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  • Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women

    Edición de Sherene Baugher, John H. Jameson ...
    Series series Restorative Justice in Heritage Studies and Archaeology
    Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women examines the heritage messages presented by statuary monuments, focusing on statues and monuments of women and exploring the challenges involved in depicting the key role played by women across different societies.The chapters within the volume examine the motives behind – and impediments to – the installation and commemoration of women around the ... Leer más

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  • Monuments and Memory

    Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration

    Series series Cultural Heritage Studies
    Examining the pasts, evolving meanings, and silenced histories surrounding public monumentsThis volume examines many different public monuments to increase understanding of the cultural factors that have shaped their creation, maintenance, and—in some cases—removal. The role of monuments in communities and society continues to be an important and controversial topic, and the case studies in this ... Leer más

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  • Creating Participatory Dialogue in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Interpretation: Multinational Perspectives

    Edición de John H. Jameson, Sherene Baugher ...
    This volume examines evolving trends and transnational perspectives on public interpretation of archaeological and cultural heritage, as well as levels of communication, from local to regional, national and international. It is presented in the context of the evolution of cultural heritage studies from the 20th century “expert approach” to the 21st century “people-centered approach,” with public ... Leer más

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  • Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning

    Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Improving the relationship between archaeology and local government represents one of the next great challenges facing archaeology –specifically archaeology done in urban settings. Not only does local government have access to powerful legal tools and policy mechanisms that can offer protection for privately owned archaeological sites, but because local government exists at the grassroots level, ... Leer más

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  • The Archaeology of Institutional Life

    A landmark work that will instigate vigorous and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural normsInstitutions pervade social life. They express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the ... Leer más

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  • Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes

    Series series History (R0)
    Historical archaeology of landscapes initially followed the pattern of Classical Archaeology by studying elite men's gardens. Over time, particularly in North America, the field has expanded to cover larger settlement areas, but still often with ungendered and elite focus. The editors of this volume seek to fill this important gap in the literature by presenting studies of gendered power dynamics ... Leer más

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    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... Leer más

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  • Bone Rooms

    From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

    A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”—SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific ... Leer más

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  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

    Mystic Chords of Memory"Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book WorldIn this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine ... Leer más

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  • Memory Lands

    King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

    Series series The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
    Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European ... Leer más

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  • Sense of History

    The Place of the Past in American Life

    As Americans enter the new century, their interest in the past has never been greater. In record numbers they visit museums and historic sites, attend commemorative ceremonies and festivals, watch historically based films, and reconstruct family genealogies. The question is, Why? What are Americans looking for when they engage with the past? And how is it different from what scholars call “history ... Leer más

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  • North American Odyssey

    Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century

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