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University of Texas Press To Be Like Gods
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of evidence from epigraphy, iconography, style, and architectural analysis, Looper offers the first extensive interpretation of the role of dance in ancient Maya society.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Definition and Interpretation of Ancient Maya Dance Definitions of Dance History of Maya Dance Studies Aesthetics and Embodiment Sources and Methods Chapter 1: The Textual Record of Dance Decipherment of Dance Texts The Contexts of T516 "Dance" Expressions Case Study 1: Dos Pilas Case Study 2: Yaxchilán Conclusions Chapter 2: The Iconography of Dance Identifying Dance Iconography Case Study: Dance in the Bonampak Murals Conclusions Chapter 3: Dance Poses and Gestures The Study of Body Positions in Maya Art Dance Poses Problematic Poses From Pose to Gesture: Reconstructing Dance Movement from Figural Images Case Study: Narrative and Avian Dances Conclusions Chapter 4: Dance on Classic Maya Ceramics by Matthew Looper, Dorie Reents-Budet, and Ronald L. Bishop Case Study 1: Dances of the Maize God Case Study 2: The Ik'-Style Corpus of Pictorial Cylinder Vessels Conclusions Chapter 5: The Architectural Settings of Dance Case Study 1: Dance Platforms at Copán and the Yucatán Case Study 2: Temple and Palace Dances in Campeche Conclusions Chapter 6: The Persistence of Maya Dance After European Contact Characteristics of Colonial and Modern Maya Dance Case Study: The Patzkar Conclusions Epilogue: Dance as an Image of Civilization Dance as an Image of Divinity Dance as an Image of Society Dance as an Image of the State Aesthetics as Image and Process Dance in Ancient Maya History Appendix: T516 "Dance" Expressions Ordered by Date Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Monumental Ambivalence
Book SynopsisA masterful examination of the "monumental ambivalence" that results when private and public interests compete to control and benefit from archaeological and historical sites.Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Part I. The Ambivalence of Heritage Chapter One. A New Approach to Heritage Chapter Two. Cartographies of Patrimony Part II: "Maya Archaeology as the Mayas See It" Chapter Three. Chichén Itzá: A Century of Privatization Chapter Four. By Blood or by Sweat: Shaping Rights to World Heritage Chapter Five. Chunchucmil: Ambivalence in a Heritage Landscape Chapter Six. Archaeology, Ejidos, and Space-Claiming Techniques Conclusion. Docile Descendants and Illegitimate Heirs: The Ambivalence Of Inheritance Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press The History of the Incas
Book SynopsisA new translation and introduction to an invaluable account of Inca history and mythology.Table of Contents Preface (Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith) Acknowledgments Introduction: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas (Brian S. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster) Second Part of the General History Called Indica (Translated and Edited by Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith) Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain [1] Division of the history [6] The origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions [7] The fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account [8] Ancient tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions [9] First settlers of the Cuzco Valley [10] How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes [11] The origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco [12] The route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history [13] The entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there [14] The disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields [15] The life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins [16] The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca [17] The life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca [18] The life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca [19] The life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca [20] The life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac [21] What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa [22] How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive [23] Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father [24] The life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca [25] The provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized [26] The life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca [27] The Chancas attack Cuzco [28] The second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the Chancas [29] Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father [30] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco [31] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it [32] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco [33] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his older brother named Inca Urcon [34] The nations that Pachacuti Inca destroyed and the towns he attacked; first, Tocay Capac, the cinchi of the Ayarmacas, and [then the] destruction of the Cuyos [35] The other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca [36] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the House of the Sun with great wealth [37] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu [38] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu [39] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered [40] The Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom [41] Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again [42] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor [43] Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight [44] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu [45] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains [46] Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu [47] The death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui [48] The life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca [49] Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes [50] Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas [51] Topa Inca makes the yanayacos [52] Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things [53] Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco [54] The death of Topa Inca Yupanqui [55] The life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca [56] They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca [57] The first things that Huayna Capac did after being invested as Inca [58] Huayna Capac conquers the Chachapoyas [59] Huayna Capac inspects all the land from Quito to Chile [60] Huayna Capac wages war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambes, and Guancabilicas [61] The Chiriguanas leave to wage war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas [62] What Huayna Capac did after those wars [63] The life of Huascar Inca, the last Inca, and that of Atahualpa [64] Huascar Inca leaves in person to fight against Chalco Chima and Quizquiz, Atahualpa's captains [65] The battle between the forces of Atahualpa and Huascar and the imprisonment of Huascar [66] What Chalco Chima and Quizquiz said to Huascar Inca and the others of his group [67] The cruelties that Atahualpa ordered be committed against the defeated and captured men of Huascar [68] News of the Spaniards reached Atahualpa [69] The Spaniards reach Cajamarca and capture Atahualpa, who orders that Huascar be killed, and he also dies [70] Noting how these Incas were oath-breakers and tyrants against their own, in addition to being against the natives of the land [71] Summary account of the time that the Incas of Peru lasted Statement of the proofs and verification of this history Appendix 1: Sample Translation Appendix 2: Editions of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's The History of the Incas Appendix 3: The Rule of the Incas, Following Dates Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa Appendix 4: The Incas of Cuzco, Following Information Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Negotiating for the Past Archaeology Nationalism
Book SynopsisAn overlapping analysis of archaeology and nationalism in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey between World Wars I and II.Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. End of the Old Order 2. The Sardis Affair 3. Heirs of the Hittites 4. Egypt Awakening 5. Housing Egypt's Treasures 6. France's Closed Door 7. Winning Persepolis 8. Troubles over Iran 9. Archaeology as Usual 10. The Reign of Sati` Al-Husri 11. A New Era 12. Reflections Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Vestal Virgins Sibyls and Matrons
Book SynopsisA sweeping overview of Roman women’s roles and functions in religion and, by extension, in Rome’s history and culture from the republic through the empire.Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Silent Ones Speak Chapter 2: Life Cycles and Time Structures Chapter 3: The Making of Rome Chapter 4: Rome Eternal Chapter 5: Rome Besieged Chapter 6: Rome and Its Provinces Conclusion Appendix A: Ancient Authors Appendix B: Timeline Appendix C: Maps Notes Bibliography General Index
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University of Texas Press Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms
Book SynopsisA major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber) 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III) 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford) 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke) 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye) 8. The "Path of Souls": Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford) 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown) 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe) References Index
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University of Texas Press Romancing the Maya
Book SynopsisAn exploration of why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own.Trade ReviewEvans has meticulously researched his subject and writes in an elegant and clear prose style that makes his book a pleasure to read.... In short, this is an outstanding scholarly book that should be of interest to Mayanists, art historians, and students of American literature and history. * The Americas *Romancing the Maya will be required (and enjoyable) reading for students of the Maya. And its careful analysis of visual expositions—including the subjective uses of photography—makes it especially appropriate for the undergraduate classroom. * The Journal of Latin American Anthropology *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Second Discovery of America 2. Incidents of Transcription: American Antiquity in the Work of Stephens and Catherwood 3. Joseph Smith and the Archaeology of Revelation 4. The Toltec Lens of Désiré Charnay 5. Bordering on the Magnificent: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in the Kingdom of Móo Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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MU - University of Texas Press The Fifth Sun Aztec Gods Aztec World
Book SynopsisA study of Aztec religion and mythology.Table of Contents Introduction 1. The World, the Heavens, and Time 2. Creation and the Role of Paradise 3. The Quality of the Numinous 4. Tezcatlipoca 5. Quetzalcoatl 6. The Making of Huitzilopochtli 7. The Goddesses 8. Man 9. The Nuclear Cult: War, Sacrifice, and Cannibalism Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press In the Maw of the Earth Monster
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present.Trade ReviewThis volume on Mesoamerican ritual cave use is a significant achievement on the editors' part and a major contribution to cave research. It is also a landmark in research on religion, ritual, and worldview in Maya studies as a whole. * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents 1. Introduction: A History of Mesoamerican Cave Interpretation (James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer) Part 1: Central Mexico 2. Rites of Passage and Other Ceremonies in Caves (Doris Heyden) 3. The Cave-Pyramid Complex among the Contemporary Nahua of Northern Veracruz (Alan R. Sandstrom, illustrated by Michael A. Sandstrom) 4. Constructing Mythic Space: The Significance of a Chicomoztoc Complex at Acatzingo Viejo (Manuel Aguilar, Miguel Medina Jaen, Tim M. Tucker, and James E. Brady) Part 2: Oaxaca 5. Pre-Hispanic Rain Ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico (Janet Fitzsimmons ) 6. Sacred Caves and Rituals from the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico: New Revelations (Carlos Rincón Mautner) Part 3: The Maya Region 7. Some Notes on Ritual Caves among the Ancient and Modern Maya (Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart) 8. Shamans, Caves, and the Roles of Ritual Specialists in Maya Society (Keith M. Prufer) 9. Cave Stelae and Megalithic Monuments in Western Belize (Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs) 10. A Cognitive Approach to Artifact Distribution in Caves of the Maya Area (Andrea Stone) 11. Cluster Concentrations, Boundary Markers, and Ritual Pathways: A GIS Analysis of Artifact Cluster Patterns at Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize (Holley Moyes) 12. Ethnographic Notes on Maya Q'eqchi' Cave Rites: Implications for Archaeological Interpretation (Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady) 13. A Lacandon Religious Ritual in the Cave of the God Tsibaná at the Holy Lake of Mensabok in the Rainforest of Chiapas (Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn, translated and edited by Pierre Robert Colas) 14. Beneath the Yalahau: Emerging Patterns of Ancient Maya Ritual Cave Use from Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico (Dominique Rissolo) 15. Caves, Karst, and Settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán (Clifford T. Brown) 16. Concluding Comments (Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady) Index
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MU - University of Texas Press Wood Quay The Clash over Dublins Viking Past
