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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Economic Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism.Trade Review"This is a 'big book', tackling big questions in deceptively simple prose."Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "Both authors draw on their considerable ethnographic experience to offer a rich run-through of economic anthropology, and trace its intersection between the primary disciplines of economics and anthropology and against thematic currents such as Marxism and feminism."LSE Review of Books "Educational and intellectually stimulating, it will benefit both economic sociologists and economists."Revue Française de Socio-économie "Offers a methodological and analytic platform which could make this field more relevant for policy making, create a more fruitful dialogue with economics, economic sociology and history, and make scholarly work more accessible to the wider public."European Economic Sociology Newsletter "Hann and Hart offer the most sophisticated history of economic anthropology that I have seen. Using a humanistic perspective, their descriptions of the 'prehistory' of economic anthropology and of the socialist and postsocialist eras are neatly joined to an account of research in the twentieth century."—Stephen Gudeman, University of Minnesota "Now that neoliberal economic theories are becoming as discredited as state-socialist ones, Chris Hann and Keith Hart set out the case for 'human economics' focused on addressing both the moral and material needs of humanity - market as well as non-market. This is a brilliantly executed work which breathes new list into both disciplines - Anthropology and Economics. At a time when national and global economic thinking and policies seem moribund, this intervention could not be timlier."—Don Robotham, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction: Economic Anthropology Chapter 2 Economy from the Ancient World to the Age of the Internet Chapter 3 The Rise of Modern Economics and Anthropology Chapter 4 The Golden Age of Economic Anthropology Chapter 5 After the Formalist Ð Substantivist Debate Chapter 6 Unequal Development Chapter 7 Socialism, Postsocialism and Reform Socialism Chapter 8 One-world Capitalism Chapter 9 Where Do We Go From Here? Bibliographical Notes References
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Archaeological Theory Today
Book Synopsis* Revised and updated edition of a highly successful text on theoretical approaches to archaeology. * Brings together some of the major exponents and innovators in the discipline to introduce their individual areas of specialism.Trade Review"A crucial addition to contemporary debates in social sciences. The way different methodological issues are discussed, as well as the dialogue between different contributors serve as an exemplary way of promoting scholarship of the highest standard." Social Anthropology "In Archaeological Theory Today, Ian Hodder has assembled a fine collection of papers that, taken together, present a vibrant and exciting overview of current theoretical trends. Reading this volume, one is struck not just by the diversity of archaeological theory today, but by its breadth, depth, and sheer intellectual vitality. This book is not just an overview of current thinking, but an eloquent statement of the importance of archaeology as a modern human science." Matthew Johnson, Northwestern University "Archaeology has changed dramatically since the early 1980s. It is more inclusive, more holistic, and more relevant to the modern world. These changes are the product of the interplay of internal debates about epistemology and external discussions regarding social and political factors in the context of knowledge production. This new edition interrogates standard assumptions underlying such oppositions as culture and agency, matter and materiality, individual and society, colonial power and indigenous resistance, and, in the process, offers exciting new ways forward." Robert W. Preucel, University of Pennsylvania "In this new edition, valuable chapters on cognition/symbolism, agency, landscape, and post-colonial archaeology are revised and carried on from the first edition. New chapters on materiality, behavioral ecology, complex systems, heritage, and indigenous knowledge (among others) are added. The new ATT admirably takes the pulse of major and progressive trends in social theory by leading archaeologists." Norman Yoffee, University of Nevada, Las VegasTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Contributors 1 Introduction: Contemporary Theoretical Debate in Archaeology Ian Hodder 2 Darwinian Cultural Evolution Stephen Shennan 3 Human Behavioral Ecology Douglas W. Bird and James F. O'Connell 4 Behavioral Archaeology Vincent M. LaMotta 5 Complex Systems and Archaeology Timothy A. Kohler 6 Towards a Cognitive Archaeology: Material Engagement and the Early Development of Society Colin Renfrew 7 Agency: A Revisionist Account John C. Barrett 8 Archaeologies of Place and Landscape Julian Thomas 9 Materiality Carl Knappett 10 Symmetrical Archaeology Bjørnar Olsen 11 The Social Life of Heritage Lynn Meskell 12 Post-Colonial Archaeology Chris Gosden 13 Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh 14 Archaeological visualisation: early artefact illustration and the birth of the archaeological image Stephanie Moser Index
£23.74
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Against Hybridity
