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Critical perspectives on cultural memory and heritage
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural h…
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- 9781787354845
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- XVIII, 315 p.
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- 949.601 APA c
Communities and knowledge production in archaeology
The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of researchers rather than the isolated work of so-called ‘instrumental’ actors. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work and the dynamic creative pr…
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- 9781526134554
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- xvii, 250p. : ill.
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- 930.1 COM c
Ancient knowledge networks :a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in fi…
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it. Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first mill…
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- 9781787355941
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- xxiii, 303 p. ill;
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- 935 ANC E
CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY OF LONDONS MEGA EVENTS :from the great exhibition to…
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciousl…
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- 9781787358447
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- xiii, 279 p. ill;
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- 942.100909 CON J
Exploring Materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as tw…
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- 9781787357488
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- xvii, 259 p. ill;
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- 306 EXP P
Things that travelled :Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Things that Travelled, a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Gl…
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- 9781787351172
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- xviii, 362 p. ill;
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- 748.20937 THI D
Olga Tufnell's 'perfect journey' :letters and photographs of an archaeologist…
Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. For the first time, this book presents Olga’s account of her experiences in her own words. Based largely on letters home, the text is accompanied by dozens of photographs that shed light on personal experience…
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- 9781787359062
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- xxxiv, 414 p. ill;
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- 956.0090909 OLG J
Forts and Fortification in Wallacea :Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investi…
This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate …
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- 9781760463892
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- xv, 306p . : ill
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- 959.801 FOR f
Forts and Fortification in Wallacea :Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investi…
This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate …
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- 9781760463892
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- xv, 306p . : ill
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- 959.801 FOR f
Anthropology of Transformation From Europe to Asia and Back
This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, …
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- 9781800643642
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- xiii, 282p. : ill
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- 301 ANT a
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