Archaeology Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Global Continental Palaeohydrology
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a basis for understanding the current state of research in palaeohydrology of the Earth's land surface. It summarizes the work achieved to date, and indicates the ways in which palaeohydrological research relates to other global research programmes.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE BACKGROUND TO GLOBAL PALAEOHYDROLOGY. Data for Palaeohydrology (E. Wohl & Y. Enzel). Global Hydrology in Relation to Palaeohydrological Change (P.Waylen). The Impact of Large Ice Sheets on Continental Palaeohydrology (J.Teller). Vegetation and Lake-Level Change (A. Brown). Human Activity and Palaeohydrology (K. Gregory). PALAEOHYDROLOGY OF THE MAJOR ZONES OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE. Mapping of Spatial Hydrological Changes (A. Georgiadi). Palaeohydrology of the Temperate Zone (L. Starkel). Palaeohydrology of Polar and Subpolar Regions over the Past 20000Years (J. Maizels). CONCLUSION. A Database for Global Continental Palaeohydrology: Technology orScientific Creativity? (J. Branson, et al.). A Programme for Research on Global Continental Palaeohydrology (K.Gregory). Index.
£284.36
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Roman Community at Table during the
Book SynopsisOn its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. This expanded edition includes significant new material on current trends in food studies.Trade ReviewPraise for the hardcover edition: ""This book is indispensable both for ancient history and for food history. . . . Donahue offers fascinating reflections on public and private dining, doing for Roman politics what Pauline Schmitt did for the Greek polis. [He] brilliantly ties meal times into the practices of Rome's Hellenistic predecessors and richly reflects the religious and cultural contexts of eating."" - John Wilkins, University of Exeter
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press The Republican Aventine and Romes Social Order
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMignone has adopted the best traditions of classical studies in combining literature, epigraphy, law, and archaeology to reconstruct life in the ancient city. The Republican Aventine will provide an integrated view of life in ancient Rome that benefits from a 360-degree perspective on one neighborhood, giving a kind of deep description that is often hard to come by for the ancient world because of the nature of the sources.” —Cynthia Bannon, Indiana University ""It is amply evident that Mignone has done her homework and knows the relevant scholarship inside and out.” —Karl Galinsky, University of Texas
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt
Book SynopsisPapyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family, which rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt discusses how the Apions' wealth was generated and what role their Egyptian estate played in that growth.Trade Review"[T]his volume deserves to be read more widely as it offers us a rare glimpse of one particular Egyptian family and the role they played in the wider agricultural and economic machinery of Byzantine Egypt." — Ancient Egypt
£56.95
The University of Michigan Press The Hellenistic Roman and Medieval Glass from
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The University of Michigan Press Confiscation or Coexistence
Book SynopsisOffers a discussion of Roman interactions with Egyptian religion, including material from inside and outside Egypt, and locates the development of an interpretative consensus in early 20th-century scholarship within the wider context of empire and colonization at the time.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction PART I: CONTEXTS Chapter 2 Bastards and the Temple: Legitimacy and Rhetoric in Priestly Petitions Chapter 3 Crocodile Tears: A Rhetoric of Loss and of Chaos Chapter 4 “No one can claim the priestly land”: Land, disputes, and a new interpretation PART II: BARKING ANUBIS Chapter 5 Motivations and Confiscations: Religious control in context Chapter 6 Unforeseen Consequences: Confiscation in practice Chapter 7 “Tear the monument of such a monster to pieces”: Creating a modern confiscation Appendix: P.Tebt. 2.302: Text(s) and Translation Bibliography Index of sources General index
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Between Sahara and Sea
Book SynopsisChallenges orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. Based on decades of research in North Africa, David Mattingly’s book is an innovative account of the history and archaeology of ancient North Africa (roughly equivalent to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the first century BCE to the third century CE.Trade Review“In Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire, David Mattingly charts a new path toward a bottom-up understanding of North African archaeology. This cleverly constructed, innovative book addresses key themes in the archaeology of ancient North Africa, roughly equivalent to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, from the first century BCE to the third century CE. The author focuses not on “Roman Africa,” but rather the way that areas participated in the empire centered on Rome. Mattingly articulates this new vision of Africa through the perspective of “discrepant identity,” a theoretical approach that enables him to examine variation in the extent of identification with the imperial project.” —David Stone, University of MichiganTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Note on the Transliteration of Names and Spelling of Toponyms Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. From the Desert to the Sown: An African Journey Chapter 2. Discrepant Identity and Other Theoretical Approaches Part 2. Early Cultural Encounters in North Africa: 1000 BCE – 40 CE (and Beyond) Chapter 3. Incomers: Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans Chapter 4. Numidae and Mauri of the Tell Chapter 5. Gaetuli of the Pre- Desert and Garamantes of the Sahara Part 3. T he Military Community Chapter 6. Ars Militaris: Pacifying, Protecting, Policing, Posturing? Chapter 7. Military Identities in Action Part 4. T he Urban Communities Chapter 8. Different Towns and Varied Trajectories Chapter 9. Exploring Urban Identities Part 5. T he Rural Communities Chapter 10. Different Landscapes, Different Worlds Chapter 11. Expressions of Rural Identities Part 6. Some Final Themes Chapter 12. Different Economies Chapter 13. African Agency Appendix 1. Chronological Table Bibliography Index
£38.95
University of California Press Temples and Towns in Roman Iberia The Social
Book SynopsisThis is a study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century BC until the decline of urban life in the third century AD. During this period the peninsula became an influential cultural and political region.
