Guide to the north american ethnographic collection at the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology

Guide to the north american ethnographic

The University Museum's ethnographic holdings include 40,000 objects. This guide explores the collections' strength, linking objects to history within diverse cultural contexts and emphasizing their multiple meanings. It offers insights into archival resources, exhibitions, research, repatriation...

European archaeology as anthropology

Celebrates Bernard Wailes' legacy, emphasizing the contribution to understanding social complexity emergence. Case studies encourage global comparisons, showcasing Europe's rich archaeological data on early innovations, varied agricultural spread, and late urbanism. A unique focus on Europe's rol...

Landscapes of movement

Explores the significance of trails, paths, and roads in understanding human movement through history. Contributors analyze routes across different cultures and times using methods like aerial photography and archaeological excavation, highlighting how paths shape social, political, economic aspe...

Craft specialization and social evolutio

This volume stems from a symposium on the centenary of V. Gordon Childe's birth. Childe, the first scholar to attempt a broad socioeconomic analysis of ancient archaeology, emphasized the crucial role of craft specialization in social evolution. Contributors include David W. Anthony, Philip J. Ar...

The gift of birds

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the baikal region, siberia

Evolution of mind, brain, and culture

Explores the origins of human thought, language, and culture. Fourteen interdisciplinary essays investigate the evolution of the human mind, brain, and cultural capacity, bridging ancient and modern perspectives. Critically engages major theoretical approaches, providing a comprehensive examinati...

Magnificent objects from the university of pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology

Since the late nineteenth century hundreds of people, on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have searched for what it means to be human, studying the infinite variety of human cultures. The Museum's extensive collections provide vital clues in this qu...

Being and becoming european in poland

This book explores the life-story narratives of southern Poles, and asks what it means to be Polish as its population ‘becomes European’ following Poland’s entry into the European Union.

Performing the jumbled city

Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (post)colonial city. At the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space, the book elaborates on the epistemological and creative possibilities arising from c...

The politics of swidden farming

‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised – a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian developmen...

Pasta, pizza and propaganda

A lively and rigorous historical account of Italian food television narrated from a political point of view. In referring to the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, the book links food, television and politics and shows how the three give way to the political construction of various versions of Italy, ...

Land and agrarian transformation in zimbabwe

This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.

The anthem companion to david riesman

The purpose of this proposed addition to the Anthem Companions series is to add another title to a growing list of well-received publications (including the author’s prior contribution on Robert E. Park).  In so doing, the goal is to reconnect some scholars to Riesman’s legacy and to introduce hi...

Orphanage tourism in nepal

This book explores the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal.

The mediterranean mirror

Between 1200 and 750 BC, the Mediterranean world saw the breakdown of Bronze Age civilizations, and the rise of Iron Age cultures. This volume, in commenting on cultural changes and interculturality in the sub-regions of the Mediterranean, provides new insights into interregional mobility, connec...

Pilgrimage to jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city holy to three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. From the early Byzantine period, Christian pilgrimage became a mass phenomenon. This volume addresses the Jerusalem pilgrimage from very different approaches using written and material sources, asking how and why...

Educating egypt

The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of digital disruption in the twenty-firstFrom the 1952 revolution onward, a main purpose of formal education in Egyp...

Culture and contestation in the new century

This book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal policies have affected institutions of cultural production and dissemination, it highlights ensuing changes to critical theory and poses q...

Culture and contestation in the new century

This book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal policies have affected institutions of cultural production and dissemination, it highlights ensuing changes to critical theory and poses q...

Oral history in times of change: gender, documentation, and the making of archives

Challenges, opportunities, and methodological issues in the creation of oral history archives in the Arab worldOral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements in general, and of feminist movement in particular. Until the end of the twentieth century in the A...

Analysing american advice books for single mothers raising sons

Although single fathers as primary careers are on the rise, most single-parent households in the US are headed by women. These women are a lucrative market for parenting books and most of these books are aimed at single mothers raising sons. This intersectional study analyses the way in which the...

Sexual bargaining in the digital era

Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.

On friendship between the no longer and the not yet: an ethnographic account

An ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young EgyptiansThere is a great deal to be said about ideas and imaginations of the “future” when one does not have the luxury of maintaining a slot in the present. In the midst of acute conditions of prec...

Voices of the lost children of greece

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, l...