Book SynopsisThe story of an archaeological site and the public reaction to it.Trade ReviewThe late Robert J. Mullen has written a reliable, readable, and well-illustrated book that covers, in six chronological chapters, a selection of the major monuments of Mexican colonial architecture during the period from 1521 to independence." - Hispanic American Historical Review "This book is the first I know that addresses this architecture in one concise, readable volume... It will be useful to students and travelers or simply people interested in the architecture of Mexico - a vast group." - Hal Box, W. L. Moody, Jr., Centennial Professor in Architecture, University of Texas at AustinTable of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Irish Government Introduction: Dublin Surfacing 1. Blackpool and Watlingford 2. A Civic Place 3. Normans 4. Scrutiny 5. Friends 6. Dlí agus Cirt 7. Joint Consent 8. Emotional Terms and Section Fours 9. Under the Raven 10. This Old Job Conclusion: It Is If You Want It to Be Further Reading Index
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University of Texas Press Visualizing the Sacred
Book SynopsisAdvancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III, James F. Garber, and George E. Lankford) General Studies Chapter 1. Regional Approaches to Iconographic Art (George E. Lankford) Chapter 2. The Cosmology of the Osage: The Star People and Their Universe (James R. Duncan) Regional Studies: Middle Mississippi Valley Chapter 3. The Regional Culture Signature of the Braden Art Style (James A. Brown) Chapter 4. Early Manifestations of Mississippian Iconography in Middle Mississippi Valley Rock-Art (Carol Diaz-Granados) Regional Studies: Lower Mississippi Valley Chapter 5. Mississippian Ceramic Art in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Thematic Overview (David H. Dye) Chapter 6. The Great Serpent in the Lower Mississippi Valley (F. Kent Reilly III) Regional Studies: Cumberland Valley Chapter 7. Iconography of the Thruston Tablet (Vincas P. Steponaitis, Vernon James Knight, Jr., George E. Lankford, Robert V. Sharp, and David H. Dye) Chapter 8. Woman in the Patterned Shawl: Female Effigy Vessels and Figurines from the Middle Cumberland River Basin (Robert V. Sharp, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and George E. Lankford) Regional Studies: Moundville Chapter 9. A Redefinition of the Hemphill Style in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Vincas P. Steponaitis) Chapter 10. The Raptor on the Path (George E. Lankford) Chapter 11. The Swirl-Cross and the Center (George E. Lankford) Regional Studies: Etowah and Upper Tennessee Valley Chapter 12. Iconography of the Hightower Region of Eastern Tennessee and Northern Georgia (Adam King) Chapter 13. Dancing in the Otherworld: The Human Figural Art of the Hightower Style Revisited (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber) Chapter 14. Raptor Imagery at Etowah: The Raptor Is the Path to Power (Adam King and F. Kent Reilly III) Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press Pulltrouser Swamp
Book SynopsisPulltrouser Swamp conclusively demonstrates the existence of hydraulic, raised-field agriculture in the Maya lowlands between 150 B.C. and A.D. 850.Table of Contents Preface by B. L. Turner II 1. Wetlands and the Maya: An Overview of the Problem and the Pulltrouser Swamp Project (B. L. Turner II and Peter D. Harrison) 2. The Physical Setting: Northern Belize and Pulltrouser Swamp (William C. Johnson) 3. Vegetation Associations at Pulltrouser Swamp (Janice P. Darch) 4. The Excavations of Raised and Channelized Fields at Pulltrouser Swamp (B. L. Turner II) 5. The Soils of Pulltrouser Swamp: Classification and Characteristics (Janice P. Darch) with Further Comments on Soils and Raised Fields by (William C. Johnson) 6. Macrofloral Remains of the Pulltrouser Area: Settlements and Fields (Charles H. Miksicek) 7. Analysis of Pollen from the Fields at Pulltrouser Swamp (Frederick M. Wiseman) 8. Mollusca: A Contrast in Species Diversity from Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitats (Alan P. Covich) 9. The Pulltrouser Settlement Survey and Mapping of Kokeal (Peter D. Harrison) 10. The Excavations at Southern Kokeal (Nancy Ettlinger) 11. The Ceramics of the Pulltrouser Area: Settlements and Fields (Robert E. Fry) 12. The Lithic Artifacts of the Pulltrouser Area: Settlements and Fields (Harry J. Shafer) 13. Pulltrouser Swamp and Maya Raised Fields: A Summation (B. L. Turner II and Peter D. Harrison) References Index
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University of Texas Press Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American In
Book SynopsisThis volume is designed to recognize the important role that epigraphy has come to play in Middle American scholarship and to document significant achievements in three areas: dynastic history, phonetic decipherment, and calendrics.Table of Contents 1. Introduction (Victoria R. Bricker) 2. The Zapotec Writing System (Gordon Whittaker) 3. Mixtec Pictography: Conventions and Contents (Maarten Jansen) 4. The Annals of the Tlapanecs (Constanza Vega Sosa) 5. Aztec Writing (Hanns J. Prem) 6. Noun and Verb Morphology in the Maya Script (Victoria R. Bricker) 7. A New Look at the Dynastic History of Palenque (Linda Schele) 8. Classic Maya History and Politics at Dos Pilas, Guatemala (Stephen D. Houston) 9. The Copan Dynasty (Berthold Riese) 10. The Middle American Calendar Round (Munro S. Edmonson) Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Drawing with Great Needles Ancient Tattoo
Book SynopsisLeading authorities provide the first state-of-the-art study of the history, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.Trade Review"This is a fascinating volume on a subject for which detailed investigation is long overdue." - Midcontinental Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Carol Diaz-Granados and Aaron Deter-Wolf) 1. Native American Tattooing in the Protohistoric Southeast (Antoinette B. Wallace) 2. Needle in a Haystack: Examining the Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Tattooing (Aaron Deter-Wolf) 3. Swift Creek Paddle Designs as Tattoos: Ethnographic Insights on Prehistoric Body Decoration and Material Culture (Benjamin A. Steere) 4. Tattoos, Totem Marks, and War Clubs: Projecting Power through Visual Symbolism in Northern Woodlands Culture (Lars Krutak) 5. The Art of Enchantment: Corporeal Marking and Tattooing Bundles of the Great Plains (Lars Krutak) 6. Identifying the Face of the Sacred: Tattooing the Images of Gods and Heroes in the Art of the Mississippian Period (F. Kent Reilly III) 7. Dhegihan Tattoos: Markings That Consecrate, Empower, and Designate Lineage (James R. Duncan) 8. Snaring Life from the Stars and the Sun: Mississippian Tattooing and the Enduring Cycle of Life and Death (David H. Dye) References Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press The Inka Empire A Multidisciplinary Approach
Book SynopsisLeading international scholars from many complementary disciplines present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inka Empire, the largest political system that ever developed in the ancient New World.Trade Review"Shimada’s monumental volume makes clear that ‘Inka’ can be understood in multiple ways, whether as a claim to ethnic origin, an assertion of status, a mode of governance or as a standard of beauty...This volume will surely influence research on the Inkas for decades to come. Moreover, although the volume maintains a tight focus on its subject matter, it offers rich and varied insights into imperialism that will interest scholars of ancient empires more generally." * Antiquity *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction (Izumi Shimada)Part I. Written Sources, Origins, and FormationsChapter 2. Inkas through Texts: The Primary Sources (Frank Salomon)Chapter 3. The Languages of the Inkas (Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino)Chapter 4. Tracing the Origin of Inka People through Ancient DNA Analysis (Ken-ichi Shinoda)Chapter 5. Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Inka Myths, Inka Legends, and the Archaeological Evidence for State Development (Brian S. Bauer and Douglas K. Smit)Part II. Imperial Infrastructures and Administrative StrategiesChapter 6. Inka Imperial Intentions and Archaeological Realities in the Peruvian Highlands (R. Alan Covey)Chapter 7. Funding the Inka Empire (Terence N. D'Altroy)Part III. Inka Culture at the CenterChapter 8. Inka Cosmology in Moray: Astronomy, Agriculture, and Pilgrimage (John C. Earls and Gabriela Cervantes)Chapter 9. The State of Strings: Khipu Administration in the Inka Empire (Gary Urton)Chapter 10. Inka Art (Thomas B. F. Cummins)Chapter 11. Inka Textile Traditions and Their Colonial Counterparts (Elena Phipps)Chapter 12. The Inka Built Environment (Stella Nair and Jean-Pierre Protzen)Chapter 13. Considering Inka Royal Estates: Architecture, Economy, History (Susan A. Niles)Chapter 14. Inka Conceptions of Life, Death, and Ancestor Worship (Peter Kaulicke)Part IV. Imperial Administration in the ProvincesChapter 15. Collasuyu of the Inka State (Martti Pärssinen)Chapter 16. Reading the Material Record of Inka Rule: Style, Polity, and Empire on the North Coast of Peru (Frances M. Hayashida and Natalia Guzmán)Chapter 17. Over the Mountains, Down into the Ceja de Selva: Inka Strategies and Impacts in the Chachapoya Region (Inge Schjellerup)Chapter 18. At the End of Empire: Imperial Advances on the Northern Frontier (Tamara L. Bray)Part V. Impacts of the Spanish ConquestChapter 19. Three Faces of the Inka: Changing Conceptions and Representations of the Inka during the Colonial Period (Tetsuya Amino)Authors' BiographiesIndex
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University of Texas Press Architectural Vessels of the Moche
Book SynopsisElaborately decorated monumental architecture, royal tombs, and ritual human sacrifice have established the Moche of ancient Peru (AD 200–800) as a culturally rich and ideologically complex civilization. Because the Moche did not have a text-based writing system, their sophisticated works of art, which communicated complex concepts, specific ideas, and detailed narratives, have become a prime source for understanding the Moche worldview. This pioneering volume presents the first book-length study of one of the most compelling forms of Moche art—fine ware ceramics that depict architectural structures in miniature.Assembling a data set of some two hundred objects, Architectural Vessels of the Moche interprets the form and symbolism of these artworks and their relationship to full-scale excavated Moche architectural remains. Juliet B. Wiersema reveals that Moche architectural vessels preserve aspects of Moche monumental architecture that have been irreparably Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Moche Architectural Vessels: An Overview2. Visualizing and Visually Communicating Architectural Space3. The Moche Architectural Vessel Corpus and Its Correspondence with the Archaeological Record4. Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space: Vessels of the Enclosed Gabled Type5. Moche Architectural Whistling Vessels: Their Technical Construction and Acoustic Properties6. Architectural Representations in Other CulturesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Texas Press Picture Cave
Book SynopsisThis extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric sTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword (Patty Jo Watson)Preface (Carol Diaz-Granados)AcknowledgmentsLandowners' Introductory MessagePart 1. OverviewChapter 1. Introduction to Picture Cave and the Picture Cave Interdisciplinary Project (Carol Diaz-Granados)Chapter 2. "Tracings in the Idleness of Art": Picture Cave in the Context of Southeast Prehistoric Cave Art (Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler)Chapter 3. The Geology and Ecology of Picture Cave (Philip W. Newell)Part 2. Technical Work at Picture CaveChapter 4. Geochemical Analyses of Prehistoric Pigment Materials from Picture Cave (Sarah A. Blankenship)Chapter 5. AMS Radiocarbon Dates for Charcoal from Three Pictographs and Their Associated Iconography (Carol Diaz-Granados, Marvin W. Rowe, Marian Hyman, James R. Duncan, and John R. Southon)Chapter 6. Documenting Spatial Order in the Pictograph Panels of Picture Cave (Jan F. Simek, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Alan Cressler, and Sarah A. Blankenship)Chapter 7. The Origins of Picture Cave: An Essay on the Artists/Priests Who Made the Drawings, as Interpreted from the Salvaged Cultural Materials (James R. Duncan)Part 3. InterpretationsChapter 8. Tradition and Horizons in Southeastern Representation: Lessons from Picture Cave (James A. Brown and Jon Muller)Chapter 9. The Black Warrior Pictograph: Dating and Interpretation (James R. Duncan, Marvin W. Rowe, Carol Diaz-Granados, Karen L. Steelman, and Tom Guilderson)Chapter 10. The Cave and the Beneath World Spirit: Mythic Dragons from the North American Past (F. Kent Reilly III)Chapter 11. The Cave, Cahokia, and the Omaha Tribe (Richard F. Townsend)Chapter 12. Mortal Combat, Sacred Narratives, and Symbolic Weaponry: Mississippian Culture Heroes in Picture Cave (David H. Dye)Chapter 13. The Spider in the Cave (Kathryn Red Corn)Chapter 14. Transmogrification, Healing, and Resurrection: Extraordinary Themes in Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados and James R. Duncan )Chapter 15. Color Symbolism and Preliminary Assessment of Styles at Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados)Chapter 16. Visions in Picture Cave (George E. Lankford)Chapter 17. Identifying the Characters on the Walls of Picture Cave (James R. Duncan)Part 4. Artistry and ReactionChapter 18. The First Man Was an Artist: Meditations on a Prehistoric Mississippian Cave (Pala Townsend)Chapter 19. Layered Pictures, Layered Stories, Layered Lives (Anita Fields)Part 5. Osage Interviews and CommentaryChapter 20. Interviews in Picture Cave and Osage Commentary (William Samuel Fletcher, Osage Elder (Hominy, Oklahoma), Alma Jean Maker, Osage Elder (Pawhuska, Oklahoma), Charles Red Corn, Osage Elder (Norman, Oklahoma))Chapter 21. The Future of Picture Cave (Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, F. Kent Reilly III, and Jan Simek)Appendix: Illustrated Catalogue of Picture Cave ArtAlan Cressler and Jan F. SimekReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
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University of Texas Press Maya Figurines
