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  • Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies

    Perspectives from Africa

    Edited by Peter R. Schmidt ...
    Participatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies: Perspectives from Africa provides new ways to look at and think about the practice of community archaeology and heritage studies across the globe. Long hidden from view, African experiences and experiments with participatory archaeology and heritage studies have poignant lessons to convey about local initiatives, local needs, and local perspectives ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Gender in African Prehistory

    by John Parkington, Lyn Wadley, Joanna Casey, Barbara E. Barich, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Peter R. Schmidt, Rachel MacLean, Paul J. Lane, Ann B. Stahl, M. Dores Cruz, Alinah Segobye ...
    Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa

    Decolonizing Practice

    Edited by Peter R. Schmidt, Innocent Pikirayi ...
    This volume provides new insights into the distinctive contributions that community archaeology and heritage make to the decolonization of archaeological practice. Using innovative approaches, the contributors explore important initiatives which have protected and revitalized local heritage, initiatives that involved archaeologists as co-producers rather than leaders. These case studies underline ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Community-based Heritage in Africa

    Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

    by Peter R. Schmidt ...
    This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects. Schmidt explores how and why local research ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Historical Archaeology in Africa

    Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

    by Peter R. Schmidt ...
    Series series African Archaeology Series
    Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Listening

    Edited by Peter R. Schmidt, Alice B. Kehoe ...
    Archaeologists tend to rely on scientific methods to reconstruct past histories, an approach that can alienate local indigenous populations and limit the potential of archaeological research. Essays in this volume argue that listening to and learning from local and descendant communities is vital for interpreting the histories and heritage values of archaeological sites.Case studies from around ... Read more

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  • Culture and the Question of Rights

    Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia

    by Marina Roseman, Stephanie Gorson Fried, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • African Art and the Colonial Encounter

    Inventing a Global Commodity

    by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    by R. Alexander Bentley, Kenneth M. Ames, Alex W. Barker, Peter Bellwood, Reinhard Bernbeck, John Bintliff, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard0, Tom D. Dillehay1, Timothy Earle2, Don D. Fowler3, Liane Gabora4, Andrew Gardner5, David W.J. Gill6, Kelly Hays-Gilpin7, ThomasJ Green8, Edward A. Jolie9, Sian Jones0, Peter Jordan1, Stephanie Koerner2, Carl Lipo3, Ben Marler4, Herbert D.G. Maschner5, Randall H. McGuire6, Ian J. McNiven7, Mark Pluciennuk8, Steven D. Price9, Lynette Russell0, Marion Salter1, Michael Shanks2, Stephen Shennan3, Timothy Taylor4, Patty Jo Watson5, Gillian Wallace6, Gary S. Webster7, David S. Whitley8, David R. Yesner9, Marek Zvelebil0 ...
    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Archaeological Theory Today

    by Ian Hodder ...
    Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over recent decades. It summarizes the latest developments in the field and looks to its future, exploring some of the cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of the discipline.The volume captures the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Contemporary Archaeology in Theory

    The New Pragmatism

    Edited by Robert W. Preucel, Stephen A. Mrozowski ...
    The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people.Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern worldChallenges the ... Read more

    $51.00 USD