£52.80
University of California Press A Finger in the Wound
Book SynopsisMany Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as 'a finger in the wound'. This book explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath. It investigates the notion of Quincentennial Guatemala, which has given focus to the overarching question of Mayan - and Guatemalan - identity.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Body Politics and Quincentennial Guatemala 2. Gringa Positioning, Vulnerable Bodies, and Fluidarity: A Partial Relation 3. State Fetishism and the Piñata Effect: Catastrophe and the Magic of Culture 4. Hostile Markings Taken for Identity:Questions of Ambivalence and Authority in a Graveyard inside Guatemala, October 1992 5. Gendering the Ethnic-National Question:Rigoberta Menchú Jokes and the Out-Skirts of Fashioning Identity 6. Bodies That Splatter: Gender, “Race,” and the Discourses of Mestizaje 7. Maya-Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State:Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala 8. A Transnational Frame-Up:ILO Convention 169, Identity, Territory, and the Law 9. Global Biopolitical Economy: Prosthetics and Blood Politics Appendix. Selected Rigoberta Menchú Jokes Glossary Works Cited Index
£27.90
University of California Press Venus on Wheels
Book SynopsisRecords the relationship that developed between the author and Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society - except arms and legs. This work argues that DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. My Introduction to Diane 2. The Crisis of Representation: Why It Is Time for Cultural Biography 3· "There's Nothing about the Disabled Woman and the Disabled Culture"-Diane DeVries, 1976 4· Disability in American Culture: Transformations in Diane's Life and Life Story 5· How Typical or Representative (and of What) Is the Life of Diane De Vries? 6. "The Biography in the Shadow" Meets "Venus on Wheels": From Empathy to the Mirror Phenomenon 7. !-Witnessing Diane's "I": Time, Ethics, and Epistemology 8. The Women in Diane's Body: Narrative Ambiguity in a Material World 9· Conclusion: Truly Your Diane Photographs Notes Bibliography Credits Index
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University of California Press Space in the Tropics
Book SynopsisThis work draws ideas from two projects which took place in French Guiana - the Ariane Rocket programme and the Devil's Island penal experiment. The two are compared and connected with developments and events, with a focus on place, and the incorporation of this place into greater extended systems.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Preface: The Edge of the World PART 1. ISLANDS AND DISCIPLINES 1. Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, and the Horizon of Technology 2. History on the Wild Coast PART 2. COLONIAL GROUND 3. Botany Bay to Devil's Island 4· The Natural Prison PART 3· MODERN SKY 5. A Gate to the Heavens 6. The Margin of the Future PART 4· WORLDS IN MOTION 7· Tropics of Nature 8. The Nature of Work 9· The Imperfect Equator Notes Bibliography Credits Index
£27.00
University of California Press Under the Medical Gaze
Book SynopsisThis account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain, illustrating medicine's power to create and inflict suffering.Trade Review"A very useful and very well written book....It states the issues in the culture of the biomedicine field effectively and makes them relevant." - Arthur Kleinman, author of Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine "Far above a simple telling of an illness, Greenhalgh takes the experience as a way to view gendered relations in medical care, the seduction of science for the physician and the patient, and the creation of facts and selves in the treatment of pain. She sets a new standard for the practice of autoethnography." - Virginia Olesen, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. "This is an extraordinary book - riveting story, concise scholarship, experimental ethnography - and it is beautifully told. Greenhalgh makes a cogent and powerful analysis of the sociopolitical sources of pain through feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the nature of medical science and medical practice in the United States." - Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture"Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments PART ONE: Understanding Chronic Pain Preface Problematique Prologue: Finding Dr. Right PART TWO: Doing Biomedicine 1 The Initial Consultation: The Making of a "Fibromyalgic" 2 Medicating the "Fibromyalgic"-Arthritic Body 3 Producing the Good Patient PART THREE: Doing Gender 4 A Most Pleasant Patient 5 Silent Rebellion and Rage 6 A Depression Worse Than the Disease PART FOUR: A Losing Battle to Get Better 7 Struggling To Make the Treatment Work 8 "Accept It!" Alternative Medicines Offer Medicine for the Mind 9 A Life Shrunk, a Mind Gone Nearly Mad PART FIVE: Rebellion and Self-Renewal 1 A Second Opinion: The Unmaking of a "Fibromyalgic" 11 The Final Meeting: A Tale of Decline and a Denial 12 Out from under the Medical Gaze PART SIX: Narrating Illness, Politicizing Pain Conclusion: Re-viewing the Medicine of Chronic Pain Epilogue: Speaking of Pain -- On Stories, Cultural Recuperations, and Political Interventions Notes References Index
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University of California Press Entangled Edens
Book SynopsisTraces the rich legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of different groups of people - conquistadors, corporate executives, subsistence farmers - over the centuries. This book argues that we cannot defend the Amazon's array of plants and animals without comprehending its astonishing human and cultural diversity.
