Author: Publisher:
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Sahara
Author: Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Human Genetics
Author: Tage KempPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Human Genetics
Author: An Archaeology of the Margins
Author: A. José Farrujia de la RosaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146149396X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This book analyses the problematics of archaeological heritage management in the Canary Islands, which are echoed in other parts of the world where the indigenous heritage is under-represented. The present-day management of Canarian archaeological heritage has a very specific and unusual context given that the archipelago is located on the fringes of Europe, belonging to Spain and therefore to the European Unión, but geographically and in terms of early history being part of Africa. From a theoretical perspective, then, the proposed book analyzes issues such as the effects of colonialism and eurocentrism on the management of the archaeological heritage. It also examines the evolutionist and historico-cultural models used to analyze past societies and, ultimately, used to create identities that influence archaeological heritage management itself. From a practical point of view, the book presents a proposal for enhancing the archaeological heritage of the Canary Islands through the creation of archaeological parks (providing some concrete examples in the case of the city of La Laguna) and the active involvement of the local community. Parallel to this, the book considers the Canarian Archipelago as part of a problematic that is not unique to this area but is an example of poor indigenous heritage management overall. It demonstrates how the course of history and the politics of the past still have an excessive influence on the way in which the present-day archaeological heritage is interpreted and managed. Therefore, this book provides an almost unique opportunity for uncovering the history of archaeology within the margins of Europe (in fact, in an African region) and exploring colonial and foreign influences. In many ways it is a mirror of archaeological mainstreams and an exercise in (re)thinking the aim and status of present-day archaeology.
The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World
Author: T.F GlickPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401006024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era. Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then perceived-in order to test the variation that ideas undergo as they pass from center to periphery. One thing that the comparative study of the reception of ideas makes abundantly clear, however, is the weakness of the center/periphery dichotomy from the perspective of the diffusion of scientific ideas. Catholics in mainstream countries, for example, did not handle evolution much better than did their corre1igionaries on the fringes. Conversely, Darwinians in Latin America were frequently better placed to advance Darwin's ideas in a social and political sense than were their fellow evolutionists on the Continent. The Texas meeting was also a marker in the comparative reception of scientific ideas, Darwinism aside. Although, by 1972, scientific institutions had been studied comparatively, there was no antecedent for the comparative history of scientific ideas.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University: Eva to Gaba
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Astronomical Traditions in Past Cultures
Author: European Society for Astronomy in Culture. MeetingPublisher: Ocarina Books
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This volume is the proceedings of a conference held in Smolyan, Bulgaria in August-September 1993, which brought together European archaeoastronomers for the first time under the auspices of the European Society of Astronomy in Culture (SEAC). The various papers examine the relationship between archaeoastronomy, field methodology and ancient cosmology. Contributors include José Barrios, Vladimir Dermendjiev, Roslyn M. Frank, Stanis'aw Iwaniszewski, Vesselina Koleva, Arnold Lebeuf, Penka Muglova, Breen Murray, Clive Ruggles, Wolfhard Schlosser, Elbieta Siarkiewicz, Florin Stanescu, Alexei Stoev, and Francis Warther. The volume was originally published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Almogaren
Author: III Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana (1978)
Author: Francisco Morales PadrónPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : es
Pages : 556
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