Childhood Lead Exposure in the British Isles during the Industrial Revolution 279 Andrew Millard, Janet Montgomery, Mark Trickett, Julia Beaumont, Jane Evans, and Simon Chenery 16 The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Second Epidemiologic Transition 301 Molly K. Zuckerman and George J. Armelagos 17 Comparative Parasitological Perspectives on Epidemiologic Transitions: The Americas and Europe 321 Karl J. Reinhard and Elisa Pucu de Araújo Part 6 Epilogue 18 The Second Epidemiologic Transition, Adaptation, and the Evolutionary Paradigm 339 George J. Armelagos 19 The Second Epidemiologic Transition from an Epidemiologist’s Perspective 353 Nancy L. Fleischer and Robert E. McKeown 20 Methodological Perspectives on the Second Epidemiologic Transition: Current and Future Research 369 Richard H. Steckel 21 The Current State of Knowledge on the Industrial Epidemiologic Transition: Where Do We Go from Here? 377 Timothy B. Gage Index 393

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Book SynopsisExplore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt''s history from its origins to the Roman Empire''s banning of hieroglyphics in the fourth century A.D. The book covers developments in all aspects of Egypt''s history and their historical sources, considering the social and economic life and the rich culture of ancient Egypt. Freshly updated to take into account recent discoveries, the book makes the latest scholarship accessible to a wide audience, including introductory undergraduate students. A History of Ancient Egypt outlines major political and cultural events and places Egypt''s history within its regional context and detailing interactions with western Asia and Africa. Each period of history receives equal attention and a discussion of the problems scholars face in its Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xii Maps xxviii Preface to the Second Edition xxix 1 Introductory Concerns 1 1.1 What is Ancient Egypt? 1 Chronological boundaries 1 Geographical boundaries 2 What is ancient Egyptian history? 3 Who are the ancient Egyptians? 4 1.2 Egypt’s Geography 6 The Nile River 8 The desert 9 Climate 10 Frontiers and links 11 1.3 The Makeup of Egyptian Historical Sources 12 Papyri and ostraca 12 Monumental inscriptions 14 Historical criticism 14 1.4 The Egyptians and Their Past 15 King lists 15 Egyptian concepts of kingship 19 1.5 The Chronology of Egyptian History 20 Modern subdivisions of Egyptian history 20 Absolute chronology 20 1.6 Prehistoric Developments 21 The beginning of agriculture 21 Naqada I and II periods 24 2 The Formation of the Egyptian State (ca. 3400–2686) 27 2.1 Sources 29 2.2 Royal Cemeteries and Cities 31 The Late Naqada culture 31 Dynasty 0 31 2.3 The First Kings 33 Images of war 33 The unification of Egypt 34 2.4 Ideological Foundations of the New State 35 Kings 35 Cemeteries 36 Festivals 36 Royal annals and year names 37 Gods and cults 38 Bureaucracy 40 2.5 The Invention of Writing 42 Precursors at Abydos 42 Hieroglyphic script 42 2.6 Foreign Relations 47 The Uruk culture of Babylonia 47 Late 4th‐millennium Nubia 50 Late 4th‐millennium Palestine 50 3 The Great Pyramid Builders (ca. 2686–2345) 52 3.1 Sources 53 3.2 The Evolution of the Mortuary Complex 55 Djoser’s step pyramid at Saqqara 56 Sneferu’s three pyramids 57 The great pyramids at Giza 58 Solar temples of the 5th dynasty 61 3.3 Administrating the Old Kingdom State 62 Neferirkara’s archive at Abusir 62 Officialdom 64 3.4 Ideological Debates? 67 Problems of royal succession 67 The gods Horus and Ra 69 3.5 Foreign Relations 70 Contacts with Nubia 71 Contacts with Asia 72 The western desert 72 3.6 Later Traditions about the Old Kingdom 73 Djoser and Imhotep 73 Sneferu 74 The great pyramid builders 74 4 The End of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period (ca. 2345–2055) 77 4.1 Sources 78 4.2 The Rise of the Regions and Political Fragmentation 79 Nomes and nomarchs 79 Officials’ biographies 79 Pepy II 83 Why did the Old Kingdom dissolve? 