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Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book,
Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these
images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes
contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the
cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.
Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book,
Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these
images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes
contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the
cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.
Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied
tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of
ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for
human evolution, with human habitation, movement and lifeways
shaped by a dynamic environment of successive phases of relative
humidity and aridity driven by wider global climatic changes. The
nature of human utilization of the landscape has undergone many
changes, from the ephemeral and ill-defined lithic scatters of the
Early Holocene to the dense and complex funerary landscapes of Late
Holocene Pastoral period. Generally speaking, the living have left
very little trace of their existence while funerary monuments
endure, stamping the landscape with a cultural timelessness that
marks certain regions of the desert as "special". During the last
ten years, the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale
archaeological and environmental research that has begun to address
the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology and palaeoenvironments
of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric
cultural adaptation and change from the end of the Pleistocene to
the Late Holocene and place it within its wider Saharan context. A
detailed discussion of past environmental change and a presentation
of results from the environmental component of the extensive survey
work are provided. A typology of built stone features - monuments
and funerary architecture is presented together with the results of
the archaeological component of the extensive survey work, focusing
on stone features, but also including discussion of ceramics and
rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages. Chapters focusing
on intensive survey work in key study areas consider the landscape
contexts of monuments and the results of excavation of burial
cairns and artefact scatters.
The eastern Mediterranean was the centre of trade for many
centuries, sitting at the junction of what are now Europe, Asia and
Africa. It was the place where exotic produce and products could be
traded or exchanged for things that had their origins perhaps
thousands of miles away. But wherever trade takes place, a similar
exchange of ideas, technology and culture also occurs. This book
presents thirty papers on this very subject, looking at the ways in
which we can measure the transmission of culture, and how this
transmission varied across time and space. (Council for British
Research in the Levant in association with Oxbow Books 2005)
Jessica is on journey. Much like her grandmothers before her, clear
hearing becomes central to her life. It guides her through life's
ups and downs. In Jessica's life there are plenty of those as a
nurse working with people who are dying. Jessica is on a search for
the meaning of the clear hearing message 'Red Sky'. The story
encompasses amongst others a da Vinci robot, a volcanic eruption,
and an ancient ceremony. A series of events occurs before the truth
unfolds.
This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th
millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as one of
prolonged cultural continuity and isolation from the mainland.
Through the documentation and integration of technological practice
and up-to-date climatic, ecological and environmental data, it is
proposed that many of the observable differences between mainland
southwest Asia and Cyprus during this period are the result of
divergent adaptive strategies in response to different
environmental conditions, low population density and low resource
stress. The book draws upon theories in ecological and evolutionary
biology and adapts it to cultural change in general. By employing a
holistic approach with a focus on technological practice the book
seeks to show that cultural change on Cyprus is concomitant with
broadly similar cultural trajectories taken in other regions on the
margins of southwest Asia. The conclusion reached is that if all of
the pressures that drove cultural change on the mainland were
relaxed the result would be a stable hunter-gatherer economy with a
bit of farming and herding: exactly what appears to be the case on
Cyprus.
The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture is a study of the notorious
automobile/sports utility vehicle. Featuring more than fifteen
essays, this collection analyzes the Hummer through a wide array of
disciplines, including material culture, marketing and advertising,
popular culture, military technology, urban planning, and political
economy. It provides a complete overview of the vehicle:
production, marketing aspects, and cultural significance. The only
book of its kind, The Hummer is of great value to cultural studies
and American studies scholars and students, as well as to any
general reader with an interest in contemporary American culture.
The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture is a study of the notorious
automobile/sports utility vehicle. Featuring more than fifteen
essays, this collection analyzes the Hummer through a wide array of
disciplines, including material culture, marketing and advertising,
popular culture, military technology, urban planning, and political
economy. It provides a complete overview of the vehicle:
production, marketing aspects, and cultural significance. The only
book of its kind, The Hummer is of great value to cultural studies
and American studies scholars and students, as well as to any
general reader with an interest in contemporary American culture.
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