Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies
Edited by Ronald K. Faulseit
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
This book interprets how ancient civilizations responded to various stresses, including environmental change, warfare, and the fragmentation of political institutions. It focuses on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful regimes, and posits that they experienced social resilience and transformation instead of collapse.
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred...
The Archaeology of Slavery grapples with both the benefits and complications of a comparative approach to the archaeology of slavery. Contributors from different archaeological subfields, including American, African, prehistoric, and historical, consider how to define slavery, identify it in the archaeological record, and study slavery as a diachronic process that covers enslavement to emancipation and beyond. Themes include how to define slavery, how to identify slavery archaeologically, enslavement and emancipation, and the politics and ethics of slavery-related research.
The compilation and expansion of papers presented at the annual visiting scholar conference held by the Center for Archaeological Investigations, this volume discusses the concept of hybridity in material culture and its relationship to archaeological classification and ethnogenesis; it provides theoretical and concrete tools for investigating objects and architecture with discernible multiple influences.
This book presents cutting-edge research in regard to new theoretical issues. Archaeologists almost universally try to make sense of the past through visual descriptions of physical objects and sites. The researchers in this volume, however, present alternative methods of learning about and interpreting the past through the other senses such as smell, taste, hearing, and touch. They argue that in many cases the archaeological remains investigated by archaeologists were constructed to incorporate one or more of these other senses.
In the fall semester of 1772/73 at the Albertus University of Königsberg, Immanuel Kant, metaphysician and professor of logic and metaphysics, began lectures on anthropology, which he continued until 1776, shortly before his retirement from public life. His lecture notes and papers were first published in 1798, eight years after the publication of the Critique of Judgment, the third of his famous Critiques. The present edition of the Anthropology is a translation of the text found in volume 7 of Kants gesammelte Schriften, edited by Oswald Külpe.
