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Eric J. Harvey
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader …

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Shu-Li Wang
In Search of National Ancestors

This Element examines how international heritage discourses are internalized and reshaped in China, using the Yellow Emperor cults as a lens to explore broader themes of intangible heritage, religious res…

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Robin Derricourt
Five Innovations That Changed Human History

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human h…

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Aghi Bahi
Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music

Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage - intangible and material - of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultura…

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Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Roads to Prosperity and Ruin

In 2022, journalists announced the impending economic death of a small Mexican town. Pisté, gateway to the famed Chichén Itzá archaeological site, would be circumvented by the Tren Maya commuter rail mega…

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Jing Xu
'Unruly' Children

Integrating humanistic interpretation with computational approaches, this book examines the 1958-1960 Taiwan fieldnotes of two renowned anthropologists. As the world's first ethnographic study on Han chil…

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Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture

Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture is a scholarly collection that takes comparative Black-Asian representations in televisual culture from queer and femme perspectives. AfroAsian r…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Fredrik Hagen
Hieratic

Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, …

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Roderick Campbell
The Shang Economy

This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeol…

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Emma Blake
Identity Studies in Archaeology

This Element explores the origins, current state, and future of the archaeological study of identity. A floruit of scholarship in the late 20th century introduced identity as a driving force in society, a…

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Aghi Bahi
Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music

Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage - intangible and material - of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultura…

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Michael B. Toffolo
Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the characterization of archaeological sedimentary contexts has produced invaluable insights…

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Tahir H. Naqvi
Questioning Migrants

The Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), propelled by ethnic violence and led by university students with lower-middle-class backgrounds, transformed the cities of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh into a…

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Michael B. Toffolo
Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the characterization of archaeological sedimentary contexts has produced invaluable insights…

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Shu-Li Wang
In Search of National Ancestors

This Element examines how international heritage discourses are internalized and reshaped in China, using the Yellow Emperor cults as a lens to explore broader themes of intangible heritage, religious res…

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Ivan Strenski
How to Do Things with Myths

How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of Ivan Strenski's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel "perfo…

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Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience

Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.

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Jean Lave
Learning and Everyday Life

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

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