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The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 920

The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania

The definitive reference guide to artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolution Pennsylvania is geographically, ecologically, and culturally diverse. The state is situated at the crossroads of several geographic zones and drainage basins which resulted in a great deal of variation in Native American societies. The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is the definitive reference guide to rich artifacts that represent 14,000 years of cultural evolution. This authoritative work includes environmental studies, descriptions and illustrations of artifacts and features, settlement pattern studies, and recommendations for directions of further research. Containing previously u...

African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

From the contents: Christine MATZKE: Comrades in arts and arms: stories of wars and watercolours from Eritrea. - Sabine MARSCHALL: Positioning the other': reception and interpretation of contemporary black South African artists. - Kristine ROOME: The art of liberating voices: contemporary South African art exhibited in New York. - Jonathan ZILBERG: Shona sculpture and documenta 2002: reflections on exclusions.

Picture Rocks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Picture Rocks

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: UPNE

Located along rivers, at the edges of lakes, on mountain boulders, in rock shelters, on rock ledges where the continent meets the ocean, and tucked into parks and public places, American Indian rock art offers tantilizing glimpses of the signs and symbols of a Native American culture. Picture Rocks documents all known permanent petroglyph and pictograph sites from the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the six New England states, New York, and New Jersey. Some sites are subject to disputes over their origins—Indian or Portuguese? Some are ancient, and others, such as the work of the Mi’kmaq, were executed in the past 200 years. Many of these sites are little known; others, like those at Bellows Falls, Vermont, are sources of great local pride and appear on city walking tours. Interspersing his own interpretations with comments from scholars and Native American storytellers, Edward J. Lenik provides a definitive look at an extraordinary art form. Two hundred illustrations include historic sketches by early Euro-American colonists, nineteenth-century photographs, and recent photographs and drawings of the current conditions of many sites.

Authority Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Authority Matters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

In this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the era of digital publishing, the essays invite us to reconsider the influential theories of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu for our understanding of writers such as Philip Sidney, Thomas Hardy, Laura Riding, W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and J.M. Coetzee. Shedding new light on authority's complex role in the generation of cultural meaning, the essays will be of interest to students and teachers of literary history and critical theory alike.

Smoking and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Smoking and Culture

« Because of the ceremonial and ritual aspects of the practice in Native American societies, smoking pipes are important cultural artifacts. The essays in Smoking and Culture constitute the first sustained inerpretive study of smoking pipes, focusing on the cultural significance of smoking both before and after European contact. »--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Translating Shakespeare for the Twenty-first Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Translating Shakespeare for the Twenty-first Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Most of the contributions to Translating Shakespeare for the Twenty-First Century evolve from a practical commitment to the translation of Shakespearean drama and at the same time reveal a sophisticated awareness of recent developments in literary criticism, Shakespeare studies, and the relatively new field of Translation studies. All the essays are sensitive to the criticism to which notions of the original as well as distinctions between the creative and the derivative have been subjected in recent years. Consequently, they endeavour to retrieve translation from its otherwise subordinate status, and advance it as a model for all writing, which is construed, inevitably, as a rewriting. This...

Federal Correctional Institution, Northumberland County
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 844

Federal Correctional Institution, Northumberland County

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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North Haven Mall Development, Permit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

North Haven Mall Development, Permit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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U.S. Post Office General Mail Facility and Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Stamford
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 728

U.S. Post Office General Mail Facility and Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Stamford

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 123

Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region

For the prehistoric people of the Middle Atlantic region, copper held a fascination higher than rank, achievement, or status. Native copper artifacts, along with other exotic objects, were seen as a conduit or connection between the living and the dead and were used in burial. Other studies have viewed the use of such artifacts in burials as indicative of an individual’s status and rank, providing evidence for complex society. In Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that such economic explanations should be rethought, arguing that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.