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Cultural Heritage Issues - The Legacy of Conquest, Colonization and Commerce (Hardcover): James A.R. Nafziger, Ann M. Nicgorski Cultural Heritage Issues - The Legacy of Conquest, Colonization and Commerce (Hardcover)
James A.R. Nafziger, Ann M. Nicgorski
R5,113 Discovery Miles 51 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The global community, dependent as always on the cooperation of nation states, is gradually learning to address the serious threats to the cultural heritage of our disparate but shared civilizations. The legacy of conquest, colonialization, and commerce looms large in defining and explaining these threats. The essays contained in this challenging volume are based on papers presented at an international conference on cultural heritage issues that took place at Willamette University . The conference sought to generate fresh ideas about these cultural heritage issues; offer a good sense of their nuances and complexities; and reveal how culture, law, and ethics can interact, complement, diverge, and contradict one another. This book seeks to accomplish these purposes. What it explores is the fact that, allong with an emerging blend of adversarial and collaborative processes to address cultural heritage issues, has come a substantial broadening of the normative framework in recent years. This framework now spans a welter of issues ranging from the creation of cultural safety zones during armed conflict, to the ongoing rectification of genocidal conquest during the European Holocaust and World War II, to the treatment of shipwrecks and their cargo, to the protection of folklore and other intangibles, to the promotion of traditional knowledge in the interest of biological diversity. All of these topics are controversial, as are the legal instruments that incorporate them, but the issues they embrace are vital to us all, whether our viewpoint is in the global arena, a national legislature, a courtroom, a classroom, an archaeological site, or a museum.

Archaeologica Nova Caeserea (Hardcover): Charles C. Abbott Archaeologica Nova Caeserea (Hardcover)
Charles C. Abbott
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Abney - Ancestry and Genealogy of Dr. Abraham Abney of Virginia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Raymond Robert Abney Abney - Ancestry and Genealogy of Dr. Abraham Abney of Virginia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Raymond Robert Abney
R1,686 R1,439 Discovery Miles 14 390 Save R247 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Hardcover): Peter Fibiger Bang, Walter Scheidel The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Peter Fibiger Bang, Walter Scheidel
R4,688 Discovery Miles 46 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its immediate successors. They seek to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: political and military power, the impact of ideologies, the rise and fall of individual polities, and the mechanisms of cooperation, coercion, and exploitation. This shared emphasis on critical institutions and dynamics invites comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. A detailed introductory review of contemporary approaches to the study of the state puts the rich historical case studies in context. Transcending conventional boundaries between ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean history and between ancient and early medieval history, this volume will be of interest not only to historians but also anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, and political scientists. Its accessible style and up-to-date references will make it an invaluable resource for both students and scholars.

Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology (Hardcover): Brian Madigan Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology (Hardcover)
Brian Madigan
R2,941 Discovery Miles 29 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology is a study of the book recognized by contemporaries as the first attempt (1517) to publish artifacts from Classical Antiquity in the form of a chronology of portraits appearing on coins. By studying correspondences between the illustrated coins and genuine, ancient coins, Madigan parses Fulvio's methodology, showing how he attempted to exploit coins as historical documents. Situated within humanist literary and historical studies of ancient Rome, his numismatic project required visual artists closely to study and assimilate the conventions of ancient portraiture. The Illustrium imagines exemplifies the range and complexity of early modern responses to ancient artifacts.

A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British... A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America. ... By William Douglass, M.D. Vol. I [-Vol. II. Part I]. [One Line From Cicero] Volume 1 of 2 (Hardcover)
William Douglass
R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ohio : Guide (Hardcover): Federal Writers' Project Ohio : Guide (Hardcover)
Federal Writers' Project
R2,184 R1,786 Discovery Miles 17 860 Save R398 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Legacy of Zecharia Sitchin - The Shifting Paradigm (Hardcover): M.J. Evans The Legacy of Zecharia Sitchin - The Shifting Paradigm (Hardcover)
M.J. Evans; Foreword by Paul Tice; Contributions by Jack Barranger (Appendix)
R736 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R86 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
High in the Bavarian Alps (Hardcover): James Earl High in the Bavarian Alps (Hardcover)
James Earl
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Archaeology - Secrets in Stone (Hardcover): Diana Prince Archaeology - Secrets in Stone (Hardcover)
Diana Prince
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor - The Archaeology and History of the Norwegian Ship Catharine (Hardcover, 2003 ed.):... The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor - The Archaeology and History of the Norwegian Ship Catharine (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Jason M. Burns
R2,717 Discovery Miles 27 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Historical archaeologists are in a unique position to analyze both historical documents and archaeological data in order to generate hypotheses and draw conclusions. In this work, the data not only provided the history of the ship "Catharine" but also the economic, social and political environments in which the ship was built and employed.


