
ilość książek w kategorii: 15485
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Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
ISBN: 9780415073301 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. There has been a profound shift in the direction of archaeological activity in the last 15 years. While excavation remains a professional priority, the interpretation of archaeological evidence is now attracting increasing critical study. In part, this stems from the public demand for explanation of archaeological evidence, which moves beyond the more restricted academic debate among archaeologists. But it also follows from a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, and a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed...
There has been a profound shift in the direction of archaeological activity in the last 15 years. While excavation remains a professional priority, th...
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762,24 |
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Technological Choices : Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic
ISBN: 9780415073318 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Technological Choices deals with the adoption or rejection by a society of certain technological techniques and the cultural processes which result in this selection. Lemonnier aims to demonstrate that in any society, such choices result from cultural values and social relations, rather than inherent benefits in the technology itself. This revolutionary viewpoint has crucial implications for current western societies. The book is based on case studies covering a wide chronological and geographic span - from neolithic Europe to modern industry via Papua New Guinea tribes, rural societies in...
Technological Choices deals with the adoption or rejection by a society of certain technological techniques and the cultural processes which result in...
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762,24 |
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Re-constructing Archaeology : Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415088701 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Re-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the new archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as practice in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as objects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It aims to provide a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.
In Re-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the new archaeology and to prese...
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255,68 |
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The Power of the Bull
ISBN: 9780415090322 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Everyone has heard of the Minotaur in the labyrinth on Crete and many know that the Greek gods would adopt the guise of a bull to seduce mortal women. But what lies behind these legends? This text discusses mankind's enduring obsession with bulls. The bull is an almost universal symbol throughout Indo-European cultures. Bull cults proliferated in the Middle East and in many parts of North Africa, and one cult, Mithraism, was the greatest rival to Christianity in the Roman Empire. The Cults are divergent yet have certain core elements in common. The author argues that the ancient bulls were...
Everyone has heard of the Minotaur in the labyrinth on Crete and many know that the Greek gods would adopt the guise of a bull to seduce mortal women....
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713,07 |
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The Politics of the Past
ISBN: 9780415095549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The main aim of this work is to demonstrate the inadequacy of a history that is always written by the winners. It draws on original studies from Africa, North America, Australia and the Pacific in order to make the point, and also emphasizes that archaeology has a crucial role to play in promoting a more balanced, eclectic approach to the past.
The main aim of this work is to demonstrate the inadequacy of a history that is always written by the winners. It draws on original studies from Afric...
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240,91 |
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Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity
ISBN: 9780415095570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. It questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past, and the relationhip of material culture to cultural identity. It also offers a discussion of significant issues in view of increasing ethnic conflicts in the modern world.
This work examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. It questions the nature and limits of archaeological...
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378,61 |
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Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
ISBN: 9780415095594 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study addresses some of the most controversial issues in the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology today: models and concepts of evolution; selectivity in what is rated worthwhile for purposes of academic research and study; and the profound disturbance of indigenous cultures by the exhumation and reburial of human skeletons for purposes of research. Recent events connected with the last of these issues, in the United States and Australia in particular, have called into question the relationship between archaeologists and contemporary cultures and peoples. This in turn has led some...
This study addresses some of the most controversial issues in the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology today: models and concepts of evolution; sel...
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299,93 |
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Tropical Archaeobotany: Applications and New Developments
ISBN: 9780415097840 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tropical Archaeobotany looks at the examination, identification and interpretation of plant remains in tropical archaeology. It investigates the origins, spread, distribution and past use of tropical plants for food and other purposes. This volume details, with the use of case studies from a wide range of areas, the latest macroscopic, microscopic and chemical techniques for the analysis of plant remains, from seeds, roots and tubers to epidermal fragments, pollen and phytoliths. The manual should be useful to the professional and student archaeobotanist.
Tropical Archaeobotany looks at the examination, identification and interpretation of plant remains in tropical archaeology. It investigates the origi...
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762,24 |
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Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts
ISBN: 9780415100540 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory. Individual chapters present case studies of artefacts and fragmentary textual materials, concerned with the reconstruction of houses, maritime technology, pottery and grave goods.
Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools fo...
