Ecology And The Arts In Ancient Panama
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Author | : Olga F. Linares |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884020691 |
Linares reinterprets the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces using archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor for the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of local social and political life.
Author | : Olga F. Linares |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Anthony Oliver-Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1999-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136755586 |
From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, natural and technological disasters have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the planet. This ground-breaking collection of essays explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering new insights into the comp
Author | : Timothy K. Earle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1993-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521448963 |
These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.
Author | : Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff |
Publisher | : Villegas Asociados |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Colombia |
ISBN | : 9588156610 |
Classic study with photos of gold artifacts. Book by Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia scholar Reichel-Dolmatoff with studies of the mysterious rituals of what was undoubtedly the most important aspect of the life of the ancient ethnic communities of El Dorado: the decisive role of the Shamans and their hallucinatory world of magic and religion. The book analyses the spiritual dimensions of these cultures and the natural wisdom of century-old secrets along lavish full-page color images of the enigmatic and beautiful gold objects still known today as "gold of the ancients" that skillful craftsmen wrought for ritual use.
Author | : David S. Whitley |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780415141604 |
This Reader in Archaeological Theory presents sixteen articles of key theoretical significance, in a format which makes this notoriously complex area easier for students to understand. This volume: * provides an intellectual history of different approaches to archaeology which contextualizes the complex traditions of cognitive archaeology and postprocessualism on which it focuses * organizes theories of archaeology, the meanings of things, the prehistoric mind and cognition, gender, ideology and social theory and archaeology's relationship to today's society and politics * includes lucid section introductions to each section which provide context, explain why the papers are so significant and summarize their key points * emphasizes research from the 'New World', making archaeological theory especially relevant and accessible to students in North America
Author | : Richard J. Chacon |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2007-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0387483039 |
This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence. This book fills the gap in literature on this subject.
Author | : Timothy Earle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429981627 |
"Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge
Author | : Barton Hacker |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 847 |
Release | : 2003-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047402103 |
Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967–1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical.
Author | : Scott D. Palumbo |
Publisher | : Center for Comparative Arch |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-11-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1877812927 |
Chapters offer new understandings of how ranked societies emerged and developed in prehistoric southern Central America and northern South America (the "Isthmo-Colombian Area"). The emphasis is on integrating the results of studies of social units at a range of different scales from the household to the local commuity to the region and beyond. Complete text in English and Spanish.