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University of California Press Remaking the Modern
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork among five thousand working-class families in the neighborhood of al-Zawyia al-Hamra, this study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the population in the new location.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Researching "Modern" Cairo 1. Relocation and the Creation of a Global City 2. Relocation and the Daily Use of "Modern" Spaces 3. Old Places, New Identities 4. Gender and the Struggle over Public Spaces 5. Religion in a Global Era 6. Roads to Prosperity Conclusion: Homes, Mosques, and the Making of a Global Cairo Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Life of the Law
Book SynopsisLaura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the same time urges anthropologists, lawyers, and activists to recognize the centrality of law in social change. Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and passionately argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during this period represents a profound challenge to justice and democracy. Taking into account the vast changes wrought in both anthropology and the law by globalization, Nader speaks to the increasing dominance of large business corporations and the prominence of neoliberal ideology and practice today. In her discussion of these trends, she considers the rise of the alternative dispute resolution movemenTrade Review"Nader's conversational commentary illuminates the current central policy debates over tort reform, class action remedies, the World Trade Organization, criminal prosecution of corporate crime, and Alternative Dispute Resolution, which substantially affect U.S. and international legal systems." - Robert C. Fellmeth, Director, Center for Public Interest Law, University of San Diego"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document 2. Lawyers and Anthropologists 3. Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory Epilogue Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Survival by Hunting
Book SynopsisTrade Review"George Frison is an icon in American archeology. In Survival by Hunting, he describes personal experiences leading to the insights and perspectives that set him apart from the majority of his colleagues, who know of large game hunting only secondhand." - Michael B. Collins, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments I. Where the Buffalo Once Roamed 2. The Education of a Hunter 3. Paleoindian Hunters and Extinct Animals 4. The North American Bison 5. The North American Pronghorn 6. The Rock Mountain Sheep 7. Hunting Deer, Elk, and Other Creatures 8. Weaponry and Tools Used by the Hunter 9. Concluding Thoughts Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Families of the Forest The Matsigenka Indians of
Book SynopsisDeals with the idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century. This work states that the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a family level society; the family level of sociocultural integration is for them a lived reality.Trade Review"Families of the Forest constitutes a valuable contribution to the regional ethnography, particularly as regard techniques of subsistence and the organization of communal life, and it will be essential reading for any interested in the area. There is much in the book for the specialist and, especially in the 'everyday close' approach, it also provides an eloquent and accessible account of this montana society for the nonspecialist." * Anthropos *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Introduction: Among the Matsigenka 1. Setting and History 2. Making a Living 3. Family Life 4. Society and Politics 5. Cosmos Conclusion: A Family Level Society Glossary References Cited Index
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University of California Press On Holiday
Book SynopsisTakes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of 'learning to be a tourist' have shaped our own ways of vacationing. This title shows how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it.Trade Review"Offers acute, whimsical, self-reflexive histories of sight-seeing, walking, driving, cottage life, landscapes, postcards, getaways, nostalgias, and especially the sun-starved northern Europeans for the South." - James Clifford in Lingua Franca Book "Lofgren's decision to take our daydreams seriously, and to note how we try to translate them into reality given half a chance, is fruitful." - Times Literary Supplement "A history of that anti-history; a treatment of our collective annual fortnight away as a strange and fascinating parallel reality that runs year-round." - National Post "On Holiday is one of the most enjoyable books on travel published in recent years. Fundamentally, it is an insightful investigation of 'elsewhereness,' written with humor that in no way detracts from the author's serious scholarship. Lofgren traces the origins of tourism to 18th-century pioneers-seekers of knowledge, adventure, or difference-and describes how 'learning to be a tourist' has transformed the idea of 'leisure' from elite pursuit to global industry. In a study that ranges from Continental spas to wilderness trekking, there should be something for every reader." - O. Pi-Sunyer, Choice "Excellent...not just a valuable addition to the shelves of students of tourism but also an enjoyable and accessible read." - John Ghazvinian, The Nation "A fun book to read, witty and emotionally evocative without ever being sentimental or superficial. It focuses on the common experiences of tourism familiar to readers from any class or culture, and really enters the tourist imagination-in stark contrast to most other books I've read about tourism, which act like the tourists are some sort of exotic livestock." - Richard Wilk, author of Economies and Cultures "A pleasure to read. The author has accomplished the very difficult task of moving almost seamlessly from general observations to the specific, and from the observations of others through time to his personal experience." - Erve Chambers, editor of Tourism and Culture "Lofgren takes us down countless paths that we didn't know were there.... His interests seem wonderfully idiosyncratic. The issues that he deals with are thoroughly familiar, but the angle of his light is very new." - Stephen M. Fjellman, author of Vinyl Leaves
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University of California Press Symptoms of Modernity
Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. This work gives an account of this radical cultural reversal, linking it to geopolitical transformations and to the supersession of the European nation-state by a postmodern polity.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Symptoms of Modernity PART 1: SUBORDINATION Chapter 1: Myths and Silences Chapter 2: Laws and Closets PART 2: RESISTANCE Chapter 3: Street Fairs and Demonstrations Chapter 4: Cafes and Parades PART 3: REPRODUCTION Chapter 5: Museums and Monuments Chapter 6: Offices and Balls Conclusion: Symptoms of Postmodernity Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Whose Pharaohs
Book SynopsisFocusing on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the context of Western imperialism and nascent Egyptian nationalism.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates Introduction Part One: Imperial and National Preludes, 1798-1882 1. Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Champollion and al-Tahtawi 2. From Explorer to Cook's Tourist 3. Egyptology under Ismail: Mariette, al-Tahtawi, and Brugsch, 1850-1882 Part Two: Imperial High Noon, Nationalist Dawn, 1882-1914 4. Cromer and the Classics: Ideological Uses of the Greco-Roman Past 5. Egyptology in the Age of Maspero and Ahmad Kamal 6. Islamic Art, Archaeology, and Orientalism: The Comite and Ali Bahgat 7. Modern Sons of the Pharaohs? Marcus Simaika and the Coptic Past Conclusion Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital
Book SynopsisWhat do archaeological excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, reveal about daily life in the city's history? Interpreting the results of one of the most innovative projects in American archaeology, this title speaks powerfully to the struggle for liberty among African Americans and the poor.Trade Review"An ambitious book that has been thought out deeply and at length... The most important book on historical archaeology in a generation." American AntiquityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Preface 1. The Importance of Knowing Annapolis 2. The Research Design 3. Landscapes of Power 4. The Rise of Popular Opinion 5. Time and Work Discipline 6. From Althusser and Lukacs to Habermas: Archaeology in Public in Annapolis 7. African America 8. What Do We Know? Appendix Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Documenting Domestication
Book SynopsisAgriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. This book considers a variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and dispersal of domesticates.
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University of California Press Unsung Heroines
Book SynopsisGives political-economic analysis that provides historical background on the way American social policy has evolved and compares the situation in the US to the social policies and ideologies of other countries. This book introduces courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values.Trade Review"Ruth Sidel's dramatic life histories of single mothers make a revealing point: These mothers, especially the poor ones among them, work far harder and act more responsibly than some two parent families. they have to, because their and their children's survival depends on it. Perhaps they are America's true Supermoms." - Herbert J. Gans, author of Making Sense of America"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Moving Beyond Stigma 2. Genuine Family Values 3. Loss 4. Resilience, Strength, and Perseverance 5. "Everybody Knows My Grandma": Extended Families and Other Support Networks 6. "I Have to Do Something with My Life": Derailed Dreams 7. "I Really, Really Believed He Would Stick Around": Conflicting Conceptions of Commitment 8. An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century: Caring for All Our Families Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Finding the Walls of Troy Frank Calvert and
Book SynopsisTells the story of British expatriate Frank Calvert's development as an archaeologist, his adventures and discoveries. This book focuses on the twists and turns of his turbulent relationship with archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, the resulting gains for archaeology, and the successful conclusion of their common quest - discovering Homer's Troy.
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University of California Press First Peoples in a New World
Book SynopsisOver 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America. This title tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America.Trade Review"A must read for anyone interested in what is undeniable the greatest debate in American archaeology... Essential." Choice "The book is ... sharply written and narratively compelling." -- Mark Dailey Journal Of World History "A masterful exploration and encapsulation of the last two centuries of American archaeology and the first five millennia of the earliest Americans." American Scientist "Informative and entertaining." -- E. James Dixon Antiquity "A good review of topics and controversies surrounding the peopling of North America." -- Susan C. Vehik Great Plains Research "[Meltzer] has written the most in-depth synthesis of the history of the debate about the early peopling of North America yet published." -- Juliet E. Morrow Journal Of Iowa Archeological Society "Often lively and occasionally bemused, Meltzer's study-part detective story and part archeological research-is stimulating and sometimes tantalizingly controversial." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Overture On Dates and Dating 2. The Landscape of Colonization: Glaciers, Climates, and Environments of Ice Age North America The Younger Dryas: It Came from Outer Space? 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians A Mammoth Fraud in Science 4. The Pre-Clovis Controversy and Its Resolution A Visit to Monte Verde 5. Non-archaeological Answers to Archaeological Questions And Then There Was Kennewick 6. American Origins: The Search for Consensus Looking for Clovis in All the Wrong Places 7. What Do You Do When No One’s Been There Before? 8. Clovis Adaptations and Pleistocene Extinctions Is Overkill Dead? 9. Settling In: Late Paleoindians and the Waning Ice Age Back to Folsom 10. When Past and Present Collide Further Reading Notes References Index Plates
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University of California Press The Chumash World at European Contact
Book SynopsisWhen Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. This title weaves together multiple sources of evidence to re-create the tapestry of Chumash society.Trade Review"In this masterful combination of empirical research, controlled comparison, and attention to contemporary theories regarding the social formations of hunger-gatherers, Gamble has contributed an authoritative, richly documented and illustrated synthesis of this fascinating time and place in protohistoric California." -- W. S. Simmons Choice "An important book... One of the most vivid and sophisticated studies of any Indian group in North America at the point of their first sustained contact with Europeans." -- Steven W. Hackel Journal Of American History "Gamble's careful scholarship makes this text a fine template to be followed." Journal Of World History "Gamble presents a significant contribution, both descriptively and methodologically, that will be of interest to a wide variety of anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and other researchers in California and around the world." -- Todd J. Braje American AnthropologistTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Chumash at Historic Contact 1 Significance of Research 3 Overview of the Chumash 6 Development of Chumash Sociopolitical Complexity 9 Theoretical Considerations 11 2. The Environment and Its Management 17 Resources in the Santa Barbara Channel Region 19 The Chumash as Environmental Managers 32 Environmental Changes During the Historic Period 33 3. Cultural Setting 37 Early Documents 38 Archaeological Research on the Mainland 42 Social Sphere of the Chumash 54 Economic Networks 60 Chiefs and Power 62 4. Historic Chumash Settlements on the Mainland Coast 65 Population Figures for the Chumash 65 Noqto 70 Shilimaqshtush 74 Shisholop Town 75 Texax 76 Kashtayit 76 'Onomyo 77 Tajiguas 78 Qasil 78 Dos Pueblos: Mikiw and Kuya'mu 80 Goleta Slough Settlements 84 Syuxtun 93 Shalawa 96 Q'oloq' 97 Mishopshno 97 Shuku 100 Shisholop Settlement 102 Muwu 104 Lisiqishi 107 Sumo 107 Lojostogni 108 Humaliwo 108 Summary 109 5. Village and Household Organization 113 Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Descriptions of Village Organization and Structures 114 Archaeological Evidence for Village Organization and Structures 126 Evidence for Production and Consumption at the Household and Village Level 149 6. Subsistence and Feasting 151 Dietary Overview 152 Gender Roles 178 Feasting 179 Colonial Influence and the Persistence of Native Traditions 187 Summary 189 7. Rank, Ritual, and Power 191 Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Perspectives on Chiefs, Elites, and Commoners 192 Mortuary Symbolism, Rank and Religious Power 201 Religious Power 213 Gender 216 Manifestations of Power 219 8. Economics and Exchange: Manifestations of Wealth Finance 223 Contexts of Exchange 224 Shell Beads as Indicators of Wealth and Rank 229 Theoretical Considerations Concerning Chumash Exchange 234 Significance of Canoes 235 Centers of Exchange 239 Prestige Goods and Wealth Finance 243 Network Power and Social Storage 247 9. Conflict and Social Integration 249 Evidence for Warfare in Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Accounts 250 Bioarchaeological Evidence of Violence at Historic Contact 261 Mechanisms of Social Integration 264 Methods of Social Control 266 Theoretical Perspectives on Chumash Warfare at Historic Contact 269 10. The Chumash, Pomo, and Patwin: Comparative Analysis and Final Thoughts 275 Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Chumash Example 276 Resource Abundance and Sociopolitical Complexity 277 Power Strategies of the Chumash 279 Network Power 280 Emergent Complexity and the Relationship of the Island and Mainland Chumash 283 Sociopolitical Complexity among Hunter-Gatherers in California 287 Future Studies of Complex Hunter-Gatherers 301 Notes 303 References 309 Index 351
