Humanities & Culture
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Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations [eBook (PDF)]
Philippa M. Steele(Editor); Philip J. Boyes(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789258523
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: 6
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to... .... Learn More -
Art in the Archaeological Imagination [Paperback]
Dragos Gheorghiu (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253528
Published by : Oxbow Books
The present volume shows the archaeological thinking as a form of art, revealing the poetics of the archaeological imagination. It shows that, in their work, archaeologists, without being inspired by contemporary artists, use creative methods, and... .... Learn More -
Making the invisible visible: Reclaiming women’s agency in Swedish film history and beyond [Paperback]
Ingrid Stigsdotter (Author)
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ISBN: 9789188661852
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
To describe women in film history as "invisible" may seem strange as throughout film history, women on the silver screen have given audiences their version of what it is to be a woman. And as film stars they have always been associated with the gl... .... Learn More -
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology [Paperback]
Heleene De Jonckheere (Editor); Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Editor); Agnieszka Rostalska (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252828
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Puspika: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions
Volume: 5
This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition ... .... Learn More -
Archaeology in the PPG16 Era: Investigations in England 1990–2010 [eBook (PDF)]
Timothy Darvill(Editor); Kerry Barrass(Editor); Vanessa Constant(Editor); Ehren Milner(Editor); Bronwen Russell(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789255522
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), funded by English Heritage, systematically collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 86,000 archaeological projects undertaken between 1990 and 2010. This volume looks at the ... .... Learn More -
Public Archaeology and Climate Change [Paperback]
Tom Dawson (Editor); Courtney Nimura (Editor); Elías López-Romero (Editor); Marie-Yvane Daire (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785707049
Published by : Oxbow Books
Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. Researchers and heritage mana... .... Learn More -
Bodies of Clay: On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery [Paperback]
Heiner Schwarzberg (Editor); Valeska Becker (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706967
Published by : Oxbow Books
Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistor... .... Learn More -
Care in the Past: Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives [Paperback]
Lindsay Powell (Editor); William Southwell-Wright (Editor); Rebecca Gowland (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703355
Published by : Oxbow Books
Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As s... .... Learn More -
Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film [Paperback]
Ann-Kristin Wallengren (Author)
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ISBN: 9789187675119
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Between 1840 and 1940, over one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an ex... .... Learn More -
Heritage Transformed [Paperback]
Ian Baxter (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842174579
Published by : Oxbow Books
How does "heritage" become objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past? This book proposes a model for this process and contains five case studies that explore variety in the transformation of heritage. The m... .... Learn More
