Anthropology

ISBN: 9780470655368
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This large and impressive volume serves both as an overview of gender prehistory as it stands today, and as a stimulating reminder of the importance of gendered perspectives in archaeological research and a rejoinder to those wh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900884
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET RIJKSMUSEUM VOOR VOLKENKUNDE
Volume: 40
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781781591727
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
A reprint of Hodder's classic 1982 work which aimed to introduce the archaeologist to ethnographical and anthropological methods and concepts, exploring the proper use of analogy in archaeological theory. A new preface offers thou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310435
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar BS
Volume: 569
The book systematically examines and compares a large sample of burials from the same region, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. A very detailed examination of skeletal material provides specific evidence about ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310176
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2418
This volume focuses on: the identification of indelible traces recorded on bones; on human actions associated with these marks; and finally on human behaviours that led to actions performed on bodies around the time of death. The research joins a ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781611321784
Published by : Left Coast Press
Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic, political, and social processes.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310084
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2410
The study of burial practices, of human attitudes and behaviour in the face of death, has been an important part of archaeological research from its very beginnings. Some funerary discoveries have achieved sensational fame. Yet beyond this the arc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407310138
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2415
Papers on skull interpretations and related archaeological issues from a roundtable event organized by La Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne, France), in October 2010. Contents : 1) Décapitation/décollation : une distinct... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745611
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. Far richer in infor... .... Learn More