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Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General
The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of
language evolution and considers their implications for future
research. Leading scholars from linguistics, primatology,
anthroplogy, and cognitive science consider how language evolution
can be understood by means of inference from the study of linked or
analogous phenomena in language, animal behaviour, genetics,
neurology, culture, and biology. In their introduction the editors
show how these approaches can be interrelated and deployed together
through their use of comparable forms of inference and the similar
conditions they place on the use of evidence. The Evolutionary
Emergence of Language will interest everyone concerned with this
intriguing and important subject, including those in linguistics,
biology, anthropology, archaeology, neurology, and cognitive
science.
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.
Nestled in the heart of Paris, the American Cathedral of the
Holy Trinity today stands as one of the great buildings of this
ancient city. The history of the church itself presents a rich
portrait of lively men and women who made it their mission to serve
God and the people of Paris with all their hearts.
Meticulously researched, A History of the American Pro-Cathedral
Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, 1815-1980 delivers an impressive
narrative on each period of growth and development within this
church. Beginning with the American Episcopal Church's need to
serve Americans living in Paris, author Cameron Allen traces the
development of the foundational congregation, the building of the
first church, and its organization over the years.
Allen draws on diary entries, church documents, and other
primary sources to reveal the personalities behind church leaders,
including W. O. Lamson, who formally established the church, the
pivotal role of J. P. Morgan, organist L. K. Whipp, and German
Colonel Rudolph Damrath, a Lutheran minister who took over during
the German Occupation of France during World War II. In addition,
he discusses the church's role during major historical events and
its present needs.
This inspiring, well-written history provides an excellent
resource for current and past church members, rectory libraries,
and historians.
Seven of Guy Halsall's most important essays on the social
interpretation of Merovingian cemetery archaeology are collected in
this volume. The opening chapter discusses the relationships
between documentary history and archaeology while the subsequent
articles cover the interpretation of fourth-century Gallic
furnished inhumations, the celebrated burial of King Childeric I,
and the ways in which one might 'read' a burial as evidence for
ritual. The final part of the book looks at the social history of
Merovingian communities as revealed in cemetery evidence, looking
at gender, sexuality and age. The reprinted chapters are
accompanied by two wholly rewritten pieces and two entirely new
articles. Finally, the book contains five extended 'commentaries'
on the debates to which these chapters contributed.
In this volume, practitioners within archaeology, anthropology,
urban planning, human geography, cultural resource management (CRM)
and museology push the boundaries of traditional cultural and
natural heritage management and reflect how heritage discourse is
being increasingly re-theorised in term of experience.
Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading
archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging
intersections in archaeological and literary studies. Drawing upon
a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the
present, the book offers new approaches to understanding
storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of
archaeological knowledge in literature and literary criticism. The
book's eight chapters explore a wide array of archaeological
approaches and methods, including scientific archaeology,
identifying intersections with literature and literary studies
which are textual, conceptual, spatial, temporal and material.
Examining literary authors from Thomas Hardy and Bram Stoker to
Sarah Moss and Paul Beatty, scholars from across disciplines are
brought into dialogue to consider fictional narrative both as a
site of new archaeological knowledge and as a source and object of
archaeological investigation.
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