Book SynopsisThe first systematic analysis of ceramic figurines from multiple regions of the Southern Maya Lowlands, this book explores the construction of the Late Classic period Maya state by considering how figurines found in household refuse deposits mirror the reTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. State and Household: Articulating RelationsChapter 2. Materiality and MimesisChapter 3. State Pomp and Ceremony Writ SmallChapter 4. From Oral Narrative to Festival and Back: Tricksters, Spirit Companions, Ritual Clowns, and DeitiesChapter 5. Figurine Political EconomiesChapter 6. Figurative PerformancesChapter 7. Comments on Maya State and HouseholdAppendicesNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Texas Press Gero J YUTOPIAN
Book SynopsisWritten by a pioneer of archaeological theory, this account of an Early Formative village in Northwest Argentina offers a new model for the site report that illustrates how the fieldwork experience shapes the production of archaeological knowledge.Trade Review"Unlike any monograph I have ever read, it is truly interesting beyond its summary of findings. Each time I pick it up, I find it hard to put down….It is entirely unique." * Vice-president of World Archaeological Congress (WAC) *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsFrameworks1. Introduction2. Framework: Knowledge production at Yutopian3. Framework: Ambiguity and the lust for certitudeProject Context4. Narrative: Project origins in a British steak dinner5. Socio-politics: Finding Northwest Argentina6. Narrative: Archaeologists and lugareños meet at Yutopian7. Backstory: Chronology in Northwest Argentina8. Argument: Ceramic sequences and social processes9. Narrative: Why excavate at Yutopian?10. Socio-politics: Should North American archaeologists dig in Argentina?Starting to Dig11. Argument: The positionality of practice12. Episode: Digging test pits13. Raw data: What the test pits told us14. Narrative: The incredible Pozo de Prueba 1815. Episode: Extending test pit excavations16. Andean ways: Inadvertent human remains17. Episode: Opening Estructura Uno18. Raw data: Inventory of artifact counts and special finds from Units 300, 301 and 30219. Narrative: Emotional moments20. Andean ways: The rodeo21. Argument: Excavation formsEstructura Dos22. Narrative: Coming and going23. Episode: Expectations and excavations in Estructura Dos24. Narrative: Los Hermanos25. Raw data: Inventory of special finds from Estructura Dos26. Narrative: Why was Estructura Dos disappointing?27. Backstory: Why live in a semi-subterranean house?Estructura Uno28. Episode: Excavating Estructura Uno29. Descriptive data: A tour of the occupation floor of Estructura Uno30. Raw data: Inventory of special and general finds from Estructura Uno, Units 303–30631. Major ambiguity: Metallurgy in the house?32. Argument: How the gendered household works33. Andean ways: Buy the cage and get the chicken34. Episode: Analysis in the fieldEstructura Tres35. Narrative: Arrivals, decisions, decisions!36. Backstory: Andean ethnobotany and flotation at Yutopian37. Episode: Excavating Estructura Tres38. Raw data: Inventory of special finds from Estructura Tres39. Narrative: The peculiar pits of Estructura Tres40. Andean ways: Honoring PachamamaInterpreting Núcleo Uno41. Episode: Exploring Núcleo Uno's shared patio42. Descriptive data: The square feature in the round patio43. Descriptive data: The entranceways of Núcleo Uno44. Narrative: The life history of Núcleo Uno45. Cooking data: Changing patterns of lithic consumption in Núcleo Uno: Chalcedony and obsidian46. Narrative: How unique is Núcleo Uno at Yutopian?47. Backstory: How unique is Núcleo Uno in the world?Estructura Once and the Issue of Remodeling Houses48. Episode: The call of Estructura Once49. Andean ways: Eating quirquincho (armadillo)50. Raw data: Diagnostic ceramics by level from Estructura Once51. Descriptive data: Remodeling and repositioning the doorways52. Narrative: What did we learn from Estructura Once?53. Backstory: What about the saucer-shaped house floors?54. Episode: Pozos de Prueba 12 and 12aEstructura Cuatro55. Episode: Opening up Estructura Cuatro (1996)56. Data in two modalities: The tri-lobate hearth57. Descriptive data: The hearth occupation level in Estructura Cuatro58. Narrative: Last day fervor in Estructura Cuatro59. Socio-politics: Good-byes60. Episode: Estructura Cuatro excavations in 1998: The lower occupation61. Raw data: Inventory of special finds from Estructura Cuatro62. Descriptive data: The cache pit63. Andean ways: Chañar drinksLooking for Núcleo Dos64. Narrative: Where was Estructura Cuatro's entranceway?65. Episode: Searching for Cinco and Núcleo Dos66. Raw Data: Inventory of special finds from Estructura Cinco67. Narrative: Radical remodeling in Núcleo Dos68. Argument: Ritual and quotidian69. Narrative: A lab for all reasons70. Socio-politics: Yutopian in the communityUnderstanding Yutopian as an Early Formative Settlement71. Raw data: Comparative characteristics of Yutopian structures72. Raw data: Radiocarbon chronology73. Narrative: The Formative settlement at Yutopian74. Backstory: Plazas and a "public"75. Argument: Yutopian's boundaries and the site map76. Socio-politics: Why Yutopian has so little Formative context77. Narrative: Entranceway ideologies78. Andean ways: Water management at YutopianData from the Experts79. Data from the experts: Agricultural practices at Yutopian (with Jack Rossen)80. Data from the experts: Plants and diet, now and then (with Jack Rossen)81. Data from the experts: Phytolith facts82. Data from the experts: Faunal remains (with Andrés Izeta)83. Data from the experts: Ceramic forms and designs (with M. Fabiana Bugliani)84. Cooking data: Chalcedony and obsidian, part 285. Data: Stone tools from other angles86. Data: Cross-mends and what they tell us87. Data: Beads and spindle whorlsCardonal by Comparison88. Narrative: The "other" Early Formative site: Cardonal89. Argument: Testing archaeology and its methods90. Socio-politics: Traveling to Cardonal91. Episode: A short field season testing Cardonal house structures92. Raw data: Special finds from the 2004 Cardonal field season93. Socio-politics: North-South collaborations in archaeology94. Backstory: Grinding stones (conanas, cutanas, morteros) and the holes in them95. Episode: Later work at Cardonal96. Andean ways: Llama caravans and long-distance exchange97. Narrative: Cardonal and YutopianWrap-Ups and Postscripts98. Wrap-up: Putting the project to bed99. Postscript: Early Formative society: Where's the monumental?100. Follow-through: References cited
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MU - University of Texas Press From Moon Goddesses to Virgins
Book SynopsisThis highly innovative book decodes the process through which the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire occurred.Trade Review"This is a bold, fascinating, often highly original contribution to the field of Maya studies, and Maya colonial ethnohistory in particular... Because of its subject matter, it will appeal to both specialists in Latin American history and academic and non-academic readers interested in the study of sexuality." -Susan Kellogg, Associate Professor of History, University of HoustonTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Transcription and Translation Searching for the Moon Goddess To Desire the Moon Goddess Sexual Desire Colonial Maya Sexual Acts Colonial Maya Sexual Ideas The Historian's Method Religion and Family Religion Family Revisiting Hybridity Framing Maya Sexual Desire Defining the Hybrid Cultural Matrix Sex,Gender,and War Colonizing Sin Performing the Hybrid Fornicating with Priests, Communicating with Gods Having Sex in a Church Strategic Inversions Excess Sex: Adultery, Rape, and the Commoners Thinking of Sex The Unvirgin Virgin The Moon Goddess The Appearance of the Virgin Mary The Moon Goddess and the Virgin The Language of Virginity The Resilience of the Moon Goddess Gender, Lineage, and the Blood of the Rulers Bodies of Kings The Blood of the Name Blood, Naming,and Masculinity Blood, Semen, and Ritual Blood of the Vagina Blood of the Penis Phallic Motions and Transsexual Bodies Gendered Blood and Transsexual Bodies Transsexuality and the Floating Phallus The Phallus without a Body Transsexuality Colonialism, Oedipus, and the Floating Phallus Ritualized Bisexuality Sodomites, Homosexuals, Bisexuals Activity and Passivity Pedagogy, Pederasty,and Political Power Sexual Control Finding the Virgin Mary Sexual Acts, Symbols, and Desires Theorizing Hybridity and Sexuality Notes Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Early Rock Art of the American West
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Here, finally, is a book that presents the remarkable first paleoart of North America comprehensively and in all its glory. Malotki’s marvelous ability to capture rock art photographically has been noted before as being without equal, and this book is no exception. . . . But what makes this volume so precious is the most propitious combination of Malotki’s encyclopedic knowledge of the Southwest’s rock art with Dissanayake’s sophisticated understanding of the nature of art-like production." -- Robert Bednarik * Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture *"Drawing on the insights of ethology, cognitive archaeology, evolutionary biology, and the psychology of art and art-making, the authors succeed in building a brilliant, substantive case for the antiquity of the early geometric enigmas that span the American West, and for the psychology behind their creation. . . . Essential. All readers." * Choice *"In this fascinating volume, linguist Ekkehart Malotki and scholar Ellen Dissanayake parse images created up to 15,000 years ago by Palaeoamericans from Arizona to Idaho, speculating about their origins and functions. Alongside Malotki’s stunning photographs of some 200 examples, the authors recontextualize the relics as products of ritualistic activity (‘artification’) rather than symbolic artworks." * Nature *
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University of Washington Press Consuming Ivory
Book SynopsisExamines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like Ivoryton and Deep River, Connecticut, thrived, the African ivory trade left in its wake massive human exploitation and ecological devastation. At the same time, dynamic East African engagement with capitalism and imperialism took place within these trade histories. Drawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly investigates the complex global legacies of the historical ivory trade. She not only explains the complexities of this trade but also analyzes Anglo-American narratives about Africa, questioning why elephants and ivory feature so centrally in those representations. From elephant conservation efforts to the cultural heritage iTrade Review"[S]trongly researched and well-written book for anthropologists, historians, conservators, politicians, and others interested in the history of the ivory trade and the ongoing global challenges surrounding elephant conservation in the face of the illicit ivory trade." * African Archaeological Review *
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University of Washington Press Consuming Ivory
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[S]trongly researched and well-written book for anthropologists, historians, conservators, politicians, and others interested in the history of the ivory trade and the ongoing global challenges surrounding elephant conservation in the face of the illicit ivory trade." * African Archaeological Review *
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University of Washington Press Three Gandhari EkottarikagamaType Sutras
Book SynopsisThis is volume two of 'Gandharan Buddhist Texts', a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Preface Format, Transcription, and Citation System List of Abbreviations 1. British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14 2. Comparison of the Gandhari, Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese Versions 3. Physical Description of the Manuscript 4. Paleography and Orthography 5. Phonology 6. Morphology 7. Transcribed Text, Reconstruction, and Translation 8. The "Dhona-sutra" 9. The "Budhabayana-sutra" 10. The "Prasana-sutra" Appendix 1. Readings of Unlocated Fragments Appendix 2. The Gandhari Avadana of Puniga Appendix 3. The Pali Parallels to the First and Third Gandhari Sutras References Word Index
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University of Washington Press Excavating the Afterlife The Archaeology of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lai highlights the richness and complexity of the region’s archaeological record while demonstrating the nuance that well-considered material culture can add to knowledge of early religion." * Choice *"[I]mmensely interesting. . . Excavating the Afterlife should be of interest to Sinologists and researchers of Chinese studies, archaeologists and art historians, scholars and students of comparative religions." -- Zbigniew Wesolowski * Monumenta Serica *"This book provides a very nuanced, detailed, and vivid account of the ‘mortuary religion’ of southern China from the Warring States to the Han period. . . . A very valuable resource for future studies in this field. . . . The bold but always well-founded stance that Lai takes on these topics combined with the richness of source material and exemplary nature of this approach make this volume a true milestone in the study of early religion in southern China." -- Anke Hein * Journal of Chinese Religions *"Lai offers his reader an extraordinary wealth of both facts and interpretations" -- John Lagerwey * Arts Asiatiques *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology of Early Chinese Dynasties Introduction 1. The Dead Who Would Not Be Ancestors 2. The Transformation of Burial Space 3. The Presence of the Invisible 4. Letters to the Underworld 5. Journey to the Northwest Conclusion Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Athenian Adonia in Context The Adonis
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUncovers remarkable and unsuspected depths in the works of such figures as Aristophanes and Plato. This is the most compelling and sophisticated study available of any single Athenian ritual and the most challenging to received notions about the wider role of religion in city-state society." - Richard P. Martin, Standford University“[This] study of the Adonia as offering cultural critiques played out in specific texts is a major innovation. . . . A model for new readings of other seemingly marginal rites.”—Journal of Hellenic Studies
