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One World Archaeology


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The One World Archaeology series brings together the ideas of archaeologists, anthropologists and academics in a host of related disciplines from around the world. Integral to this unique, worldwide interdisciplinary approach are the contributions made by non-academics from a wide variety of cultures - Inuit, Australian Aborigine and Native American, the result is a contemporary global, cross-cultural approach.
The fourth World Archaeological Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in January 1999, with the Right Honourable Nelson Mandela as Patron.

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The Emergence of Agriculture A Global View

The Emergence of Agriculture: A Global View

1st Edition

Edited By Peter White, Timothy Denham
December 26, 2006

This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the ...

Social Construction of the Past Representation as Power

Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power

1st Edition

Edited By George C. Bond, Angela Gilliam
April 17, 1997

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 ...

Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World

Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World

1st Edition

Edited By Henry Cleere
May 19, 2005

Representing the latest thinking in this fast-moving and often emotive field, this book offers a remarkably comprehensive international coverage of the public aspects of archaeology. The process of survey and inventory, rescue and archaeology, conservation and protection have until now been studied...

Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology

Who Needs the Past?: Indigenous Values and Archaeology

2nd Edition

Edited By R. Layton
September 19, 1994

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....

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

2nd Edition

Edited By R. Layton
September 15, 1994

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....

What is an Animal?

What is an Animal?

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Ingold
September 21, 1994

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....

The Meanings of Things Material Culture and Symbolic Expression

The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression

1st Edition

Edited By I. Hodder
December 05, 1991

This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western ...

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

2nd Edition

Edited By S. J. Shennan
September 21, 1994

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....

The Archaeology of Difference Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania

The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania

1st Edition

Edited By Anne Clarke, Robin Torrence
October 12, 2015

The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies ...

The Origins of Human Behaviour

The Origins of Human Behaviour

1st Edition

Edited By Robert Foley
December 22, 2014

This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject....

Time and Archaeology

Time and Archaeology

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Murray
August 12, 2014

The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and ...

The Archaeology of Africa Food, Metals and Towns

The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns

1st Edition

Edited By Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair
March 28, 1995

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 ...

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