84 4.3 Foreign Relations 87 Nubian independence 87 The eastern desert and the Levant 89 Mercenaries 90 4.4 Competition between Herakleopolis and Thebes 90 Herakleopolis 90 Thebes 90 4.5 Appraising the First Intermediate Period 92 Middle Kingdom literary reflections 92 Historical critique 93 5 The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055–1650) 95 5.1 Sources and Chronology 96 5.2 Kings and Regional Elites 98 Reunification and the 11th dynasty 99 The start of the 12th dynasty and the foundation of Itj‐tawi 99 Provincial powers in the early Middle Kingdom 101 Royal interference in the provinces 102 Administrative reorganization 104 Royal power in the 13th dynasty 104 5.3 Kings as Warriors 107 The annexation of Nubia 110 5.4 Egypt in the Wider World 112 The early Kingdom of Kush 112 The eastern desert and Sinai 112 Syria and Palestine 114 The world beyond 114 Rhetoric and practice in foreign relations 115 5.5 The Cult of Osiris 116 5.6 Middle Kingdom Literature and its Impact on Egyptian Culture 118 6 The Second Intermediate Period and the Hyksos (ca. 1700–1550) 122 6.1 Sources and Chronology 123 6.2 Avaris: Multiple Transformations of a Delta Harbor 124 A history of Avaris 124 Cultural hybridity 125 Other immigrants 127 6.3 The Hyksos 127 The name Hyksos 127 Hyksos origins 127 Egyptian cultural influences 128 Political history 130 The 14th and 16th dynasties 131 Hyksos rule in Palestine? 131 6.4 Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush 131 The independence of Lower Nubia 131 The Kingdom of Kush 132 Kerma 132 The extent of the Kingdom of Kush 134 6.5 Thebes in the Middle 136 Royal tombs 136 Seqenenra Taa 137 Kamose’s war 137 6.6 The Hyksos in Later Perspective 138 Queen Hatshepsut 139 The gods Ra and Seth 139 Manetho and Josephus 141 7 The Birth of Empire: The Early 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550–1390) 145 7.1 Egypt in a New World Order 148 7.2 Sources and Chronology 149 7.3 Egypt at War 150 War and society in the New Kingdom 150 The “war of liberation” 152 The annexation of Nubia 153 Wars in western Asia 157 7.4 Egypt and the Outside World 159 7.5 Domestic Issues 162 Royal succession 162 Hatshepsut 163 Royal funerary customs 167 New Kingdom bureaucracy 169 Building activity in the early 18th dynasty 171 8 The Amarna Revolution and the Late 18th Dynasty (ca. 1390–1295) 175 8.1 An International Age 177 The Club of the Great Powers 178 The administration of Syria and Palestine 179 The rise of the Hittites 181 A failed marriage alliance 182 8.2 Amenhotep III: The Sun King 182 Amenhotep III’s divinity and his building projects 183 The king’s family 186 The king’s court 187 8.3 From Amenhotep III to Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten 188 8.4 Akhenaten 189 Theban years (years 1 to 5) 191 Akhetaten (years 5 to 12) 192 Turmoil (years 12 to 17) 196 Akhenaten’s successors 197 8.5 Akhenaten’s Memory 199 9 The Ramessid Empire (ca. 1295–1213) 203 9.1 Domestic Policy: Restoration and Renewal 205 Sety I 205 Rameses II 206 9.2 International Relations: Reforming the Empire 209 Wars in Syria 209 Egyptian–Hittite peace 212 A new imperial structure 212 Foreigners in Egypt 214 9.3 Rameses’s Court 217 Officials 217 The royal family 219 9.4 A Community of Tomb Builders 222 10 The End of Empire (ca. 1213–1070) 229 10.1 Problems at Court 231 Sety II and Amenmessu 232 Saptah and Tausret 233 Sethnakht 233 10.2 Breakdown of Order 235 Tomb robberies 235 Workers’ strikes 236 10.3 The Decline of Royal Power 237 10.4 Pressures from Abroad 239 Libyans and Sea Peoples 239 The end of the international system 244 10.5 End of the New Kingdom 244 11 The Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1069–715) 249 11.1 Sources and Chronology 250 11.2 Twin Cities: Tanis and Thebes (the 21st dynasty, 1069–945) 253 Tanis 254 Thebes 256 A peaceful coexistence 258 11.3 Libyan Rule (22nd to 24th dynasties, 945–715) 260 Centralization and diffusion of power 260 The God’s Wife of Amun 263 11.4 The End of the Third Intermediate Period 265 Nubian resurgence 265 Saite expansion 267 12 Egypt in the Age of Empires (ca. 715–332) 272 12.1 Sources and Chronology 273 12.2 The Eastern Mediterranean in the 1st Millennium 275 12.3 Egypt, Kush, and Assyria (ca. 715–656) 279 Military incidents 279 12.4 Egypt, Greeks, and Babylonians (656–525) 283 Greek–Egyptian relations 283 Military activity 286 12.5 Recollections of the Past Under the Kings of Kush and Sais 286 12.6 Egypt and Persia (525–332) 290 Domination and resistance 291 Mixing cultures 296 13 Greek and Roman Egypt (332 bc–ad 395) 301 13.1 Sources and Chronology 302 13.2 Alexandria and Philae 304 Alexandria 304 Philae 307 13.3 Kings, Queens, and Emperors 308 The Ptolemies 309 Queen Cleopatra VII 311 Roman Egypt 312 13.4 Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians 313 Administration 313 Culture and religion 316 13.5 Economic Developments: Agriculture, Finance, and Trade 319 13.6 The African Hinterland 321 13.7 The Christianization of Egypt 324 Epilogue 327 Guide to Further Reading 329 Glossary 340 King List 343 Bibliography 349 Index 368