Book SynopsisOne of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price for this celebration of hybridity: the non-hybrid figures in our societies are ignored, rejected, silenced or exterminated. This book tells the story of these non-hybrid figures Ð the anti-heroes of our pop culture. The main example of non-hybrids in an otherwise hybridized world is that of deep old age. Hazan shows how we fervently distance ourselves from old age by grading and sequencing it into stages such as the third age', the fourth age' and so on. Aging bodies are manipulated through anti-aging techniques until it is no longer possible to do it anymore, at which point they become un-transformable and non-marketable objects and hence commercially and socially invisible or masked. Other examples are used to Trade ReviewOpening new vistas, blazing new trails, drawing out from invisibility the forcibly fixed - that other, murky side of the glittering world of self-defining and self-asserting, as well as self-congratulating, hybrids: the collateral victims of the universal duty of market-inspired, market-promoted and market-mediated self-creation.Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds An intellectual tour de force. Hazan describes how postmodernity esteems hybridization, networking and assimilation, but at the expense of irreducible, irreconcilable and pure forms of life. He brings an ethnographer's eye to our contemporary aversion towards, and discounting of, essential objects such as the savage, the old and autistic, pain and the Holocaust. Nigel Rapport, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness 1 1 Terms of Hybridity: (Non-)Hybridization and (Anti-)Globalization 10 2 Becoming a Non-hybrid: The Very Old as Deadly Others 46 3 Impasses of Hybridity: From Liquidity to Quiddity 91 Conclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In 131 References 144 Index 165
£45.00
University of British Columbia Press Journey to the Ice Age
Book SynopsisA captivating record of archaeological discoveries of the Early Paleo-Indians, who exploded suddenly on the archaeological record about 11,500 years ago and expanded rapidly throughout North America and South America.Trade ReviewAll too often archaeology is presented as the fabulous and dramatic discovery of a lost civilization. The truth is that it is a sometimes dreary and inescapably human pursuit, where much of the drama exists in the rivalry between archaeologists and the politics of the profession. In Journey to the Ice Age, Peter Storck marries these harsh realities to the excitement of discovery, and ties it all together with his own experience of both. -- Jay Ingram, author, The Velocity of Honey, and host of the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet I love this book. If I had Peter Storck’s writing skill and his introspective view of the world, this is the kind of book I would like to write. It is at once a compelling, personal narrative and an introduction to the process of hypothesis testing and revision that archaeologists use to keep their work oriented toward a problem they wish to solve ... informative ... evocative ...insight into, the past lifeways of Paleoindian people, as well as a thorough understanding of how difficult it is to explore such ancient lifeways through sutdy of the meagre remains fond in archaeological sites that are 10 000 or more years old ... the reader learns a lot about Paleoindians and the environments in which they lived and also a lot about prehistoric archaeology -- Richard Morlan, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec * Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 28, 2004 *This is two books in one, a journey through time to meet the people living on the beaches of ice age lakes, and a personal journey of the scientist who found them. Storck’s narrative is a delightful tale of science in action and a lifetime dedicated to the people of long ago. It has forever changed my view of the Ontario landscape. -- Bob McDonald, host of CBC Radio's Quirks and QuarksThis is an autobiographical account by a curator of the Royal Ontario Museum, relating his archaeological discoveries while tracing the peoples who came over to America from Siberia at the end of the Ice Age. It is an exciting and education read. A truly wonderful book. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Lower Island News *This book will open the consciousness of North Americans to the ancient world that surrounds their daily lives. Familiar landscapes will carry new significance as the settings for primeval iceberg-laden seas, exotic animals, and peoples whose way of life is totally alien to that of the modern world. -- Robert McGhee, author of Ancient People of the ArcticTable of ContentsMaps, Tables, Illustrations, PhotographsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Beginnings2 The Elusive Trail3 An Unexpected Turn4 Breakthrough5 Back to Beachcombing6 Unfinished Business7 Back to the Beginning8 The Search Changes DirectionEpilogue: Approximations of the Past Appendix: Driving into Ice Age Ontario and BeyondSuggested ReadingText CreditsIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Gandharan Buddhism
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region.Table of ContentsContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Pia Brancaccio and Kurt Behrendt1 Prologue: Some Debating Points on Gandharan Buddhism and Kusana History / John M. RosenfieldPart I: Archaeology2 Recent Archaeological Research in Gandhara: The New Evidence / Maurizio Taddei3 Buddhist Presence in the Urban Settlements of Swat, Second Century BCE to Fourth Century CE / Pierfrancesco Callieri4 Relic Shrines of Gandhara: A Reinterpretation of the Archaeological Evidence / Kurt BehrendtPart II: Texts5 Pilgrimage Route Changes and the Decline of Gandhara / Shoshin Kuwayama6 New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Gandharan Buddhism / Richard SalomonPart III: Art7 Bodhisattvas in Gandharan Art: An Aspect of Mahayana in Gandharan Buddhism / Juhyung Rhi8 The Nature and Use of the Bodily Relics of the Buddha in Gandhara / Robert L. Brown9 Gateways to the Buddha: Figures under Arches in Early Gandharan Art / Pia Brancaccio10 A Gandharan Relief with Two Scenes from Buddha’s Life / Anna Maria Quagliotti11 Local Crafts in Early Gandharan Art / Doris Meth Srinivasan12 Ananda and Vajrapani: An Inexplicable Absence and a Mysterious Presence in Gandharan Art / Anna Filigenzi13 Design Diversity in Kaniska’s Buddha Coins / Ellen M. RavenContributorsIndex
£31.50
University of British Columbia Press Time Travel
