Contradictions of Archaeological Theory: Engaging Critical Realism and Archaeological Theory, Wallace Sandra
Автор: Kwok-Bun Chan Название: Cultural Hybridity: Contradictions and Dilemmas ISBN: 1138110183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138110182 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 45930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this volume argue that, rather than assume clashes of civilizations, assimilation, conversion and essentialism to be the expected outcomes of cultural encounters, we should focus our analytical attention on processes rather than outcomes; on emergence, dialectics, contradictions, ironies and paradoxes, and complexity. We should focus on attempting to learn and grow, to synthesize and integrate, to create and innovate, to change and transform, at personal, micro, macro and global levels. Or, in one word: hybridity. Contexts of cultural encounters analyzed in this book range from business organizations, through individual travels, to personal philosophies, and from mechanical models to complex systems as social imaginaries. This book is based on a special issue of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.
Автор: Elena Ficara Название: Contradictions: Logic, History, Actuality ISBN: 3110335743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110335743 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 136310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The papers in this volume present some of the most recent results of the work about contradictions in philosophical logic and metaphysics; examine the history of contradiction in crucial phases of philosophical thought; consider the relevance of contradictions for political and philosophical actuality. From this consideration a common question emerges: the question of the irreducibility, reality and productive force of (some) contradictions.
Автор: Stephen P. Reyna Название: Deadly Contradictions: The New American Empire and Global Warring ISBN: 1785330799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785330797 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 151010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: as a polemic against geopolitics, as a classic social anthropological text, or as a seminal analysis of twenty-four US global wars during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the worlds that made great projects like the building of Stonehenge or Mycenae possible. The radiocarbon revolution made the old view that the architecture of Mycenae influenced the building of Stonehenge untenable. But the recent use of 'big data' and of genetic histories have led archaeology back to a worldview where 'big problems' are assumed to require 'big solutions'.
Making an animated plea for bottom-up rather than top-down solutions, the authors consider how life was made possible by living in the local and materially distinct worlds of the period. By considering how people once built connections between each other through their production and use of things, their movement between and occupancy of places, and their treatment of the dead, we learn about the kinds of identities that people constructed for themselves. Stonehenge did not require an architect from Mycenae for it to be built, but the builders of Stonehenge and Mycenae would have shared a mutual recognition of the kinds of humans that they were, and the kinds of practices these monuments were once host to.
Автор: Kirch Patrick Vinton Название: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact ISBN: 0520292812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520292819 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Decades of archaeological excavations--combined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnography--have revealed much new information about the long-term history of these societies and cultures. On the Road of the Winds synthesizes the grand sweep of human history in the Pacific Islands, beginning with the movement of early people out from Asia more than 40,000 years ago and tracing the development of myriad indigenous cultures up to the time of European contact in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. This updated edition, enhanced with many new illustrations and an extensive bibliography, synthesizes the latest archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries that reveal the vastness of ancient history in the Pacific Islands.
Автор: Isto Huvila Название: Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society ISBN: 0367590530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367590536 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 45930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Shows how the digitization of archaeological information and its interplay with non-digital practices affects the outcomes of archaeological work and our general understanding of the human past.
Автор: Linda Hulin Название: Conversations between Objects ISBN: 178925003X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789250039 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Linda Hulin considers the relationship between the archaeological record and human past and examines the differences that arise between the practice of excavating material culture and the models for thinking about it. Two common themes emerge: the dominance of vision as a medium of both recording the past and a vehicle for understanding it and the primacy given to knowledge over sensation. The interplay between knowledge and experience is a major thread running through this argument and offers a way to deal with the quantities of mundane items that constitute the bulk of material culture. Hulin considers how, during fieldwork, the habitus is physically and intellectually deconstructed and then reconstituted in post-excavation analysis when the context in its entirety should be the basic unit of analysis, starting with the space in which it is situated. She then explores how buildings have come to be understood as solid metaphors for liquid social relations, places where the symbolism of sacred and secular power is brought to life, using The Sackler Library to demonstrate that the symbolic message of a building overlaps with, but is different from, the everyday experience of it. She examines the conscious and unconscious effects of built space and presents a series of case studies of domestic contexts that examine the ways in which objects within rooms work together to create or preclude harmonious or dissonant effects. The relationship between building and contents is then taken in two directions: archaeologies of empire are presented to demonstrate the effects of climate and circumstances on buildings and objects that are transplanted from ‘home’ to ‘abroad’ in an attempt to maintain a consistency of institutional and bodily experience; houses in the UK, Italy and the Near East show how long-term occupancy affects the acquisition of objects and decoration of rooms: essentially how bodily experience is unconsciously impacted by the sedimentation of objects. Finally, the discussion returns to excavation, and closes with a call to re-orient the analysis of material culture to make it a more collaborative and integrated process. Ultimately, this work brings the ordinariness of the object world back into discourse by exploring their effect, en masse, upon the human body.
Автор: John Carman Название: Archaeologies of Conflict ISBN: 1472583884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472583888 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 39060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The last two decades have seen the emergence of a specific set of archaeological approaches to war and conflict. This concise and readable study assesses the current state of conflict archaeology, looking forward to what the field can offer as it develops.
Автор: David Goudsward Название: The Westford Knight and Henry Sinclair: Evidence of a 14th Century Scottish Voyage to North America ISBN: 1476678669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476678665 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 40650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The story of the Westford Knight is a mix of history, archaeology, sociology, and Knights Templar lore. This work unravels the threads of the Knight`s history, separating fact from fantasy. This revised edition includes a new foreword and four new chapters which add context to the myth-building that has surrounded the Westford Knight.
Автор: Chapman Название: Archaeological Theory: The Basics ISBN: 1138101230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138101234 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Archaeological Theory: The Basics is an accessible introduction to an indispensable part of what archaeologists do. The book guides the reader to an understanding of what theory is, how it works and the range of theories used in archaeology.
Автор: Chiz Harward, Natasha Powers, Sadie Watson Название: ?The upper Walbrook valley cemetery of Roman London ISBN: 1907586253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781907586255 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 33000.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Six excavations (1987-2007) at Finsbury Circus on the north side of the City of London uncovered over 130 Romano-British burials, part of the upper Walbrook cemetery, to the west of the better-known `northern` cemetery (around Bishopsgate).
Автор: Barra O`Donnabhain; Maria Cecilia Lozada Название: Archaeological Human Remains ISBN: 3030079090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030079093 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book expands on Archaeological Human Remains: Global Perspectives that was published in the Springer Briefs series in 2014 and which had a strong focus on post-colonial countries. In the current volume, the editors include papers that deal with non-Anglophone European traditions such as Portugal, Germany and France. In addition, authors continue the exploration of osteological trajectories that are not well-documented in the West, such as Senegal, China and Russia. The lasting legacies of imperialism, communism and colonialism are apparent as the authors of the individual country profiles examine the historical roots of the study of archaeological human remains and the challenges encountered while also considering the likely future directions likely of this multi-faceted discipline in different world areas.
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