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Athenian Adonia in Context The Adonis
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUncovers remarkable and unsuspected depths in the works of such figures as Aristophanes and Plato. This is the most compelling and sophisticated study available of any single Athenian ritual and the most challenging to received notions about the wider role of religion in city-state society." - Richard P. Martin, Standford University“[This] study of the Adonia as offering cultural critiques played out in specific texts is a major innovation. . . . A model for new readings of other seemingly marginal rites.”—Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations and References Introduction 1 Adonis and the Adonia: Trends in Representation, Ancient and Modern 2 Weddings: Stairway to Heaven 3 Funerals: Aristophanes's Adôniazousai 4 Philosophy: Gardening for Fun in Plato's Phaedrus Conclusion Figures Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin SpearWon Land Sardis from the Kings Peace to the
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume are members of the Hellenistic Sardis Project, a research collaboration between long-standing expedition members and scholars keenly interested in the site. These new discussions on the pre-Roman history of Sardis restore the city in the scholarship of the Hellenistic East.Trade Review“This provides an extraordinary overview of Sardis and the surrounding area during the Early Hellenistic period and will be in demand by archaeologists in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. I would say that all of us are indebted to the editors for their creativity.”—C. Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Gods of the Greeks
Book SynopsisOriginally published in Germany fifty years ago, The Gods of the Greeks has remained an enduring work. Influential scholar Erika Simon was one of the first to emphasize the importance of analyzing visual culture alongside literature to better understand how ancient Greeks perceived their gods.Trade ReviewShows an impressive mastery of the archaeological and poetic documents from Homer and Hesiod to Pindar and Attic tragedy."" - Classical Journal ""Decades after its initial publication in German, Erika Simon's magisterial study of the Olympian gods is still a basic source for Greek religion in all its manifestations. Now thanks to this elegant translation, English readers will have the opportunity to delve deeply into the archaeological and textual sources which inform our understanding of these ageless divinities."" - Jenifer Neils, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Yale University Press Big and Small A Cultural History of Extraordinary
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thoughtTrade Review“A compelling and innovative account of why size matters. . . Brings much-needed height and breadth to a neglected field.”—Louisa Yates, THES"A pleasure to read. Vallone constantly pushes her inquiries beyond period- or genre-boundaries to ask broad questions that concern us all, as human beings as well as professional specialists. Big & Small should rank alongside the best, most far-reaching studies of childhood and human culture available today."—Professor Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne"Size matters. Whether our bodies are classed as "ordinary" or "extraordinary", such evaluations have a major impact on how we move through the world. Lynne Vallone's mediations on bodily size are both delightful and insightful. She has a formidable grasp of literary, scientific, and historical approaches to bodies, which she tackles with political as well as personal engagement. I loved reading this book."—Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London."Big and Small is a fascinating and innovative work which deals with a topic we tend to overlook – size and human measure. Through a careful and thorough analysis of literature, art, and science from the eighteenth century to the present Vallone demonstrates that size matters in all aspects of our lives. Convincing and highly significant, her book will change our views of how we determine all aspects and values of bodies."—Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota"Vallone’s skill in moving between divergent bodies of material with such assured interdisciplinary gusto means that this is something of a magnum opus: the type of major scholarly achievement that only the best kind of critical mind is capable of producing after years of searching inquiry into a very broad range of sources drawn from literature, art history, sociology, and gender studies. An outstanding and resourceful work."—Prof. Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Advances in Human Palaeopathology
Book Synopsis* Combines theoretical, methodological and diagnostic aspects with key biocultural approaches to provide a truly integrated approach to palaeopathology. * Up-todate includes overviews of the latest applicable techniques from molecular biology, biochemistry, histopathology and medical imaging.Trade Review"Overall this is an informative, timely, and extensive book on the recent Advances in Human Paleopathology and as such it should be added to one's repertoire of books to rely upon for explanations of how we arrived at our present state today and where our discipline can and should go in the future." (PaleoAnthropology, 2010) "An excellent and detailed account of recent developments in the field of human palaeopathology. … This book offers an impressive amount of information for both students and more advanced researchers." (Paleopathology Newsletter, December 2009) "Pinhasi and Mays have produced an excellent, balanced compilation that reflects what is currently happening in paleopathology research and that nicely addresses paleopathology as both discipline and tool, highlighting technical advanced and schooling us on how disease manifests in the human skeleton. This is valuable resource that students and professionals interested in human paloepathology should consider adding to their libraries." (American Journal of Human Biology, March 2009) "Visually and textually, this volume is of exceptional value for guiding future generations of paleopathologists." (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2009) "The strengths of the book are numerous … This important collection of 16 chapters provides state-of-the-art overviews of key elements of palaeopathology…. I strongly recommend the book" (The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2008) "Visually and textually, this volume is of exceptional value for guiding future generations of palaeopathologists." (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, September 2008) "The volume nicely demonstrates the shift from the descriptive, diagnostic approach of old to population-oriented research…strongly recommend the book." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2008)Table of ContentsPreface (Simon Mays and Ron Pinhasi). Contributors. Part 1: Analytical Approaches in Palaeopathology. 1. The Chemical and Microbial Degradation of Bones and Teeth (Gordon Turner-Walker). 2. How Representative Are Human Skeletal Assemblages for Population Analysis? (Ron Pinhasi and Chryssi Bourbou). 3. Epidemiological Approaches in Palaeopathology (Ron Pinhasi and Katy Turner). 4. Macroscopic Analysis and Data Collection in Palaeopathology (Anne L. Grauer). 5. Radiography and Allied Techniques in the Palaeopathology of Skeletal Remains (Simon Mays). 6. Computed Tomography Scanning and Three-Dimensional Visualization of Mummies and Bog Bodies (Niels Lynnerup). 7. Histological Studies on Ancient Bone (Gordon Turner-Walker and Simon Mays). 8. Molecular Palaeopathology of Human Infectious Disease (Helen D. Donoghue). 9. Databases (William White). Part 2: Diagnosis and Interpretation of Disease in Human Remains. 10. Differential Diagnosis of Skeletal Lesions in Infectious Disease (Donald J. Ortner). 11. Metabolic Bone Disease (Simon Mays). 12. Tumours and Tumour-like Processes (Don Brothwell). 13. Advances in the Palaeopathology of Teeth and Jaws (Alan Ogden). 14. Trauma (Pia Bennike). 15. Congenital Anomalies (Ethne Barnes). 16. Growth in Archaeological Populations (Ron Pinhasi). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Gender Prehistory
Book SynopsisA Companion to Gender Prehistory offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of the gender dimension in behavior throughout our ancient past.Trade Review“In short, as this volume shows us, there is no doubt that the gender perspective has been the strongest theoretical and methodological stimulus for the study of prehistory during the last decades. Adopting such a perspective provides a much more complex panorama of prehistoric societies than that which has been described to date. Such a panorama is, in turn, infinitely more stimulating.” (European Journal of Archaeology, 1 March 2014) “Part 2's strength is its global breadth, with most contributors offering a synthesized and regionally bounded historiography of gender studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 July 2013) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x List of Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Acknowledgments xxii Introduction: Gender Prehistory – The Story So Far 1 Diane Bolger Part I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21 Section 1 Current Themes and Debates 21 1 Engendering Human Evolution 23 Adrienne Zihlman 2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45 Scott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn 3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities 68 Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce 4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter 86 Benjamin Alberti 5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology 108 Margaret W. Conkey Section 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 121 6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122 Kelley Hays-Gilpin 7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology 142 Nyree Finlay 8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161 Diane Bolger 9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180 Cathy Lynne Costin Section 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 203 10 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons 204 Yvonne Marshall 11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226 Joanna Sofaer 12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body 244 Douglass W. Bailey 13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265 Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris Part II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289 Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289 14 Gender in North African Prehistory 291 Barbara E. Barich 15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa 313 Lyn Wadley 16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia 333 Sarah Milledge Nelson 17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia 351 Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson 18 Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory 372 Diane Bolger and Rita P. Wright Section 5 Gender in European Prehistory 395 19 The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe 396 Marie Louise Stig Sørensen 20 Gender in Eastern European Prehistory 413 John Chapman and Nona Palincaº 21 Gender and Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Southwest Europe 438 Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Sandra Montón-Subías 22 Gender in British Prehistory 458 Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope 23 Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory 480 Ruth Whitehouse 24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory 502 Louise Hitchcock and Marianna Nikolaidou Section 6 Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific 526 25 Gender in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States 527 Cheryl Claassen 26 The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America 544 Alice Beck Kehoe 27 The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond Gender Complementarity 564 Elizabeth M. Brumfiel 28 Gender in South American Prehistory 585 Melissa A. Vogel and Robyn E. Cutright 29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the South Pacific 608 Cherrie De Leiuen Index 628
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Moral Anthropology
Book SynopsisA Companion to Moral Anthropology features a collection of readings from international experts that explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in the emerging field of moral anthropology. This companion includes coverage of morality and ethics, moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroethics, and bioethics.Trade Review“This thrilling survey at once points to a rich future for anthropology, without diminishing the ethical and moral debts contemporary anthropologists owe to their predecessors.” (Expofairs.com, 1 March 2016) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology 1 Didier Fassin Part I Legacies 19 1 Durkheim and the Moral Fact 21 Bruno Karsenti 2 Weber and Practical Ethics 37 Isabelle Kalinowski 3 E. P. Thompson and Moral Economies 49 Marc Edelman 4 Foucault and the Genealogy of Ethics 67 James D . Faubion 5 Relativism and Universalism 85 Richard A. Shweder 6 Anthropology and Ethics 103 Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Part II Approaches 115 7 Cultural Values 117 Joel Robbins 8 Ordinary Ethics 133 Veena Das 9 Moral Sentiments 150 C . Jason Throop 10 Moral Reasoning 169 Karen M . Sykes 11 Virtue 186 Thomas Widlok 12 Narratives 204 Jarrett Zigon Part III Localities 221 13 Ethics and Piety 223 Saba Mahmood 14 Care and Disregard 242 João Biehl 15 Mourning 264 Everett Yuehong Zhang 16 Poverty 283 Harri Englund 17 Inequality 302 Caroline Humphrey 18 Sexuality 320 Stacy Leigh Pigg Part IV Worlds 339 19 Religion and Morality 341 Michael Lambek 20 Charity 359 Jonathan Benthall 21 Medicine 376 Adriana Petryna 22 Science 395 Michael M . J . Fischer 23 Finance 413 Karen Ho 24 Law 432 Carol J. Greenhouse Part V Politics 449 25 Humanitarianism 451 Peter Redfield 26 Human Rights 468 Mark Goodale 27 War 482 Catherine Lutz and Kathleen Millar 28 Violence 500 Alexander Hinton 29 Punishment 519 Roger Lancaster 30 Borders 540 Josiah M. Heyman and John Symons Part VI Dialogues 559 31 Moral Philosophy 561 Kwame Anthony Appiah 32 Moral Psychology 578 James Dungan and Liane Young 33 Neuroethics 595 Massimo Reichlin 34 Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology 611 Nicolas Baumard and Dan Sperber Index of Names 628 Subject Index 641
