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Details the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. It uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia.

With contributions from over thirty specialists in archaeology and industrial heritage, Industrial Heritage Re-tooled establishes the first set of comprehensive best practices for the management, conservation, and interpretation of historical industrial sites.

Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact.

Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago through the present using a political economic framework.

Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in the studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done in a single volume with her latest thinking on the development of gender studies in the field.

Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of black feminist thought for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve historical archaeological practice.

This lively and provocative book refutes the claim that the Hobbit is a new species, and makes a forceful critique of the cultural and political pressures that lead to the wide acceptance of unsupported theories in science."

A brief, useful guide to Glaserian grounded theory methods for the novice.

Over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework.

Provides benchmarks, gives insight, and enables you to make smart business decisions to maximize sales in your museum store. The report includes hundreds of pages of valuable information and over 200 tables, including comparisons by geography, size, gross sales, and museum type.

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practise in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practise, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives - water, earth and millet.

This volume marks a significant departure from previous symbolic approaches in post-processual archaeology, bringing together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge approaches to chart a new direction in material culture studies.

From antique beer bottles to closely guarded recipes and treasured historic architecture, brewery culture has a special place in American history. Focusing on American breweries, this book presents the material culture of breweries in the United States, from many regions of the country and from the early productions of the sixteenth century.

Challenges the conventional wisdom that democracy is a universal desire, offering a model case study of Mongolian democratization that ties culture, history, and values to the study of political systems.

Tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesises of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication.

Considers how Ancient Egypt was dislocated from Africa, drawing on a range of sources. This work examines key issues such as the evidence for actual contacts between Egypt and other early African cultures, and how influential, or not, Egypt was on them. It focuses on cultural interactions between Egypt and Nubia from 1000 BCE to 500 CE.

Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects.

This pragmatic guide to consultation in cultural heritage and environmental impact management distills decades of experience to show government agencies, project sponsors, and community groups how to engage in a meaningful consultation process that meets the needs of all parties.

Performance uses the alphabet as an organizational device to present a series of short pieces that approach performance from multiple perspectives and various compositional strategies.

A primer on constructing an ethnographic study offered by one of the masters of the genre.

Features over 300 quotations from the literature in cultural theory. This title gives you just the right snappy quote to help prepare that lecture, write that paper, fill that Power Point, or drop a few bon mots at a university reception. It is suitable for those wanting to distill cultural theory to its essence.

Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.

The contributors to this volume-themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries-suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.

What do we value about the past? In formulating policies about heritage preservation, that is the inevitable question, and deals not only with economic value but also the intangible value to individuals, communities and society as a whole. This title defines and assesses heritage values on a local, national and global level.

Shows that individual choices, from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally questions of culture - what it is, where it comes from, and the complex ways it changes and evolves.

Popularist treatments of ancient disasters like volcanic eruptions have grossly overstated their capacity for death, destruction, and societal collapse. This title shows that human societies have been incredibly resilient and, in the long run, have often recovered remarkably well from wide scale disruption and significant mortality.

Summarizes the state of ancient technology studies. This book compares the range of pre-industrial technologies, from stone tool production, fiber crafts, wood and bone working, fired clay crafts, metal production, and glass manufacture. It includes socially contextualized case studies, as well as general descriptions of technological processes.