Egyptian hip-hop: expressions from the underground

A study of rap in Egypt as a multi-layered form of expressionThis ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to political and soc...

A most pleasant scene and an inexhaustible resource

This volume brings together contributions from researchers who have approached from very different individual perspectives the issues concerning the environment in which the Byzantine Empire unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean. It brings a new focus to Byzantine Studies and Byzantine archaeology.

Biographies of port said: everydayness of state, dwellers, and strangers

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices of both dwellers and the stateFounded in 1859, as part of the Suez Canal project and named after Khedive Said, the city of Port Said has always stood at the juncture of global,...

International migration in the euro-mediterranean region

A multilayered, multidisciplinary examination of migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region during two centuriesThis issue of Cairo Papers takes up the various dimensions of migration and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean region over different periods in the last two centuries. It looks at both ...

The treasure of sânnicolau mare (hungarian:nagyszentmiklós)

In 1799, one of the most important gold hoards of the European early Middle Ages was discovered near the village of Nagyszentmiklós (then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania). The contributions in this volume discuss goldsmith techniques and the possible connections between th...

Technology's pulse: essays on rhythm in german modernism

Modernity, as has often been observed, was fundamentally concerned with questions of temporality. The period around 1900, in particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or 'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of thinking about temporality, 'rhythm' came t...

Beyond the veil

Beyond the Veil, new perspectives open up: Throughout the centuries, curtains have served as multifaceted elements influencing human perception. Shedding light on the use of curtains in the visual and acoustic realm, international scholars offer new insights into the significance of curtains.

Animals, ancestors, and ritual in early bronze age syria

This is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994--2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia.

Resilience and reorganisation of social systems during the weichselian lateglacial in north-west europe

At the end of the Pleistocene, hunters and gatherers in North-West Europe had to adapt themselves and their social systems to abrupt climate and significant environmental changes. This adaptation process is reconstructed in detail in this book, with reference to 25 archaeological sites, and to hi...

The homotherium finds from schöningen 13 ii-4

The first remains of European sabre-toothed cats were discovered in 2012 at Schöningen, where mankind’s oldest wooden weapons had been found. This volume addresses the various topics surrounding the European sabre-toothed cat, including the circumstances of their extinction, comparisons to extant...

Site-internal spatial organization of hunter-gatherer societies

The contributions to this volume discuss research into the spatial analysis of western Eurasian Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites. Covering a broad temporal and geographical range, these studies reflect the enormous variety of spatial evidence preserved in the archaeological records of these peri...

Transformations of city and countryside in the byzantine period

This book, a collection of articles from a conference in 2016 on »Transformations of City and Countryside in the Byzantine Period«, investigates the social dynamics behind changes in urban and rural life in the Byzantine period that can be detected by archaeology, history and art history.

The tomb of li chui

On May 21st 736 the noblewoman Li Chui died at the age of 25, as related by the inscription on the epitaph found in her tomb. She was buried in an earth-chambered grave outside the Tang period capital Chang'an, the present-day Xi'an.

The pleistocene of untermassfeld near meiningen (thüringen, germany)

Excavations at the Early Pleistocene vertebrate site of Untermassfeld took place over more than ten years, resulting in the recovery of an abundance of over 18,000 identifiable palaeontological finds. Part 5 of the Untermassfeld monograph completes the series of descriptions and studies of the ex...

Humans, environment and chronology of the late glacial of the north european plain

A collection of papers from a workshop focusing on the “Final Palaeolithic of the Great European Plain”. It underlines the geographical and chronological spread of research into the topic, ranging from the British Isles to the eastern Baltic, from the Paris Basin to southern Scandinavia, covering...

Ausgrabungen von khor-dehmit bis bet el-wali

Records the expedition's 1961 finds from the cemeteries and settlements around Bab Kalabsha, including the architecture of the sacred complex of late Roman times on the heights above Bab Kalabsha, a small valley chapel at Taifa, Christian remains from settlements on the island of Darmus, and refu...

Principles and forms of sociocultural organization

The volume explores the development of systems of social institutions in a variety of historical and regional contexts and traces the influence of certain key principles and common factors on social and political developments throughout human history.

Debt trap nation

Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. In this blistering expose, Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki take the reader inside this national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of children are living in "prison-lik...