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria
Book SynopsisPolycystineradiolariaare exclusively marineprotistsand are found in all ocean waters, from polar regions to the tropics, and at all water depths. There are approximately 600 distinct described living species and several thousand fossil species ofpolycystines. Radiolarians in general, andpolycystinesinparticular,have recently been shown to be a majorcomponent of the living planktonand important to the oceanic carboncycle. As fossilsradiolarians arealsofairly common, and often occur in sediments where other types of fossils are absent. This has made them very valuable for certain types of geologic research, particularly estimating the geologic age of the sediments containing them, and as guides to past oceanic water conditions. Asour current understanding of the biology, and even taxonomy of the living fauna is still very incomplete, evolutionary studies based on livingpolycystinesare still rare. However, the common occurrence of numerous specimens for many species, and in a wide variety of oceanic environments,provides an excellent opportunity to studythe processes ofbiologic evolution in the fossil record. Paleobiology of thePolycystineRadiolariais the first major book on radiolarians to appear in the western literature since 2001.Focusing on living and fossil siliceous shelled radiolarians, it is notable for its emphasis not upon morphologic or taxonomic detail but on concepts and applications. The book attempts to provide a balanced, critical review of what is known of the biology, ecology, and fossil record of the group, as well as their use in evolutionary,biostratigraphicandpaleoceanographicresearch. Full chapters on the history of study, and molecular biology, are the first ever in book form. Written foran audience of advanced undergraduate to doctoral students, as well as for a broad range of professionals in the biological and Earth sciences,Paleobiology of thePolycystineRadiolariasummarizes current understanding of the marine planktonic protist grouppolycystineradiolaria, both in living and fossil form. Trade Review“Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria is well worth the purchase price and should be in the personal library of all protistologists working on marine forms.” Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology“A welcome addition to the literature in a field that is rich in potential for interdisciplinary research.” Journal of Plankton ResearchTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgements xv Chapter 1 History 1 Introduction 1 Scientific Context 4 Early Studies (First Half of the Nineteenth Century) 8 C.G. Ehrenberg and J. Müller 8 Second Half of the Nineteenth Century to ca. 1920 13 E. Haeckel and his Disciples 13 Legacy of Early Studies 16 Early Twentieth Century (ca. 1920–1940) 17 The Early New Period (ca. 1940–1970) 20 The Origins of Radiolarian Biostratigraphy: 1940s to 1950s 20 Deep-Sea Drilling 21 Taxonomy 25 Biology 27 Mid New Period (1970–2000) 28 Current Period (2000-Present) 37 Chapter 2 Biology 41 General Characteristics of Planktonic Protist Biology 41 Physical Characteristics of the Pelagic Ocean 42 Plankton Taxa 46 Ecologic and Behavioral Constraints due to Small Body Size 46 Basic Radiolarian Cellular Structure 48 Skeleton 53 Skeleton Formation and Growth 55 Size 59 Colonial Forms 59 Life Cycle 60 Longevity 62 Motility 63 Feeding 63 Predators 65 Abundance and Role in Carbon Cycle 66 Symbiosis 67 Bioluminescence 68 Summary 69 Chapter 3 Ecology 71 Introduction 71 Biogeography 75 Vertical Distribution 83 Tropical Submergence 86 Longitudinal Gradients and Upwelling Assemblages 89 Latitudinal Gradients 90 Coastal Gradients 90 Seasonal Variability 91 Interannual Variability 93 Chapter 4 Genetics 95 Introduction 95 Molecular Phylogenetic Position of “Radiolarians” within Eukaryotes 96 Molecular Studies of Radiolarian’s Position within Eukaryotes 97 Relationships of Radiolarian Clades 98 Origination Times of Radiolarian Clades 102 Family-Level Phylogeny 102 Spumellaria (Shell-Bearing Radiolarians) 105 Collodaria (Colonial or Naked Radiolarians) 105 Nassellaria 106 Acantharia 107 Microevolution of Radiolaria 107 Diversity of Pico-Radiolarian Material 111 Transcriptomics of Radiolaria 112 Methodology 113 DNA Extraction 114 Reproductive Cell Method 114 Dissecting Cell Method 114 PCR 114 Summary 114 Chapter 5 Taxonomy and Fossil Record 117 Introduction 117 PART 1 - Radiolarian Taxonomy 118 Principles of Species-Level Taxonomy 118 Rules for Describing and Naming Species 121 Current Status of Descriptive Radiolarian Taxonomy 124 Principles of Higher-Level Taxonomy 129 Haeckel and the Beginnings of Higher-Level Radiolarian Taxonomy 129 Biologic Systematics 132 Higher-Level Taxonomy in Radiolaria 134 The Observational Basis of Taxonomy: Structures of the Radiolarian Shell 136 Higher-Level Taxonomy in this Book 139 Formal Classification of Polycystina 143 Cenozoic Taxa 143 Order Spumellaria Ehrenberg 1876 143 Family Actinommidae Haeckel 1862 145 Family Heliodiscidae Haeckel 1881 149 Family Coccodiscidae Haeckel 1862, emend. Sanfilippo and Riedel 1980 151 Family Pyloniidae Haeckel 1881 153 Family Lithelidae Haeckel 1862 155 Family Tholonidae Haeckel 1887 156 Family Spongodiscidae Haeckel 1862 156 Order Nassellaria Ehrenberg 1876 160 Family Plagiacanthidae Hertwig 1879 162 Family Trissocyclidae (Haeckel) Goll 1968 [superfamily Acanthodesmiacea] 163 Family Theoperidae Haeckel 1881 163 Family Artostrobiidae Riedel 1967 167 Family Pterocoryithidae (Haeckel) Moore 1972 167 Family Carpocaniidae (Haeckel) Riedel, 1967 [Carpocaniinae] 171 Family Cannobotryidae Haeckel, 1881 173 Superfamily Collodaria 173 Family Collosphaeridae Müller, 1858 175 Family Sphaerozoidae Haeckel, 1862 175 Family Collophidiidae Biard and Suzuki, in Biard et al., 2015 177 Order Entactinaria 183 Family Orosphaeridae Haeckel, 1887 183 Family Saturnalidae Deflandre 1953 184 Mesozoic and Paleozoic Taxa 185 Species-Level Variation in Radiolaria 185 PART 2 - Summary of the Radiolarian Fossil Record 193 Cambrian and Ordovician 194 Silurian to the Lower Carboniferous 195 Late Paleozoic to Late Mesozoic Siliceous Sedimentation 196 Mass Extinctions at the End of the Paleozoic Era 197 Basal Mesozoic Scarcity of Radiolarian Fossils and Faunal Turnover (Early Triassic) 200 Triassic 201 Triassic–Jurassic Boundary Mass Extinction 204 Jurassic 205 Early and Middle Jurassic Radiolaria 205 Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous 208 Cretaceous 208 The K/T Extinction Event and Early Paleocene 212 Cenozoic 214 Chapter 6 Preservation and Methods 217 Introduction 217 Preservation 218 Geographic Variation in Preservation 222 Diagenesis 222 Loss of Rock Record 224 Differences between Modern and Ancient Oceans 224 Quality of Radiolarian Fossil Record 225 Methods 227 Collecting Material from the Water Column 228 Collecting Sediments 231 Collecting Lithified Material from Sections on Land 236 Recovering Radiolarians from Samples 238 Extracting Radiolarians with Intact Protoplasm 238 Extracting Radiolarian Skeletons 238 Separation of Radiolarians from other Chemically Resistant Similar-Sized Components of Residue 242 Mounting Radiolarians 243 Live Preparations 245 Dissection and Serial Sectioning 246 Imaging Radiolarians 247 Visualization (enhanced imagery) 248 Morphometrics 249 Automatic Identification 249 Chapter 7 Paleoceanography 253 Introduction 253 Radiolarians as Tracers of Water Masses 259 Assemblage-Based Methods of Paleoceanographic Analysis 259 Non-temperature Uses of Assemblage Analyses 268 Radiolarians in Bulk: Summary Indices and Non-Taxonomic Uses of Radiolarians in Paleoceanography 273 Chapter 8 Radiolarian Biostratigraphy 281 Introduction 281 Biostratigraphy in Shallow Marine Rocks: General Aspects 283 Biostratigraphy in Deep-Sea Sediment Sections 285 Other Types of Geochronologic Information 287 Radiometric Dating and Absolute Age 287 Paleomagnetic Stratigraphy 288 Stable Isotope Stratigraphy 290 Cyclostratigraphy 291 Quantitative Biostratigraphy 292 Cenozoic Radiolarian Stratigraphy 295 History of Development 296 Tropical Cenozoic Radiolarian Stratigraphy 297 Subtropical North Atlantic to Arctic 299 North Pacific 302 Southern Ocean 305 History 305 Characteristics 307 Important Sections 307 Important Species 307 Mesozoic Radiolarian Stratigraphy 308 Cretaceous 308 Europe and Southwest North America 311 Low-Latitude Western part of Mesotethys 311 Mid-Ltitude Northern Part of Mesotethys 311 Russian Epicontinental Seas 312 East Margin of the Mid-Latitude Pacific 312 Northwest Pacific 312 Other Regions 313 The Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary (Tithonian–Berriasian Boundary) 313 Jurassic 314 Middle and Late Jurassic 314 Lower Jurassic 316 Triassic–Jurassic Boundary 316 Triassic 316 Latest Triassic (Rhaetian) 317 Carnian and Norian 318 Late Olenekian to Ladinian 318 Basal Triassic (Induan) and Permian–Triassic (P–T) boundary 318 Paleozoic Radiolarian Stratigraphy 319 Permian 319 Carboniferous 321 Devonian and Silurian 321 Ordovician and Cambrian 325 Chapter 9 Evolution 327 Introduction and General Principles 327 Features of the Deep-Sea Microfossil Record Relevant to the Study of Evolution 330 Microevolution 331 Pattern and Processes 332 Examples of Microevolution 333 Cladogenesis 333 Anagenesis 339 Extinction 344 Hybridization 344 Macroevolution 346 Definitions and Theory 346 Theories of Diversity and Evolution 348 Macroevolutionary Patterns in Radiolaria 349 Origin of Radiolarians 349 Origin of Collodaria and Colonial Radiolaria 352 Origin of Higher Taxa within Radiolaria – General Comments 354 Diversity History of Radiolarians 354 Methods of Diversity Reconstruction 354 Other Problems of Diversity Reconstruction 358 Data for Diversity Reconstruction 358 Global Phanerozoic Diversity 358 Paleozoic 363 Mesozoic 364 Cretaceous–Tertiary Boundary 368 Cenozoic 372 Other Aspects of Cenozoic Radiolarian Macroevolutionary Change 382 Phanerozoic Diversity – A More Modest View 386 Summary Discussion 388 References 393 Index 461
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Amphibian Evolution
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land.Trade Review“Amphibian Evolution delivers a wide-ranging synthesis of viewpoints and data on early tetrapods and the ancestry of lissamphibians. This conveniently sized volume suits a higher-level undergraduate course on palaeobiology or introductory graduate class. Clearly written and illustrated, the text provides just enough historical context to give a sense of where the topics come from and where new developments seem to be heading… In summary, this is a thoroughly useful volume to have on your shelf (as well as recommending several copies for the college library).” (Acta Zoologica, July 2017)“In summary, this is a comprehensive work that could be used as a guide to focus on specific aspects of one of the most exciting chapters of vertebrate history.” (Ameghiniana, 1 April 2015) “It provides rewarding reading, useful for students and researchers/professionals studying amphibians as well as other vertebrates. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 December 2014) Table of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Changing paradigms in amphibian evolution 3 1.2 Paleobiology: data, methods, and time scales 5 1.3 Concepts and metaphors: how scientists “figure out” problems 7 1.4 Characters and phylogenies 8 1.5 What’s in a name? 8 References 11 2 The Amphibian World: Now and Then 13 2.1 Tetrapoda 14 2.1.1 The tetrapod skeleton 14 2.1.2 Tetrapod characters 23 2.1.3 Stem-tetrapods (Tetrapodomorpha) 25 2.1.4 Carboniferous tetrapods or tetrapodomorphs? 31 2.2 The amniote stem-group 32 2.2.1 Anthracosauria 33 2.2.2 Seymouriamorpha 37 2.2.3 Chroniosuchia 38 2.2.4 Lepospondyli 40 2.2.4.1 Lepospondyl characters 42 2.2.4.2 Microsauria 42 2.2.4.3 Lysorophia 44 2.2.4.4 Nectridea 44 2.2.4.5 Aïstopoda 45 2.2.4.6 Adelospondyli 46 2.2.4.7 Acherontiscidae 46 2.2.5 Gephyrostegida 46 2.2.6 Amniota 47 2.2.6.1 Stem-amniotes and early crown amniotes 48 2.3 The lissamphibian stem-group (Temnospondyli) 48 2.3.1 Edopoidea 51 2.3.2 Dendrerpeton and Balanerpeton 53 2.3.3 Dvinosauria 54 2.3.4 Dissorophoidea and Zatracheidae 54 2.3.5 Eryopoidea 56 2.3.6 Stereospondyli 57 2.4 Albanerpetontidae 58 2.5 Lissamphibia 59 2.5.1 Lissamphibian characters 61 2.5.2 Batrachia 62 2.5.2.1 Anura (frogs and toads) 62 2.5.2.2 Caudata (salamanders) 67 2.5.2.3 Gymnophiona (caecilians) 68 References 70 3 Amphibian Life Through Time 81 3.1 Aquatic predators prepare for land 83 3.2 Hot springs, scorpions, and little creepers 83 3.3 Life in the tropical coal forest 85 3.4 Neotenes explore unfavorable waters 89 3.5 Lowlands, uplands, and a cave 90 3.6 Hide and protect: extreme life in the hothouse 94 3.7 Predators in deltas, lakes, and brackish swamps 97 3.8 Stereospondyls in refugia, lissamphibians on the rise 97 3.9 Batrachians diversify, stereospondyls disappear 100 3.10 Lissamphibians expand into diverse habitats 101 References 102 4 The Amphibian Soft Body 106 4.1 How to infer soft tissues in extinct taxa 107 4.2 Fossil evidence: soft tissue preservation 109 4.3 Head and visceral skeleton 110 4.4 Respiratory organs 113 4.5 Lateral lines, electroreception, and ears 118 References 122 5 Evolution of Functional Systems 126 5.1 How paradigms and brackets give a functional scenario 127 5.2 Feeding and breathing under water 131 5.3 Decoupling breathing and feeding 134 5.4 Hearing: exapting the spiracle and hyomandibula 136 5.5 Respiration in early tetrapods 141 5.6 The evolution of terrestrial feeding 143 5.7 Transforming fins into limbs 144 5.8 Locomotion in paleozoic tetrapods 146 References 148 6 Development and Evolution 152 6.1 Ontogeny in modern amphibians 153 6.2 Fossil ontogenies 158 6.3 Ontogeny as a sequence: developmental trajectories 163 6.4 Histology: the skeleton as archive 167 6.5 Changing shape: allometry 171 6.6 Heterochrony: the evolution of development 174 6.7 Body plans: gene regulation and morphogenesis 179 References 184 7 Paleoecology 191 7.1 Lissamphibian ecology 192 7.2 Paleoecology: problems and perspectives 193 7.3 Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians 196 7.4 Amphibian evolution as a walk through trophic levels 203 References 205 8 Life History Evolution 208 8.1 Plasticity, reaction norm, and canalization 209 8.2 Reaction norms in extant amphibians 210 8.3 The biphasic life cycle in lissamphibians 211 8.4 Seymouriamorphs: biphasic life cycles without metamorphosis 213 8.5 Temnospondyls: flexible uni- and biphasic ontogenies 213 8.6 Lepospondyls: dwarfism and uniphasic life cycles 215 8.7 The evolution of metamorphosis 216 8.8 The evolution of neoteny 216 8.9 General features of life history evolution 217 References 219 9 Phylogeny 222 9.1 Phylogeny of amphibians 223 9.2 The big picture: tetrapod diversification 223 9.3 The origin of lissamphibians 224 References 231 10 Macroevolution 234 10.1 What is macroevolution? 235 10.2 Patterns of early tetrapod evolution 235 10.3 Major factors of amphibian evolution 240 10.4 Clades, space, and time 248 10.5 Diversity, disparity, and extinction 249 10.6 The evolution of terrestriality 252 References 254 Index 260
