Bøger i One World Archaeology serien

This volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality, providing a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion and spirituality.

This book investigates approaches to community heritage within the Arab region and the underlying theories associated with these approaches. It aims, within the context of the region, to define 'community' and 'heritage', as well as examine the emergence and development of this field. The volume's contributors deploy a wealth of case studies from the Middle East and North Africa to provide a unique forum for discussion, comparability, analysis and deeper understandings of current trends in community heritage. In particular, the volume explores the relationship between communities and their heritage, the meanings and values placed upon it, the nature and degree of community participation and engagement in its interpretation and management, and how its different registers affect and produce sometimes unexpected community heritage formations. It also examines the level of responsibility held within the profession towards this essentially democratic process of public participation in their heritage in a region shaped by controversial histories, political turmoil and tourism-driven economies. The volume builds on current research and practice in community heritage globally by debating and re-centring a suite of familiar and new issues related to hitherto under-researched regional-specific methodologies, and developing fresh insight into the theoretical underpinning of these practices. It will be of value to heritage scholars and practitioners as well as those interested in politics, identity, education and the dynamics of heritage-based sustainable development.

This volume completes an examination of the potential for archaeology and linguistics to complement one another in the interpretation of prehistory. It provides case studies of artefacts and fragmentary text materials.

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.

Using in depth-case studies, this book explores the aims of the 'reconstruction' of heritage sites and examines the problems and mistakes experienced with representing the past in this way.

Providing a wide overview of African archaeology from around 8000 BC to the present day, the authors (all either African or living there) also offer individual reviews and in-depth studies. Africa emerges as the possessor of a vast and highly complex mix of peoples and cultures.

Covers the examination, identification and interpretations of plant remains in tropical archaeology, whilst also the origins, spread, distribution and past use of tropical plants for food and other purposes.

A unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, exposing sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.

An examination of the evolution of human behaviour from the viewpoints of anthropology, archaeology, biology, and technology. It focuses on the problems of trying to understand the long-term evolution of human behaviour and the patterns observable in the fossil and archaeological record.

Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development and other aspects of 20th century life.

A ground-breaking book that examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education. Argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past.

'...uses a wealth of perspectives and case studies from archaeology and its related disciplines to delineate and assess the mechanisms of dominance and of its counterpart, resistance.' N - British Archaeology

A ground-breaking book which argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education and shows how the exclusion of aspects of the past tends to impoverish and distort social and educational experience.

An illuminating and provocative look at historical interpretation, which draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in archaeology.

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

Concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture plays in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. Using world-wide data, the book queries whether material culture is equivalent to documents which can be "read" and questions the messages conveyed this way.

First text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology in the world today. Calls into question the relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures they study.

This book examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past. By creating another people's cultural history, scholars appropriate it. This collection looks at how 'post-colonial' scholars are redefining the nature of scholarship.

Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expanding discussions about the mechanisms and consequences of community participation.

This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeological practitioners. Established topics such as cave art, monumental architecture and land art will be discussed alongside contemporary video art, performance art and relational arts practices.

Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation.Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements.

This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeological practitioners. Established topics such as cave art, monumental architecture and land art will be discussed alongside contemporary video art, performance art and relational arts practices.

Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation.Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements.

'This outstanding overview creates an effective framework on which to hang 13 diverse papers. The papers are tightly written and good editing has successfully merged them into a very successful volume.' - American Antiquity

Should we keep the physical evidence of conflicts and wars? This collection challenges our perception of cultural heritage, with essays investigating among others Cambodia, the Berlin Wall and concentration camps.

Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes historical, geographical, and cross-cultural studies.

First text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of archaeology and anthropology in the world today. Calls into question the relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures they study.

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.

Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity.

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.