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762,24 |
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The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education
ISBN: 9780415105453 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Excluded Past examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education, arguing that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past. Cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary contributors show how the exclusion of aspects of the past tends to impoverish and distort social and educational experience.
The Excluded Past examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education, arguing that archaeologists have a vital role to play i...
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260,59 |
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Managing Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415106740 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts involved in these many areas.
The contributors focus on the principles and practice of management in the 1990s, covering such crucial aeas as the management of contract and field archaeology, heritage management, marketing, law and information technology. The resulting volume is important and... Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their ...
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762,24 |
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Theory in Archaeology : A World Perspective
ISBN: 9780415106771 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work tackles important questions about the diversity in archaeological theory and practice which face the discipline in the 1990s. What is the relationship between theory and practice? How does world archaeological theory differ from European? Can one be a good practitioner without theory? This book brings together contributors from many different countries and continents to provide the a global perspective on archaeological theory. They examine the nature of material culture studies and look at problems of ethnicity, regionalism and nationality. They consider, too, another fundamental...
This work tackles important questions about the diversity in archaeological theory and practice which face the discipline in the 1990s. What is the re...
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762,24 |
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Time and Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415117623 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This survey of time and archaeology includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors and combines theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast between a scientific understanding of time and social, cultural and religious ideas of time, and show how both are important to archaeology. While much archaeological research into time has focused on the key issue of attempting to understand how people in the past had different concepts of time, this collection also shows how developing...
This survey of time and archaeology includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors and combines theoretical and empirical materia...
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762,24 |
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The Prehistory of Food : Appetites for Change
ISBN: 9780415117654 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume tackles the issues of setting subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change. The production and consumption of food can tell us much about different cultures, their construction and the cultural change of their world. The international contributors look at the interaction of food, biology and ecology reflecting the fact that food reaches out into all areas of life. The book is designed to throw light...
This volume tackles the issues of setting subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributor...
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958,94 |
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The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania
ISBN: 9780415117661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint.
The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement....
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762,24 |
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The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape : Shaping Your Landscape
ISBN: 9780415117678 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text presents revised versions of 28 papers given at the third World Archaeological Congress held in New Delhi in 1994. Contributors from the British Isles, Scandinavia, North and South America, India, Australia and the Pacific demonstrate the value of cross-disciplinary research drawing upon ideas and methods of archaeology, anthropology and geography. Academic and indigenous authors have collaborated to present the values and ideas concerning the landscape from peoples in the Amazon, Siberia, Vanuatu and Australia. Other papers draw upon ethnohistory and archaeology to investigate the...
This text presents revised versions of 28 papers given at the third World Archaeological Congress held in New Delhi in 1994. Contributors from the Bri...
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983,54 |
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Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society : Perspectives on Managing and Presenting the Past
ISBN: 9780415117852 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the contexts of economic development, competing claims of ownership of particular cultural resources, modern uses of structures and space, and other aspects of late 20th-century life. The international range of contributors, from European, African as well as Asian and American contexts offer a broad perspective, seeking to do justice to the local, national and international significance of the management of cultural resources.
This text describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the contexts of economic development, compe...
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762,24 |
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Archaeology and Language IV : Language Change and Cultural Transformation
ISBN: 9780415117869 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text examines a variety of issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.
This text examines a variety of issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global pa...
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467,13 |
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Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge
ISBN: 9780415117876 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text on historical archaeology aims to encourage research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history. Ranging in subject matter from Roman Britain and Classical Greece, to colonial Africa, Brazil and the United States, it should be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology and cultural resource management.
This text on historical archaeology aims to encourage research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history. Ranging in subject matt...
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934,36 |
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Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology
ISBN: 9780415117883 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In recent years, archaeology has increasingly applied a wide range of research techniques from the natural and social sciences to the interpretation of evidence. This volume brings together contributions from internationally-renowned scholars in a diverse range of disciplines. It examines the implications for archaeology of the most recent developments. and highlights important new areas of research into the use of dynamical systems to explain change.
In recent years, archaeology has increasingly applied a wide range of research techniques from the natural and social sciences to the interpretation o...
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983,54 |