Download or read book American Antiquities written by Terry A. Barnhart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized profession, rather than being a linear progression, was an untidy organic process that emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism. It then closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century, especially with geology and the debate about the origins and identity of the indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about “Mound Builders” and “American Indians.” Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the problematic use of the term “race” as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper—a concept and construct that does not in all instances translate into current understanding and usage. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to reframe perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.
Download or read book Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland written by Karen Attar and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.
Download or read book Reclaiming a Plundered Past written by Magnus T. Bernhardsson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in April of 2003 provoked a world outcry at the loss of artifacts regarded as part of humanity's shared cultural patrimony. But though the losses were unprecedented in scale, the museum looting was hardly the first time that Iraqi heirlooms had been plundered or put to political uses. From the beginning of archaeology as a modern science in the nineteenth century, Europeans excavated and appropriated Iraqi antiquities as relics of the birth of Western civilization. Since Iraq was created in 1921, the modern state has used archaeology to forge a connection to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and/or Islamic empires and so build a sense of nationhood among Iraqis of differing religious traditions and ethnicities. This book delves into the ways that archaeology and politics intertwined in Iraq during the British Mandate and the first years of nationhood before World War II. Magnus Bernhardsson begins with the work of British archaeologists who conducted extensive excavations in Iraq and sent their finds to the museums of Europe. He then traces how Iraqis' growing sense of nationhood led them to confront the British over antiquities law and the division of archaeological finds between Iraq and foreign excavators. He shows how Iraq's control over its archaeological patrimony was directly tied to the balance of political power and how it increased as power shifted to the Iraqi government. Finally he examines how Iraqi leaders, including Saddam Hussein, have used archaeology and history to legitimize the state and its political actions.
Download or read book Antiquity A Quarterly Review of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Collections written by Lee Ash and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1974 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology written by Bo Gräslund and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-10-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Gräslund's book is the first in-depth study of systematic methods for dating archaeological materials.
Download or read book Subject Collections written by and published by New York : R.R. Bowker Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature History written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of Harvard University written by Alfred Claghorn Potter and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of More Important Accessions with Bibliographical Contributions written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harvard University Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harvard University Bulletin written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of More Important Accessions with Bibliographical Contributions written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Museums Exhibitions and Memories of Violence in Colombia written by Jimena Perry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how recent Colombian historical memories are informed by cultural diversity and how some of the country’s citizens remember the brutalities committed by the Army, guerrillas, and paramilitaries during the internal war (1980-2016). Its chapters delve into four case studies. The first highlights the selections of what not to remember and what not to represent at the National Museum of the country. The second focuses on the well-received memories at the same institution by examining a display made to commemorate the assassination of a demobilized guerrilla fighter. The third discusses how a rural marginal community decided to vividly remember the attacks they experienced by creating a display hall to aid in their collective and individual healing. Lastly, the fourth case study, also about a rural peripheric community, discusses their way of remembering, which emphasizes peasant oral traditions through a traveling venue. By bringing violence, memory, and museum studies together, this text contributes to our understanding of how social groups severely impacted by atrocities recreate and remember their violent experiences. By drawing on displays, newspapers, interviews, catalogs, and oral histories, Jimena Perry shows how museums and exhibitions in Colombia become politically active subjects in the acts of reflection and mourning, and how they foster new relationships between the state and society. This volume is of great use to students and scholars interested in Latin American and public history.
Download or read book Archaeological Sites of the Nile Delta of Egypt written by Jeffrey Spencer and published by Egypt Exploration Society. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of a research project extending over four decades on the identification, location and character of the archaeological sites of Lower Egypt, continued since 1997 as the Egypt Exploration Society's Delta Survey, supported by the British Academy. Data has been gathered from bibliographic sources, dedicated fieldwork and information from Egyptian and foreign missions to present a body of material previously available only in summary online. The present volume provides all the information in enhanced and extended form, with descriptions of each site, noting especially changes in condition over time, previous discoveries and current fieldwork, together with key references to bibliographic or other sources. This is an essential index of the ancient settlements of the Delta, alerting archaeologists and historians to the large cities, small towns, fortress and temple sites that covered the Delta in antiquity.
