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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352724
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories examines the idea of lost knowledge, reaching back to a period between myth and history. It investigates a peculiar idea found in a number of early texts: that there were civilizations with knowledge of sophisticated technologies, and that this knowledge was obscured or destroyed over time along with the civilization that had created it. This book presents critical studies of a series of early Chinese, South Asian, and other texts that look at the idea of specific “lost” technologies, such as mechanical flight and the transmission of images. There is also an examination of why concepts of a vanished “golden age” were prevalent in so many cultures. Offering an engaging and investigative look at the propagation of history and myth in technology and culture, this book is sure to interest historians and readers from many backgrounds.

Author: Franz Boas
Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: William W. Fitzhugh
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: George Hubbard Pepper
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Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Robert W. Preucel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 140519913X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology’s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture. Providing an introduction to Saussure and a review of his legacy across structural, symbolic, and cognitive anthropology, Preucel goes on to present the Peircian alternative and highlights its influence on pragmatic anthropology. Of special interest are the discussions of the interrelations of structuralism and processual archaeology, poststructuralism and postprocessual archaeologies, and cognitive science and cognitive archaeology. The author offers two original case studies demonstrating how material culture pragmatically mediates social relations- one focusing on the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt from 1680-1694 and the other on the New England utopian community of Brook Farm from 1842-1846. Throughout his analysis, Preucel emphasizes the close links between archaeology and other social sciences. But he also contends that archaeology, by virtue of the powerful ideological character of the past, can open up new spaces for discourse and dialogue about meaning, and, in the process, make a valuable contribution to contemporary semiotics.

Author: Jeroen W Boekhoven
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 907792292X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Approaching shamanism -- 2 Eighteenth and nineteenth-century interpretations -- 3 Early twentieth-century American interpretations -- 4 Twentieth-century European constructions -- 5 The Bollingen connection, 1930s-1960s -- 6 Post-war American visions -- 7 The genesis of a field of shamanism, America 1960s-1990s -- 8 A Case Study: Shamanisms in the Netherlands -- 9 Struggles for power, charisma and authority: a balance -- Bibliography -- Index

Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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