Book SynopsisThis fascinating look at Canada’s living history museums – pioneer villages and old forts where actors recreate the past – shows how they reveal as much about Canadian post-war interests as they do about settler history.Trade ReviewGordon’s research is meticulous and his writing exceptionally coherent. Time Travel is an excellent study of how priorities and preoccupations guide historical interpretation, and an important addition to the study of Canada’s heritage industry. -- Ryan Porter * Canadian Literature, 236 *... Gordon pulls together a staggering amount of materials to provide a compelling glimpse into the history of living history. He illustrates the contradictions that abound—the tensions between scholarship and entertainment; between National and multicultural remembrance; between the colliding narratives of settler and Indigenous histories. There is more to be written on this story, and Gordon has made a significant contribution to this area of historical scholarship. Time Travel is a useful roadmap that scholars might utilize to explore the fascinating contradictions and interplay between narrative, history and authenticity, so exemplified in the living history museum. -- Sean MacPherson * BC Studies *As a comprehensive history of public history in Canada, Time Travel is a welcome text. … Time Travel does a wonderful job of connecting experiments in living history with that national past. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Historical Studies in Education *Time Travel is an important book that provides keen insights in the understanding of the emergence of living history museums in mid-twentieth century Canada… In a masterful way, Gordon guides the reader through some of the intellectual debates that shaped the making of the living history museum movement. -- Review by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University Museum * Great Plains Quarterly 38.4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living History Time MachinesPart 1: Foundations1 History on Display2 The Foundations of Living History in Canada3 Tourism and HistoryPart 2: Structures4 Pioneer Days5 A Sense of the Past6 Louisbourg and the Quest for AuthenticityPart 3: Connections7 Fur and Gold8 The Great Tradition of Western Empire9 The Spirit of B & B10 People and Place11 Genuine IndiansConclusion: The Limits of Time TravelNotesIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Time Travel
Book SynopsisThis fascinating look at Canada’s living history museums – pioneer villages and old forts where actors recreate the past – shows how they reveal as much about Canadian post-war interests as they do about settler history.Trade ReviewGordon’s research is meticulous and his writing exceptionally coherent. Time Travel is an excellent study of how priorities and preoccupations guide historical interpretation, and an important addition to the study of Canada’s heritage industry. -- Ryan Porter * Canadian Literature, 236 *... Gordon pulls together a staggering amount of materials to provide a compelling glimpse into the history of living history. He illustrates the contradictions that abound—the tensions between scholarship and entertainment; between National and multicultural remembrance; between the colliding narratives of settler and Indigenous histories. There is more to be written on this story, and Gordon has made a significant contribution to this area of historical scholarship. Time Travel is a useful roadmap that scholars might utilize to explore the fascinating contradictions and interplay between narrative, history and authenticity, so exemplified in the living history museum. -- Sean MacPherson * BC Studies *As a comprehensive history of public history in Canada, Time Travel is a welcome text. … Time Travel does a wonderful job of connecting experiments in living history with that national past. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Historical Studies in Education *Time Travel is an important book that provides keen insights in the understanding of the emergence of living history museums in mid-twentieth century Canada… In a masterful way, Gordon guides the reader through some of the intellectual debates that shaped the making of the living history museum movement. -- Review by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University Museum * Great Plains Quarterly 38.4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living History Time MachinesPart 1: Foundations1 History on Display2 The Foundations of Living History in Canada3 Tourism and HistoryPart 2: Structures4 Pioneer Days5 A Sense of the Past6 Louisbourg and the Quest for AuthenticityPart 3: Connections7 Fur and Gold8 The Great Tradition of Western Empire9 The Spirit of B & B10 People and Place11 Genuine IndiansConclusion: The Limits of Time TravelNotesIndex
£26.99
MB - Cornell University Press Domestic and Divine
Book SynopsisIn this lavishly illustrated volume, Christine Kondoleon conducts us through the House of Dionysos, showing us what its interior decoration discloses about its inhabitants and their time.Trade Review"Christine Kondoleon presents the extraordinary mosaics of the House of Dionysos on Cyprus in a multifaceted study that explores their technique, style, iconography, architectural setting, chronology, and social import. This richly textured exploration provides a compelling reconstruction of the social and political aspirations of Romanized aristocratic patrons of the first and second centuries. It will be a landmark for the contextual study of Roman art." -- Elaine K. Gazda, editor of Roman Art in the Private Sphere
£79.20
Cornell University Press Ancestral Images
Book SynopsisPictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human...Trade ReviewA well-illustrated look at the quest for our own genesis. * College and Research Libraries News *Moser introduces a new element: the impact of visual imagery in the domain of science. Moser argues, quite correctly, that visual images play a far more influential role in shaping thought than written texts.... Scientists as well as humanists and social scientists should all read this book. -- Joan M. Vastokas, Trent Univeristy * Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology *Moser makes a strong argument for the enduring nature of long-held visual icons in the depiction of early humans. Recommended for undergraduate and graduate collections. * Choice *What a delight to browse through this carefully prepared, beautifully illustrated volume!... This is altogether a fine volume, breathing visual life into this too-often-neglected aspect of scientific communication. * American Scientist *
