World Archaeology
The archaeology of cultures and civilizations from the Americas, to Asia, Australasia and the Pacific.
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Chinese Museums: Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art [Paperback]
Ornella De Nigris (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9788869771439
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
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Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovation of China’s entire system of national art institutions, there has been an impressive proliferatio... .... Learn More -
Asian Philosophers and Their Discontents [Paperback]
Takeshi Morisato (Editor); Roman Pașca (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869773341
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Asian Philosophical Texts
The present volume brings together translations of hitherto neglected texts from Asian philosophical traditions, along with critical essays dealing with the philosophical issues of translating these texts into Western languages. As the third volum... .... Learn More -
Early Symbolic Culture and the Evolution of Behavioral Modernity [Hardback]
Nicholas J. Conard (Editor); Ewa Dutkiewicz (Editor)
£46.00ISBN: 9783935751315
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
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Publication of results from the conference on early symbolic culture and the evolution of behavioral modernity, held as part of the Hugo Obermaier Meeting in Heidenheim, Germany. .... Learn More -
Yonaoshi: Visions of a Better World [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor); Luca Milasi (Editor); James Tink (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869774034
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League
Yonaoshi (世直し、
face="MS PGothic">よなおし, world renewal/repair/remaking) is a Japanese term that first appeared in the context of peasant uprisings in the mid-nineteenthth c... .... Learn More -
The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Crime and Revolution [Hardback]
David Smilde (Editor); Veronica Zubillaga (Editor); Rebecca Hanson (Editor)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947127
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Crime and violence soared in twenty-first-century Venezuela even as poverty and inequality decreased, contradicting the conventional wisdom that these are the underlying causes of violence. The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela explains the rise of... .... Learn More -
Current Research in Nubian Archaeology: Oxford Edition [Hardback]
Samantha Tipper (Editor); Siobhan Shinn (Editor); Loretta Kilroe (Author)
£78.00ISBN: 9781463243937
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Regenerating Practices in Archaeology and Heritage
Volume: 4
Sudan, now split into the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan, boasts a rich cultural heritage that has in recent years become the increasing focus of an international community of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians. This... .... Learn More -
The Pyramid Fields of Ancient Egypt: A Satellite Atlas [Hardback]
Miroslav Barta (Editor); Vladimír Brůna (Editor)
£142.00ISBN: 9788076710535
Published by : Czech Institute of Egyptology
This volume offers a valuable resource by compiling and interpreting high-resolution satellite images of all Old and Middle Kingdom pyramid sites in Egypt. The sites included in this Atlas represent to a large degree the principal sites of the thi... .... Learn More -
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas [Paperback]
J. Grant Stauffer (Editor); Bretton T. Giles (Editor); Shawn P. Lambert (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789258448
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 5
This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that American societies did this to materialize overarching m... .... Learn More -
Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body [Hardback]
Daniel Silva (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822947110
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Since the late 20th-century, mainstream popular culture in Brazil has developed an intimate relationship with fitness culture
face=Calibri>– a vast, fluid, and pervasive network of images and commodities, bodies of knowledge,... .... Learn More -
Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 [Hardback]
Paula Park (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947097
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
As a nation, the Philippines has a colonial history with both Spain and the United States. Its links to Latin/o America are longstanding and complex. Intercolonial Intimacies interrogates the legacy of the Spanish Empire and the cultural hegemony ... .... Learn More
