Olivier’s ambitious work, newly translated into English from the French, brilliantly explicates the new approach to archaeological remains based on the theory that archaeology is the science of constantly reconstituted memory.
Social media has been a factor in the explosion of interest in food and democratization of food criticism, and this book explains and critiques the phenomena and key issues in a lively and anecdotal manner that will appeal to scholars and the interested general public alike.
Volume II begins with Kristallnacht in 1938 and continues through Jewish flight out of Germany, the onset of World War II, the forced relocation of the Jews of Europe to the East, and the formation of Jewish ghettos, particularly in Poland.
This book presents the voices of foreign brides from 123 countries who married Korean men in response to a critical shortage of marriageable women in rural Korea since the early 1990s.
A. Martin Byers challenges the traditional views of the Ohio Hopewell embankment earthworks, providing an interpretation of them as sites of sacred games and world renewal rituals built and used by complex alliances of cult sodalities.
The culmination of 34 years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this book offers ground-breaking insights into fundamental... Læs mere
History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic offers both a critical history and historiography of the Eastern Subarctic from the point of view of the archaeologists and anthropologists who studied it.
This book presents evidence of Polynesian settlement along the western coasts of North and South America prior to European contact - a... Læs mere
Featuring readings on four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian... Læs mere
This book explores the burgeoning interest in human cooperation among anthropologists, political scientists, economists, evolutionary psychologists, and biologists.... Læs mere
From 1952 to 1962, anthropologists funded by Cornell University sought to apply anthropological knowledge to improving life in Vicos, a... Læs mere
Contested Images offers a collection of 17 essays that analyze the representations in popular culture of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Native American women.No other anthology offers this wide spectrum of ethnicities.