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University of California Press Archaeology The Discipline of Things
Book SynopsisArchaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. This title considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past.Trade Review"Illuminating... Recommended." -- A. B. Kehoe, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Choice "The messages found in The Discipline of Things should resonate across the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and material culture studies, attracting readers ranging from traditional material culture researchers to those with a postprocessualist tendency." -- Thomas E. Emerson American Journal of Archaeology "Genuinely thoughtful about the nature (or natures) of archaeology ... refreshingly original." Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Caring about Things 2. The Ambiguity of Things: Contempt and Desire 3. Engagements with Things: The Making of Archaeology 4. Digging Deep: Archaeology and Excavation 5. Things in Translation: Documents and Imagery 6. Futures for Things: Memory Practices and Digital Translation 7. Timely Things: From Argos to Mycenae and Beyond 8. Making and the Design of Things: Human Being and the Shape of History 9. Getting on with Things: A Material Metaphysics of Care References Index
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University of California Press Archaeology The Discipline of Things
Book SynopsisArchaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. This title considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past.Trade Review"Illuminating... Recommended." -- A. B. Kehoe, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Caring about Things 2. The Ambiguity of Things: Contempt and Desire 3. Engagements with Things: The Making of Archaeology 4. Digging Deep: Archaeology and Excavation 5. Things in Translation: Documents and Imagery 6. Futures for Things: Memory Practices and Digital Translation 7. Timely Things: From Argos to Mycenae and Beyond 8. Making and the Design of Things: Human Being and the Shape of History 9. Getting on with Things: A Material Metaphysics of Care References Index
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University of California Press Across Atlantic Ice
Book SynopsisSupplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, this book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.Trade Review"Stanford and Bradley weave a fascinating narrative... [The authors] deftly illustrate their expertise." -- Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina Southeastern Archaeology "This scientific treatise ... shines between the lines." -- Philip Kopper The Washington Times "A thorough job... Stanford and Bradley compile an impressive dossier of evidence... It should be taken seriously." -- Atholl Anderson, Australian National University, Canberra Int'l Jrnl Nautical AchaeologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Prehistoric Time Line Foreword by Michael B. Collins Introduction: The First Americans? Part 1. Paleolithic Peoples 1. Flaked Stone Technology: A Primer 2. Clovis: The First American Settlers? 3. Beringia: Out of Asia on Foot 4. Challenging the Clovis First Model: The Missing Links 5. The Solutrean: Ice Age Innovators Part 2. The Solutrean Hypothesis 6. Quantitative Culture Comparison 7. Qualitative Culture Comparison 8. The Solutrean Maritime Adaptation 9. The Last Glacial Maximum: How Bad Was the Weather? 10. Living on the Ice Edge: Ethnographic Analogies Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Cluster Analysis Notes References Index
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University of California Press Everyday Writing in the GraecoRoman East
Book SynopsisMost of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. This title argues that ordinary people - from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan - used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized.Trade Review"Illuminating. . . . There is little to critique in this engaging contribution from a seasoned papyrologist and ancient historian." -- Brent Nongbri * Prudential *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Informal Writing in a Public Place: The Graffiti of Smyrna 2. The Ubiquity of Documents in the Hellenistic East 3. Documenting Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt 4. Greek and Coptic in Late Antique Egypt 5. Greek and Syriac in the Roman Near East 6. Writing on Ostraca: A Culture of Potsherds? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Excavations at Nemea IV The Shrine of Opheltes
Book SynopsisThe Sanctuary of Zeus at ancient Nemea has been a rich resource for archaeological investigation and analysis conducted by the University of California over the past forty years. The Sanctuary hosted one of the preeminent athletic festivals of ancient Greece, the Nemean Games. Just as the Olympics were celebrated in connection with the cult of Pelops at Olympia, the games at Nemea were founded on the worship of the hero Opheltes. The Shrine of Opheltes in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea offers one of the best examples of an ancient Greek hero cult documented in the archaeological record. This final and most significant volume in the Excavations at Nemea series presents the results of the excavation of the Shrine from 1979 through 2001 and analyzes the Shrine's features and contents in order to understand its history and use. A study of the literary and artistic evidence about the myth and cult of Opheltes contextualizes the archaeological findings and illuminates the hero's significance to the Sanctuary and its renowned festival, the Nemean Games.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Tables Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations Specialized Terminology and Abbreviations Used in the Text and Appendices Elevations, Grid References, and Measurements Introduction CHAPTER ONE The Physical Remains CHAPTER TWO The Faunal Remains from the Hero Shrine MICHAEL MACKINNON CHAPTER THREE The Myth of Opheltes and the Origin of the Nemean Games CHAPTER FOUR Representations of the Hero Opheltes in Art CHAPTER FIVE The Shrine of Opheltes in the Context of Greek Hero Cult Appendix A: Catalogue of Artifacts Appendix B: The Curse Tablets from the Hero Shrine Appendix C: Testimonia on the Myth and Cult of Opheltes and the Nemean Games Index of Subjects, Ancient People and Places, and Modern Scholars Index of Ancient Sources Index of Inventoried Finds from the Nemea Excavations Mentioned in This Volume