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods
Book SynopsisLanguage and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods Documenting the everyday lives of Moroccan immigrant children in Spain, this in-depth study considers how its subjects navigate the social and political landscapes of family, neighborhood peer groups, and the institutions of their adopted country. García-Sánchez compels us to rethink theories of language and racialization by offering a linguistic anthropological approach that illuminates the politics of childhood in Spain's growing communities of migrants. The author demonstrates that these Moroccan children walk a tightrope between sameness and difference, simultaneously participating in the cultural life of their immigrant community and that of a host society that is deeply ambivalent about contemporary migratory trends. The author evaluates the contemporary state of research on immigrant children and explores the dialectical relations between young Moroccan immigrants' everyday social interactions, and the broader cultural logiTrade Review“Overall, Garcia-Sanchez presents linguistic analysis and data in a way that balances sophistication of argument with clarity and accessibility to those without extensive linguistic training. As a result, this monograph should be appealing both to seasoned scholars and undergraduate students in linguistics and linguistic anthropology, as well as to cultural anthropologists and social scientists interested in Europe, migration, and childhood.” (Anthropos, 1 October 2015) “...García-Sánchez’s book adds to the current literature on socialization, identity construction, and immigration by showing how these larger issues can have direct impact on how the children of immigrants perceive themselves as accepted members of their societies.” (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 May 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Introduction 1 2 Moros en la Costa: The Moroccan Immigrant Diaspora in Spain 28 3 Learning About Children’s Lives: A Note On Methodology 61 4 Moroccan Immigrant Childhoods in Vallenuevo 88 5 The Public School: Ground Zero for the Politics of Inclusion 125 6 Learning How to Be Moroccans in Vallenuevo: Arabic and the Politics of Identity 183 7 Becoming Translators of Culture: Moroccan Immigrant Children’s Experiences as Language Brokers 221 8 Heteroglossic Games: Imagining Selves and Voicing Possible Futures 257 9 Conclusion 289 Appendix 1: Working with Video-Recorded Discourse Data 307 Appendix 2: Arabic Transliteration Symbols 310 References 311 Index 349
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The International Encyclopedia of Primatology 3
Book SynopsisThe International Encyclopedia of Primatology represents the first comprehensive encyclopedic reference focusing on the behaviour, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, and taxonomy of human and non-human primates. Represents the first comprehensive encyclopedic reference relating to primatology Features more than 450 entries covering topics ranging from the taxonomy, history, behaviour, ecology, captive management and diseases of primates to their use in research, cognition, conservation, and representations in literature Includes coverage of the basic scientific concepts that underlie each topic, along with the latest advances in the field Highly accessible to undergraduate and graduate students in primatology, anthropology, and the medical, biological and zoological sciences Essential reference for academics, researchers and commercial and conservation organizations This work is also available as an online resourcTable of ContentsVolume I About the Editors viiContributors xiiiAlphabetical List of Entries xxixThematic List of Entries xxxvIntroduction xliAcknowledgments xlviiInternational Encyclopedia of Primatology A–G Volume II International Encyclopedia of Primatology H–O Volume III International Encyclopedia of Primatology P–ZIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
Book Synopsis50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers and students. Examines intriguingyet widely misunderstoodtopics, from general ideas about evolution and human origins to the evolution of modern humans and recent trends in the field Describes what fossils, archaeology, and genetics can tell us about human origins Demonstrates the ways in which science adapts and changes over time to incorporate new evidence and better explanations Includes myths such as Humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs; Lucy was so small because she was a child; Our ancestors have always made fire; and There is a strong relationship between brain size and intelligence Comprised of stand-alone essays that are perfect for casual reading, as well as footnotes and references that allow readers to delve more deeply into topics Table of ContentsPreface x Introduction: Myths and Misconceptions 1 1 Ideas about Evolution 7 #1 Evolution is a theory, not a fact 7 #2 Evolution is completely random 12 #3 All evolutionary changes are adaptive 16 #4 In evolution, bigger is always better 22 #5 Natural selection always works 26 #6 Some species are more evolved than are others 29 #7 Humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs 33 2 Human Origins 39 #8 If apes evolved into humans, then apes should not exist today 39 #9 “Ramapithecus” was a human ancestor 44 #10 Humans and African apes split from each other over 15 million years ago 51 #11 Gigantopithecus was the ancestor of “Bigfoot” (assuming Bigfoot exists) 56 #12 Human traits all evolved at the same time 60 #13 Large brains evolved very early in human evolution 66 #14 The common ancestor of African apes and humans walked like a chimpanzee 72 #15 Bipedalism first evolved on the African grasslands 76 #16 Lucy was so small because she was a child 80 #17 Australopithecus was a killer ape 85 #18 Human evolution can be described as a “ladder” 90 #19 All hominin species have probably been discovered 97 #20 There are no transitional fossils in human evolution 101 3 Evolution of the Genus Homo 109 #21 Only one species of Homo lived 2 million years ago 109 #22 Early Homo had modern human brain size 115 #23 Only humans are toolmakers and have culture 120 #24 We can identify species by the stone tools they made 125 #25 Homo habilis definitely made shelter 132 #26 Our ancestors have always made fire 135 #27 Early humans got all of their meat from hunting 139 #28 Species with larger brow ridges are more ape]like 143 #29 Neandertals walked bent over and were dumb brutes 148 #30 Neandertals definitely could not speak 153 #31 Modern humans appeared first in Eurasia 158 #32 “Mitochondrial Eve” is our only common female ancestor 163 #33 Neandertals did not interbreed with modern humans 169 #34 We do not need fossils any more to learn about human evolution 175 #35 All recent human species had large brains 178 4 Recent and Future Human Evolution 187 #36 Each of us has billions of distinct ancestors 187 #37 The first Americans came from Europe or the Middle East 192 #38 The first Polynesians came from South America 198 #39 The origin of agriculture led to an improvement in health 203 #40 Civilization has been influenced by extraterrestrials 206 #41 The recent increase in life expectancy was due initially to antibiotics 211 #42 There are three distinct shades of human skin color 217 #43 Biological race is useful for understanding human variation 223 #44 All African Americans have the same genetic history 227 #45 Genetic ancestry is the same thing as cultural identity 231 #46 Sickle cell Anemia is a “black disease” 234 #47 There is a strong genetic relationship between brain size and intelligence test scores 239 #48 Humans are no longer evolving 243 #49 Blond hair will eventually disappear 246 #50 We can predict future human evolution 249 References 258 Index 273
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
Book Synopsis50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers and students. Examines intriguingyet widely misunderstoodtopics, from general ideas about evolution and human origins to the evolution of modern humans and recent trends in the field Describes what fossils, archaeology, and genetics can tell us about human origins Demonstrates the ways in which science adapts and changes over time to incorporate new evidence and better explanations Includes myths such as Humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs; Lucy was so small because she was a child; Our ancestors have always made fire; and There is a strong relationship between brain size and intelligence Comprised of stand-alone essays that are perfect for casual reading, as well as footnotes and references that allow readers to delve more deeply into topics Table of ContentsPreface x Introduction: Myths and Misconceptions 1 1 Ideas about Evolution 7 #1 Evolution is a theory, not a fact 7 #2 Evolution is completely random 12 #3 All evolutionary changes are adaptive 16 #4 In evolution, bigger is always better 22 #5 Natural selection always works 26 #6 Some species are more evolved than are others 29 #7 Humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs 33 2 Human Origins 39 #8 If apes evolved into humans, then apes should not exist today 39 #9 “Ramapithecus” was a human ancestor 44 #10 Humans and African apes split from each other over 15 million years ago 51 #11 Gigantopithecus was the ancestor of “Bigfoot” (assuming Bigfoot exists) 56 #12 Human traits all evolved at the same time 60 #13 Large brains evolved very early in human evolution 66 #14 The common ancestor of African apes and humans walked like a chimpanzee 72 #15 Bipedalism first evolved on the African grasslands 76 #16 Lucy was so small because she was a child 80 #17 Australopithecus was a killer ape 85 #18 Human evolution can be described as a “ladder” 90 #19 All hominin species have probably been discovered 97 #20 There are no transitional fossils in human evolution 101 3 Evolution of the Genus Homo 109 #21 Only one species of Homo lived 2 million years ago 109 #22 Early Homo had modern human brain size 115 #23 Only humans are toolmakers and have culture 120 #24 We can identify species by the stone tools they made 125 #25 Homo habilis definitely made shelter 132 #26 Our ancestors have always made fire 135 #27 Early humans got all of their meat from hunting 139 #28 Species with larger brow ridges are more ape]like 143 #29 Neandertals walked bent over and were dumb brutes 148 #30 Neandertals definitely could not speak 153 #31 Modern humans appeared first in Eurasia 158 #32 “Mitochondrial Eve” is our only common female ancestor 163 #33 Neandertals did not interbreed with modern humans 169 #34 We do not need fossils any more to learn about human evolution 175 #35 All recent human species had large brains 178 4 Recent and Future Human Evolution 187 #36 Each of us has billions of distinct ancestors 187 #37 The first Americans came from Europe or the Middle East 192 #38 The first Polynesians came from South America 198 #39 The origin of agriculture led to an improvement in health 203 #40 Civilization has been influenced by extraterrestrials 206 #41 The recent increase in life expectancy was due initially to antibiotics 211 #42 There are three distinct shades of human skin color 217 #43 Biological race is useful for understanding human variation 223 #44 All African Americans have the same genetic history 227 #45 Genetic ancestry is the same thing as cultural identity 231 #46 Sickle cell Anemia is a “black disease” 234 #47 There is a strong genetic relationship between brain size and intelligence test scores 239 #48 Humans are no longer evolving 243 #49 Blond hair will eventually disappear 246 #50 We can predict future human evolution 249 References 258 Index 273
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology
Book SynopsisA Handbook of Practicing Anthropology is an essential resource for anyone contemplating a career path outside of the academy and wishing to apply anthropological principles to their work in a wide range of professional settings.Trade Review“An essential career-planning resource, A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology presents a comprehensive account of contemporary anthropological practice written primarily by anthropological practitioners.” (Newbooks, 18 November 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface and Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 Riall W. Nolan Part I The Practitioner Career Arc 9 2 Professional Training and Preparation 11 Terry Redding 3 Making the Transition from the Academy to Practice 25 Mary Odell Butler 4 Job Hunting in the Twenty-First Century 36 Judy Tso 5 Job Success 101: A Quick Graduate Course 47 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima 6 Careers in Practice 61 Susan Squires 7 Stress and Failure in Practice Work 71 Riall W. Nolan Part II Practitioner Bases 81 8 Doing Anthropology – Full Tilt, Full-Time 83 Gordon Bronitsky 9 An Independent Consultant in a Business of One 92 Judy Tso 10 How to Be a Self-Supporting Anthropologist 104 Grant McCracken 11 Becoming a Practicing Disaster Anthropologist 114 Susanna M. Hoffman 12 An Anthropologically Based Consulting Firm 125 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima 13 Nongovernmental Organizations 137 Adam Koons 14 Multilateral Governmental Organizations 150 William L. Partridge 15 Tools for Gauging Success in the Corporate Sector 161 Tracy Meerwarth Pester 16 Working for the Federal Government 172 Shirley J. Fiske 17 Anthropologists Working in Higher Education 184 Dennis Wiedman Part III Domains of Practice 197 18 Methods and Approaches 199 Mary Odell Butler 19 Practitioners Working in Health 210 Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Martha Hare 20 International Development 222 Mari H. Clarke 21 Military and Security 237 Kerry B. Fosher and Frank J. Tortorello, Jr. 22 Anthropologists at Work in Advertising and Marketing 247 Timothy de Waal Malefyt 23 Anthropology in Design and Product Development 258 Crysta Metcalf 24 Environment and Resources 266 Robert Winthrop 25 Practitioners in Humanitarian Assistance 278 Adam Koons Part IV Key Issues 289 26 Ethics and Practicing Anthropology – Pragmatic, Practical, and Principled 291 Lenora Bohren and Linda Whiteford 27 The Academic–Practitioner Relationship 303 Linda A. Bennett and Shirley J. Fiske 28 Professional Communication 317 Nathaniel Tashima and Cathleen Crain 29 Working on Cross-Disciplinary Teams 330 Mari H. Clarke 30 Professional Networking for Practitioners 344 Paula Chambers 31 Drug Resistance and Biosocial Analysis in Practice 354 Amy S. Porter and Paul E. Farmer 32 High-Performing Applied Programs 372 Elizabeth K. Briody and Riall W. Nolan Part V Conclusion 389 33 The Future of Practice: Anthropology and the Grand Challenges 391 Riall W. Nolan Further Readings 397 Index 408
