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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015045991463
Author : Neal Ferris,Rodney Harrison,Michael Vincent Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199696697
This work explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by European colonial expansion over the last 600 years. Case studies from North America, Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Ireland significantly revise conventional historical narratives of those interactions, their presumed impacts, and their ongoing relevance for the material, social, economic, and political lives and identities of contemporary indigenous and other peoples.
Author : Diane F. George,Bernice Kurchin
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057026
This volume demonstrates how humans adapt to new and challenging environments by building and adjusting their identities. By gathering a diverse set of case studies that draw on popular themes in contemporary historical archaeology and current trends in archaeological method and theory, it shows the many ways identity formation can be seen in the material world that humans create. The essays focus on situations across the globe where humans have experienced dissonance in the form of colonization, migration, conflict, marginalization, and other cultural encounters. Featuring a wide time span that reaches to the ancient past, examples include Roman soldiers in Britain, Vikings in Iceland and the Orkney Islands, sex workers in French colonial Algeria, Irish immigrants to the United States, an African American community in nineteenth-century New York City, and the Taino people of contemporary Puerto Rico. These studies draw on a variety of data, from excavated artifacts to landscape and architecture to archival materials. In their analyses, contributors explore multiple aspects of identity such as class, gender, race, and ethnicity, showing how these factors intersect for many of the individuals and groups studied. The questions of identity formation explored in this volume are critical to understanding the world today as humans continue to grapple with the legacies of colonialism and the realities of globalized and divided societies.
Author : Sarah Milledge Nelson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759114203
The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of gender worldwide. They do so in terms of the theories, methods, and ways of teaching and learning amassed through archaeological data. These essays provide insight into the study of gender in archaeology and will prove valuable to the scholarship of gender-based theory.
Author : Elizabeth Frood,Rubina Raja
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 2503541046
This launch volume of the series Contextualising the Sacred explores the changing social, religious, and political meanings of sacred space in the ancient Near East through bringing together the work of leading scholars of ancient history, Assyriology, classical archaeology, Egyptology and philology. Redefining the Sacred originates in an international European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop of the same name held at the University of Oxford in 2009, and is the launch volume for the series Contextualising the Sacred. It comprises eight studies written by leading scholars, each of whom investigates aspects of the diverse and changing meanings of sacred environments in the Near East and Egypt from c. 1000 BC to AD 300. This was a time of dramatic social, political, and religious transformation in the region, and religious architecture, which was central to ancient environments, is a productive interpretive lens through which implications of these changes can be examined across cultural borders. Analysis of the development of urban, sub-urban, and extra-urban sanctuaries, as well as the written sources associated with them, shows how the religious identities of individuals, groups, and societies were shaped, transformed, and interconnected. By bringing together ancient historians, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, archaeologists, and philologists, the volume highlights the immense potential of diachronic studies of sacred space, which the series will take forward.
Author : Emma Blake,A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137249
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer general coverage of Mediterranean prehistory Written by 14 of the leading archaeologists in the field Spans the Neolithic through the Iron Age, and draws from all the major regions of the Mediterranean's coast and islands Presents the central debates in Mediterranean prehistory---trade and interaction, rural economies, ritual, social structure, gender, monumentality, insularity, archaeometallurgy and the metals trade, stone technologies, settlement, and maritime traffic---as well as contemporary legacies of the region's prehistoric past Structure of text is pedagogically driven Engages diverse theoretical approaches so students will see the benefits of multivocality
Author : Kevin Greene
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812218280
A substantially revised and expanded edition of one of the most widely-used and respected general introductions to the field of archaeology.
Author : Sarah Milledge Nelson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759113916
In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings together the totality of the evidence to make it possible to compare sexual roles and identities from far-flung cultures of vastly different time periods. Worlds of Gender is an excellent resource for comparative cultural studies and gender studies, as well as a useful examination of how gender roles affect social structures.
Author : Charles E. Orser Jnr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134608621
A-Z organised Entries are written by an international team of 127 experts in the field Includes 29 b+w illustrations including 23 half-tones Contains cross references, suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index
Author : Hans Barnard,Willeke Wendrich
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770388
There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that it tries to redefine pastoralism within a larger context by the term mobility. It presents many new ideas and thoughtful approaches, especially in the Central Asian region.
Author : Margarita Diaz-Andreu,Sam Lucy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134738113
Bringing together a wealth of scholarship which provides a unique integrated approach to identity, The Archaeology of Identity presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: * gender * age * ethnicity * religion * status. This excellent book reviews the research history of each areas, the different ways in which each has been investigated, and offers new avenues for research and exploring the connections between them. Emphasis is placed on exploring the ways in which material culture structures, and is structured by, these aspects of individual and communal identity, with a particular examination of social practice. Useful for social scientists in sociology, anthropology and history, under- and postgraduates will find this an excellent addition to their course studies.
Author : Kevin Greene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134569410
This fourth edition constitutes the most extensive reshaping of the text to date. In a lucid and accessible style Kevin Greene explains the discovery and excavation of sites, outlines major dating methods, gives clear explanations of scientific techniques, and examines current theories and controversies. New features include: a completely new user-friendly text design with initial chapter overviews and final conclusions, key references for each chapter section, an annotated guide to further reading, a glossary, refreshed illustrations, case studies and examples, bibliography and full index a new companion website built for this edition providing hyperlinks from contents list to individual chapter summaries which in turn link to key websites and other material an important new chapter on current theory emphasizing the richness of sources of analogy or interpretation available today. This new edition provides students with a sound introduction to the field of archaeology and guides them towards further study.
Author : Susan Lawrence
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415217002
Archaeologists have had an abiding interest in the rise and fall of state-level societies. Now they are turning their attention to the British Empire.
Author : Robin Skeates,Carol McDavid,John Carman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191612497
The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeology. Divided into four distinct sections and drawing across disciplines in this dynamic field, the volume aims to evaluate the range of research strategies and methods used in archaeological heritage and museum studies, identify and contribute to key contemporary debates, critically explore the history of archaeological resource management, and question the fundamental principles and practices through which the archaeological past is understood and used today.
Author : Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745668642
This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Throughout this lively and accessible text, Sorensen engages with the question of how gender is materially constituted, and examines the intersection of social and material concerns from the Palaeolithic Age to the present day. Part One discusses a range of important general issues, beginning with an overview of the recent role of gender and gender relations in our appropriation of past societies. After introducing the debate about feminist or gender archaeology, Sorensen examines archaeology's concern with the sex/gender distinction, the nature of negotiation, and feminist epistemological claims in relation to archaeology. In Part Two, the author focuses on the materiality of gender, exploring it through case studies ranging from prehistory to contemporary society. Food, dress, space and contact are examined in turn, to show how they express and negotiate gender roles. This illustrated textbook will be essential reading for students and scholars in archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies and women's studies.
