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The Kinship Wars - An Essay on the Prehistory of Social Anthropology (Hardcover): William Y. Adams The Kinship Wars - An Essay on the Prehistory of Social Anthropology (Hardcover)
William Y. Adams
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Boasians - Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Anthropology (Paperback): William Y. Adams The Boasians - Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Anthropology (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R1,194 Discovery Miles 11 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today. The book begins with a discussion of the historical context of Boasian anthropology, and an overview of its nature and limitations. The work of Boas and his leading students is then discussed in detail, including biographical data, a review and critique of their research, a review in detail of each of their major publications, and an overall assessment of their contribution to anthropology, as seen in their own time and today.

Qasr Ibrim - The Ottoman Period (Paperback): John Alexander, Nettie K. Adams, William Y. Adams Qasr Ibrim - The Ottoman Period (Paperback)
John Alexander, Nettie K. Adams, William Y. Adams
R2,225 Discovery Miles 22 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume completes the documentation of excavations at the Nubian site of Qasr Ibrim conducted by the Egypt Exploration Society, continuing the tradition of documenting the history and archaeology of the site phase-by-phase. Previous monographs dealt with the Ballana phase (c. AD 350-600), the earlier (c. 600-1172) and the later medieval period (c. 1172-1500). The present work carries the story forward to the final abandonment of the site in AD 1812, the period when Lower Nubia was annexed to the Ottoman Empire, and an Ottoman garrison was installed at Qasr Ibrim. Part I deals with the historical record of the site, based on archival sources, Part II presents the archaeological evidence, followed in Part III by brief summaries on the Ottoman period artefacts found at the site, in particular pottery (by William Y. Adams), basketry (by Boyce N. Driskell), and textiles (by Nettie K. Adams)

Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality - A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting (Paperback, New):... Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality - A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting (Paperback, New)
William Y. Adams, Ernest W. Adams
R1,628 Discovery Miles 16 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Classifications are central to archaeology. Yet the theoretical literature on the subject, both in archaeology and the philosophy of science, bears very little relationship to what actually occurs in practice. This problem has long interested William Adams, a field archaeologist, and Ernest Adams, a philosopher of science, who describe their book as an ethnography of archaeological classification. It is a study of the various ways in which field archaeologists set about making and using classifications to meet a variety of practical needs. The authors first discuss how humans form concepts. They then describe and analyse in detail a specific example of an archaeological classification, and go on to consider what theoretical generalizations can be derived from the study of actual in-use classifications. Throughout the book, they stress the importance of having a clearly defined purpose and practical procedures when developing and applying classifications.

The Kinship Wars - An Essay on the Prehistory of Social Anthropology (Paperback): William Y. Adams The Kinship Wars - An Essay on the Prehistory of Social Anthropology (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Qasr Ibrim - The Earlier Medieval Period (Paperback, New): William Y. Adams Qasr Ibrim - The Earlier Medieval Period (Paperback, New)
William Y. Adams; Contributions by Nettie K. Adams
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout its long history, Qasr Ibrim was the most important settlement in Egyptian Nubia. During the Middle Ages, is was both an administrative capital and a centre of Christian worship. As an archaeological site it has produced an unprecedented wealth of material, including objects of wood, leather, and textile that are rarely preserved archaeologically. Also preserved are hundreds of specimens of written material in many different languages. This volume describes and illustrates in detail the architectural, artifactual, and textual finds from the earlier medieval period, from about AD 550 to 1200. An earlier volume in the same series (Qasr Ibrim, the Later Medieval Period) describes the remains from the succeeding period.

Survey and Excavations in Lower Glen Canyon, 1952-1958 (Paperback): William Y. Adams, Alexander J. Lindsay Jr, Christy G.... Survey and Excavations in Lower Glen Canyon, 1952-1958 (Paperback)
William Y. Adams, Alexander J. Lindsay Jr, Christy G. Turner II
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Museum Of Northern Arizona, Bulletin No. 36; Glen Canyon Series, No. 3. Edited By Alan P. Olson. Foreword By Edward B. Danson. Appendix By Hugh C. Cutler And John W. Bower.