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University of California Press Maps for Time Travelers
Book SynopsisPopular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From historical dramas to science fiction tales of time travel, audiences love stories that reimagine the world before our time. But what if there were a field that, through the advancements in technology, could bring us closer to the past than ever before? Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology, Maps for Time Travelers is a guide to how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists study and reconstruct humanity's distant past. From satellite imagery to 3D modeling, today archaeologists are answering questions about human history that could previously only be imagined. As archaeologists create a better and more complete picture of the past, they sometimes find that truth is stranger than fiction. Trade Review"[A] cogent survey of the geospatial technological advances over the last few decades. . . . [and] an engaging introduction, for the general reader, to the very nature of archaeological research." * Geography Realm *"[An] impassioned study written to change popular perceptions of archaeology." * Nature *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I 1 Historical Curiosity 2 Finding Things Out Part II 3 Views from Above 4 Scans of the Planet 5 Digital Worlds Part III 6 Retracing Our Steps: Migration, Mobility, and Travel 7 Food and Farms: How Our Ancestors Fed Themselves 8 Living in the Past: Reverse Engineering Ancient Societies Conclusion 9 Archaeology as Time Machine Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press How Chiefs Became Kings
Book SynopsisIn How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of archaic states whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook's voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai`i's kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai`i and illuminates Hawai`i's importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.Trade Review“Concise, but data-rich and sophisticated in its dissection of social theory.” -- Norman Yoffee * Times Literary Supplement (TLS) *“Rich and wideranging. . . . Kirch cements his reputation in this book. . . . Here we see the master at the top of his game.” -- Paul D’Arcy * Anthropos *“Complete and compelling. . . . This is an important book, and everyone with a serious interest in Hawaiian history should read it.” -- Thomas A. Woods, Executive Director, Mission Houses Museum * Hawaiian Jrnl Of History *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. From Chiefdom to Archaic State: Hawai‘i in Comparative and Historical Context What Are Archaic States? Theories of Primary State Formation Hawai‘i as a Model System for State Emergence Marshall Sahlins’s Challenge A Phylogenetic Model for Polynesian Cultural Evolution The Nature of Ancestral Polynesian Society How Did Contact-Era Hawai‘i Differ from Ancestral Polynesia? Was Hawai‘i Unique in Polynesia? 2. Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawai‘i Hawaiian Polities: Size and Scale Class Stratifi cation and Divine Kingship Elite Art, Craft Specialization, and Wealth Finance Political, Administrative, and Settlement Hierarchies Systems of Production The Hierarchy of Priests and Temples The State Cults and the Ritual Cycle Land and Labor War Summary 3. Native Hawaiian Political History Genealogies of Renown, Traditions of Power Founding Traditions of Settlement and Voyaging Political Developments of the Fifteenth to Mid-sixteenth Centuries Usurpation and Political Consolidation in the Hawai‘i and Maui Kingdoms Dynastic Histories of the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries Political Developments of the Contact Era Agency in History: Ali‘i Routes to Power 4. Tracking the Transformations: Population, Intensification, and Monumentality The Hawaiian Cultural Sequence Population and Demographic Trends Contrastive Agroecosystems Temporal Pathways of Intensifi cation Marine Resources and Aquaculture Monumentality and the Temple System Royal Centers and Elite Residence Patterns When Did the Hawaiian Archaic States Emerge? 5. The Challenge of Explanation Previous Explanations for Hawaiian Cultural Change Ultimate Causation: Population, Intensifi cation, and Surplus Proximate Causation: Status Rivalry, Alliance, and Conquest Why Did Archaic States Emerge First on Hawai‘i and Maui? Hawai‘i and Archaic State Emergence Notes Glossary of Hawaiian Terms References Index
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University of California Press Phoenix Kingdoms
Book SynopsisThis stunning exhibition unveils the remarkable art and historical legacy of two mysterious kingdoms of ancient China. Phoenix Kingdoms brings to life the distinctive Bronze Age cultures that flourished along the middle course of the Yangzi River in South Central China about 2,500 years ago. With over 150 objects on loan from five major Chinese museums, Phoenix Kingdoms explores the artistic and spiritual landscape of the southern borderland of the Zhou dynasty, featuring remarkable archaeological finds unearthed from aristocratic tombs of the phoenix-worshipping Zeng and Chu kingdoms. By revealing the splendid material cultures of these legendary states, whose history has only recently been recovered, Phoenix Kingdoms highlights the importance of this region in forming a southern style that influenced centuries of Chinese art. This exhibition catalogue includes six essays that contextualize the stylistically rich materialmythical creatures, elaborate patterns, and elegant formsand introduces readers to the technologically and artistically sophisticated cultures that thrived before China's first empire. Lavishly illustrated with over 240 images, Phoenix Kingdoms showcases works from the exhibition across six categoriesjades, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony, funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and unique objects featuring distinctive designsmany of which are considered national treasures. Published in association with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.Table of ContentsContents Forewords Jay Xu and Fang Qin Acknowledgments Fan J. Zhang Maps Introduction Fan J. Zhang Part I Exploring Zhou’s Southern Borderland ONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay Xu TWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. Zhang THREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. Major Part II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River Region FOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin Mackenzie FIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng Wang SIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen Huang Part III Catalogue Jades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual Vessels Musical Instruments and Weapons Lacquerwar Special Mortuary Objects Textiles, Gold, and Miscellanea Inscriptions Reigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu Lords Chronology Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Phoenix Kingdoms Last Splendor of Chinas Bronze