£68.40
Cornell University Press Gods and Men in Egypt
Book SynopsisIn their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egypt, Françoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how, over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of...Trade Review"The authors have written an excellent book which challenges readers to explore Egyptian religion with intellectual honesty towards the ancient evidence."—George Hart, Egyptian Archaeology 25, Autumn 2004
£81.00
Cornell University Press Mummies and Death in Egypt
Book SynopsisToday, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has the benefit of all the methods and means at the disposal of forensic medicine. The ''mummy stories'' we tell have changed their tone, but they have enjoyed much success, with fantastic scientific and technological results resolving the mysteries of the ancient land of the pharaohs.from the ForewordMummies are the things that fascinate us most about ancient Egypt. But what are mummies? How did the Egyptians create them? And why? What became of the people they once were? We are learning more all the time about the cultural processes surrounding mummification and the medical characteristics of ancient Egyptian mummies. In the first part of Mummies and Death in Egypt Françoise Dunand gives an overview of the history of mummification in Egypt from the prehistoric to the Roman period. She thoroughly describes the preparations of the dead (tombs and their furnishings, funerary offerings, ornamentation of the corTrade Review"The authors have divided this book into two parts. In the first section, Dunand looks at why and how mummies were made . . . . The second part of the book, written by Lichtenberg, looks in some detail at modern, scientific research on mummies. He draws together research and studies undertaken around the world, but also much of his own, which has involved the use of portable X-ray equipment, which enables on-site investigations of mummies to be made. The results are fascinating and reveal diseases and accidents from which the ancient Egyptians suffered."—Ancient Egypt
£33.25
MB - Cornell University Press Egyptian Religion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating book. . . . Siegfried Morenz discusses the concept of religion among the Egyptians, religion as the center of their civilization, the relationship between their gods and humans, the complex structure of their cosmological systems and their concept of time, of death, and the afterlife, and finally the interplay of Egypt with Syria, Ethiopia, and the Greek world in the field of religion."—Classical Bulletin
£28.49
Cornell University Press The Priests of Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisUsing as his sources the Egyptian texts and the testimony of classical authors, Serge Sauneron illuminates the role of the priesthood in Ancient Egypt.Trade Review"Lorton's new translation fills a substantial need for students of Egyptian religion. The book is aimed at non-specialists as well as students and is written in a highly accessible style."—Denise M. Doxey, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Religious Studies Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, July 2001"This 1957 classic originally written in French is finally made available in English, thanks to David Lorton's excellent translation. Widely illustrated in black and white, this book should be recommended reading for everyone."—Frankie's Bibliography of Ancient Egypt.
£24.69
University of Nebraska Press The Archaeology of the Caddo
Book SynopsisExamines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoplesTrade Review"Editors Timothy Perttula and Chester Walker has compiled the most comprehensive body of research about the Caddo peoples available today."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics"A timely, useful volume. . . . Worth having, reading, and referencing."—Don G. Wyckoff, American AntiquityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword 1. The Archaeology of the Caddo in Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, Eastern Oklahoma, and East Texas: An Introduction to the Volume Timothy K. Perttula2. Form and Structure in Prehistoric Caddo Pottery Design Ann M. Early3. At the House of the Priest: Faunal Remains from the Crenshaw Site (3MI6), Southwest Arkansas H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott, and Frank Schambach4. Bioarchaeological Evidence of Subsistence Strategies among the East Texas Caddo Diane Wilson5. Spiro Reconsidered: Sacred Economy at the Western Frontier of the Eastern Woodlands James A. Brown6. Viewshed Characteristics of Caddo Mounds in the Arkansas Basin Gregory Vogel7. Exploring Prehistoric Caddo Communities through Archaeogeophysics Chester P. Walker and Duncan P. McKinnon8. The Evolution of a Caddo Community in Northeast Texas Timothy K. Perttula and Robert Rogers9. Settlement Patterns and Variation in Caddo Pottery Decoration: A Case Study of the Willow Chute Bayou Locality Jeffrey S. Girard10. Caddo in the Saline River Valley of Arkansas: The Borderlands Project and the Hughes Site Mary Beth Trubitt11. Spatial Patterns of Caddo Mound Sites in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas Jami J. Lockhart12. Decisions in Landscape Setting Selection of the Prehistoric Caddo of Southeastern Oklahoma: A gis Analysis Robert L. Brooks13. The Character of Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Caddo Communities in the Big Cypress Creek Basin of Northeast Texas Timothy K. Perttula14. The Belcher Phase: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Caddo Occupation of the Red River Valley in Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas David B. Kelley15. The Terán Map and Caddo Cosmology George Sabo IIIReferences Cited ContributorsIndex
