Ruin Islanders

Author : Karen Margrethe McCullough
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772821330
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruin Islanders written by Karen Margrethe McCullough and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories which has produced a substantial amount of data relating to this poorly defined phase of Thule culture

Author : Karen Margrethe McCullough
Publisher : Hull, Que. : Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN 13 : 9780660107936
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruin Islanders written by Karen Margrethe McCullough and published by Hull, Que. : Canadian Museum of Civilization. This book was released on 1989 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study draws on data from archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island to clarify and extend knowledge of the Ruin Island phase of Thule culture and the question of Thule culture expansion into the Canadian High Arctic. Detailed discussion of Thule material culture.

Author : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815307259
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America written by Guy E. Gibbon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mark James Hudson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821562
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruins of Identity written by Mark James Hudson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Japanese people consider themselves to be part of an essentially unchanging and isolated ethnic unit in which the biological, linguistic, and cultural aspects of Japanese identity overlap almost completely with each other. In its examination of the processes of ethnogenesis (the formation of ethnic groups) in the Japanese Islands, Ruins of Identity offers an approach to ethnicity that differs fundamentally from that found in most Japanese scholarship and popular discourse. Following an extensive discussion of previous theories on the formation of Japanese language, race, and culture and the nationalistic ideologies that have affected research in these topics, Mark Hudson presents a model of a core Japanese population based on the dual origin hypothesis currently favored by physical anthropologists. According to this model, the Jomon population, which was present in Japan by at least the end of the Pleistocene, was followed by agriculturalists from the Korean peninsula during the Yayoi period (ca. 400 BC to AD 300). Hudson analyzes further evidence of migrations and agricultural colonization in an impressive summary of recent cranial, dental, and genetic studies and in a careful examination of the linguistic and archaeological records. The final sections of the book explore the cultural construction of Japanese ethnicity. Cultural aspects of ethnicity do not emerge pristine and fully formed but are the result of cumulative negotiation. Ethnic identity is continually recreated through interaction within and without the society concerned. Such a view necessitates an approach to culture change that takes into account complex interactions with a larger system. Accordingly, Hudson considers post-Yayoi ethnogenesis in Japan within the East Asian world system, examining the role of interaction between core and periphery in the formation of new ethnic identities, such as the Ainu. He argues that the defining elements of the Ainu period and culture (ca. AD 1200) can be linked directly to a dramatic expansion in Japanese trade goods flowing north as Hokkaido became increasingly exploited by core regions to the south. Highly original and at times controversial, Ruins of Identity will be essential reading for students and scholars in Japanese studies and will be of interest to anthropologists and historians working on ethnicity in other parts of the world. Text adopted at University ofChicago

Author : Michaēl D. Volonakēs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island of Roses and Her Eleven Sisters written by Michaēl D. Volonakēs and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Brynildsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
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Download or read book Norsk-engelsk ordbog written by John Brynildsen and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Margrethe McCullough
Publisher : Hull, Que. : Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruin Islanders written by Karen Margrethe McCullough and published by Hull, Que. : Canadian Museum of Civilization. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study draws on data from archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island to clarify and extend knowledge of the Ruin Island phase of Thule culture and the question of Thule culture expansion into the Canadian High Arctic. Detailed discussion of Thule material culture.

Author : Christopher Priest
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1781169470
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islanders written by Christopher Priest and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning literary SF novel from the multiple award winning Christopher Priest. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you. The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are home to lethal creatures, others the playground for high society. Hot winds blow across the archipelago and a war fought between two distant continents is played out across its waters. THE ISLANDERS serves both as an untrustworthy but enticing guide to the islands, an intriguing, multi-layered tale of a murder and the suspect legacy of its appealing but definitely untrustworthy narrator.

Author : Peter Rudiak-Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135055378
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State written by Peter Rudiak-Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation, science communication, and Biblical exegesis. With grounds to dismiss or ignore the threat, Marshall Islanders have instead embraced it; with reasons to forswear guilt and responsibility, they have instead adopted in-group blame; and having been instructed that resettlement is necessary, they have vowed instead to retain the homeland. These dominant local responses can be understood as arising from a pre-existing, vigorous constellation of Marshallese ideas termed "modernity the trickster": a historically inspired narrative of self-inflicted cultural decline and seduction by Euro-American modernity. This study illuminates islander agency at the intersection of the local and the global, and suggests a theory of risk perception based on ideological commitment to narratives of historical progress and decline.

Author : Bjarne Grønnow
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763512626
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe written by Bjarne Grønnow and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important part of the heritage of Count Eigil Knuth (1903-1996) is his archaeological archive contaning contextual information on prehistoric sites gathered during six decades of research in High Arctic Greenland. The finds and observations are a key to the understanding of human life under extreme conditions in a long-term perspective and represent a unique piece of evidence concerning the early cultural history of the Eastern Arctic. Knuth's expeditions from 1932 to 1995 took him to Greenland and Canada, in particular High Arctic Greenland. In a number of important articles Knuth published the findings dating back to the earliest human settlement in Greenland. However, he never managed to present the complete body of information and results from his many investigations. The present authors have thus compiled a computer database on the basis on his archive, which constitutes the starting point of the present book. The book focuses on Knuth's most substantial contribution to archaeology: the prehistory of Peary Land and adjacent areas. In the catalog, emphasis has been placed on topographical and architectural information, site structure, artefact statistics and radiocarbon dates. A total of 154 archaeological sites are presented. Fifty-one sites with a total of 244 features are Independence I sites (c. 2460-1860 cal. BC), twenty-three sites with a total of 416 features belong to Independence II (c. 900-400 cal. BC) and sixty-three sites with a total of 626 features are of Thule origin (c. 1400-1500 ca. AD). This study presents some new information on the faunal material from Peary Land based on Christyann Darwent's recent analyses as well as new data on the dwelling features on the Adam C. Knuth Site, which was visited by a multidisciplinary team in 2001. It also offers an introduction presenting an overview and evaluation of Knuth's remarkable curriculum vitae as an independent arctic archaeologist. In the concluding chapters some basic statistics on the archaeological sites are presented. We evaluate Knuth's radiocarbon datings of the Independence I, Independence II and Thule cultures in High Arctic Greenland, and settlement distributions and settlement patterns for the three cultures represented in Peary Land are discussed.