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  • Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

    The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of ... Read more

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  • Cities and Citadels

    An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth

    Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us ... Read more

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  • Décrypter la différence

    Lecture archéologique et historique de la place des personnes handicapées dans les communautés du passé

    La recherche scientifique s’est ici faite enquête de société, questionnant le passé pour mieux asseoir l’avenir. Quelle était la place des personnes handicapées dans des sociétés méconnues, des groupes millénaires et des communautés oubliées parfois seulement accessibles par l’archéologie ? Comment décoder, loin du cabinet de curiosités des pathologies invalidantes et spectaculaires, ces ... Read more

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  • The Greater Chaco Landscape

    Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy

    Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon⁠ and Chaco-era great houses and ... Read more

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  • Memories of Utopia

    The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Bronwen Neil, Kosta Simic ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE.The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are ... Read more

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  • European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices

    Series series Critical Heritages of Europe
    European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices focuses on the intersection of heritage, dialogue and digital culture in the context of Europe. Responding to the increased emphasis on the potential for heritage and digital technologies to foster dialogue and engender communitarian identities in Europe, the book explores what kind of role digital tools, platforms and practices play in supporting ... Read more

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  • Managing Transnational UNESCO World Heritage sites in Africa

    This open access book focuses on the management of transboundary UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Africa region. It highlights the region as a model of best practices on cross-border collaboration in view of enforcing the conservation of the site, engaging with local communities, and fighting against (in some cases) extremist groups inhabiting these sites. It also addresses the role of the World ... Read more

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  • On Cyprian Norwid. Studies and Essays

    Vol. 2. Aspects

    Series Book 37 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The book is the second volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history, and seeks to answer universal questions. The book ... Read more

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  • Evolution or Divine Intervention

    by Dennis King ...
    Divine Intervention and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution are opposing intellectual points of view. Which do you favor? How to you feel when the “experts” sheds light only on the “facts” that support their point of view? Many scholars that support the work of Charles Darwin are quick to discount God as the Creator of all. One might surmise that Darwin did not believe in God. That is not true.Seemingly, ... Read more

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  • Mapping Water in Dominica

    Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism

    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation ... Read more

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  • Travel Writings on Asia

    Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present

    Series series Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
    This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and ... Read more

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  • Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam

    Living Heritage Has A Heart

    Series series Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community
    This open access book considers the growing field of heritage tourism from community perspectives. It explores how the Cham—Vietnam’s large ethnic minority—reconcile their needs for economic development with the boundaries circumscribed by their traditional culture. It examines struggles that local minority stakeholders like the Cham face when trying to participate in areas of development that ... Read more

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  • Critical Ancient World Studies

    The Case for Forgetting Classics

    This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West.CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches ... Read more

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  • Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks

    Methods & Material

    This Open Access book explains that after long periods of prehistoric research in which the importance of the archaeological as well as the natural context of rock art has been constantly underestimated, research has now begun to take this context into focus for documentation, analysis, interpretation and understanding. Human footprints are prominent among the long-time under-researched features ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Human Ancestry

    Power, Sex and Tradition

    Edited by Stephen Shennan, James Steele ...
    Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate ... Read more

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  • Broken Bodies, Places and Objects

    New Perspectives on Fragmentation in Archaeology

    Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic.A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne ... Read more

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  • History and the Unconscious

    The Theoretical Assumptions and Research Practices of Psychohistory

    Translated by Alex Shannon ...
    Series Book 38 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This work represents the first truly comprehensive and non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies the psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology as its theoretical ground. Tomasz Pawelec is an experienced methodologist and historiographer who systematically examines, reconstructs, and evaluates the major ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire

    Series series Routledge World Archaeology
    The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early history of all of Iran from the Palaeolithic period to the end of the Achaemenid Empire at 330 BC.Drawing on the authors’ deep experience and engagement in the world of Iranian archaeology, and in particular on Iran ... Read more

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  • Conservation of Contemporary Art

    Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

    Series Book 9 - Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market
    This open access book investigates whether and how theoretical findings and insights in contemporary art conservation can be translated into the daily work practices of conservators or, vice versa, whether and how the problems and dilemmas encountered in conservation practice can inform broader research questions and projects. For several decades now, the conservation of contemporary art has been ... Read more

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  • Indigenizing Archaeology

    Putting Theory into Practice

    Case studies and perspectives from Indigenous scholars who are helping to transform the discipline of archaeologyThis book highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities. Expanding on the foundational works of scholars from previous ... Read more

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  • Finding the Limits of the Limes

    Modelling Demography, Economy and Transport on the Edge of the Roman Empire

    Series series Computational Social Sciences
    This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by the editors that aimed to apply spatial dynamical modelling to reconstruct and understand the socio-economic development of the Dutch part of the Roman frontier (limes) zone, in ... Read more

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  • Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

    Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies

    Edited by Ulrike Steinert ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century.Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from ... Read more

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  • Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War

    Series Book 33 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as ... Read more

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  • 3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology

    Series Book 31 - Coastal Research Library
    This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but not limited to, the work presented at the workshop which was dedicated to 3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology. The volume consists of contributions from ... Read more

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