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Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic

Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianis…

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Richard Bradley
Insularity and Identity

This Element considers historiography - the extent to which insular prehistorians have integrated their findings with the archaeology of mainland Europe; and the ways in which scholars have drawn on Briti…

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Pedro A López-García, Denisse L Argote
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data

Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing…

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Benjamin W Porter
Against Moab

Known as a place, a people, and a kingdom at various points in the second and first millennia BCE, Moab has long sustained the attention of archaeologists, philologists, and historians, in part because of…

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Valdimar Tr Hafstein, Jón Þór Pétursson
Heirloom Cultures and Heritage Branding

Heritage branding and heirloom cultures are twin strategies for building brands in global markets. In this Element, the authors analyze these strategies through skyr; a traditional, sour dairy from Icelan…

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Edward Banning
Archaeological Reasoning

Bridging the gap between introductory and advanced archaeology courses, this book builds confidence in working with the tools of archaeological research and how to make plausible inferences about the past…

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Edward Banning
Archaeological Reasoning

Bridging the gap between introductory and advanced archaeology courses, this book builds confidence in working with the tools of archaeological research and how to make plausible inferences about the past…

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Premodern Economies

Economies are fundamental to all human societies by providing the material support for their populations and respective social institutions. This volume brings together scholars from archaeology, anthropo…

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Amateurs in North American Archaeology

Interrogates the boundaries between amateur and professional archaeologyUntil the mid-twentieth century, professional archaeologists readily worked alongside amateur or avocational archaeologists--those w…

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David T Yoder
Faces of the Fremont

A comprehensive catalogue of every known figurine from the Fremont cultureThe Fremont culture is famous for its anthropomorphic figurines--small clay figures occasionally dressed in clothing and decorated…

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The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies examines the remarkable transformation of the Central Andes and the tropical Amazon beginning around 7000 BCE, when the Indigenous inhabitants be…

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Love Apocalypse

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

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C J Pascoe
Nice Is Not Enough

This provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good.Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatche…

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Love Apocalypse

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

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Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Born to Rule

The Economist , Best Books of 2024 The Times , Best Ideas Books of 2024 A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like …

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Divya Garg
Decolonizing Media Fandom

"Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Anglo-American, and able-bodied. Research about racially and culturally diverse fans is usually undertake…

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Alex Diamond
Governing the Excluded

An on-the-ground description of Colombia's peace process as lived by the rural populations most affected by it. The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the …

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Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families

Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families attends to the ways in which Asian Catholics navigate and negotiate the ethical ideals, normative discourses, and devotional practices of their …

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers h…

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Nianshen Song
The Neighborhood

"This book is a centuries-spanning account of Xita, a neighborhood located in Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China. By telling its story over four centuries, Nianshen Song shows how it has e…

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