| Author | : Paul Rainbird |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2004-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521656306 |
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The Archaeology of Islands
| Author | : Paul Rainbird |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 19 |
| Release | : 2007-07-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1139463942 |
Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.
The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia
| Author | : Adrienne L. Kaeppler |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2008-03-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0192842382 |
With more than one hundred illustrations--most in full color--this volume offers a stimulating and insightful account of two dynamic artistic cultures, traditions that have had a considerable impact on modern western art through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. After an introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts shared by the two island groups, thereby placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler sheds light on religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, and much more.
On the Road of the Winds
| Author | : Patrick Vinton Kirch |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2002-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520234618 |
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
The Archaeology of China
| Author | : Li Liu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2012-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521643104 |
"Past, present and future "The archaeological materials recovered from the Anyang excavations ... in the period between 1928 and 1937 ... have laid a new foundation for the study of ancient China (Li, C. 1977: ix)." When inscribed oracle bones and enormous material remains were found through scientific excavation in Anyang in 1928, the historicity of the Shang dynasty was confirmed beyond dispute for the first time (Li, C. 1977: ix-xi). This excavation thus marked the beginning of a modern Chinese archaeology endowed with great potential to reveal much of China's ancient history.. Half a century later, Chinese archaeology had made many unprecedented discoveries which surprised the world, leading Glyn Daniel to believe that "a new awareness of the importance of China will be a key development in archaeology in the decades ahead (Daniel 1981: 211). This enthusiasm was soon shared by the Chinese archaeologists when Su Bingqi announced that "the Golden Age of Chinese archaeology is arriving (Su, B. 1994: 139--140)". In recent decades, archaeology has continuously prospered, becoming one of the most rapidly developing fields in social science in China"--
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania
| Author | : Ethan E. Cochrane |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199925070 |
"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.
Pacific Presences
| Author | : Lucie Carreau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : ART |
| ISBN | : 9789088905919 |
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their disp.
Archaeology of Oceania
| Author | : Ian Lilley |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 140515229X |
This book is a state-of-the-art introduction to the archaeology of Oceania, covering both Australia and the Pacific Islands. The first text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands Enables readers to form a coherent overview of cultural developments across the region as a whole Brings together contributions from some of the region’s leading scholars Focuses on new discoveries, conceptual innovations, and postcolonial realpolitik Challenges conventional thinking on major regional and global issues in archaeology
The Archaeology of Difference
| Author | : Anne Clarke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 113482842X |
The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint.
