Amotopoan Trails

Author : Jimmy Mans
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088900983

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Amotopoan Trails by Jimmy Mans Pdf

In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past. Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past. Viewing archaeological mobility as the sum of movements of both people and objects, the empirical part of Amotopoan Trails focuses on Amotopo, a small contemporary Trio village in the interior of Suriname. The movements of the Amotopoans are tracked and positioned in a century of Trio dynamics, ultimately yielding a recent archaeology of Surinamese-Trio movements for the Sipaliwini River basin (1907-2008). Alongside the construction of this archaeology, novel mobility concepts are introduced. They provide the conceptual footholds which enable the envisioning of mobility at various temporal scales, from a decade up to a century, the sequence of which has remained a blind spot in Caribbean and Amazonian archaeology.

Author : Alfredo González-Ruibal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442230910

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An Archaeology of Resistance by Alfredo González-Ruibal Pdf

An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia.The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory, ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different processes of resistance in the long term.

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191663093

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The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines by Timothy Insoll Pdf

Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198759515

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The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Pdf

The first volume to offer a thorough and systematic account of evidentiality and the expression of information source, Illustrated with extensive data from a range of typologically diverse languages, Introductory chapter offers practical advice for fieldworkers investigating evidentially, Interdisciplinary in nature with insights from typology, semantics, pragmatics, language description, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics Book jacket.

Author : Kofi Yakpo,Pieter C. Muysken
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514886

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Boundaries and Bridges by Kofi Yakpo,Pieter C. Muysken Pdf

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.

Author : Eithne B. Carlin,Isabelle Léglise,Bettina Migge,Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004280120

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In and Out of Suriname by Eithne B. Carlin,Isabelle Léglise,Bettina Migge,Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat Pdf

This title will be available online in its entirety in Open Access In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.

Author : Trish Biers,Katie Stringer Clary
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000910179

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The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death by Trish Biers,Katie Stringer Clary Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying, and human remains in museums and heritage sites around the world. Presenting a diverse range of contributions from scholars, practitioners, and artists, the book reminds us that death and the dead body are omnipresent in museum and heritage spaces. Chapters appraise collection practices and their historical context, present global perspectives and potential resolutions, and suggest how death and dying should be presented to the public. Acknowledging that professionals in the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) fields are engaging in vital discussions about repatriation and anti-colonialist narratives, the book includes reflections on a variety of deathscapes that are at the forefront of the debate. Taking a multivocal approach, the handbook provides a foundation for debate as well as a reference for how the dead are treated within the public arena. Most important, perhaps, the book highlights best practices and calls for more ethical frameworks and strategies for collaboration, particularly with descendant communities. The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death will be useful to all individuals working with, studying, and interested in curation and exhibition at museums and heritage sites around the world. It will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of heritage, museum studies, death studies, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and history.

Author : Alexander Geurds,Laura Van Broekhoven
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789088902055

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Creating Authenticity by Alexander Geurds,Laura Van Broekhoven Pdf

‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past. Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. It came to be recognized that both far-away communities and the deep past can only be discussed when seen as desires, constructions and inventions. Notwithstanding this undressing of the ways in which people portray their cultural surroundings and past, claims of authenticity and quests for authentication remain omnipresent. This book explores the authentic in contemporary ethnographic museums, as it persists in dialogues with stakeholders, and how museums portray themselves. How do we interact with questions of authenticity and authentication when we curate, study artefacts, collect, repatriate, and make (re)presentations? The contributing authors illustrate the divergent nature in which the authentic is brought into play, deconstructed and operationalized. Authenticity, the book argues, is an expression of a desire that is equally troubled as it is resilient.

Author : Martijn M. van den Bel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000452440

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Archaeological Investigations on Guadeloupe, French West Indies by Martijn M. van den Bel Pdf

Comprising 20 scientific contributions to the archaeology of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, this volume places the latter Caribbean Island in the spotlight by presenting the results of four contemporaneous archaeological sites. By means of these four sites, this book explores a variety of issues contemplating the transition from the Early to the Late Ceramic Age in the Lesser Antilles. Studies of pre-Columbian material culture (ceramics, lithics, faunal, shell and human bone remains) are combined with additional microanalyses (starch and phytolith analyses, micromorphology and thin sections) to sort out the processes that triggered the cultural transition just before the end of the first millennium CE. The multidisciplinary approach to address these sites Saladoid shows the current state of affairs on project-led archaeology in the French West Indies and should be of great value to both researchers and students of Caribbean archaeology, material cultures, zooarchaeology, environmental studies, historical ecology, and other related fields.

Author : Vanessa Grotti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734593

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Nurturing the Other by Vanessa Grotti Pdf

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.

Author : R. Hoefte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137360137

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Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century by R. Hoefte Pdf

Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest.

Author : Nigel Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319055091

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Palms and People in the Amazon by Nigel Smith Pdf

This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of many landscapes in Amazonia, and they are important culturally, economically, and for a variety of ecological roles they play. Humans have been reorganizing the biological furniture in the region since the first hunters and gatherers arrived over 20,000 years ago.

Author : Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199697090

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Network Analysis in Archaeology by Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting Pdf

Outgrowth of a session organized for the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in St. Louis, Mo., in 2010. Cf. acknowledgments.

Author : Paul Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4770013930

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Hiking in Japan by Paul Hunt Pdf

Author : Robert Moor
Publisher : Aurum Press Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781317046

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On Trails by Robert Moor Pdf

A strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent, Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world, from the biological phenomenon of how ant trails are formed to hiking paths that span continents and oceans, from migration routes to the Internet. In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: 'How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others devolve? What makes us follow or strike off on our own?'. Over the course of the next seven years, Moor travelled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing. This deep search for meaning introduces the reader to experts who work with trails of all kind, outrageous anecdotes from his own experiences and spectacular descriptions of landscapes and animal behaviour. On Trails gives an eye-opening tour, leaving us with a much richer, prismatic take on what we constantly take for granted: how we get where we're going.