Conflict In The Archaeology Of Living Traditions

Author : R. Layton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134866224
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions written by R. Layton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology in the world today. Calls into question the relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures they study.

Author : Peter J. Ucko
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844721269
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Future for Archaeology written by Peter J. Ucko and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely practical and direct way, for example in the disputes about the repatriation of human burials. Such disputes have been central to the recognition that previously marginalised groups have rights in their own past which are important for their future. The essays in this book look back at some of the most important events where a role for an archaeology concerned with the past in the present first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical issues now central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its future. This book is published in honour of Professor Peter Ucko, who has played an unparalleled role in promoting awareness of the core issues in this volume among archaeologists.

Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387752280
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of South American Archaeology written by Helaine Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.

Author : Bridget Allchin
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780946897834
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Traditions written by Bridget Allchin and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of possibly the first symposium ever held on the ethnoarchaeology of the Subcontinent. It consists of 19 papers by distinguished archaeologists and anthropologists from Europe, Pakistan, India and the USA who have used modern local practices to shed new light on their material. Writing with a critical appreciation of the dangers of ethnoarchaeological parallels, the authors still demonstrate the immense richness of information available from countries which for social and economic reasons have always placed a premium on tradition. They stress the importance of recording more traditional practices before they disappear, not only for use as a scholarly database but also because continuing traditions are often evidence of a uniquely successful adaptation to social and environmental conditions. This is a thought-provoking introduction to a little-known but fascinating archaeological resource.

Author : Norman Yoffee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521449588
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeological Theory written by Norman Yoffee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses the real achievements of archaeology in increasing an understanding of the past. Without rejecting the insights either of traditional or more recent approaches, it considers the issues raised in current claims and controversies about what is appropriate theory for archaeology. The first section looks at the process of theory building and at the sources of the ideas employed. The following studies examine questions such as the interplay between expectation and evidence in ideas of human origins, social role and material practice in the formation of the archaeological record, and how the rise of states should be conceptualised; further papers cover issues of ethnoarchaeology, visual symbols, and conflicting claims to ownership of the past. The conclusion is that archaeologists need to be equally wary of naive positivism in the guise of scientific procedure, and of speculation about the unrecorded intentions of prehistoric actors.

Author : Siân Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134767943
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Ethnicity written by Siân Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. The author responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archeological record.

Author : Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803206311
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repatriation Reader written by Devon Abbott Mihesuah and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers various opinions on the ethical, legal, and cultural issues regarding the rights and interests of Native Americans, including discussion on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Author : Tamara Bray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136543597
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Past written by Tamara Bray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the topic of repatriation. By juxtaposing the divergent views of native peoples, anthropologists, museum professionals, and members of the legal profession, it illustrates the complexity of the repatriation issue.

Author : Brian J. Egloff
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691060
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeological Heritage Conservation and Management written by Brian J. Egloff and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological heritage conservation is all too often highly conflicted. Economic interests are often at the forefront of management decision-making with heritage values given lesser, if any, consideration, but when heritage places are managed with international principles in mind the sites stand out as evidencing superior outcomes.

Author : Iain J.M. Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317122437
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage from Below written by Iain J.M. Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales. This unique book contributes to the developing discourse by focusing on 'heritage from below' in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. Never before have the contemporary manifestations and the theoretical structuring framework of the idea of heritage from below been discussed in the depth offered by this book. The authors first establish the concept and then engage with the actual practice and practitioners of heritage from below in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.