Archaic corinthian pottery and the anaploga well

In the first section of this book, Amyx catalogues and discusses more than 200 fragments of Archaic Corinthian pottery with figure decoration. In the second section, Lawrence presents the contents of a well dug and filled in the Archaic period, the material ranging from Early Protocorinthian to L...

A lm ia ceramic kiln in south-central crete

This volume presents an in-depth study of the Late Minoan IA cross-draft kiln found in excavations at Kommos, Crete. The kiln is of a type popular during the Neopalatial period, and its good state of preservation has allowed the authors to speculate about its original internal layout and use, as ...

The early bronze age village on tsoungiza hill

This important study integrates the presentation and analysis of the archaeological evidence from a single settlement that flourished on Tsoungiza Hill in the Nemea Valley from the Final Neolithic until the end of the Early Helladic period.

Gordion wooden furniture

Hasanlu v

Presents a revised chronology of the significant archaeological site Hasanlu in northwestern Iran. Challenges previous notions, particularly regarding the Monochrome Burnished Ware Horizon's origin, suggesting a gradual development from indigenous traditions and with implications for understandin...

Ur excavations, texts, volume ix

Gordion excavations, 1950

Gordion's inhumation burials from the late 8th to the mid-6th century B.C. are examined in this excavation report. The detailed study covers burial processes, tumulus construction, and associated finds, providing insights into constructional methods and chronology.

University of michigan and university of minnesota excavations at tel kedesh i

This is the first volume in a projected series of final reports on the 1997-2012 University of Michigan/University of Minnesota excavations at Tel Kedesh, located in the Upper Galilee of modern Israel and the hinterland of ancient Tyre. It presents the 2nd century BCE Hellenistic archive and the ...

Early beth shan (strata xix

Braun's Beth Shan report updates FitzGerald's 1933 findings, revealing Neolithic and Bronze Age activity. It integrates data, offering chrono-cultural insights through historical-stratigraphic phasing, architectural reviews, and typological comparisons. Appendices cover archaeobotanical studies a...

Tell es

The findings from the excavations (1964-1966) at a prominent mound in the central Jordan Valley are described by the excavator. Strata of occupation extend from the late ninth century B.C. through the Roman period. Each is described in terms of its architecture, pottery, and other artifacts.

The new chronology of the bronze age settlement of tepe hissar, iran

This monograph establishes a clarified chronological framework for Tepe Hissar, northeastern Iran, during the Early Bronze Age. Examining excavated ceramic assemblages and radiocarbon-dated phases, it sheds light on the site's evolution and regional context, spanning Turkmenistan, Bactria, and Me...

The archaeology of phrygian gordion, royal city of midas

Challenges the marginalization of countries like Mongolia in area studies, proposing an alternative "-scapes" grouping methodology. Experts explore Mongolia's history, ecology, genetics, archaeology, and diplomacy. Readers are prompted to reconsider approaches to understanding and categorizing na...

Golden age of king midas

Gordion, central Turkey, a Phrygian city at the crossroads, explored by Penn Museum since 1950. The exhibition "The Golden Age of King Midas" displays Turkish loaned artifacts and rare Penn Museum pieces, highlighting historic King Midas and Phrygia's ties with Lydia, Persia, Assyria, and Greece....

Sculpture ii

A catalogue of the sculpture discovered during excavations by the University of California at Los Angeles in the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia. The sculpture ranges in date from ca. 100 B.C. to ca. A.D. 400, with most of the 107 pieces included belonging to the mid-2nd century.

The amarna letters

During Egypt's 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550-1292 BCE), the rulers of Levantine city-states sent letters written in Akkadian in the cuneiform script on clay tablets to the Egyptian pharaohs. This new edition offers a complete collection of the letters with transliterations; clear and consistent translat...

Sculpture i

This volume presents sculptural finds made by the University of Chicago at Isthmia during their excavations from 1952 to 1967. The finds range in date from the 7th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. but are mostly fragmentary objects of Roman date.

The potters' quarter

The long-awaited final part of the publication of the Corinth Potters' Quarter is based on the work of the excavator, A. N. Stillwell, edited and supplemented after her death by J. L. Benson.

The people

The second volume of the publication of the excavations at Lerna deals with the human bones that were found and gives a physical anthropological study of them.

Land dispossession and everyday politics in rural eastern india

‘Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India’...

The social control of mental illness

In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control.

Light and shadow

The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders in the full complexity of their lives, and unveils a new, deeper history for the region, back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. For archaeologists, historians, and students of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and su...

Radical human centricity

This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

French london

This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings.

Some other amazonians

The purpose of this book is to indicate the diversity of Amazonian societies and to try to contribute to the extension of the anthropology of Amazonia beyond its traditional limits.

Archaeology of difference

To determine "the archaeology of difference" the studies in this volume draw on textual and material culture. What distinguishes an individual or a group in ancient society? How do issues of gender, ethnicity, social stratification and the view of the 'other' impact individuals, groups, and socie...

An essay on political economies in prehistory

A political economy approach to prehistory offers a robust means to understand different pathways to complexity. This book argues that economic relations and their potential for control of surplus mobilization explain alternative evolutionary trajectories in human societies.

Irrigation in early states

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging from South America and the southwestern United States to North Africa, the Middle East and Asia they describe the physical attributes and environments of early irrigation systems and irrigation's e...