This work focuses not only on the shipwreck and the wrecking event, but on the history and archaeology of a single ship. With this expanded view, the research also delves into:
*International shipbuilding;
*The struggle for dominance in the ship trade in the 19th century.This book will be of interest to underwater, historical and cultural archaeologists, social historians, cultural heritage managers and archaeologists working in the southeastern United States.

Every Town Needs a Castle (Hardcover): Dwayne Hunn Every Town Needs a Castle (Hardcover)
Dwayne Hunn
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region - Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference (Hardcover, 2011):... Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region - Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference (Hardcover, 2011)
Wayne Orchiston, Tsuko Nakamura, Richard G. Strom
R7,763 Discovery Miles 77 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book provides readers with the results of recent research from some of the world's leading historians of astronomy on aspects of Arabic, Australian, Chinese, Japanese, and North and South American astronomy and astrophysics. It contains peer-reviewed papers gathered from the International Conferences on Oriental Astronomy 6 (ICO-6) with the chosen theme of "Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region." Of particular note are the sections on Arabic astronomy, Asian applied astronomy and the history of Australian radio astronomy, and the chapter on Peruvian astronomy. This title is a valuable complement for those with research interests in applied historical astronomy; archaeoastronomy; calendars, manuscripts, and star charts; historical instruments and observatories, and the history of radio astronomy.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D (Hardcover): John Hawkins The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D (Hardcover)
John Hawkins
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Roots - Insights From the Tree Alphabet of Old Ireland (Hardcover): Olivia C Wylie Roots - Insights From the Tree Alphabet of Old Ireland (Hardcover)
Olivia C Wylie
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Deborah Rotman Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Deborah Rotman
R2,804 Discovery Miles 28 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The lessons gleaned from this case study will provide new insight to the study of gender relations throughout other historical periods as well.

Through an intensive examination of both historical and archaeological evidence, the author presents a clear picture of the gendered social relations in Deerfield over the span of seventy years. While gender relations in urban settings have been studied extensively, this unique work provides the same level of examination to gender relations in a rural setting. Likewise, where previous studies have often focused only on relations between married men and women, the unique case of Deerfield provides insight into the experiences of single women, particularly widows and spinsters .

This work presents a unique contribution that will be essential for anyone studying the historical archaeology of gender, or gender roles in the Victorian era and beyond."

The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (Hardcover): Tracy Ireland, John Schofield The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (Hardcover)
Tracy Ireland, John Schofield
R2,819 R2,240 Discovery Miles 22 400 Save R579 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is widely acknowledged that all archaeological research is embedded within cultural, political and economic contexts, and that all archaeological research falls under the heading 'heritage'. Most archaeologists now work in museums and other cultural institutions, government agencies, non-government organisations and private sector companies, and this diversity ensures that debates continue to proliferate about what constitutes appropriate professional ethics within these related and relevant contexts. Discussions about the ethics of cultural heritage in the 20th century focused on standards of professionalism, stewardship, responsibilities to stakeholders and on establishing public trust in the authenticity of the outcomes of the heritage process. This volume builds on recent approaches that move away from treating ethics as responsibilities to external domains and to the discipline, and which seek to ensure ethics are integral to all heritage theory, practice and methods. The chapters in this collection chart a departure from the tradition of external heritage ethics towards a broader approach underpinned by the turn to human rights, issues of social justice and the political economy of heritage, conceptualising ethical responsibilities not as pertaining to the past, but to a future-focused domain of social action.

Material Culture and Consumer Society - Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Mark Staniforth Material Culture and Consumer Society - Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Mark Staniforth
R2,817 Discovery Miles 28 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world; ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood (1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the early colonial period in Australia. In part it represents an extension of the purely "historical" research conducted for my Master's thesis in the Department of History at the University of Sydney which explored aspects of the diet, health and lived experience of con victs and immigrants during their voyages to the Australian colonies within the timeframe 1837 to 1839 (Staniforth, 1993a). More importantly, it is the culmina tion of more than twenty-five years involvement in the excavation of shipwreck sites in Australia starting with James Matthews (1841) in 1974, through the test excavation of William Salthouse in 1982, continuing with my involvement between 1985 and 1994 in the excavation of Sydney Cove (1797) and most recently with shore-based whaling stations and whaling shipwreck sites. In this respect, this book may be seen as an example of what Ian Hodder (1986, p."