Survey and Excavations in Lower Glen Canyon, 1952-1958 (Hardcover): William Y. Adams, Alexander J. Lindsay Jr, Christy G.... Survey and Excavations in Lower Glen Canyon, 1952-1958 (Hardcover)
William Y. Adams, Alexander J. Lindsay Jr, Christy G. Turner II
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Museum Of Northern Arizona, Bulletin No. 36; Glen Canyon Series, No. 3. Edited By Alan P. Olson. Foreword By Edward B. Danson. Appendix By Hugh C. Cutler And John W. Bower.

Indian Policies in the Americas - From Columbus to Collier and Beyond (Paperback): William Y. Adams Indian Policies in the Americas - From Columbus to Collier and Beyond (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R682 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

William Y. Adams grew up in an Indian Service family in an Indian Service town in the 1930s. Window Rock, Arizona was the newly founded administrative capital for the vast Navajo reservation, and all 298 of its residents were Indian Bureau employees or their families. With the exception of a few low-level service personnel, none were Navajo, nor did they have any detailed familiarity with the world of hogans and corrals. They were technocrats, skilled in agriculture, range management, forestry, mining, education, public health, and law enforcement, among other things. Despite their varied backgrounds and skills, however, they shared a common determination to "do right by the Indians" after decades of government neglect and mismanagement. That concept, however, originated not in Window Rock but in Washington, the administrative headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In the years following World War II, Adams lived and worked among Navajos and Hopis in a number of different capacities. As an archaeological explorer, an ethnologist, an interviewer for the Arizona Bureau of Ethnic Research, a livestock drive foreman, and - perhaps most importantly - a trader, he became aware of the myth of the Indian: a belief in "the Indian" as a kind of unitary, symbolic figure, who stood as the surrogate for hundreds of tribes, cultures, and languages spread across the American continent. In Indian Policies in the Americas, Adams addresses the idea that "the Indian," as conceived by colonial powers and later by different postcolonial interest groups, was as much ideology as empirical reality. Adams surveys the policies of the various colonial and postcolonial powers, then reflects upon the great ideological, moral, and intellectual issues that underlay those policies.

Kulubnarti I: The Architectural Remains - The Architectural Remains (Paperback): William Y. Adams Kulubnarti I: The Architectural Remains - The Architectural Remains (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R2,175 Discovery Miles 21 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1998 and 1999 volumes II and III of the reports on the University of Kentucky excavations at Kulubnarti were published by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society as numbers 2 and 4 in its monograph series. Kulubnarti III was also available through British Archaeological Reports in its International Series no. 814. Volume I had long been out of print and, at the request of the author, the Sudan Archaeological Research Society agreed to republish the first volume. The excavations at Kulubnarti remain the only detailed study of a late medieval and post-medieval landscape in the Sudan. The extensive nature of the work on habitation sites of many differing types, on monumental buildings such as the church and the kourfa, on some of the associated cemeteries as well as of the rock art provided an immense amount of data.

The Churches of Nobadia, Volume II (Paperback): William Y. Adams The Churches of Nobadia, Volume II (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R2,533 Discovery Miles 25 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Churches of Nobadia, Volume I (Paperback): William Y. Adams The Churches of Nobadia, Volume I (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R2,594 Discovery Miles 25 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai 3 - 3. Sites of Christian Age (Paperback): William Y. Adams The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai 3 - 3. Sites of Christian Age (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R2,172 Discovery Miles 21 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This second volume in a series publishing the results of the UNESCO-Sudan Antiquities Service Survey in northern Sudan, ahead of the flooding of the area by the Aswan High Dam, focuses on the Christian Nubian period sites dating to between AD580 and 1500. The sites are divided into site types: churches, fortifications, habitation sites, industrial and commerical sites, and mortuary sites. Within these, the sites are arranged in terms of their location from north to south, and include a description of the site and a list of finds. These finds, both pottery and other (including objects made from glass, metal, stone, ivory, shell, and leather), are discussed in more detail in subsequent chapters. The first volume to be published (by BAR in 2004) dealt with the Meroitic and Ballana phase sites. Future volumes will describe sites from the earlier, pre-Pharaonic and Pharaonic phases.

