Community Books

New and Published Books

1. An Archaeology of the Cosmos

   Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America

   By Timothy R. Pauketat

   An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Indigenous Archaeologies

   Decolonising Theory and Practice

   Edited by Claire Smith, H. Martin Wobst

   Series: One World Archaeology

   With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes...

   Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge
3. Communities Across Borders

   New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures

   Edited by Paul Kennedy, Victor Roudometof

   Series: Transnationalism

   Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that...

   Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
4. Community, Identity and the State

   Comparing Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East

   Edited by Moshe Gammer

   The studies in this volume originated from an international conference on 'Community, Identity and the State' held at Tel Aviv University in 2001. The first two chapters examine whether modernisation, Westernisation and democratisation are identical, and whether democracy is connected to a certain,...

   Published September 8th 2004 by Routledge
5. The Archaeology of the Colonized

   By Michael Given

   The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the Colonized focuses on the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, looking at case studies from areas of...

   Published June 16th 2004 by Routledge