A Collection of State Papers Relating to Affairs in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, From the Year 1571 to 1596. Transcribed From... A Collection of State Papers Relating to Affairs in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, From the Year 1571 to 1596. Transcribed From Original Papers ... Left by William Cecill Lord Burghley, ... By William Murdin, (Hardcover)
Multiple Contributors
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land (Hardcover): J. L. Burkhardt Travels in Syria and the Holy Land (Hardcover)
J. L. Burkhardt
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Oreto Garcia Puchol, Domingo C.... Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Oreto Garcia Puchol, Domingo C. Salazar-Garcia
R2,944 Discovery Miles 29 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western Mediterranean region. Recent advances in radiocarbon dating, mathematical and computational models, archaeometric analysis and biomolecular techniques, together with new archaeological discoveries, provide novel insights into this topic. This volume is organized into five sections: * new discoveries and new ideas about the Mediterranean Neolithic * reconstructing times and modeling processes * landscape interaction: farming and herding * dietary subsistence of early farming communities * human dispersal mechanisms and cultural transmission This volume will also provide new empirical data to help readers assess different theoretical frameworks and narratives which underlie the models proposed to explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.

War of Words - Hitler's Diplomatic Blitzkrieg (Hardcover): Douglas Mossman War of Words - Hitler's Diplomatic Blitzkrieg (Hardcover)
Douglas Mossman
R653 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"To look out in any direction was like looking down from an airplane," is how French Ambassador Francois Poncet described his impression of the Eagle's Nest, Adolf Hitler's solid granite and marble pavilion built at great expense on the Kehlstein mountain peak, at 6,000 ft altitude.

It was in this luxurious appointed pavilion one year before World War II began that Hitler invited an assortment of high placed diplomats to make the impression he was using diplomacy to avert war, but all the while snarling that his empire required more land in the East. As a place, Hitler accepted the Eagle's Nest as a 50th birthday gift from his confidant and Reichs Leader, Martin Bormann.

Former Smithsonian Institution museum exhibitionist and U.S. State Department Diplomacy Center Program Officer, Douglas Mossman invites readers into this hidden getaway to witness secret negotiations between Western diplomats and Der Fuhrer. War of Words: Hitler's Diplomatic Blitzkrieg is a unique work that reveals for the first time many photographs of Hitler meeting with world leaders and diplomats in the Eagle's Nest, and it tells their story how they shook up the geo-political map with cataclysmic results.

Conversations About History, Volume 2 (Hardcover): Howard Burton Conversations About History, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Howard Burton
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Pursuit of Truth (Hardcover): Hichens Mark The Pursuit of Truth (Hardcover)
Hichens Mark
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethics and Archaeological Praxis (Hardcover): Cristobal Gnecco, Dorothy Lippert Ethics and Archaeological Praxis (Hardcover)
Cristobal Gnecco, Dorothy Lippert
R3,735 Discovery Miles 37 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Restoring the historicity and plurality of archaeological ethics is a task to which this book is devoted; its emphasis on praxis mends the historical condition of ethics. In doing so, it shows that nowadays a multicultural (sometimes also called "public") ethic looms large in the discipline. By engaging communities "differently," archaeology has explicitly adopted an ethical outlook, purportedly striving to overcome its colonial ontology and metaphysics. In this new scenario, respect for other historical systems/worldviews and social accountability appear to be prominent. Being ethical in archaeological terms in the multicultural context has become mandatory, so much that most professional, international and national archaeological associations have ethical principles as guiding forces behind their openness towards social sectors traditionally ignored or marginalized by their practices. This powerful new ethics-its newness is based, to a large extent, in that it is the first time that archaeological ethics is explicitly stated, as if it didn't exist before-emanates from metropolitan centers, only to be adopted elsewhere. In this regard, it is worth probing the very nature of the dominant multicultural ethics in disciplinary practices because (a) it is at least suspicious that at the same time archaeology has tuned up with postmodern capitalist/market needs, and (b) the discipline (along with its ethical principles) is contested worldwide by grass-roots organizations and social movements. Can archaeology have socially committed ethical principles at the same time that it strengthens its relationship with the market and capitalism? Is this coincidence just merely haphazard or does it obey more structural rules? The papers in this book try to answer these two questions by examining praxis-based contexts in which archaeological ethics unfolds.

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