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Author: James M. Skibo Publisher: University of Utah Press ISBN: 9780874807066 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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Attempts to define behavioral archaeology more comprehensively than is common in order to illustrate its role in the theoretical landscape of contemporary archaeology. To flesh out points of agreement or dissent, the perspectives of the chapters range from those of behavioral archaeology, old and new, to those of historical, selectionist, and postprocessual archaeology. Many of the 15 papers were first presented at a symposium titled "From Airline Trash to Potsherds," held at the 56th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1992.
Author: James M. Skibo Publisher: University of Utah Press ISBN: 9780874807066 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Attempts to define behavioral archaeology more comprehensively than is common in order to illustrate its role in the theoretical landscape of contemporary archaeology. To flesh out points of agreement or dissent, the perspectives of the chapters range from those of behavioral archaeology, old and new, to those of historical, selectionist, and postprocessual archaeology. Many of the 15 papers were first presented at a symposium titled "From Airline Trash to Potsherds," held at the 56th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1992.
Author: Bonnie Effros Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press ISBN: 1938770617 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 501
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This volume addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Popular sentiment in the West has tended to embrace the adventure rather than ponder the legacy of archaeological explorers; allegations by imperial powers of "discovering" archaeological sites or "saving" world heritage from neglect or destruction have often provided the pretext for expanding political influence. Consequently, citizens have often fallen victim to the imperial war machine, seeing their lands confiscated, their artifacts looted, and the ancient remains in their midst commercialized. Spanning the globe with case studies from East Asia, Siberia, Australia, North and South America, Europe, and Africa, sixteen contributions written by archaeologists, art historians, and historians from four continents offer unusual breadth and depth in the assessment of various claims to patrimonial heritage, contextualized by the imperial and colonial ventures of the last two centuries and their postcolonial legacy.
Author: Bonnie Effros Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology ISBN: 9781938770135 Category : Antiquities Languages : en Pages : 0
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Introduction: the global reach of imperial and colonial archaeology / Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai -- Part I. Defining approaches to imperial and colonial archaeology -- Archaeology and imperialism: from nineteenth-century new imperialism to twentieth-century decolonization / Margarita Diaz-Andreu -- German archaeology in occupied Europe during World War II: a case of colonial archaeology? / Hubert Fehr -- Part II. Colonialism and nationalism -- Problematizing the encylopedic museum: the Benin bronzes and ivories in historical context / Neil Brodie -- Digging up China: imperialism, nationalism, and regionalism in the Yinxu excavation, 1928-1937 / Guolong Lai -- They have not changed in 2,500 years: art, archaeology and modernity in Iran / Talinn Grigor -- Part III. Indigenous voices -- Colonialist archaeology in the American Southwest / Chip Colwell -- The history of archaeology through the eyes of Egyptians / Wendy Doyon -- Indigenous voices at the margins: nuancing the history of French colonial archaeology in Algeria, 1830-1870 / Bonnie Effros -- Critiquing the discovery narrative of Lady Mungo / Ann McGrath -- Part IV. Archaeology, art, and exoticism -- In the shadow zone of imperial politics: archaeological research in Buryatia from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s / Ursula Brosseder -- Imperial archaeology or an archaeology of exoticism? Victor Segalen's expeditions in early twentieth-century China / Jian Xu -- Four German art historians in Republican China / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Part V. Colonial and post-colonial legacies -- French archaeology and history in the colonial Maghreb: inheritance, presence, and absence / Matthew McCarty -- The colonial origins of myth and national identity in Uganda / Peter R. Schmidt -- Japanese colonial archaeology in Korea and its legacy / Yangjin Pak -- The cloth of colonization: Peruvian tapestries in the Andes and in foreign museums / Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Author: Andrew Reinhard Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785338749 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 236
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A general introduction to archeogaming describing the intersection of archaeology and video games and applying archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces. “[T]he author’s clarity of style makes it accessible to all readers, with or without an archaeological background. Moreover, his personal anecdotes and gameplay experiences with different game titles, from which his ideas often develop, make it very enjoyable reading.”—Antiquity Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. Video games also serve as archaeological sites in the traditional sense as a place, in which evidence of past activity is preserved and has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology, and which represents a part of the archaeological record. From the introduction: Archaeogaming, broadly defined, is the archaeology both in and of digital games... As will be described in the following chapters, digital games are archaeological sites, landscapes, and artifacts, and the game-spaces held within those media can also be understood archaeologically as digital built environments containing their own material culture... Archaeogaming does not limit its study to those video games that are set in the past or that are treated as “historical games,” nor does it focus solely on the exploration and analysis of ruins or of other built environments that appear in the world of the game. Any video game—from Pac-Man to Super Meat Boy—can be studied archaeologically.
Author: Mark Warner Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496200373 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 382
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A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives that often sharply challenge that timelessness. Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens reveals an archaeological past that is distinct to the region—but not in ways that popular imagination might suggest. Instead, this volume highlights a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range of environmental and economic situations. The dynamic and unpredictable lives of western communities have prompted a constant challenging and reimagining of both individual identities and collective understandings of their position within a broader national experience. Indeed, the archaeological West is one clearly characterized by mobility rather than stasis. The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of that pervasive human mobility on the West—a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging from the local to the global. By documenting the challenges of both local community-building and global networking, they provide an archaeology of the West that is ultimately from the West.
Author: Camille Westmont Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1800736169 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 251
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Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.
Author: Michael J. O'Brien Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9780306462542 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 506
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Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere in the text. If for some reason the word itself is absent, the odds are excellent that at least the concept of change over time will have a central role in the discussion. After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word, usually being used synonymously with change, albeit change over extended periods of time. Later, through the writings of Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and others, the notion of evolution as it applies to stages of social and political development assumed a prominent position in anthropological disc- sions. To those with only a passing knowledge of American anthropology, it often appears that evolutionism in the early twentieth century went into a decline at the hands of Franz Boas and those of similar outlook, often termed particularists. However, it was not evolutionism that was under attack but rather comparativism— an approach that used the ethnographic present as a key to understanding how and why past peoples lived the way they did (Boas 1896).
Author: Colin Renfrew Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415317573 Category : Archaeology Languages : en Pages : 320
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From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method. Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written specifically by field specialists, and each entry offers a definition of the term, its origins and development, and all the major figures involved in the area. The entries include: thinking about landscape archaeology of cult and religion cultural evolution concepts of time urban societies the antiquity of humankind archaeology of gender feminist archaeology experimental archaeology multiregional evolution. With guides to further reading, extensive cross-referencing, and accessibly written for even beginner students, this book is a superb guide for anyone studying, teaching, or with any interest in this fascinating subject.
Author: Gary M. Feinman Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 038772611X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 512
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In this book an internationally distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the discipline of archaeology at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. The chapters address a wide range of topics including, paradigms, practice, and relevance of the discipline; paleoanthropology; fully modern humans; holocene hunter-gatherers; the transition to food and craft production; social inequality; warfare; state and empire formation; and the uneasy relationship between classical and anthropological archaeology.
Author: Clive Gamble Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415228039 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 270
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A must for anyone considering the study of archaeology, this text is designed to provide the reader with everything they should know when embarking on an archaeological course, whether A-Level or first year undergraduate.
Author: James M. Skibo
Author: James M. Skibo
Author: Bonnie Effros
Author: Bonnie Effros
Author: Andrew Reinhard
Author: Mark Warner
Author: Camille Westmont
Author: Michael J. O'Brien
Author: Colin Renfrew
Author: Gary M. Feinman
Author: Clive Gamble