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Cultural Negotiations
Book SynopsisThis meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 1940. David L. Browman has scoured the archaeological literature and archival records to bring the stories of more than two hundred women in Americanist archaeology to light through detailed biographies that discuss their contributions and publications.Trade Review"Browman has accumulated an impressive account of pioneering women unknown to most archaeologists."—Silvia Tomaskova, American Antiquity"Cultural Negotiations: the Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology provides valuable information on the history of American Archaeology and the contributions of the many unrecognized women who entered the field."—Nurit G. Finn, Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society"This welcome volume reexamines the history of archaeology with a great deal of new insights and data, warts and all."—Nancy White, Journal of Anthropological Research"Cultural Negotiations is an invaluable reference work, and I would highly recommend it as a starting point for graduate students and others looking for future projects."—IsisTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Introduction Introduction 1. Women of the Period 1865 to 1900 2. New Directions in the Period 1900 to 1920 3. Women Entering the Field during the "Roaring Twenties" 4. Women Entering Archaeology, 1930 to 1940 Concluding Remarks References Index
£55.80
University of Nebraska Press Households and Hegemony
Book SynopsisMakes a significant contribution to the understanding of the role North American households played in long-term cultural change after contact with European traders and settlers.Trade Review"[Households and Hegemony] is a well-written, thought provoking book. . . . Wesson forced me to rethink my understandings of habitus and hegemony, as well as the historic period transformation of Creek households."—Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Journal of Southern History"Those historians . . . who approach Wesson's evidence and his book itself with both an open mind and an appreciation for the potential of interdisciplinary conversation will find a great deal that is challenging, worthwhile, and, in the end, impressive."—Joshua Piker, HistorianTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Social Agents, Hegemony, and Households 2. The Creek Social Universe3. Creek-European Interactions4. Changing Creek HouseholdsConclusionsAppendix of TablesBibliographyIndex
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press The Importance of British Material Culture to
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important volume, and historical archaeologists will undoubtedly find it immensely useful everywhere the British commercial empire left its material mark."—Charles E. Orser Jr., Journal of Anthropological Research"This strong volume of well-crafted papers enhances our understanding of nineteenth century British material culture."—Douglas E. Ross, BC Studies“This book is important to the field of historical archaeology as it provides the necessary comparative framework for all material culture studies worldwide. . . . The ideas here will spark a very important movement in England that will give historical archaeology or the archaeology of the modern world its proper spot in the legacy of archaeology in Britain.”—Stephen Brighton, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland and author of Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction: The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth CenturyAlasdair Brooks1. At the Center of the Web: Later Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ceramics from Huntingdon Town Centre in an International ContextAlasdair Brooks, Aileen Connor, and Rachel Clarke2. Containers and Teapots: Archaeological Evidence for the Exported Wares of the Caledonian Pottery, Rutherglen, and Its Role in Glasgow’s Ceramic International Trade and IndustryChris Jarrett, Morag Cross, and Alistair Robertson3. “A Trifling Matter”?: State Branding on Stoneware Bottles, 1812–1834Jennifer Basford4. Uncovering and Recovering Cleared Galloway: The Role of Documents in Rural Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Lowland ScotlandC. Broughton Anderson5. The Fall of Big Hair: Hair Curlers as Evidence of Changing FashionsCarolyn L. White6. Food as Material Culture in a Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Community, Worcester, EnglandRichard Thomas7. “Perfection and Economy”: Continuity and Change in Elite Dining Practices, ca. 1780–1880Annie Gray8. Material Culture in Miniature: The Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Miniature ObjectsRalph Mills9. Artifacts of Mortuary Practice: Industrialization, Choice, and the IndividualHarold Mytum10. “Home”-Made: Exploring the Quality of British Domestic Goods in Nineteenth-Century Urban AssemblagesPenny Crook11. Shadows after Sunset: Imperial Materiality and the Empire’s Lost ThingsJames SymondsContributorsIndex
£999.99
University of Nebraska Press The Coming Man from Canton
