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Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies

This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China; Classie horizon Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya Area; and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region. These factors range from centralized storage and redistributive econo mies, agromanagerial models, mercantile network control, confliet and conquest, conversion of military commanders into administrators, political power through monumental cosmic reproduction, and elite power through ideological change. It discusses specific archaeological data useful in theoretieal construction. In the Introduction, a discussion o...

Theater of a Thousand Wonders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 681

Theater of a Thousand Wonders

The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.

Familiengeschichte(n) - Histoire(s) de famille - Family (Hi)story
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 262

Familiengeschichte(n) - Histoire(s) de famille - Family (Hi)story

Dieses Buch ist mit viel Freude und Abenteuerlust entstanden, beides springt auf den Leser über. Eine Familie sucht sich selber und entdeckt bei ihren regelmäßigen Zusammenkünften, zur Vorbereitung eines großen Familientreffens, die interessante Seite der Vergangenheit. Die persönlichen Geschichten aus dem Leben der Nachkommenschaft der Familie Wiesheu. Einfache Leute vom heutigen Standpunkt aus betrachtet, damals fleißige und in gewisser Weise stolze Bauern und deren Nachfahren, die ihren Besitz wertschätzten und Aufgaben und Pflichterfüllung über ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse stellten. Aus den Geschichten spricht eine gewisse Bescheidenheit, die jeder Ehrlichkeit zu Grunde liegt. Diese Authentizität ist es, die dem Buch Glaubwürdigkeit verleiht und mitten aus dem Leben der Landbevölkerung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts ein Zeitzeugnis abgibt. Ein Buch für Menschen, mit Liebe zu ihrer Heimat und Freude am Entdecken der eigenen Vergangenheit. Einige der Geschichten sind auch ins Französische und Englische übersetzt.

A Companion to Gender Prehistory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 933

A Companion to Gender Prehistory

An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory Offers critical overviews of developments in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field, with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific

Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages

New perspectives on an important era in Mesoamerican history This volume examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative period (2000 BCE–250 CE), an era that helped produce some of the world’s most renowned complex civilizations. The chapters offer significant data, innovative methodologies, and novel perspectives on Mexican archaeology. Using diverse and non-traditional theoretical approaches, contributors discuss interregional relationships and the exchange of ideas in contexts ranging from the Gulf Coast Olmec region to the site of Tlatilco in Central Mexico to the often-overlooked cultures of the far wes...

Peregrinaciones de ayer y hoy
  • Language: ar
  • Pages: 345

Peregrinaciones de ayer y hoy

Esta obra representa un esfuerzo por retomar el concepto de la peregrinación y repensarlo críticamente a la luz de nuevas investigaciones. Con este fin, ofrece trece estudios realizados en las más diversas regiones de México y el mundo, entre las que se incluyen el Centro de México y el Bajío, África sur-central y el Rif marroquí, el este de Asia (China imperial y contemporánea), la alta planicie del Tibet, los archipiélagos de Melanesia y Estados Unidos de América. Uno de los objetivos de esta compilación es problematizar nociones establecidas en torno al peregrinaje ofreciendo nuevas formas de entender la construcción y la experiencia de los paisajes culturales, la percepción del espacio, del desplazamiento y de la condición de la persona y el grupo, así como la creciente importancia del turismo y la migración en contextos transnacionales actuales.

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 996

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico writ...

Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Golden Kingdoms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Golden Kingdoms

  • Categories: Art

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only...

Wall and Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Wall and Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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