1st Edition
Strung Out on Archaeology An Introduction to Archaeological Research
By Laurie A Wilkie
Copyright 2014
424 Pages
by
Routledge
423 Pages
by
Routledge
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Teaching the basic principles of archaeology through an “excavation” and analysis of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades and the beads thrown there? A student’s dream book! Award-winning historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie takes her two loves and merges them into a brief, lively introductory textbook that is sure to actively engage students. She shows how her analysis of trinkets tossed from parade... Read more
1: The Parade, 2009; 2: Understanding Archaeology and the Throwing Game; 3: A Culture Historian's Approach to Carnival: Classifying Mardi Gras Beads; 4: Putting the Science in Archaeology's Social Science; 5: Mardi Gras as Lived, Social, and Experiential; 6: Technology and Social Change; 7: Mardi Gras Gifts and Bead Exchange; 8: Social Identity; 9: Gender and Sexuality in the Throwing Game; 10: Establishing Power and Prestige through Beads; 11: Rebuilding, Reinventing, Revitalization, and Bead Bleed; 12: Did You Catch the Method and Theory?; Post-Script 2013: Never Can Say Goodbye . . . to Archaeological Research
Biography
Laurie A Wilkie