Book SynopsisExamines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. Christopher W. Merritt uses the statewide Montana context to show the diversity of Chinese settlements that has often been neglected by archival studies.Trade Review"Merritt's scholarship provides much needed attention to the rural Chinese American experience east of California. Since much of the existing historical scholarship on the pre-1965 Asian American community focuses on urban populations in North American West Coast, Merritt's detailed research on Montana's Chinese American community is a significant contribution to Asian American history and Montanan history."—Kelly N. Fong, Western Historical Quarterly"A meticulously researched and carefully written study. . . . It is loaded with graphs, charts, lists and pictures of archaeological sites and artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese miners, laundry and agricultural workers, cooks and restaurant owners. . . . An essential source on the Montana Chinese experience."—Harlan Hague, True West Magazine"This research is a worthy addition to the scant body of documented information about the daily life of the Chinese immigrants in America. Even fewer published resources bring the historical narrative into this relatively recent period. The book concludes with a valuable dissection of many of the prevailing myths about the Chinese experience, both in Montana and elsewhere. It is refreshing to see a publication that illuminates Chinese communities in the American interior, rather than coastal settlements. By using archaeology and primary historical research, along with a focus upon the details of daily life, and providing statistics to validate his conclusions, Merritt has offered a well researched contribution to the deeper understanding of the overseas Chinese."—Roberta S. Greenwood, Historical Archaeology"Christopher Merritt's new book is a welcome addition to the study of Chinese immigration to North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's a compelling account of Chinese immigrants' contributions to the economic and social development of the Great Plains in general, and to the state of Montana in particular."—Roland Hsu, Great Plains Quarterly“A grand overview of Chinese experiences in Montana. This much-needed volume will help to fill the gap of studying the Chinese immigrants in the interior American West.”—Liping Zhu, author of The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the WestTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Entrance and Expansion, 1862–1880 2. Restriction and Legal Attacks, 1880–1900 3. Diversification, Collapse, and Aging, 1900–1943 4. Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese in Montana 5. Chinese Social Organization in Montana and Archaeological Implications 6. Conclusions and Future Directions References Index
£48.60
Stanford University Press Artifact and Assemblage The Prehistoric and Early
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a detailed analysis of the artifacts discovered in the course of a large-scale and intensive regional survey - the Argolid Exploration Project, an environmental and archaeological survey of the Argolid peninsula in southern Greece conducted by Stanford University.Table of ContentsIntroduction Curtis Runnels, Daniel J. Pullen, and Susan Langdon; 1. The pottery of the Neolithic, Early Helladic I, and Early Helladic II periods Daniel J. Pullen; 2. The pottery of the Early Helladic III and Middle Helladic periods Gullog C. Nordquist; 3. The pottery of the Late Helladic period P. A. Mountjoy; 4. The pottery of the early Iron Age and Geometric periods Susan Langdon; 5. The Lithic artifacts: flaked stone and other nonflaked Lithics P. Nick Kardulias, and Curtis Runnels; Conclusions Curtis Runnels, Daniel J. Pullen, and Susan Langdon.
£84.15
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Teotihuacan
Book SynopsisThis work provides a comprehensive study of the art of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting and ceramics. Combining the art with those of other ancient civilizations, the author demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals.
£37.76
John Wiley & Sons Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification
Book SynopsisBattlefield archaeologist Daniel Sivilich provides readers with the tools and techniques to unlock the stories of small shot in this book, the first definitive guide to identifying musket balls, from the oldest formed to those fired in the early nineteenth century.Trade ReviewDaniel M. Sivilich's Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guideis the result of twenty-eight years of research and collaboration. The Guide is an essential reference for any archaeologist studying eighteenth-century battlefields."" - Garry Wheeler Stone, historian (retired) for Monmouth Battlefield State Park""This well-illustrated text takes round-ball research into a new region - explanatory research - by linking shot to weaponry, military tactics, and time periods, and shows how to apply it to battlefield archaeology. Bridging the gap between seventeenth-century European round-ball research and American Civil War studies, it is an essential reference for beginning students and experienced researchers alike."" - Lawrence E. Babits, coeditor of The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts
£26.06
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Search for the First Americans Science Power
Book SynopsisFossil remains from Mesa Verde, Clovis, and other sites testify to the presence of First Americans. What remains unsettled, as The Search for the First Americans makes clear, is not only who these people were, where they came from, and when, but also the very nature and practice of the science searching for answers.
£18.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisA genealogical chart of virtually all named figures of Greek mythology that can be shown to be related. The text includes a 72-page chart that links 3673 named figures into a single ""family tree"", and an 80-page index that provides a citation to an ancient source for each relationship.Trade Review"A major contribution to our understanding of how ancient Greeks organized the vast corpus of figures constituting what we call Greek mythology." - Timothy Gantz, from the Foreword
£88.40
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Beyond Collapse Archaeological Perspectives on
Book SynopsisGathers scholars with diverse theoretical perspectives to interpret how ancient civilizations responded to various stresses, including environmental change, warfare, and the fragmentation of political institutions. Contributors discuss not only what makes societies collapse but also why some societies are resilient and others are not, as well as how societies reorganize after collapse.
