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"Interesting, strong, and timely. Everyday Life Matters is clearly
and sharply written, and by targeting the archaeology of everyday
life as an emerging field explicitly, it identifies and fills a
real void in the field."--John Robb, author of The Early
Mediterranean Village "An absolute must-read. Robin's thorough
understanding of commoners and how they occasionally interacted
with elites provides a solid foundation for social
reconstruction."--Payson Sheets, coeditor of Surviving Sudden
Environmental Change While the study of ancient civilizations most
often focuses on temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the
archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day
lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of
the ancient world. Various chores completed during the course of a
person's daily life, though at first glance trivial, have a
powerful impact on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters
develops general methods and theories for studying the applications
of everyday life in archaeology, anthropology, and a wide range of
related disciplines. Examining the two-thousand-year history (800
B.C.-A.D. 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize,
Cynthia Robin's ground-breaking work explains why the average
person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal
patterns. Robin argues that the impact of the mundane can be
substantial, so much so that the study of a polity without regard
to its citizenry is incomplete. Refocusing attention away from the
Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life elucidated
by anthropological theory, Robin engages us to consider the larger
implications of the commonplace and to rethink the constitution of
human societies by ordinary people living routine lives.
Communicating archaeological heritage at the institutional level
reflects on the current status of archeology, and a lack of
communication between archaeologists and the general public only
serves to widen the gap of understanding. As holders of this
specific scientific expertise, effective openness and communication
is essential to understanding how a durable future can be built
through comprehension of the past and the importance of heritage
sites and collections. Developing Effective Communication Skills in
Archaeology is an essential research publication that examines
archeology as a method for present researchers to interact and
communicate with the past, and as a methods for identifying the
overall trends in the needs of humanity as a whole. Presenting a
vast range of topics such as digital transformation, artificial
intelligence, and heritage awareness, this book is essential for
archaeologists, journalists, heritage managers, sociologists,
educators, anthropologists, museum curators, historians,
communication specialists, industry professionals, researchers,
academicians, and students.
The Cold War remains one of the twentieth century's defining
events, possessing broad political, social, and material
implications that continue to have impact. In this book, Todd
Hanson presents nine case studies of archaeological investigations
conducted at famous-and some not so famous-historic American Cold
War sites, including Bikini Atoll, the Nevada Test Site, and the
Cuban sites of the Soviet Missile Crisis. By examining nuclear
weapons test sites, missile silos, submarine bases, fallout
shelters, and more, Hanson illustrates how archaeology can help
strip away myths, secrets, and political rhetoric to better inform
our understanding of the conflict's formative role in the making of
the contemporary American landscape. Addressing modern
ramifications of the Cold War, Hanson also looks at the
preservation of atomic heritage sites, the atomic tourism
phenomenon, and the struggles of atomic veterans.
Digital history is commonly argued to be positioned between the
traditionally historical and the computational or digital. By
studying digital history collaborations and the establishment of
the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Kemman
examines how digital history will impact historical scholarship.
His analysis shows that digital history does not occupy a singular
position between the digital and the historical. Instead,
historians continuously move across this dimension, choosing or
finding themselves in different positions as they construct
different trading zones through cross-disciplinary engagement,
negotiation of research goals and individual interests.
Alfred Nobel made his name as an inventor and successful
entrepreneur and left a legacy as a philanthropist and promoter of
learning and social progress. The correspondence between Nobel and
his Viennese mistress, Sofie Hess, shines a light on his private
life and reveals a personality that differs significantly from his
public image. The letters show him as a hypochondriac and
workaholic and as a paranoid, jealous, and patriarchal lover.
Indeed, the relationship between the aging Alfred Nobel and the
carefree, spendthrift Sofie Hess will strike readers as
dysfunctional and worthy of Freudian analysis. Erika Rummel's
masterful translation and annotations reveal the value of the
letters as commentary on 19th century social mores: the concept of
honour and reputation, the life of a "kept" woman, the prevalence
of antisemitism, the importance of spas as health resorts and
entertainment centres, the position of single mothers, and more
generally the material culture of a rich bourgeois gentleman. A
Nobel Affair is the first translation into English of the complete
correspondence between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and
culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known
since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several
features make the site potentially our best source for day-to-day
life in a small town situated on the periphery of the Roman world:
inscriptions and graffiti in ten ancient languages; sculptures and
frescoes combining elements of Classical and Oriental art; the most
important papyrological dossier of any military unit in the Roman
world; documents relating to the local economy; over a dozen pagan
sanctuaries; plus a famously painted synagogue and the earliest
Christian house church, all set in a gridiron city plan and
surrounded by well-preserved fortifications. Dura's unique findings
facilitate the study of life in a provincial small town to a degree
that archaeology and history do not usually allow.
In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original
reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the
Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed
maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily.
These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much
studied; by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime
interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually
ignored. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the
form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more
representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a
complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for
recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them.
Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological
approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates
the application of this scheme in several case studies. This book
presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists
with interests in maritime connectivity.
This edition of Gilbert Murray's renowned examination of how
religion evolved in Ancient Greece, includes all of his original
notes. Murray was a renowned scholar of Greek classics, who used
his academic background as grounding for this astonishingly
detailed book on the topic of the Olympian Gods. How the pantheon
of Gods was conceived, and grew to eventually define large aspects
of Ancient Greek culture, form the topics at hand. The book begins
by examining the earliest surviving religious texts of Greek,
identifying the first indications of the Gods in the lore. The
increasing prevalence of writing among Greece's educated citizenry
sparked a growth in the number of Gods and Goddesses, and the
stories relating to them. However, Murray is careful to note that
there is no single event or turning point. For a scholarly work,
Five Stages of Greek Religion is of modest length. This attribute
defines it as a superb introductory primer to aspects of Olympian
religion.
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