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Book SynopsisThe Archaeologist''s Fieldwork Companion is the only current one-volume collection of the practical information and material needed by archaeologists doing fieldwork. Designed as a literal companion to fieldwork: a concise informational toolkit to be carried into the field Provides lists and checklists, planning help, recording and measurement charts and tables, analysis and classification guides, information on drafting and artifact drawing, abbreviations, sample forms, and legislation concerning archaeological fieldwork Offers additional information for processing research, such as a guide to research publication and an extensive bibliography for further resources An invaluable aid not only to students undertaking fieldwork for the first time, but also to seasoned archaeologists Trade Review"An excellent compilation of equipment lists and procedures, covering a wide range of fieldwork activities. It will be valuable to professionals and students alike, in both the field and the classroom." Harold Mytum, University of York "Kipfer's all-inclusive guidebook will no doubt help archaeologists of all levels avoid common mistakes in the field and the lab by providing useful information in a handy portable format." Diana DiPaolo Loren, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University "This useful compendium of practical resources for students, professionals, and amateurs condenses a plethora of reference information, from conversion tables to codes of ethics, into one handy package." Ruth M. Van Dyke, Colorado College “This easy-to-use spiral-bound book by independent scholar Kipfer offers extensive information and materials to assist in the practical aspects of doing archaeology … It will be invaluable for a variety of readers from beginners in archaeological fieldwork to professional archaeologists ... Highly recommended.” Choice "There is something for everyone in this volume. The wire spiral binding gives the added advantage of being easy to use in the field." Australian ArchaeologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Classification and Typology. 2. Forms and Records. 3. Lists and Checklists. 4. Mapping, Drawing, and Photographing. 5. Measurement and Conversion. 6. Planning Help. 7. Resources. Appendix: Abbreviations and Codes.

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Book SynopsisAntiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchanges, cooperation, abuses, and misunderstandings—all with the underlying element of financial gain. Indeed, “who owns antiquity?” is a contentious question in many of today’s international conflicts.About Antiquities offers an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between archaeology and empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century. Starting at Istanbul and focusing on antiquities from the Ottoman territories, Zeynep Çelik examines the popular discourse surrounding claims to the past in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York. She compares and contrasts the experiences of two museums—Istanbul’s Imperial Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—that aspired to emulate European collections and gain the prestige and power of owning the material fragmentsTrade ReviewAbout Antiquities is a valiant book that plumbs important new material in the history of Ottoman antiquities. It is not the last word so much as the start of a new discussion. That is a considerable accomplishment. * The Art Bulletin *[A] complex and wide-ranging book…[Çelik] provides a rewarding exploration of complexity in the rich history of archaeology and nation building, often from creative and unexpected angles, with acknowledgment of the echoes of these relationships in the fraught present. * caa.reviews *About Antiquities deepens our focus on the Ottoman engagement with archaeology in the field and strategies of display…Çelik, in deceptively neat categories, opens up new avenues of research for the next generation of scholars writing against the grain of canonical archaeological works and approaches. * Review of Middle East Studies *A valuable contribution to the history of archaeology in that it both presents a wealth of different kinds of material—from postcards to private journals—and models innovative methods to mine these resources for new information…essential reading for any scholar who is interested in the history of archaeology or museum and heritage politics as they formed in the late nineteenth century. * Journal of Modern Greek Studies *A highly instructive book that opens fresh perspectives through an examination of an original and eclectic range of primary sources…there can be little doubt that Çelik has made a significant contribution