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Forewords Jay Xu and Fang Qin Acknowledgments Fan J. Zhang Maps Introduction Fan J. Zhang Part I Exploring Zhou’s Southern Borderland ONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay Xu TWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. Zhang THREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. Major Part II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River Region FOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin Mackenzie FIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng Wang SIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen Huang Part III Catalogue Jades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual Vessels Musical Instruments and Weapons Lacquerwar Special Mortuary Objects Textiles, Gold, and Miscellanea Inscriptions Reigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu Lords Chronology Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Personal Religion Among the Greeks
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University of California Press Zainabs Traffic
Book SynopsisWhat is the valuereligious, political, economic, or altogether socialof getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine outside Damascus? Under what material conditions can such values be established, reassessed, or transgressed, and by whom? Zainab's Traffic provides answers to these questions alongside the socially embeddedand spatially generativeencounters of ritual, mobility, desire, genealogy, and patronage along the route. Whether it is through the study of the spatial politics of saint veneration in Islam, analysis of cross-border gold trade and sanctions, or examination of pilgrims women's desire for Syrian lingerie accompanying their pleas with the saint in marital matters, the book develops the idea of visitation as a ritual of mobility across geography, history, and category. Iranian visitors' experiences on the road to Sayyida Zainabemerging out of a self-described poverty of mobilitydemonst
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University of California Press Societies in Transition in Early Greece
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the Dark Age, and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would eventually expand to nearly all shores of the Middle Sea. Alex R. Knodell argues that in order to understand how ancient Greece changed over time, one must analyze how Greek societies constituted and reconstituted themselves across multiple scales, from the local to the regional to the Mediterranean. Knodell employs innovative network and spatial analyses to understand the regional diversity and connectivity that drove the growth of early Greek polities. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, aTrade Review"Overall, this is a very valuable read for more advanced students and scholars of Greek protohistory . . .It offers more refined and data-rich overview of punctuated changes, and it highlights the varied regional dynamics in central Greece that led to the emergence of the insti-tution of the polis, without prioritizing too much the big, better-known centers such as Athens, Thebes, and Lefkandi." * American Journal of Archaeology *"An inspiring, sophisticated, and scrupulously researched study of central Greece...[Knodell offers] a multiscalar picture—as refreshing as it is compelling—that will serve as a solid example of good practice, from which any archaeologist interested in diverse and changing social complexities from a landscape perspective can benefit." * American Antiquity *"Knodell seamlessly juxtaposes intra- and extra-boundary perspectives as they pertain to human identity. The ancient Greeks heroized their Mycenaean predecessors, and Greek archaeologists are similarly enchanted by Peloponnesian palatial territories. Knodell shows us another way. With his diversified dataset from an overlooked region, he encourages us: keep engaging with the 'blank spots' on the map." * The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology *"A welcome addition to works on the archaeology of ‘early Greece’. . . .Societies in Transition is a clear and positive contribution…[that] should be read by students and specialists alike." * The Classical Review *
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University of California Press A Greek State in Formation
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, takes readers on a tour of the beginnings of Mycenaean civilization through a case study of this important site. In collaboration with codirector Sharon R. Stocker, Davis demonstrates that this ancient place was a major node for the exchange of ideas between the already established Minoan civilization, centered on the island of Crete, and the residents of the Greek mainland. Davis and Stocker show how adoption of Minoan culture created an ideology of power focused on a single individual, celebrating his military prowess, investing him with divine authority, and creating a figure instantly recognizable to readers of Homer and students of Greek history. A Greek State in Formation makes the powerful case that a knowledge of the Greek Bronze Age is indispensable to the classics curriculum. Trade Review"An absorbing narrative that will appeal to the interested amateur... [and also] to students of the Aegean Bronze Age." * American Antiquity *
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University of California Press An Ordinary Future