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology
Book SynopsisA Handbook of Practicing Anthropology is an essential resource for anyone contemplating a career path outside of the academy and wishing to apply anthropological principles to their work in a wide range of professional settings.Trade Review“An essential career-planning resource, A Handbook of Practicing Anthropology presents a comprehensive account of contemporary anthropological practice written primarily by anthropological practitioners.” (Newbooks, 18 November 2013)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface and Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction 1 Riall W. Nolan Part I The Practitioner Career Arc 9 2 Professional Training and Preparation 11 Terry Redding 3 Making the Transition from the Academy to Practice 25 Mary Odell Butler 4 Job Hunting in the Twenty-First Century 36 Judy Tso 5 Job Success 101: A Quick Graduate Course 47 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima 6 Careers in Practice 61 Susan Squires 7 Stress and Failure in Practice Work 71 Riall W. Nolan Part II Practitioner Bases 81 8 Doing Anthropology – Full Tilt, Full-Time 83 Gordon Bronitsky 9 An Independent Consultant in a Business of One 92 Judy Tso 10 How to Be a Self-Supporting Anthropologist 104 Grant McCracken 11 Becoming a Practicing Disaster Anthropologist 114 Susanna M. Hoffman 12 An Anthropologically Based Consulting Firm 125 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima 13 Nongovernmental Organizations 137 Adam Koons 14 Multilateral Governmental Organizations 150 William L. Partridge 15 Tools for Gauging Success in the Corporate Sector 161 Tracy Meerwarth Pester 16 Working for the Federal Government 172 Shirley J. Fiske 17 Anthropologists Working in Higher Education 184 Dennis Wiedman Part III Domains of Practice 197 18 Methods and Approaches 199 Mary Odell Butler 19 Practitioners Working in Health 210 Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Martha Hare 20 International Development 222 Mari H. Clarke 21 Military and Security 237 Kerry B. Fosher and Frank J. Tortorello, Jr. 22 Anthropologists at Work in Advertising and Marketing 247 Timothy de Waal Malefyt 23 Anthropology in Design and Product Development 258 Crysta Metcalf 24 Environment and Resources 266 Robert Winthrop 25 Practitioners in Humanitarian Assistance 278 Adam Koons Part IV Key Issues 289 26 Ethics and Practicing Anthropology – Pragmatic, Practical, and Principled 291 Lenora Bohren and Linda Whiteford 27 The Academic–Practitioner Relationship 303 Linda A. Bennett and Shirley J. Fiske 28 Professional Communication 317 Nathaniel Tashima and Cathleen Crain 29 Working on Cross-Disciplinary Teams 330 Mari H. Clarke 30 Professional Networking for Practitioners 344 Paula Chambers 31 Drug Resistance and Biosocial Analysis in Practice 354 Amy S. Porter and Paul E. Farmer 32 High-Performing Applied Programs 372 Elizabeth K. Briody and Riall W. Nolan Part V Conclusion 389 33 The Future of Practice: Anthropology and the Grand Challenges 391 Riall W. Nolan Further Readings 397 Index 408
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Palaeohydrology Understanding Global Change
Book SynopsisWith considerable interest in global change, this book provides a general overview of global paleohydrology. The first section provides a global review of the field by exploring real world hydrological scenarios during environmental changes over extensive areas of Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.Trade Review"...the editors and authors have done a good job..." (Progress in Physical Geography, Vol 29 (3) 2005)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Foreword. PART 1: INTRODUCTION. Chapter 1. Potential of Palaeohydrology in Relation to Global Change (K.J. Gregory & G. Benito). PART 2: PERSPECTIVES. Chapter 2. INQUA Research and Palaeohydrology (L. Starkel). Chapter 3. Palaeohydrology and International Global Change Programs (K. Alverson & T. Edwards). PART 3: WORLD AREAS. Chapter 4. Introduction to Regional Palaeohydrologic Regimes and Areas (K.J. Gregory & G. Benito). Section I. High-latitude regions. Chapter 5. High-latitude Fluvial Morphology: The Example from the Usa River, Northern Russia (J. Vandenberghe & M. Huisink). Section II. Mid-latitude regions. Chapter 6. The Lateglacial and Holocene Palaeohydrology of Northern Eurasia (A. Sidorchuk, et al.). Chapter 7. Palaeohydrology of Central Europe (L. Starkel). Chapter 8. Global Environmental Change and the Palaeohydrology of Western Europe: A Review (A.G. Brown). Chapter 9. Palaeohydrological Changes in the Mediterranean Region during the Late Quaternary (G. Benito). Chapter 10. North American Palaeofloods and Future Floods: Responses to Climatic Change (J.C. Knox). Section III. Low-latitude regions. Chapter 11. Palaeohydrological Reconstructions for Tropical Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum – Evidence and Problems (M. F. Thomas & M. B. Thorp). Chapter 12. The Late-Quaternary Palaeohydrology of Large South American Fluvial Systems (E.M. Latrubesse). Chapter 13. Late Pleistocene–Holocene Palaeohydrology of Monsoon Asia (V. Kale, et al.). Chapter 14. Alluvial Evidence of Major Late-Quaternary Climate and Flow-regime Changes on the Coastal Rivers of New South Wales, Australia (G. Nanson, et al.). PART 4: RECENT PROGRESS INTERPRETING EVIDENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. Chapter 15. Data Sharing in Palaeohydrology: Changing Perspectives (T. Oguchi, et al.). Chapter 16. Fluvial Morphology and Sediments: Archives of Past Fluvial System Response to Global Change (D. Maddy, et al.). Chapter 17. Palaeohydrological Modelling: from Palaeohydraulics to Palaeohydrology (J. Thornes). Chapter 18. Palaeofloods and Extended Discharge Records (V. Baker). Chapter 19. Palaeohydraulics of Extreme Flood Events: Reality and Myth (P. Carling, et al.). Chapter 20. Short-term Hydrological Changes (L. Starkel). Chapter 21. Palaeohydrology, Environmental Change and River-channel Management (K. Gregory). PART 5: PROSPECT. Chapter 22. Concluding Perspective ( K. Gregory & G. Benito). Appendix: Discussion at the Fifth International Meeting of GLOCOPH in Pune, India, December 2002. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisThe A-to-Z reference resource for nuclear energy information A significant milestone in the history of nuclear technology, Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia: Science, Technology, and Applications is a comprehensive and authoritative reference guide written by a committee of the world's leading energy experts.Trade Review“It may be most suited for acquisition by public rather than academic libraries, but schools and colleges will certainly find considerable value in its pages as well.” (Reference Reviews, 1 May 2013) Table of ContentsPreface ix (Steven B. Krivit) Introduction xi (Jay Lehr) Contributors xiii Nuclear Fission: Glossary and Acronyms xv (K. Anantharaman, P.R. Vasudeva Rao, Carlos H. Casta˜no, and Roger Henning) Nuclear Fusion: Glossary and Acronyms (Lester M. Waganer) xix PART I GENERAL CONCEPTS 1 1 Nuclear Energy: Past, Present, and Future 3 (Jay Lehr) 2 Benefits and Role of Nuclear Power 7 (Patrick Moore) 3 Early History Of Nuclear Energy 15 (Roger Tilbrook) 4 Early Commercial Development of Nuclear Energy 23 (Roger Tilbrook) 5 Basic Concepts of Thermonuclear Fusion 31 (Laila A. El-Guebaly) 6 Basic Concepts of Nuclear Fission 45 (Pavel V. Tsvetkov) 7 Oklo Natural Fission Reactor 51 (L.V. Krishnan) 8 Electrical Generation from Nuclear Power Plants 57 (Pavel V. Tsvetkov and David E. Ames II) 9 Nuclear Energy for Water Desalination 65 (Saly T. Panicker and P.K. Tewari) 10 Nuclear Energy for Hydrogen Generation 71 (Alistair I. Miller) PART II NUCLEAR FISSION 77 11 Uranium-Plutonium Nuclear Fuel Cycle 79 (Shoaib Usman) 12 Global Perspective on Thorium Fuel 89 (K. Anantharaman and P.R. Vasudeva Rao) 13 Design Principles of Nuclear Materials 101 (Baldev Raj and M. Vijayalakshmi) 14 Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing 121 (Carlos H. Castano) 15 Safety of Nuclear Fission Reactors: Learning from Accidents 127 (J.G. Marques) 16 Spent Fuel and Waste Disposal 151 (Clifford Singer and William R. Roy) 17 Fission Energy Usage: Status, Trends and Applications 159 (Pavel V. Tsvetkov) PART III FISSION: BROAD APPLICATION REACTOR TECHNOLOGY 165 18 Light-Water-Moderated Fission Reactor Technology 167 (J’Tia P. Taylor and Roger Tilbrook) 19 CANDU Pressurized Heavy Water Nuclear Reactors 175 (Rusi P. Taleyarkhan) 20 Graphite-Moderated Fission Reactor Technology 187 (Pavel V. Tsvetkov) 21 Status of Fast Reactors 193 (Baldev Raj and P. Chellapandi) 22 Review of Generation-III/III+ Fission Reactors 231 (J.G. Marques) 23 Tomorrow's Hope for a Pebble-Bed Nuclear Reactor 255 (Jay Lehr) 24 Hydrogeology and Nuclear Energy 257 (Roger Henning) PART IV FISSION: GEN IV REACTOR TECHNOLOGY 271 25 Introduction to Generation-IV Fission Reactors 273 (Harold McFarlane) 26 The Very High Temperature Reactor 289 (Hans D. Gougar) 27 Supercritical Water Reactor 305 (James R. Wolf) 28 The Potential Use of Supercritical Water-Cooling in Nuclear Reactors 309 (Dr. Igor Pioro) 29 Generation-IV Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor 340 (J’Tia P. Taylor) 30 Generation-IV Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors (SFR) 353 (Robert N. Hill, Christopher Grandy, and Hussein Khalil) PART V THERMONUCLEAR FUSION 365 31 Historical Origins and Development of Fusion Research 367 (Stephen O. Dean) 32 Plasma Physics and Engineering 371 (Francesco Romanelli) 33 Fusion Technology 389 (Lester M. Waganer) 34 ITER—An Essential and Challenging Step to Fusion Energy 399 (Charles C. Baker) 35 Power Plant Projects 405 (Laila A. El-Guebaly) 36 Safety and Environmental Features 413 (Lee Cadwallader and Laila A. El-Guebaly) 37 Inertial Fusion Energy Technology 413 (Rokaya A. Al-Ayat, Edward I. Moses, and Rose A. Hansen) 38 Hybrid Nuclear Reactors 421 (Jose M. Martinez-Val, Mireia Piera, Alberto Ab´anades, and Antonio Lafuente) 39 Fusion Maintenance Systems 435 (Lester M. Waganer) 40 Fusion Economics 457 (Lester M. Waganer) PART VI LOW-ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS 479 41 Development of Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction Research 481 (Steven B. Krivit) 42 Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions: A Three-Stage Historical Perspectiv 497 (Leonid I. Urutskoev) 43 Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions: Transmutations 481 (Mahadeva Srinivasan, George Miley, and Edmund Storms) 44 Widom–Larsen Theory: Possible Explanation of LENRs 503 (Joseph M. Zawodny and Steven B. Krivit) 45 Potential Applications of LENRs 547 (Winthrop Williams and Joseph Zawodny) PART VII OTHER CONCEPTS 551 46 Acoustic Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion 553 (Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, Richard T. Lahey Jr., and Robert I. Nigmatulin) 47 Direct Energy Conversion Concepts 569 (Pavel V. Tsvetkov) Index 581
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Bodies of Evidence
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advances include associating documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, and the application of new evaluative techniques.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS. Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Examplefrom Northern California (L. Goldstein). Historic Cemetery Analysis: Practical Considerations (D.Ubelaker). THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS. A Piece of Chicago's Past: Exploring Subadult Mortality in theDunning Poorhouse Cemetery (A. Grauer & E. McNamara). Bones in the Basement: Bioarchaeology of Historic Remains inNonmortuary Contexts (J. Harrington & R. Blakely). RECONSTRUCTING PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. Cross Homestead: Life and Death on the Midwestern Frontier (C.Larsen, et al.). Dental Pathologies Among Inmates of the Monroe County Poorhouse (R.Sutter). Nitrogen Isotope Evidence for Weaning Age in a Nineteenth CenturyCanadian Skeletal Sample (M. Katzenberg & S. Pfeiffer). Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Virtual Reconstruction A Primer in
