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  • - Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
    av Gustavo Politis
    811 - 2 251

    Written by one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, this book presents a study of the last ""undiscovered"" people of the Amazon. Through a comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture ""in the making"", it makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies.

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    2 241

    This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.

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    1 831

    In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD.

  • - A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
    av Dwight W. Read
    601 - 1 971

    Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories. This book examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. It offers a methodology for producing classifications that are salient to the cultural groups that produced them.

  • - A Novel of the Neolithic
    av Rob Swigart
    601

    A large mirror is found by a Turkish farmer on top of a mound. What does it mean, for then and now? This novel features a story which toggles between the story of a Neolithic village - and the fortunes of the family who find this tool - and a tale of archaeologists whose excavated finds stir journalists, governments, and worshippers alike.

  • - Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
     
    697

    Argues for a shift in cultural heritage conservation, from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture towards the impact that conservation work has on people's lives. This book challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice.

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    641

    Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. This volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic implications of the fact that medical knowledge is frequently dynamic, incoherent, and contradictory, and that our understanding of it is incomplete.

  • - History, Ethnography, Theory
     
    751

    Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term tends to be used as a simple synonym for "mixture" or "hybridity." This book gives the term theoretical specificity by examining the different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place.

  • - Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora
     
    617

    Emphasizes the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form different perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures.

  • - Autobiographical Narratives and Social History
     
    641

    Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same fields, and anthropology is not different. This book speaks about their challenges and successes as they navigated through their personal and professional lives, riding the changing tides of social and disciplinary history.

  • - Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard
    av Sadrettin Dural
    611

    Offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, and describes the local in-fighting. This title explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound. It recounts the daily experience of one man in a contemporary Turkish village, including changing economic strategies for supporting his family.

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    1 971

    Includes essays that look back at some of the important events where a role for an archaeology concerned with the past first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical issues central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its future.

  • - Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America
     
    2 631

    Asks critical questions about historic preservation and commemoration methods used by modern societies and their impact on the perception and identity of the people they supposedly remember, who are generally not consulted in the commemoration process.

  • - Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings
    av Okasha El-Daly
    717 - 2 111

    Examines a neglected period in the history of Egyptology, from the Moslem annexation of Egypt in the 7th century CE until the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century. This book is aimed at academics and students of archaeology, Islamic studies and Egyptology, as well as anyone with a general interest in Egyptian history.

  • - Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic
     
    781

    Provides a framework for understanding and studying social and ecological systems. This book, featuring contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, presents and assesses both the evolution of our thinking and research.

  • av Nicholas Dorochoff
    517

    Anyone in the cultural resource management world will tell you that much of the job is successfully negotiating consensus on a course of action between various stakeholders. This title offers the heritage management community the benefit of decades of thinking on negotiation where it is practiced daily - the business world.

  • - Toward a Politics of Hope
     
    617

    Features articles from the 2008 International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry. This book demonstrates the potential of the research tradition to make contributions to the betterment of humankind. It highlights the importance of advocating for social justice.

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    611

    Presents research and practice to show how history museums offer a point of entry to the past by empowering children to connect to history through exhibitions. This title covers educational theory and developmental frameworks, how audience and evaluation inform research and development, and the role of experience in delivering content.

  • - Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
    av Kelli Ann Costa
    731 - 2 241

    The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. This ethnography of critical but unrecognized producers of Irish heritage tourism demonstrates their importance in providing a visitor-specific vision of heritage that contrasts with the realities of contemporary economic development.

  • av Michael Shanks
    667 - 1 931

    Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking - about what is left of the past, about temporality of humans and their material lives, about the processes of order and entropy, and about processes of creating, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. This title offers a window on this imaginative world of past and present.

  • - Principles and Procedures
    av Janice M Morse
    587

    The use of mixed methods designs for conducting research has become a major trend in social science research. Renowned methodological experts Janice Morse and Linda Niehaus present a guide to intermediate and experienced researchers on the possibilities inherent in mixed method research.

  • - The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers
     
    2 111

    A long overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time.

  • av John H Falk
    557

    Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors' needs.

  • av Thomas F. King & Gregory G. White
    591

    Governmental guidelines have forced a dramatic change in the practice of archaeological surveying. This book provides an introduction to students, field novices, and land managers on the strategies, methods, and logic of contemporary survey work. It is useful for an archaeological methods class, field school, or reference collection.

  • - Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage
     
    2 307

    A primary characteristic of landscape archeology is the diversity of its regional traditions, which reveals a range of methods and field locations. This volume demonstrates how landscape archeologies can be used to highlight material situations and the alternative political standpoints from which archaeologists work in the contemporary world.

  • - Ancient and Modern Issues
     
    657

    Presents a collection of articles, drawn from various works being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. The other attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields.

  • - An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
    av Beverley Butler
    587

    Presents a critique of the underlying foundational concepts and values behind the Alexandria Library. This title draws upon an array of thinkers such as Freud, Derrida, Said, and Bernal, among others. It is intended for museologists, historians, archaeologists, cultural scholars, and heritage professionals.

  • av Leslie A. White
    567 - 1 971

    Drawing out the author's formulations of social organization, cultural evolution, and the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture, this theoretical work traces a vast expanse of history from the earliest forms of capitalism to the inner workings of contemporary democratic institutions.

  • - Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island
    av Philip Duke
    601

    Helps readers understand the impact that archaeological sites, museums and the constructed past have on tourists' view of their own culture, how it legitimizes class inequality at home as well as on the island of Crete, both Minoan and modern.

  • - Decolonizing the Politics of Knowledge
     
    657

    Ethics has been a perennial concern of qualitative researchers; a subject confounded with the emergence of human subjects regulations, increased concern with indigenous communities, globalization of research practices, and the breakdown of barriers between researcher and subject. This book looks at the key topics that face qualitative researchers.

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