Assembling Past Worlds

Author : Oliver J.T. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000393088

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Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment in the emergence of new ways of living, as well as new relationships between materials, people and new forms of architecture. It achieves two things. First, it identifies the major challenges that archaeology faces in the light of current theoretical shifts. New ideas place new demands on how we write and think about the past, sometimes in ways that can seem contradictory. This volume identifies seven major challenges that have emerged and sets out why they matter, why archaeology needs to engage with them and how they can be dealt with through an innovative theoretical approach. Second, it explores how this approach meets these challenges through an in-depth study of Neolithic Britain. It provides an insightful diagnosis of the issues posed by current archaeological thought and is the first volume to apply the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the extended analysis of a single period. Assembling Past Worlds shows how new approaches are transforming our understandings of past worlds and, in so doing, how we can meet the challenges facing archaeology today. It will be of interest to both students and researchers in archaeological theory and the Neolithic of Europe.

Author : Jonathan Last
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257106

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Marking Place by Jonathan Last Pdf

Much archaeological work is concerned with identifying gaps in our knowledge and developing strategies for addressing them; we perhaps spend less time thinking about how research should proceed when we already know, relatively speaking, quite a lot. The program of dating causewayed enclosures in southern Britain that was published in 2011 as Gathering Time (Oxbow Books) gave us a new, more precise chronology for many individual sites as well as for enclosures as a whole, and as a consequence a far better sense of their significance and place in the story of the British Early Neolithic. Arguably, causewayed enclosures are now the best understood type of Neolithic monument. Yet work continues, and in the last few years new discoveries have been made, older excavations published and further work undertaken on well-known sites. Viewing this research within the new framework for these monuments allows us to assess where our understanding of enclosures has got to and where the focus of future research should lie. This volume originates from a Neolithic Studies Group meeting held in November 2019, which aimed firstly to showcase and explore the wide range of current work on causewayed enclosures and related sites, and secondly to assess what we still want to know about these sites in light of the monumental achievement of Gathering Time. The papers collected here comprise reports on recent development-led fieldwork, academic research and community projects, and the volume concludes with a reflection by the authors of Gathering Time.

Author : Gahman, Levi,Mohamed, Nasha,Filiberto Penados,Johannah-Rae Reyes,Atiyah Mohamed,Shelda-Jane Smith
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447362159

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A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds by Gahman, Levi,Mohamed, Nasha,Filiberto Penados,Johannah-Rae Reyes,Atiyah Mohamed,Shelda-Jane Smith Pdf

Written by an international team of authors, this ambitious volume offers radical alternatives to staid ways of thinking on the most crucial global challenges of our times. Bridging real examples of political agency, collective action and mutual aid with big-picture concepts, the book encourages readers to ‘be a Zapatista’, wherever they are.

Author : Joanna Gavins,Ernestine Lahey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472586544

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World Building by Joanna Gavins,Ernestine Lahey Pdf

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the 'text-as-world' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary theory. The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as 'possible worlds', 'text-worlds' and 'storyworlds'. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants. The chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.

Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587153303

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Complete Critical Assembly by David Langford Pdf

This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.

Author : James Wilson Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UOM:39015006989746

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Photographic History of the World's Fair and Sketch of the City of Chicago by James Wilson Pierce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000456266

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The Assembly's Shorter Catechism Explained by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UIUC:30112105708603

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Anthony Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317108450

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Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line by Anthony Lloyd Pdf

As a product of its time, the call centre utilises new developments in telecommunications and information technology to offer cost-efficient delivery systems for customer care. Efficiency, productivity and flexibility are all embodiments of neoliberal market capitalism and are all personified in the call centre operation, as well as the structure of the labour market in general. Thus the individual and the workplace are embedded in a variety of global processes. In order to frame the context in which call centre operations exist today and their employees (mainly young men and women) negotiate the increasingly risky and individualised task of developing an identity or sense of belonging in the world, Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line sets out the economic, social and political changes over the last three decades that have restructured the labour market, altered the balance between labour, management and the state, and unleashed global market capitalism upon previously sheltered areas of the economy and social life in both Britain and elsewhere. This ground-breaking book offers one of the first real qualitative sociological investigations of a relatively new form of employment, to see what life is like on the 'post-industrial assembly line', whilst also taking a close look at the nature of class, identity and subjectivity in relation to young people coming of age in a world dramatically altered over the last three decades.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : NYPL:33433004435081

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Journal of the House of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Assembly of Divines (England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1771
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019766394

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The Assembly's Shorter Catechism Explained. Pt. 1. [By E. and R. Erskine and J. Fisher.] The Fifth Edition. Pt. 2. [By J. Fisher.] The Fourth Edition by Assembly of Divines (England) Pdf

Author : Veena Das,Didier Fassin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021476

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Words and Worlds by Veena Das,Didier Fassin Pdf

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to war and power, the contributors to this book trouble the self-evidence of these terms, bringing into view the hidden transcripts and unexpected trajectories of many settled ideas, such as the human sense of belonging or the call for openness and transparency in research and public life. The case studies conducted over five continents with the tools of eight different disciplines challenge the ethnocentric assumptions, false moralism, and cultural prejudices that underlie much discussion on corruption or even the virtue invested in resilience. The critique of the ubiquitous use of crisis to characterize our times shows how this framing obscures the unjust conditions of existence and the violence of everyday life. Together the essays in this volume offer a fresh look at the deeply connected worlds we inhabit in solidarity and in discord. Contributors. Banu Bargu, Veena Das, Alex de Waal, Didier Fassin, Peter Geschiere, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Caroline Humphrey, Ravi Kanbur, Julieta Lemaitre, Uday S. Mehta, Jan-Werner Müller, Jonathan Pugh, Elizabeth F. Sanders, Todd Sanders

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0374706026

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Assembling California by John McPhee Pdf

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

Author : West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89061896247

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Assembly by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2548456

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf