World Archaeology
The archaeology of cultures and civilizations from the Americas, to Asia, Australasia and the Pacific.
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Kushan Mystique [Hardback]
David Jongeward (Author); Joe Cribb (Foreword)
£30.00ISBN: 9781912667468
Published by : Spink Books
Who were the Kushan? Why does a powerful Central Asian empire that thrived for centuries rarely appear in world history books? To address questions raised by this obscure yet highly influential period of ancient history, David Jongeward, author of... .... Learn More -
Resistance at the Edge of Empires: The Archaeology and History of the Bannu Basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Author)
£60.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785703034
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bannu Archaeological Project
Volume: 3
From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now... .... Learn More -
Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past: A Global Perspective [Paperback]
Murray Johnson (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781925003710
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This book places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation. The author discusses the pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and he engages with current controversies, incl... .... Learn More -
Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro [Hardback]
Lorraine Leu (Author)
£32.50ISBN: 9780822946007
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition white... .... Learn More -
Conscript Nation: Coercion and Consent in the Bolivian Barracks [Hardback]
Elizabeth Shesko (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946021
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Military service in Bolivia has long been compulsory for young men. This service plays an important role in defining identity, citizenship, masculinity, state formation, and civil-military relations in twentieth-century Bolivia. The project of obl... .... Learn More -
Steppe Dreams: Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan [Hardback]
Margarethe Adams (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946144
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating effects in the personal lives of Kazakhstanis. Like many holidays in the post-Soviet sphere, pub... .... Learn More -
Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives [Hardback]
Jeffrey D. Lerner (Editor); Yaohua Shi (Editor)
£55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254709
Published by : Oxbow Books
In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its s... .... Learn More -
Wuka nyanganunga liYanyuwa liAnthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia: Volume 1 [Paperback]
John Bradley (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781925003673
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Volume 1 will i... .... Learn More -
Wuka nyanganunga liYanyuwa liAnthawirriyarra. Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People: A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia: Volume 2 [Paperback]
John Bradley (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781925333459
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Volume 2 will b... .... Learn More -
Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia [Paperback]
Onesius O. Daeli (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088909290
Published by : Sidestone Press
This volume is based on an anthropological fieldwork among the Asmat people for many years, and investigates the cultural significances of Asmat’s dugout canoes by using ‘symbolic and interpretive anthropology’ as theoretical framework. .... Learn More