The anthem companion to raymond aron

Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political rami...

Our emotions and culture

In this highly readable book, Doyle McCarthy covers some of the main ways that emotions have become important in our global societies. She explains that emotional culture is important for understanding today’s world, its markets, its politics and its mass media. To live today is to be emotionally...

Mexico-us, serbia-eu border lives and works

Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works is an interdisciplinary, accessible study of Mexico–US and Serbia-EU border practices and policies. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scholars, artists, and migration practitioners tackle crucial questions about how these borders impact peopl...

The asia-pacific in the age of transnational mobility

Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

The new power elite

‘Greedy Elites’ explains why today’s revolt against the ‘rich and powerful’ is led by billionaires and political insiders, sidelining elites’ traditional enemies. It links social, economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular ...

Rural quality of life

Rural quality of life is a multidisciplinary and critical contribution from 49 authors from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania to the understanding of quality of life in rural areas in the global North. They point to the need for vision among planners, policymakers, and people in ge...

Challenging misrepresentations of black womanhood

"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false pe...

Integration in ireland

This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges.

Becoming a mother

This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and contin...

Cultures of violence

Deals with the inherent violence of “race relations” in 2 important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the 20th century. Cultures of violence does not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the “lynch culture” of the American South to t...

Religion, regulation, consumption

This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark.

The political materialities of borders

The Political Materialities of Borders seeks to produce social theory at/from the border; rather than apprehending the border as mere epiphenomenon to urban or state-driven social theoretical dynamics, it calls for a specificity to the border in border studies as a rejuvenated space for theoretic...

Bauman and contemporary sociology

This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagem...

An archaeology of innovation

This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, a...

Siblings and sociology

Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar s...

Defining events

This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start of the twenty first century. Some were high profile, some were ‘fringe’ events, others were widely discussed in popular culture at the time. A number...

From reason to practice in bioethics

This anthology gathers together original works from some of bioethics’ most celebrated scholars. Focused on and around the works of John Harris, the book addresses the most debated issues in contemporary bioethics, and will serve as an excellent text and resource for students, scholars, and pract...

Gender and warfare in the twentieth century

'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.

The futures of feminism

This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiply disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Its combination of accessibility, new thinking and academic rigour...

The sociology of unemployment

An analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment

Immigration and housing in the republic of ireland

Examines the lived housing experiences of recently arrived migrants living in inner city, town and small town locations in Ireland. Building on the concept of ‘housing careers’, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of migrants’ ‘housing pathways’.

Science and the politics of openness

The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts an...

Volunteering in the united kingdom

A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them.

Understanding heritage and memory

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by ‘virtual’, ‘intangible’ and ‘multicultural’ heritage. New international case studies demon...

Human remains and identification

A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.

The 'perpetual fair'

This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings

Ethics, law and nursing

An introduction to the ethical and legal dilemmas in nursing practice, this text is designed to provoke the nurse to reflect on the nature of his or her professional obligations and future practice. The authors firstly familiarise the reader with the basic principles of ethical debate and the ove...

Experiencing globalization

This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes religion through lived experience and reveals how religious phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.

Reflective laughter

A witty overview of humour in Russian culture.

Intimacy and injury

Intimacy and injury offers an original perspective on the #MeToo movement from South Africa and India. It overturns the dominance of western debates on #MeToo by foregrounding diverse southern feminist takes on the possibilities and limits of this movement in the global south.

The museum of bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain

'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' discusses the issue of intellectual property rights versus the public domain in facilitating access to genetic resources for biotechnology development, through a dialogue between seven fictional scholars and a hilarious ...

The arc and the machine

The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.

Islamic ethos and the specter of modernity

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.

Conflict and sustainability in a changing environment

‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing deve...

Crowds in american culture, society and politics

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.

The poverty of television

Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. 

Media sociology and journalism

Media Sociology and Journalism is a dialogue on contemporary society as defined through news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory. The tenacity of deeply opposing truth claims in politics and in journalism exposes the current fragility of democracy as a type of society and regime ...

Socialising the biomedical turn in hiv prevention

This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of people’s lives.

W. e. b. du bois’ africa

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism.

Brexit

Brexit traces the implications of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society.

Network persistence and the axis of hierarchy

“Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy” shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is ...

Climate change and the future of seattle

This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.