Book SynopsisVirtual Reconstruction serves as an introduction to the principles of three-dimensional visualization techniques as they relate to fossil reconstruction and reverse engineering. It covers data acquisition, processing, virtual reconstruction, visualization, manipulation, reverse engineering, and applications to biomedicine.Trade Review"..a worthy contribution." (Journal of Anthropological Research, Summer 2006) "If you are interested in...three-dimensional reconstruction of past and present human and other anatomy, this is the text for you!" (IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, May/June 2006) "The authors have done a stupendous job of mining the available literature to present a coherent and organized work...the book is a useful addition to any anthropologist's library." (American Journal of Human Biology, May/June 2006) "…well presented. This is a decidedly visual topic, and the illustrations in the book are wonderful…" (CHOICE, February 2006) "This book is well written. It is surprising easy to read considering the technical subjects that were covered." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2006) “…a very useful resource for anyone wanting to get started in a much wider variety of fields…” (International Journal of Primatology, April 2007) ‘…an excellent source for computer scientists working in the biosciences.’ (Journal of Comparative Human Biology, March 2007) Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Virtual Reconstruction 7 1.1 A Virtual Reality Contest 7 1.2 Virtual Reconstruction 10 1.3 Computer-Assisted Paleontology 12 1.3.1 Data Acquisition 12 1.3.2 Data Segmentation and Three-Dimensional Reconstruction 14 1.3.3 Virtual Fossil Reconstruction 14 1.3.4 From Virtual Reality to Real Virtuality 15 1.3.5 Databases and Morphometry 15 1.3.6 Virtual Reconstruction in Space and Time 16 1.4 Computer-Assisted Surgery 17 1.5 Further Reading 19 2 Data Representation 21 2.1 World Food on a Chessboard 21 2.2 Facts About Data to Get Data About Facts 22 2.2.1 Analog and Digital Data 22 2.2.2 Bits, Bytes, and Words 23 2.2.3 Characters, Numbers, Pixels, and Voxels 29 2.2.4 Representing Gray Tones and Colors 32 2.2.5 Data Compression 40 2.2.6 Some Common Image File Formats 41 2.2.7 Implicit Versus Explicit Representation of Object Data 44 2.2.8 Modeling Three-Dimensional Objects 48 2.3 A Taxonomy of Biomedical Data 50 2.3.1 Perspectives on Data 50 2.3.2 Volume Data 50 2.3.3 Surface Data 52 2.3.4 Landmark Data 53 2.3.5 Extent-Based Data 54 2.3.6 Relational Data 55 2.4 Further Reading 56 3 Data Acquisition 57 3.1 Data and the Physical World 57 3.2 Vision and Photography as Data Acquisition: Performance Considerations 59 3.3 Computed Tomography 64 3.3.1 Frau Röntgen’s Wedding Ring 64 3.3.2 Radiographic Projections 67 3.3.3 Reconstructing CT Images 72 3.3.4 CT Scanning: Technical Considerations 74 3.3.5 Limitations of CT Data Acquisition 77 3.3.6 Slice-to-Slice, Helical, and Multislice CT 80 3.3.7 Industrial and Micro Computed Tomography 82 3.3.8 Three-Dimensional Data Acquisition with a Medical Scanner 84 3.4 Magnetic Resonance Imaging 85 3.5 Surface Scanners 91 3.6 3D Digitizers 93 3.7 Further Reading 94 4 Image Data Processing 97 4.1 Recovering Objects from Images 97 4.2 Converting a CT Image into a Screen Image 100 4.3 Filtering Images 102 4.3.1 Coffee and Kernels 102 4.3.2 Convolution and Fourier Analysis 106 4.3.3 Statistical Filters 107 4.3.4 Edge Detection Filters 108 4.4 Extracting Isosurfaces 113 4.4.1 Determining Boundaries in CT Images 113 4.4.2 From Edges to Isocontours and Isosurfaces 119 4.5 Interactive Segmentation 121 4.6 Further Reading 126 5 Visualization and Interaction 129 5.1 Visualizing Data in Two and More Dimensions 129 5.2 Interaction with Virtual Worlds 131 5.3 The Graphics Rendering Pipeline 132 5.4 Setting Up a Virtual Environment 132 5.4.1 Object Materials, Lighting, and Shading 133 5.4.2 Setting Up the Camera 139 5.4.3 Object Manipulation and Interaction 143 5.5 Volume Rendering 151 5.6 Further Reading 154 6 Virtual Fossil Reconstruction 155 6.1 A Baroque Puzzle 155 6.2 Principles of Reconstruction 157 6.3 Physical and Virtual Reconstruction 159 6.4 Preparing and Restoring Fossils on the Computer Screen 160 6.5 Reconstructing Fossil Morphologies 164 6.5.1 Recovering Implicit Anatomic Information 164 6.5.2 Combining Computer Graphics and Anatomy: The Globe Paradigm 166 6.5.3 Inferring Missing Information 175 6.5.4 Interpolation and Extrapolation 181 6.6 Correcting Fossil Deformation 181 6.6.1 Taphonomic Scenarios 182 6.6.2 Correcting Plastic Deformation 184 6.7 Validating Virtual Reconstructions 189 6.8 Paleodiagnostics and Paleoforensics 192 6.9 Inferring Soft Tissue Structures 193 6.9.1 Motivation 193 6.9.2 Fossil Soft Tissue Reconstruction: Classic and Virtual Approaches 196 6.9.3 What Shall Be Reconstructed? 199 6.9.4 Soft Tissue Reconstruction and Measurement 200 6.10 Virtual Surgery: a Paleoanthropologist’s Eye View 201 6.10.1 Motivation 201 6.10.2 Virtual Planning and Simulation of Surgical Interventions 201 6.10.3 Custom Implant Design 203 6.10.4 Soft Tissue Reconstruction 203 6.11 Further Reading 206 7 From Virtual Reality to Real Virtuality 209 7.1 Reifying Virtual Objects 209 7.2 Principles of Rapid Prototyping 210 7.3 Combining Virtual Reality and Real Virtuality 217 7.4 Further Reading 223 8 Morphometric Analysis 225 8.1 Morphometry as Reconstruction 225 8.2 Morphometry and Geometry 227 8.2.1 The Role of Geometry 227 8.2.2 The Role of Size and Shape 230 8.2.3 Multivariate Morphometry 233 8.2.4 Principal Components Analysis and Dimension Reduction 235 8.2.5 Classic Multivariate Morphometry: Geometry Lost 237 8.2.6 Geometric Morphometrics: Geometry Recovered 239 8.3 Shape Space Analysis 241 8.3.1 From D’Arcy Thompson to Kendall 241 8.3.2 The Workflow of Shape Space Analysis 246 8.3.3 Determining a Reference Shape 246 8.3.4 Analyzing Data in Shape Space 251 8.3.5 Visualizing Patterns of Shape Difference and Shape Change 253 8.4 Euclidean Distance Matrix Analysis 259 8.4.1 In Search of the Golden Mean 259 8.4.2 Exploring Form Variability with EDMA 260 8.5 Outline Analysis 266 8.6 A Comparison of Geometric Morphometric Methods 269 8.6.1 Criteria for Comparison 269 8.6.2 From Pattern to Process 271 8.7 Exploring Morphometric Patterns 272 8.8 Further Reading 275 Appendix A Image Data Acquisition Systems: Performance Considerations 277 Appendix B Parameters Influencing the Quality of CT Image Data 281 Appendix C CT Scanning of Fossil Specimens and Recent Skeletal Specimens: How to Proceed? 285 C.1 Preparation 285 C.1.1 Mounting the Specimens 285 C.1. 2 Materials Used for Fixation 285 C.1. 3 Placement 286 C. 2 Parameters for CT Data Acquisition 287 C.2. 1 Scanned Area 287 C.. 2 X-Ray Tube Current and Voltage 287 C.2. 3 Gantry Tilt 288 C.2. 4 Scanning Direction and Object Orientation 288 C.2. 5 Object Positioning 288 C. 3 Image Reconstruction 290 C.3. 1 Reconstruction Kernels 290 C.3. 2 Image Reconstruction 290 C. 4 CT Data Storage 291 C.4. 1 Raw Data Storage 291 C.4. 2 Image Data Storage 291 C. 5 Calibration 291 C.5. 1 Test Scans 291 C.5. 2 Calibration 292 Appendix D Object Manipulation in Virtual Space 293 D. 1 Matrices 293 D. 2 Rigid Transforms 294 D. 3 Homogeneous Matrices 295 Appendix E A Parsimonious Approach to Correction of Taphonomic Deformation 297 Appendix F Morphometry 299 F. 1 Anatomic Axes and Planes 299 F. 2 Accuracy and Precision of Measurement 299 F. 3 Allometry 299 F. 4 Multivariate Analysis and Dimension Reduction 301 F. 5 Centroid Size 303 F. 6 Procrustes Superimposition, Generalized Least- Squares Fitting, and Linearized Shape Space 303 F. 7 Shape Space Analysis 304 F. 8 Shape Variability as Deformation: Principal, Partial, and Relative Warps 306 References 309 Index 325
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Wiley Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology Advances in Human Biology
Book SynopsisAn essential foundation for the practice of forensic anthropology This text is the first of its level written in more than twenty years. It serves as a summary and guide to the core material that needs to be mastered and evaluated for the practice of forensic anthropology.Trade Review"I enthusiastically recommend Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology as reading in upper level forensic anthropology courses…both strongly theoretical and practical. I also recommend it to all forensic-science professionals as a helpful reference to have at hand." (The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008, reviewed by Gabrielle Jones) "[The author] sets the standard for how textbooks should be engagingly written with clarity and humor." (reviewed by Jeri DeYoung, The Applied Anthropologist, Spring 2008) "…a valuable addition to the forensic science literature…essential." (CHOICE, June 2007) "...an important contribution from a well versed and experienced forensic anthropologist, and will serve as a useful summary of the state of the science today." (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 2007) "...the first of its level written in more than twenty years...an essential foundation for the practice of forensic anthropology." (SirReadaLot.org, August 2006)Table of ContentsPhoto Credits ix Acknowledgments xi Series Introduction xiii Part I Background Setting For Forensic Anthropology 1 Introduction 3 Overview of the Field 3 Education and Training 5 Overview of the Book 6 2 The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Historical Context 8 The Somewhat Difficult Birth of a Specialty 8 The Middle Years 11 Approaching Senescence? 15 Part II Towards Personal Identification 3 Initial Assessments of Skeletal Remains 19 Human or Not? 20 Number of Individuals Represented 22 4 Assignment of Sex 25 Criteria for Sex Attribution in the Adult Skeleton 25 Pelvic Traits 26 The Skull 28 Visual Assessment 30 Discriminant Function Analysis 31 The Appendicular Bones 33 Femur 33 Humerus 34 Other Appendicular Elements 35 Miscellaneous Axial Bones 36 Attribution of Sex from the Skeletons of Children 37 Figuring the Error Rate 39 5 Age Estimation 42 The Early Years 43 Dental Age 44 Bone Age 46 Long Bone Length 46 Union of Primary Ossification Centers 48 Epiphyseal Fusion 49 The Adult Years 53 Macroscopic Methods 53 Face of the Pubic Symphysis 53 Sternal Extremity of the Rib 55 The Auricular Surface 56 Cranial Suture Closure 57 Dental Methods 58 Microscopic Methods 60 Other Age Indicators 62 Concluding Remarks on Adult Age Estimation 63 6 Deciphering Ancestral Background 64 The Biological and the Cultural 64 The Biological Context 65 The Cultural Component 65 Skeletal Indicators 66 The Skull 66 The Postcranium 75 7 Stature Estimation 77 How Tall Are You, Really? 77 Estimation of Living Stature from Skeletal Remains 78 The Fully Method 79 Stature Estimation From Long Bone Length 80 Comparison of Methods 82 Reporting Stature Estimates 83 Correcting Stature Estimates for Older Adults 84 Secular Trend 86 Stature Estimates from Fragmentary Long Bones 86 Stature Estimation from Short Bone Length 87 Footwear and Foot Length 87 8 Skeletal Markers of Activity and Life History 89 Childbirth Indicators 90 Handedness 91 Other Activity Markers 92 Partial Medical History 94 Medical Radiology 96 Part III Principal Anthropological Roles In Medical–Legal Investigation 9 Trauma 101 Blunt Force Trauma 102 Cranial Fracture 102 Hyoid Fracture 105 Postcranial Fracture 106 Child Abuse 106 Penetrating and Perforating Trauma 109 Gunshot Wounds 109 Sharp Injuries 114 10 The Postmortem Period 117 Estimation of the Postmortem Interval 117 Postmortem Events 122 Carnivore Scavenging 123 Cremation 124 Has the Body Been Burned? 125 Fracturing 126 Bone Shrinkage 129 Dismemberment 129 Ritual Use of Skeletal Material 130 11 Professionalism, Ethics, and the Expert Witness 132 The Expert Witness 133 Standards and Credentials for Expert Testimony 134 Some Practical Issues 136 Ethics 137 Science in the Courtroom: Two Unfortunate Examples 139 When Good Science is not Presented 139 When Good Science is Ignored 143 12 Genetics and DNA 145 Serology and Mendelian Genetics 146 Forensic DNA Analysis 147, Legal Considerations 150 References 152 Index 175
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Scientific Bases of Human Anatomy
Book SynopsisToday?s students require a readable and succinct overview of human anatomy from a modern, integrative perspective. The Human Body provides a means for understanding the exciting underlying scientific principles, with an emphasis on the connection between the structure of the human body and a vast array of scientific disciplines.Table of ContentsForeword vii Preface xi Chapter 1 A New System of Human Anatomy 1 1.1 Why a New System? 1 1.2 For Whom Is This System Useful? 4 1.3 What is This System? 6 1.4 Why, Therefore, This Book? 7 1.5 What is My Hope for My Readers? 10 Chapter 2 A Bird’s-eye View of the Human Body 13 2.1 The Scientific Basis of Anatomy 13 2.2 Foundations: From Cell to Embryo 28 2.3 Blueprints: Across the Chordates 41 2.4 Functions: External Lifestyles and Internal Milieux 52 2.5 Integration and Control, Body and Brain 63 2.6 Evolution: Forwards from Deep Time 69 Chapter 3 “The Naming of the Parts”: Some Wrinkles 87 3.1 Terminological Confusions 88 3.2 Implications for Names from Developmental Anatomy 90 3.3 Conclusion 95 Chapter 4 Building the Human Trunk 97 4.1 The External Trunk: From Plan to Layout 97 4.2 The Internal Trunk: From Shell to Frsmework 118 4.3 The Trunk: Comparative Plans 129 Chapter 5 Building Human Limbs 139 5.1 The Limbs, from Fetus to Adult 139 5.2 Limbs across the Vertebrates 157 5.3 Limb Variations 169 Chapter 6 Understanding the Human Head 193 6.1 Insights from Building the Trunk 193 6.2 Now into the Head 197 6.4 Head Differences from the Trunk 215 6.5 Final Head Anatomy in the Resultant Adult 222 6.6 Head Structures and the Nervous System 230 6.7 Heads over the Long Haul, from Lampreys to Humans 240 Chapter 7 Building the Human Brain 247 7.1 The Beginnings of the Central Nervous System 247 7.2 From Spinal Cord to Brain: the Initial Brain 252 7.3 The Ultimate Brain 258 7.4 The Size and Complexity of the Brain 264 Chapter 8 Postlude: Possible Human Futures 283 References 291 Index 295
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Valley of the Spirits
Book SynopsisIn a secluded valley high in the Andes Mountains, long before thetime of the Incas and the Aztecs, the empire of the Aymara rosefrom the shores of Lake Titicaca and flourished for nearly athousand years. The secrets of the Aymara civilization, one of thefirst great empires of the Americas, have only recently beendeciphered from the haunting ruins of their splendid temples, amongwhich their contemporary descendants still live and worktoday. In Valley of the Spirits, Alan Kolata takes us deep into themystical world of the Aymara, where past and present come togetherand the spirits of ancient ancestors still speak to shamans in thevoices of mountain springs. Kolata''s unique knowledge of the Aymarais based on 17 years of research at the site of the ancientempire. Its crown jewel was the dazzling ancient capital of Tiahuanaco,whose gold and silver-appointed temples and monumental stonesculptures intensified the mythic aura of the city, imbuing it witha quality of the supeTable of ContentsInto the Aymara World. The Trembler on the Mountain. Andean Genesis. The Sacred City. The World Turned Around. Restoration. The Past Is Prologue. Notes. Glossary. Index.
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