to our understanding of a crucial early chapter in the histories of archaeology and the museum. * Journal of Islamic Studies *[About Antiqiuities] forcefully [reveals] the power of archives and their capacity to fill spaces, produce knowledge, highlight personal recollections, and divulge holistic stories of archaeology, museums, objects, colonialism, and nation-building. * Journal of Near East Studies *About Antiquities addresses the roots of fundamental issues in the Ottoman past of the Turkish Republic that still dominate archaeology and heritage studies. Complemented by remarkable images, Çelik elegantly frames her inquiries with cross-cultural literary analyses to illustrate the impact of the growing field of archaeology on different aspects of Ottoman culture and society. Çelik's cross-cultural methodology stands as a contribution not only to the Ottoman and Republican history of Turkey but also to the historiography of archaeology and heritage studies in general, while providing insight into the subtle but powerful role antiquities have played in the construction of national identities. * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Author's Note on Names, Dates, and Measurements Introduction Chapter 1. Beginnings: The Nineteenth-Century Museum Chapter 2. Scholarship and the Imperial Museum Chapter 3. The Imperial Museum and Its Visitors Chapter 4. The Ottoman Reading Public and Antiquities Chapter 5. The Landscape of Labor Chapter 6. Dual Settlements Epilogue. Enduring Dilemmas Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis landmark, interdisciplinary volume on the excavation of one of the longest-occupied yet most enigmatic sites in human history sheds new light on how civilization began among farmers and fishermen some fourteen thousand years ago.Trade Review"This volume is a foundational landmark, and can be used to teach students both at undergraduate and graduate levels to provide guidance for how to conduct and publish future archaeological research." * Antiquity *"The contributors to this engrossing book reveal the ancient Andeans' culinary habits, artistic practices, and social organization at what Dillehay labels 'one of the most complex prepottery' coastal sites ever discovered." * Foreign Affairs, Best Books of 2018 *Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Chapter 1. Relevance (Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 2. Foundational Understandings (Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 3. Research Design (Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 4. The Environmental Setting, Past and Present (Patricia J. Netherly and Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 5. Holocene Geology and Paleoenvironmental History of the Lower Chicama Valley (Steven L. Goodbred Jr., Rachel Beavins, Michael Ramírez, Mario Pino, André Oliveira Sawakuchi, Claudio Latorre, Tom D. Dillehay, and Duccio Bonavia) Chapter 6. Cultural Phases and Radiocarbon Chronology (Tom D. Dillehay and Duccio Bonavia) Chapter 7. Site Data and Patterns (Tom D. Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia, Gabino Rodríguez, Gerson Levi-Lazzarus, Daniel Fernandes Moreira, Marilaura López Solís, Paige Silcox, and Kristin Benson) Chapter 8. Bioarchaeology of the Huaca Prieta Remains (Anne R. Titelbaum and John W. Verano) Chapter 9. Faunal Remains (Víctor F. Vásquez, Teresa Rosales Tham, Patricia J. Netherly, and Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 10. Plant Remains (Duccio Bonavia, Víctor F. Vásquez, Teresa Rosales Tham, Patricia J. Netherly, Tom D. Dillehay, and Kristin Benson) Chapter 11. Nontextile and Nonbasketry Material Culture (Tom D. Dillehay and Duccio Bonavia) Chapter 12. Twined and Woven Artifacts Part 1: Textiles (Jeffrey Splitstoser) Part 2: Basketry and Cordage from Huaca Prieta (Jeff Illingworth and J. M. Adovasio) Chapter 13. Outlying Domestic House Mound Sites (Greg Maggard and Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 14. Continuity, Change, and the Construction of the Early Sangamon Society (Tom D. Dillehay) Chapter 15. Beyond Matter to Foundations and Representations (Tom D. Dillehay) Appendices 1. Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Chronology at Huaca Prieta (Mario Pino) 2. Charcoal Analysis (Isabel Rey) 3. Marine Shell Analysis for Seasonality (Teresa C. Franco) 4. Chili Pepper Distribution and Use (Katherine L. Chiou, Christine A. Hastorf, Víctor F. Vásquez, Teresa Rosales Tham, Duccio Bonavia, and Tom D. Dillehay) 5. Maize Analysis (Duccio Bonavia and Alexander Grobman) 6. Dietary Ecology, Stable Isotope, and Dental Microwear Texture Analysis (Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Tom D. Dillehay, Steven L. Goodbred Jr., and Robert S. Feranec) 7. Phytolith Analysis (José Iriarte and Jennifer Watling) 8. Sand and Salt Samples from Huaca Prieta (Mario Pino) 9. Starch Grains (Dolores R. Piperno, Timothy Messner, and Irene Holst) 10. Human Skeletal Remains from Various Excavations (Anne R. Titelbaum and John W. Verano) 11. Pigment Analysis (Jeff Illingworth, Jack Williams, and Michelle L. Farley) 12. Pollen Analysis (Linda Scott Cummings) 13. Fish Otoliths from Huaca Prieta (Elise Dufour, Olivier Trombret, and Philippe Béarez) 14. Semele corrugata Microstructure and Oxygen Isotope Profiles as Indicators of Seasonality (Jeixin Wei, C. Fred T. Andrus, and Alberto Pérez-Huerta) 15. Geophysical Prospection at Huaca Prieta and Paredones (Phil Mink) 16. Preliminary Use-Wear Study of Stone Tools (Tom D. Dillehay) 17. Estimating Haplogroup Affiliation through Ancient mtDNA Analysis from the Huaca Prieta Burials (Tiffiny A. Tung, Jessica Blair, Marshal Summar, Raúl Tito, and Cecil Lewis) 18. Soil Chemistry Analysis (Anonymous) 19. SEM-XRF Analysis of Green Stone (Steven L. Goodbred Jr. and Tom D. Dillehay) References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPaulette F. C. Steeves presents evidence that archaeology sites, Paleo environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres predate Clovis culture (11,200 years ago).Trade Review"The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere offers a refreshing perspective of the peopling of what was once called the New World."—Justin A. Holcomb and Curtis N. Runnels, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology"I want people to read this exciting book and challenge our own assumptions about what we know about Indigenous people's past. Reading books such as this one is important if archaeologists are to confront their own troubling history and challenge themselves to tell different stories which celebrate Indigenous people, their land, and their own ideas about where they come from."—Matthew E. Hill, Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"Unique and thoughtful. . . . This solid narrative of research findings—the first from a Native American perspective—is essential reading."—C. C. Kolb, Choice“Writing in the vein of scholars such as Vine Deloria Jr., Paulette Steeves’s critique of the ‘Clovis-first’ model of peopling of the Americas both engages with and moves beyond current ideas about how and when people first came to these lands. The research presented in this book questions the ways archaeologists have traditionally constructed narratives of movement and arrival without considering Indigenous ways of knowing. This is an important and timely contribution to the field.”—Kisha Supernant (Métis), associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta“Paulette Steeves decenters Western power and authority over Indigenous thought, voice, inclusion, and history. The result is an act of healing that benefits both Indigenous people and academic scholarship.”—Randall H. McGuire, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Binghamton University“A timely analysis of the ethnocentric influences on past and present scientific inquiry and archaeological practice from the perspective of an Indigenous archaeologist. Steeves brings together a host of voices espousing the importance of contextual relationships in hypothesis development and archaeological analysis.”—Kathleen Holen, director of the Center for American Paleolithic Research“Written from an essential Indigenous perspective, this insightful book examines the existence of First Peoples in the Western Hemisphere for at least 50,000+ years longer than previously accepted and uncovers the reasons this theory has been dismissed for decades.”—Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine"Paulette Steeves writes this book from a very personal and intimate understanding of the various impacts of Indigenous colonization."—Guadalupe Sánchez, American AnthropologistTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Terminology 1. Decolonizing Indigenous Histories Finding Home 2. Unpacking Colonial Baggage Rise Up 3. Relations Who Opened the Way Riddle Me This 4. Minds Wide Open 5. Pleistocene Sites in North America Old World: -60,000 6. Pleistocene Sites in South America 7. Genetics, Linguistics, Oral Traditions, and Other Supporting Lines of Evidence Memories 8. Reawakening, Resisting, Rewriting All My Relations Appendix: Pleistocene Sites and References Notes Bibliography Index

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