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31. Social Construction of the Past

    Representation as Power

    Edited by George C. Bond, Angela Gilliam

    Series: One World Archaeology

    Social Construction of the Past examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past and, in creating a people's cultural history, appropriates it and turns it into a form of domination by one group over another.Acknowledgements of the intellectual and scholarly contribution of subjugated...

    Published March 26th 1997 by Routledge
32. Centre and Periphery

    Comparative Studies in Archaeology

    Edited by Tim Champion

    Series: One World Archaeology

    There has recently been much interest among geographers, historians and political theorists in concepts of centre and periphery. In this book a wide range of studies consider how such concepts can be used to clarify our understanding of pre-capitalist societies....

    Published October 11th 1995 by Routledge
33. Domination and Resistance

    Edited by Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, Chris Tilley

    Series: One World Archaeology

    The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth...

    Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge
34. The Archaeology of Africa

    Food, Metals and Towns

    Edited by Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair

    Series: One World Archaeology

    Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology...

    Published November 16th 1994 by Routledge
35. The Excluded Past

    Archaeology in Education

    Edited by Robert MacKenzie, Peter Stone

    Series: One World Archaeology

    The Excluded Past examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education, arguing that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past. Cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary contributors show how the exclusion of aspects of the past tends...

    Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge
36. Signifying Animals

    Edited by Roy Willis

    Series: One World Archaeology

    A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation....

    Published September 21st 1994 by Routledge
37. What is an Animal?

    Edited by T. Ingold

    Series: One World Archaeology

    This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity....

    Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge
38. Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

    2nd Edition

    Edited by S. J. Shennan

    Series: One World Archaeology

    Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity....

    Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge
39. Who Needs the Past?

    Indigenous Values and Archaeology, 2nd Edition

    Edited by R. Layton

    Series: One World Archaeology

    This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past....

    Published August 3rd 1994 by Routledge
40. Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

    2nd Edition

    Edited by R. Layton

    Series: One World Archaeology

    The first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and peoples they study and can easily disturb....

    Published August 3rd 1994 by Routledge