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  • Inventing Western Civilization

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    "In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society."--Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe. He lays out clearly and simply how civilization, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Inventing Western Civilization

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    "In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society."--Martin BernalDrawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe. He lays out clearly and simply how civilization, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Marx's Ghost

    Conversations with Archaeologists

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    How did our current society come into being and how is it similar to as well as different from its predecessors? These key questions have transfixed archaeologists, anthropologists and historians for decades and strike at the very heart of intellectual debate across a wide range of disciplines. Yet scant attention has been given to the key thinkers and theoretical traditions that have shaped these ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Handbook of Gender in Archaeology

    by Benjamin Alberti, Bettina Arnold, Wendy Ashmore, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Diane Bolger, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Hetty Jo Brumbach, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bonnie J. Clark, Pam Crabtree, Virginia Ebert, Julia A. Hendon, Sandra E. Hollimon, Robert Jarvenpa, RosemaryA Joyce, Janet E. Levy, Diane Lyons, Emer O'Donnell, Thomas C. Patterson, Jane D. Peterson, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Barbara L. Voss, Kathryn Weedman, Ruth Whitehouse, Laurie A. Wilkie ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of ... Read more

    $213.99 USD

  • Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique

    by Matthew Liebmann, Matthew Liebmann, Greg Borgstede, Craig N. Cipolla, Praveena Gullapalli, Ian Lilley, Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez, Thomas C. Patterson, Robert W. Preucel, Reniel Rodriguez Ramos0, Sandra Scham1, Sudharshan Seneviratne2, Jason Yaeger3 ...
    Series series Archaeology in Society
    In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society-with repect to both the colonizers and the colonized-to help us understand the colonial experience in its entirety. The contributors ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Social History of Anthropology in the United States

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the social history of anthropology in the United States, examining the circumstances that gave rise to the discipline and illuminating the role of anthropology in the modern world.Thomas C. Patterson considers the shifting social and political-economic conditions in which anthropological knowledge has been produced and deployed, the appearance of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Karl Marx, Anthropologist

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology today. Marx was profoundly influenced by critical Enlightenment thought. He believed that humans were social individuals that simultaneously ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Social History of Anthropology in the United States

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    In part due to the recent Yanomami controversy, which has rocked anthropology to its very core, there is renewed interest in the discipline's history and intellectual roots, especially amongst anthropologists themselves. The cutting edge of anthropological research today is a product of earlier questions and answers, previous ambitions, preoccupations and adventures, stretching back one hundred ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Social Change Theories in Motion

    Explaining the Past, Understanding the Present, Envisioning the Future

    by Thomas C. Patterson ...
    This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators, living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Archaeology

    A Workbook

    by Thomas C Patterson ...
    **For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods.**Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and explain field findings and help them to see the link between theory and practice. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • From Acorns to Warehouses

    Historical Political Economy of Southern California’s Inland Empire

    by Thomas C Patterson ...
    Thomas C. Patterson’s large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth trajectory of California’s socio-economic history, he is able to connect landscape, resources, wealth, labor, and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Worlds of Gender

    The Archaeology of Women's Lives Around the Globe

    by Sarah Milledge Nelson, Diane Lyons, Elisabeth A. Bacus, Carla M. Sinopoli, Claire Smith, Emer O'Donnell, Ruth Whitehouse, Rosemary A. Joyce, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Virginia Ebert, Thomas C. Patterson ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings ... Read more

    $47.99 USD