Book SynopsisThis vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability and human difference. An Ordinary Future is a deeply moving work that weaves an account of Margaret Mead's path to disability rights activism with one anthropologist's experience as the parent of a child with Down syndrome. With this book, Thomas W. Pearson confronts the dominant ideas, disturbing contradictions, and dramatic transformations that have shaped our perspectives on disability over the last century. Pearson examines his family's story through the lens of Mead's evolving relationship to disabilitya topic once so stigmatized that she advised Erik Erikson to institutionalize his son, born with Down syndrome in 1944. Over the course of her career, Mead would become an advocate for disability rights and call on anthropology to embrace a wider understanding of humanity that values diverse bodies and minds. Powerful and personal, An Ordinary Future revealTrade Review"[A] moving meditation on difference, disability, and humanity. In 2015, when his newborn daughter, Michaela, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, [Pearson] and his wife were shocked. Soon, though, he asked himself whether that initial response was generated by ideas about normalcy deeply embedded in the culture. . . . Sensitive reflections on human value." * Kirkus Reviews *"In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures of parenting." * Sapiens *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Becoming 2. Features 3. Institutions 4. Potential 5. Belonging 1 6. Vulnerability Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Maps for Time Travelers
Book SynopsisPopular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From historical dramas to science fiction tales of time travel, audiences love stories that reimagine the world before our time. But what if there were a field that, through the advancements in technology, could bring us closer to the past than ever before? Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology, Maps for Time Travelers is a guide to how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists study and reconstruct humanity's distant past. From satellite imagery to 3D modeling, today archaeologists are answering questions about human history that could previously only be imagined. As archaeologists create a better and more complete picture of the past, they sometimes find that truth is stranger than fiction. Trade Review"[A] cogent survey of the geospatial technological advances over the last few decades. . . . [and] an engaging introduction, for the general reader, to the very nature of archaeological research." * Geography Realm *"[An] impassioned study written to change popular perceptions of archaeology." * Nature *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I 1 Historical Curiosity 2 Finding Things Out Part II 3 Views from Above 4 Scans of the Planet 5 Digital Worlds Part III 6 Retracing Our Steps: Migration, Mobility, and Travel 7 Food and Farms: How Our Ancestors Fed Themselves 8 Living in the Past: Reverse Engineering Ancient Societies Conclusion 9 Archaeology as Time Machine Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press A Life of Worry
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University of California Press Go with God
Book SynopsisThrough deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city's expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on sensory ethnographic fieldwork and attuned to religious desire and manipulation, this book shows how Evangelical belief has changed the way people understand their lives in relation to Brazil's history of violent racial differentiation and inequality. From expressions of otherworldly hope to political exhaustion, Go with God depicts Evangelical life as it is lived and explores where people turn to find grace, possibility, and a future. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Ana’s Angels 1. Avowal 2. Disinfectant 3. In Attention to Pain 4. Wolves at the Heels 5. Failures and Demons Conclusion: A Politics of Grace Notes References Index
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University of California Press A Thousand Tiny Cuts
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University of California Press Rooting in a Useless Land
Book SynopsisIn Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. She draws on her innovative archaeological research in Yaxunah, an Indigenous Maya farming community dealing with land dispossession, but with a surprising twist: Yaxunah happens to be entangled with prestigious sustainable-development projects initiated by some of the most famous chefs in the world. Fisher contends that these sustainable-development initiatives inadvertently bolster the useless-land narrativea colonial belief that Maya forests are empty wastelandswhich has been driving Indigenous land dispossession and environmental injustice for centuries. Rooting in a Useless Land explores how archaeology, practiced within communities, can restore history and strengthen relationships built on contested ground. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rooting in a Useless Land 1 • The Celebrity Chef Lands in Yaxunah 2 • Murderer of the Woodland 3 • Seeds of Permanence 4 • Taproot to Fibrous Root 5 • Lines in the Forest 6 • The Ghost of Chaipa Chi Appendix A. Time Line of Key Events in the History of the Yaxunah Ejido Appendix B. Comparison of Homesites Documented at Tzacauil Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Where Cloud Is Ground
Book SynopsisWhere Cloud Is Ground offers an ethnography of the international data storage industry and an inquiry into the relationship between data and place. Based in Iceland, which is fast becoming a hot spot for data centersfacilities where large quantities of data are processed and storedthe book traces the fraught work of siting data's material manifestations in relation to landforms and earth processes, local politics, national narratives, and still-open questions of spatial justice and sovereignty.Doing so, it unsettles techno-utopian ideals of connectivity and offers a window into what it means to live with our data, in a place where more and more data now lives.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Language and Naming Introduction: Putting Data in Its Place PART I ARTICUTION 1. A Natural Fit 2. The Switzerland of Bits PART II ANCHORING 3. Something from Nothing 4. Data Centers, Data Peripheries PART III EXCESS 5. Inside Out Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Higher Powers
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University of California Press Making Sense
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted.In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material world. These features make conversation in natural sign both possible and precarious. Sense-making in natural sign depends on signers' skillful use of resources and on addressees' willingness to engage. Natural sign reveals the labor of sense-making that in more conventional language is carried by shared grammar. Ultimately, this highly original book sho
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