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  • Networks of Power

    Political Relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley

    by Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban ...
    Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. Networks of Power fills gaps in the knowledge of this little-studied area, reconstructing the course of political history in the Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries.Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining to the Late Postclassic ... Read more

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  • Archaeological Theory in Practice

    by Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban ...
    Many students view archaeological theory as a subject distinct from field research. This division is reinforced by the way theory is taught, often in stand-alone courses that focus more on logic and reasoning than on the application of ideas to fieldwork. Divorcing thought from action does not convey how archaeologists go about understanding the past.This book bridges the gap between theory and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Southeast Maya Periphery

    Edited by Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman ...
    Archaeologists are continually faced with a pervasive problem: How can cultures, and the interactions among cultures, be differentiated in the archaeological record? This issue is especially difficult in peripheral areas, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Guatemala in the New World. Encompassing zones that are clearly Mayan in language and culture, especially during the Classic period, ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Resources, Power, and Interregional Interaction

    Edited by Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Archaeological research on interregional interaction processes has recently reasserted itself after a long hiatus following the eclipse of diffusion studies. This "rebirth" was marked not only by a sudden increase in publications that were focused on interac tion questions, but also by a diversity of perspectives on past contacts. To perdurable interests in warfare were added trade studies by the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica

    Political Economies without the State

    by Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. Schortman ...
    Series series Case Studies in Early Societies
    Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica explores the distinctive development and political history of the region from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest. It was composed of a matrix of social networks rather than divided by distinct cultures and domains. Making use of the area's rich archaeological data, Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban provide a social network analysis of southeast ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • World-Systems Theory in Practice

    Leadership, Production, and Exchange

    by Rani T. Alexander, Gary M. Feinman, Andre Gunder Frank, Robert J. Jeske, P Nick Kardulias, Darrell LaLone, George Modelski, Peter Peregrine, Mark T. Shutes, Gil Stein, Patricia A. Urban, Peter Wells, Lawrence A. Kuznar, Edward M. Schortman, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Morris, William R. Thompson ...
    In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander ...
    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 peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    by Karen Bassie-Sweet ...
    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Read more

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    by Patricia G. Lange ...
    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

    Edited by Ilana Johnson, David Pacifico, Robyn E. Cutright ...
    Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often ... Read more

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  • Pioneering Conservation in Alaska

    by Ken Ross ...
    A companion volume to Environmental Conflict in Alaska, Pioneering Conservation in Alaska chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras.The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could without regard for long-term consequences. ... Read more

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