£56.25
University of Pennsylvania Press The Graven Image
Book Synopsis"A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation... Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."-Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTrade Review"Bahrani opens up the field of discourse for the study of ancient Near Eastern art and brings it into dialogue with current disciplinary trends. . . . The book will stimulate further discussion about the nature(s) of Babylonian and Assyrian representation across the disciplinary divides." * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Aesthetic and the Epistemic: Race, Culture, and Antiquity 2. The Extraterrestrial Orient: Despotic Time and the Time of the Despots 3. Ethnography and Mimesis: Representing Aesthetic Culture 4. Being in the Word: Of Grammatology and Mantic 5. Salmu: Representation in the Real 6. Decoys and Lures: Substitution and the Uncanny Double of the King 7. Presence and Repetition: The Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta 8. Conclusion: Image, Text, and Différance, or from Difference to Différance Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Thinking Through Material Culture
Book SynopsisThinking Through Material Culture provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the pivotal role of material culture in human cognition, perception and action.Trade Review"The book is extremely well researched, drawing on the cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, art history, philosophy, the neurosciences, semiotics, semiology, and, of course, archaeology and anthropology. . . . A path-breaking book." * Current Anthropology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: thinking through material culture 2. Animacy, agency, and personhood 3. Cognition, perception, and action 4. The dynamics of networks 5. Networks of meaning: a sociosemiotics of material culture 6. Thinking through: meaning in modern material culture 7. Archaeological case study: drinking vessels in Minoan Crete 8. Conclusions
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press The Prehistory of the Silk Road
Book SynopsisThe Silk Road served to connect the diverse geographies and populations of China, the Eurasian Steppe, Central Asia, India, Western Asia, and Europe. The majority of the Silk Road routes passed through the Eurasian Steppe. This book looks at the history of this crucial area before the formal establishment of Silk Road trade and diplomacy.Trade Review"A major advance in the field of the early history and archaeology of central Asia." * Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Contact Chapter Two: Understanding Chapter Three: Idolatry Chapter Four: Jihad Chapter Five: Halal Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Landscapes of the Islamic World
Book SynopsisLandscapes of the Islamic World presents new work by twelve authors on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of the Islamic world in the Middle East, the Arabian peninsula, and central Asia. The focus looks beyond the city to engage with the predominantly rural and pastoral character of premodern Islamic society.Trade Review"The goal of the book, to integrate different types of data and domains of inquiry to illustrate the research possible in rural landscapes is admirably accomplished. The volume is well integrated into a comprehensive whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This book also demonstrates that committed scholars, endeavoring to write clearly to those outside of their immediate specialty, can successfully bring the richness of detail in their work to a broader archaeological audience." * Ethnoarchaeology *"This welcome volume seeks to bring the approaches of landscape archaeology to the rich dataset offered by the rural communities of the Islamic Middle East. Through chapters addressing fundamental social and economic matters-mining and manufacturing, water management, the animal economy, the actuality of burial practices-the contributors deploy and confront both archaeological and documentary evidence in ways that will interest a broad readership." * Graham Philip, Durham University *"This rich and carefully assembled volume is diverse in its theoretical and methodological approaches and scope. It opens numerous windows into the field of Islamic archaeology, suffusing it with fresh new possibilities and horizons. Each study grounds the history of Islamic societies in a rich and dynamic landscape. The volume should be indispensable to all scholars and students of Islamic studies." * A. Asa Eger, University of North Carolina-Greensboro *Table of ContentsPreface —Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth Introduction —Tony J. Wilkinson PART I. HYDROECONOMIES: MANAGING AND LIVING WITH WATER Chapter 1. The Materiality of Ottoman Water Administration in Eighteenth-Century Rural Damascus: A Historian's Perspective —Astrid Meier Chapter 2. The Islamic Occupation of Qatar in the Context of an Environmental Framework —Phillip G. Macumber Chapter 3. Water Management in Desert Regions: Early Islamic Qasr Mushash —Karin Bartl PART II. AGRICULTURE, PASTORALISM, AND SUBSISTENCE Chapter 4. Faunal Distributions from the Southern Highlands of Transjordan: Regional and Historical Perspectives on the Representations and Roles of Animals in the Middle Islamic Period —Robin M. Brown Chapter 5. Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Rural Economy and Landscape Use in Eighteenth-Century Qatar —Pernille Bangsgaard and Lisa Yeomans PART III. LANDSCAPES OF COMMERCE AND PRODUCTION Chapter 6. Beyond Iron Age Landscapes: Copper Mining and Smelting in Faynan in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries CE —Ian W. N. Jones Chapter 7. Ceramic Production in the Central Highlands of Yemen During the Islamic Period —Daniel Mahoney Chapter 8. Harnessing Hydraulic Power in Ottoman Syria: Water Mills and the Rural Economy of the Upper Orontes Valley —Stephen McPhillips PART IV. TRANSIENCE AND PERMANENCE: MOVEMENT AND MEMORY IN THE LANDSCAPE Chapter 9. The Architectural Legacy of the Seasonally Nomadic Ghurids —David C. Thomas and Alison L. Gascoigne Chapter 10. The Northern Jordan Project and the "Liquid Landscapes" of Late Islamic Bilad al-Sham —Bethany J. Walker Chapter 11. "Presencing the Past": A Case Study of Islamic Rural Burial Practices from the Homs Region, Syria —Jennie N. Bradbury Chapter 12. Sustaining Travel: The Economy of Medieval Stopping Places Across the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan —Paul D. Wordsworth Conclusion. Some Reflections on Rural Islamic Landscapes —Alan Walmsley Glossary List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C.
