The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia

The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia
Author: Charles W. Hartley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2012-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1139789384

For thousands of years, the geography of Eurasia has facilitated travel, conquest and colonization by various groups, from the Huns in ancient times to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the past century. This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day, from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in the west to the Mongolian steppe and the Korean Peninsula in the east. The authors examine a wide-ranging series of archaeological studies in order to better understand the role of politics in the history and prehistory of the region. This book re-evaluates the significance of power, authority and ideology in the emergence and transformation of ancient and modern societies in this vast continent.

The Archaeology of the Caucasus

The Archaeology of the Caucasus
Author: Antonio Sagona
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107016592

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

Ancient Interactions

Ancient Interactions
Author: Katherine V. Boyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

An overview and reassessment of what is known about the people who colonized and occupied Eurasian steppe from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation
Author: Robert A. Saunders
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 894
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1538120488

Straddling Europe and Asia, the Russian Federation is the largest country in the world and home to a panoply of religious and ethnic groups from the Muslim Tatars to the Buddhist Buryats. Over the past 40 years, Russia has experienced the most dramatic transformation of any modern state. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation provides insight into this rapidly developing country. This volume includes coverage of pivotal movements, events, and persons in the late Soviet Union (1985-1991) and contemporary Russia (1991-present), This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Russia.

Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union

Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union
Author: Valery Tishkov
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1996-11-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1848609191

Valery Tishkov is a well-known Russian historian and anthropologist, and former Minister of Nationalities in Yeltsin′s government. This book draws on his inside knowledge of major events and extensive primary research. Tishkov argues that ethnicity has a multifaceted role: it is the most accessible basis for political mobilization; a means of controlling power and resources in a transforming society; and therapy for the great trauma suffered by individuals and groups under previous regimes. This complexity helps explain the contradictory nature and outcomes of public ethnic policies based on a doctrine of ethno-nationalism.

The Global History of Paleopathology

The Global History of Paleopathology
Author: Jane E. Buikstra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195389808

The first comprehensive global history of the discipline of paleopathology

A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe

A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe
Author: Zachariah H. Claybaugh
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442274654

A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe: Print and Electronic Sources is designed to aid those interested in exploring this dynamic region in locating the best resources available, whether looking for archival collections in Albania or dissertations and theses in Greece. It provides readers up-to-date information on a variety of research collections from over twenty countries and in over a dozen languages. The focus of the volume is on the modern era, primarily the 18th century to the present, the subject areas of the humanities and social sciences, though researchers from outside of the subject and temporal scope of the work will find information of use, and the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova (including the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic), Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey. This volume is distinctive in that it is the only bibliographic resource that offers such extensive subject, linguistic, and regional treatment. This work is composed of five chapters and three appendices. The chapters are focused on research materials, giving readers access points for critical materials on Southeastern Europe both in print and digital formats from libraries, archives, journals, and databases. The appendices focus on library classification, educational programming geared to language instruction, and transliteration of non-Latin scripts.

Galvanizing Nostalgia?

Galvanizing Nostalgia?
Author: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501759795

Galvanizing Nostalgia? explores critical questions for the survival of Russia in its nominally federal form. Will Russia fall apart along the lines of its internal republics, as did the Soviet Union? Based on cultural anthropology field and historical research in major republics of Eastern Siberia—Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, and Tyva (Tuva)—this book highlights Indigenous concerns about self-determination. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer suggests that a fragile and disorganized dynamic of nested sovereignties has developed within Russia. Ecology activism has grown, given new threats to the environment and accelerating climate challenges, especially in the Arctic. Focus on strategically chosen republics enables comparing and contrasting interethnic relations, language politics, and the salience of gender, demography, resource competition, environmental degradation, and increased spirituality. Republics vary in their neocolonial relationships to Moscow authorities. Some local leaders, such as a politicized shaman, use nostalgia for cultural achievements to galvanize citizens. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, cultural and political revitalization have been relatively more viable, although still difficult, in areas where Siberians have their own republics.

Anthropology and Archaeology

Anthropology and Archaeology
Author: Chris Gosden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134716214

Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects. This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It takes a broad historical approach, setting the early history of the disciplines with the colonial period during which the Europeans encountered and attempted to make sense of many other peoples. It shows how the subjects are linked through their interest in kinship, economics and symbolism, and discusses what each contribute to debates about gender, material culture and globalism in the post-colonial world.