A"RCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL ECONOMIES explores past societies that are characterized by hierarchical organization where the production and circulation of goods transcend domestic units. Based on contributions to the biennial Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Roundtable, Gary Feinman and Linda Nicholas bring together twelve leaders in the field whose contributions consider such questions as the emergence of rank within a ...

An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture ...

A history of Cuernavaca, Mexico, based on late seventeenth-century records. 6 x 9, 64 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. ...

This book presents 18 essays by leading scholars covering mortuary analysis, the archaeology of foraging and agricultural societies, cultural evolution, and archaeological method and theory, which transcend the processual/postprocessual debate in archaeology and provide examples of how archaeologists think about, and go about, studying the past. ...

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Biology Colloquium, Oregon State University. Seven chapters include genetic and craniometric studies and what they mean in regard to the initial peopling of the Americas. ...

A volume in the SUNY series in Italian/American Culture Fred L. Gardaphe, editor ...

A volume in the SUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies Walter P. Zenner, editor ...

In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those who stay in place? How do people who remain in their place of origin or ancestral homeland rearticulate a sense of connection, of belonging, when ownership of the territory they occupy is contested?<P>Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka ...

In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those who stay in place? How do people who remain in their place of origin or ancestral homeland rearticulate a sense of connection, of belonging, when ownership of the territory they occupy is contested?<P>Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka ...

The first of four volumes to come out of the first World Summit Conference on the peopling of the Americas, this includes sections on methods, geoarchaeology, biological approaches, linguistic approaches, and material culture. ...