Man and animals

International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century

Winner, 2014 BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed inaugural award for ethnography, in association with the British Sociological Association This ethnographic account of seafarers considers issues of transnationalism in the twenty-first century and discusses the detailed life experiences of migrant work...

The library of daniel garrison brinton

The science of culture

Leslie White was one of the most important—and controversial—figures in American anthropology. This classic work, initially published in 1949, contains White’s definitive statement on what he termed 'culturology.'

Assemblages of cancer

A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.

Love in india

This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.

The anthem companion to zygmunt bauman

Bauman’s ideas – his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research – remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaborat...

Modern jewish mythologies

Based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995, the ten essays in this volume demonstrate the function and dynamic effect Jewish mythologies in social, political, and psychological life.

Festivals, affect and identity

This book offers an illustration of the explanatory power of continental philosophy in relation to the ethnographic study of Siena’s Palio and other community festivals of the Siena Province in central Italy.

Syria, revolt and war in the digital age

An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian warNever before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and image. From the start of the Syrian revolt in 2011, several million videos were posted online by demo...

Life at home in the twenty-first century

Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people live their lives at home; it will interest a r...

Immersion

Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed

Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology

In this book the late Lewis Binford documents the hunting and butchering strategies of modern Arctic big game hunters and the archaeological remains generated during the course of their activities- producing a unique description of an annual cycle of subsistence activities, viewed from both a beh...

Becoming – an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in java

The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.

Living with poverty and dependence in england

This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods. 

Legacies of forced removals in south africa

This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children.

A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of andean culture in retrospective

This edited volume brings together several scholars who produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities between the 1970s and 2000s and asks them to revisit, review, and reassess their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal a...

The foraging spectrum

The author wrote this book to show his archaeology students how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. By considering the actual—not imagined—reasons behind diverse behaviour, this book argues for a revision of many...

An ethnography of england in the year 1685

Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of the great English historians of the nineteenth century. The groundbreaking chapter from his famous five-volume History of England deserves to be rescued from oblivion, and is presented here, preceded by a long introduction in which Macaulay's life and career a...

Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition

This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist...

To make the earth bear fruit

This volume brings together previously published ethnographic essays based on anthropological fieldwork in Northern Potosi, Bolivia, spanning the final 25 years of the 20th century. The articles discuss key concerns and cultural symbols of the indigineous peasants of the Andes.

The body: lived, cultured, adorned

A collection of essays on dress and the body in the areas of biblical and Ancient Near Eastern studies.  The book demonstrates ways in which both dress and the body communicate cultural and religious beliefs and practices.

Outward appearance versus inward significance

This volume takes a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to dress studies in the ancient world. Spanning a wide geographic spectrum, from the Near East and North Africa to the Mediterranean world and the Americas, it explores the cultural, social, and political significance of attire.

The evolution of the human mind

In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical science—from the Paleolithic to the present—vividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience.

Refugee support and moral practice in slovakia

This ethnography accompanies people who support refugees in Slovakia—outlining the personal and political dilemmas that complicate refugee care in Central Eastern Europe and beyond.

Chiefdoms

Study of political evolution viewed in the field of social anthropology. Looks at what is seen as the first major political development in history, when previously separate villages came together in chiefdoms - a notional form of organization where political and economic power is exercised by a s...

Future perfect

Future Perfect is a co-creative ethnography combining theatre improvisations, storytelling, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation in the study of illegalised migration in the Mediterranean. It recognises the centrality of imagination and creativity in the making of lives and storie...

Prison cultures

Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic ...

From north africa to france: family migration in text and film

Over the past four decades immigration to France from the Francophone countries of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) has changed in character. For much of the twentieth century, migrants who crossed the Mediterranean to France were men seeking work, who frequently undertook manual labou...

Structure and meaning in human settlemen

This book looks at the relationships between form, space, and cultural meaning in human habitation. Multidisciplinary explorations of common ground in architectural theories, settlement archaeology, and the study of cultural landscapes. With 220 full-color images, it combines thinking about cultu...

Outlaw heroes in myth and history

This book provides an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many t...

Terrorism, italian style: representations of political violence in contemporary italian cinema

The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Italian imagination to an extraordinary degree. Cinema has played a particularly prominent role in articulating the ongoing impact of the anni di piom...

Images and identity

Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curriculum, Images and Identity brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the United Kingdom on producing online curriculum materials. It will be of...

A cultural history of the disneyland theme parks

The first comparative historical study of the six Disneyland theme parks around the world in five distinct cultures: the USA, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Sets the parks in the historic contexts at their opening, discusses cross- and trans-cultural understandings of the parks and the par...

The human evolution cookbook

This humorous account of human evolution, from the beginnings of bipedalism through the Upper Paleolithic, is set in the context of a cookbook, with recipes and cartoons to match the unfolding stories. Each chapter discusses a particular milestone or event in human development, and a dash of preh...

Technology and social change in belgic gaul

This study analyzes over 400 years of copper-based metal artifacts at Titelberg, Luxembourg, revealing the earliest use of brass in transalpine Europe. Using metallographic analysis, it documents changing alloy patterns, showcasing cultural shifts and the rise and fall of distinct sociotechnical ...

D·n ailinne

A genealogy of method

This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diver...