The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai - 2. Sites of Meroitic and Ballana Age (Paperback): William Y. Adams The West Bank Survey from Faras to Gemai - 2. Sites of Meroitic and Ballana Age (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R1,956 Discovery Miles 19 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first report on survey work and excavations carried out by the Sudan Antiquitites Service, supported by UNESCO, between 1960 and 1963 in the northernmost region of Sudanese Nubia, an area threatened by dam construction. William Adams describes the study area, the methodology of the work carried out there, its objectives and priorities, and previous work undertaken. What follows is essentially a catalogue of some of the 262 sites recorded and investigated (which included sites dating from the Neolithic to early modern period), focusing here on those of Meroitic and Ballana age. The descriptions are arranged according to site type - monumental, habitation, other non-mortuary sites, mortuary sites - and location, from north to south.

Meinarti IV and V - The Church and the Cemetery. The History of Meinarti. An Interpretive Overview (Paperback): William Y. Adams Meinarti IV and V - The Church and the Cemetery. The History of Meinarti. An Interpretive Overview (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R1,249 Discovery Miles 12 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the fourth and final volume presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian complex of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964, and concludes and important and impressive body of work on an equally important and impressive archaeological site. Previous volumes dealt with the pre-Christian remains (Meinarti I; Adams 2000), the Early and Classic Christian remains (Meinarti II, Adams 2001), and the Late and Terminal Christian remains (Meinarti III, Adams 2002). This concluding publication considers the church and the cemetery - two features of the site whose use continued through most of the Christian period. Both were described briefly in the earlier volumes in relation to specific occupation levels, but they are comprehensively dealt with here. The work includes colour plates, separate fold-out maps, and a 6-page summary in Arabic.

Meinarti III: The Late and Terminal Christian Phases - The Late and Terminal Christian Phases (Paperback): William Y. Adams Meinarti III: The Late and Terminal Christian Phases - The Late and Terminal Christian Phases (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R1,693 Discovery Miles 16 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the keenly awaited third of a projected five volumes, presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964. (Before its inundation, Meinarti was a low-lying alluvial island situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of the town of The present volume carries the story forward through Late and Terminal Christian periods (Phases 5 and 6), and up to the final abandonment of the site around AD 1600. This accomplished series of reports is designed very much as a work of reference, and is consequently highly user-friendly, with each section presented as a self-contained study.

Meinarti I - The Late Meroitic, Ballana and Transitional Occupation (Paperback): William Y. Adams Meinarti I - The Late Meroitic, Ballana and Transitional Occupation (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before its inundation in 1965, the island of Meinarti was situated at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, 10km south of the town of Wadi Halfa. It was the last place that could be reached, at all times of the year, by large watercraft travelling upriver, a circumstance clearly important in shaping the history of the settlement. The total excavation work covered 18 occupation levels, varying in date from the 2nd or 3rd centuries to the 17th century AD. This volume processes in detail the Late Meroitic and Ballana phases (c. 200-660 AD), and is the first in five volume series.

Meinarti II (Paperback): William Y. Adams Meinarti II (Paperback)
William Y. Adams
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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Kulubnarti III - The Cemeteries (Paperback): Nettie K. Adams, William Y. Adams, David L. Greene, Dennis P. Van Gerven Kulubnarti III - The Cemeteries (Paperback)
Nettie K. Adams, William Y. Adams, David L. Greene, Dennis P. Van Gerven
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This third volume concerns the funerary remains from the site of Kulubnarti in the Northern Sudan. Graves from two different cemeteries, one on the island of Kulubnarti, the other on the adjacent left bank of the Nile, are described and discussed in terms of their location, descriptions of the grave types within their medieval context, the grave goods and analysis of the skeletal remains. In particular, Nettie Adams provides a detailed study of the well preserved textiles which ascribe to the practice of wrapping the bodies in cloth, sometimes secured with bindings, prior to deposition, occasionally laid on a woven mat. The two cemeteries date to the pre-Christian period and from c.AD 600 to recent times, respectively. Volume I of this report outlines the architectural remains and volume II the artefactual evidence.

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