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Madeline Potter
The Roma

"A spellbinding tale of resilience and survival in the face of widespread bigotry and violence." ---Boston GlobeA unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going…

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Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

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Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic

Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianis…

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Song Hou
A Chinese Discourse of Heritage

This Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed cultural, historical ideas of heritage. It focuses on the Chinese term guji, one today p…

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Pedro A López-García, Denisse L Argote
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data

Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing…

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Emma Gooch
Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and …

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Nianshen Song
The Neighborhood

"This book is a centuries-spanning account of Xita, a neighborhood located in Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China. By telling its story over four centuries, Nianshen Song shows how it has e…

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Alex Diamond
Governing the Excluded

An on-the-ground description of Colombia's peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it. The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the …

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Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families

Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families attends to the ways in which Asian Catholics navigate and negotiate the ethical ideals, normative discourses, and devotional practices of their …

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Richard Bradley
Insularity and Identity

This Element considers historiography - the extent to which insular prehistorians have integrated their findings with the archaeology of mainland Europe; and the ways in which scholars have drawn on Briti…

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Edward Banning
Archaeological Reasoning

Bridging the gap between introductory and advanced archaeology courses, this book builds confidence in working with the tools of archaeological research and how to make plausible inferences about the past…

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Edward Banning
Archaeological Reasoning

Bridging the gap between introductory and advanced archaeology courses, this book builds confidence in working with the tools of archaeological research and how to make plausible inferences about the past…

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Pedro A López-García, Denisse L Argote
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data

Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing…

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Amateurs in North American Archaeology

Interrogates the boundaries between amateur and professional archaeologyUntil the mid-twentieth century, professional archaeologists readily worked alongside amateur or avocational archaeologists--those w…

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David T Yoder
Faces of the Fremont

A comprehensive catalogue of every known figurine from the Fremont cultureThe Fremont culture is famous for its anthropomorphic figurines--small clay figures occasionally dressed in clothing and decorated…

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Premodern Economies

Economies are fundamental to all human societies by providing the material support for their populations and respective social institutions. This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, anthropo…

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Valdimar Tr Hafstein, Jón Þór Pétursson
Heirloom Cultures and Heritage Branding

Heritage branding and heirloom cultures are twin strategies for building brands in global markets. In this Element, the authors analyze these strategies through skyr; a traditional, sour dairy from Icelan…

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Benjamin W Porter
Against Moab

Known as a place, a people, and a kingdom at various points in the second and first millennia BCE, Moab has long sustained the attention of archaeologists, philologists, and historians, in part because of…

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Georgia Mouroutsou
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers i…

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The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design

Focusing on the late 20th century onward, this book explores how design in material form has underscored cultural, social and economic changes across Asia.

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