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press The Typology of the Early Codex
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The core of Typology of the Early Codex is the consolidated list of codices consulted, which is more or less a complete list of all the surviving codices and fragments published up to November 1973 (with the exclusion of certain important categories, e.g., the majority of Latin codices already listed by E. A. Lowe in Codices Latini Antiquiores). This provides a bridge between codices which were found below ground, the domain of papyrologists, and those which have survived above." * The Classical Review *
£67.15
University Press of Florida The Archaeology Of Warfare Prehistories of
Book SynopsisExplores the development of warfare in preindustrial, non-Western societies, addressing why some societies fight endemic wars while others do not and how frequent warfare affects the basic choices people make about where to live, whom to fight, on whom to confer power, and how to form social groups.
£26.06
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Seneca Restoration 17151754
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Ceramics of Ancient America
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the important social relationships that form between people who participate in small-scale economic transactions, contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of intimate and shadow economies - terms used to describe trade that takes place outside formal market systems.
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Mobilizing Heritage
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America
Book SynopsisShowcasing the enormous amount of data available on the lives of Chinese people who migrated to the United States and Canada in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions by providing fresh, more nuanced approaches to interpreting immigrant life.Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1. Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America —J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose 2. Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora —Douglass E. Ross 3. Towards Engaged and Critical Archaeologies of the Chinese Diaspora —Kelly N. Fong 方少芳 4. Exposing Negative Chinese Terminology and Stereotypes —Priscilla Wegars 5. Interethnic Relationships in 19th-Century Chinatowns: New Perspectives from Archaeological Research and Missionary Women's Writings —Barbara L. Voss 6. An Archaeology of a Chinese Laundryman in the Jim Crow South: The Sam Long Laundry, New Orleans, Louisiana —D. Ryan Gray 7. Burned: The Archaeology of House and Home in Jacksonville, Oregon's Chinese Quarter —Chelsea Rose 8. "Let my Body Be Buried Here": A Long View of Chinese Immigrants in the American West —Adrian Praetzellis and Mary Praetzellis 9. Towards an Historical Archaeology of the Chinese in Montana and A Transnational Lens —Christopher Merritt 10. Between South China and Southern California: the Formation of Transnational Chinese Communities —Laura W. Ng 11. Meat Economies of the Chinese-American West —Charlotte K. Sunserit 12. Bounty from the Sea: Chinese Foundations of the Commercial Shrimp, Squid, and Abalone Fisheries in California —Linda Bentz and Todd J. Braje 13. Flexible Plant Food Practices Among the 19th Century Chinese Migrants to Western North America —Virginia S. Popper 14. Multi-sited Networks: The Underlying Analytical Power of Transnational and Diasporic Approaches —Henry Yu Index
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Nine Lives of Floridas Famous Key Marco Cat
Book SynopsisExcavated from a waterlogged archaeological site on the shores of subtropical Florida by legendary anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1896, the Key Marco Cat has become a modern icon of heritage, history, and local identity. This book takes readers into the deep past of the artifact and the Native American society in which it was created.
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University Press of Florida Archaeologies of Listening
Book SynopsisArchaeologists tend to rely on scientific methods to reconstruct past histories, an approach that can alienate local indigenous populations and limit research. Essays in this volume argue that listening to and learning from local and descendant communities is vital for interpreting the histories and heritage values of archaeological sites.
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University Press of Florida Anthropological Perspectives on Aging
Book SynopsisAn in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in society. Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history.
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University Press of Florida Ancient Foodways Integrative Approaches to
Book SynopsisThrough various case studies, Ancient Foodways illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to understand how food acquisition, preparation, and consumption intersect with economics, politics, and ritual.
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University Press of Florida Anthropological Perspectives on Aging
Book SynopsisAn in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in society. Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history.
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University Press of Florida Dead Mans Chest
Book SynopsisFeaturing discussions of evidence from South America, England, New England, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, this book presents diverse approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.
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University Press of Florida The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya
Book SynopsisDiscusses the ways the Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. Chapters show how the Maya incorporated cyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the built environment, embedding notions of time in political and economic institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, and mythology.
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University Press of Florida Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence
Book SynopsisChallenging narratives of Indigenous cultural loss and disappearance that are still prevalent in the archaeological study of colonization, this book highlights collaborative research and efforts to center the enduring histories of Native peoples in North America through case studies from several regions across the continent.
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Rutgers University Press A Prehistory of the North Human Settlement of the
Book SynopsisEarly humans did not drift north from Africa as their ability to cope with cooler climates evolved. Settlement of Europe and northern Asia occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. This study tells the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth.Table of ContentsVikings in the Arctic Out of Africa The first Europeans Cold weather people Modern humans in the north Into the Arctic Peoples of the circumpolar zone
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University of Virginia Press In and Out of the West
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Syracuse University Press The Archaeology of Harriet Tubmans Life in
Book SynopsisReconstructs and interprets Harriet Tubman's public and private life in freedom through integrating the author’s archaeological findings with historical research. Armstrong's research is part of a wider effort to enhance public interpretation and engagement with the Harriet Tubman Home.
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University of Arizona Press A View from Black Mesa
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