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Scattered finds : archaeology, Egyptology and museums
Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post…
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- 9781787351400
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- XIII, 304 p.
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- 932 STE s
Man Bac : the excavation of a neolithic Site in northern Vietnam
The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the …
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- 9781921862236
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- XIV, 231 p.
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- Terra Australis
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- 959.701 MAT m
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
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- 9781920942960
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- XXVII, 314 p.
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- 994.01 ULM c
Difficult folk?: a political history of social anthropology
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly wor…
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- 9781785336638
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- x, 222p.
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- 306.20941 MIL d
Tradition through modernity: postmodernism and the nation-state in folklore s…
"In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those whose traditions are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explica…
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- 9789522228147
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- 215p.: ill.
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- 398 ANT t
Cultures of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America’s long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film a…
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- 9781908857729
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- X, 220 p.
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- 305.80098 CUL c
Science fiction in Argentina : technologies of the text in a material multiverse
It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the present day and across a variety of media-literature, cinema, theatre, and comics-and studies the…
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- 9780472121878
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- X, 235 p.
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- 860.935882 PAG s
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- 9781760461614
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- XXVI, 499 p.
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- 919.429 ARC a
Biological relatives : IVF, stem cells and the future of kinship
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed how both technology and biology are understood. Drawing on anthropology, feminist theory, and s…
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- 9780822354994
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- X, 364 p.
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- Experimental Futures,
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- 618.1780599 FRA b
Critical rhythm : the poetics of a literary life form
Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism’s most important, most vested, …
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- 9780823282043
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- 801.95 GLA c
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