Bücher der Reihe One World Archaeology

Using in depth-case studies, this book explores the aims of the 'reconstruction' of heritage sites and examines the problems and mistakes experienced with representing the past in this way.

This book investigates approaches to community heritage within the Arab region and the underlying theories associated with these approaches. It aims, within the context of the region, to define 'community' and 'heritage', as well as examine the emergence and development of this field. The volume's contributors deploy a wealth of case studies from the Middle East and North Africa to provide a unique forum for discussion, comparability, analysis and deeper understandings of current trends in community heritage. In particular, the volume explores the relationship between communities and their heritage, the meanings and values placed upon it, the nature and degree of community participation and engagement in its interpretation and management, and how its different registers affect and produce sometimes unexpected community heritage formations. It also examines the level of responsibility held within the profession towards this essentially democratic process of public participation in their heritage in a region shaped by controversial histories, political turmoil and tourism-driven economies. The volume builds on current research and practice in community heritage globally by debating and re-centring a suite of familiar and new issues related to hitherto under-researched regional-specific methodologies, and developing fresh insight into the theoretical underpinning of these practices. It will be of value to heritage scholars and practitioners as well as those interested in politics, identity, education and the dynamics of heritage-based sustainable development.

The volume presents cogent arguments and methods for the study of change, in a range of essays by experts from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.

This text on historical archaeology aims to encourage research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history. It ranges in subject matter from Roman Britain and Classical Greece, to colonial Africa, Brazil and the United States.

Explores the concept of "sacred" and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. This book looks at why people regard some parts of the land special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.

Repatriation of human remains has become a key international heritage concern. This extensive collection of papers provides a survey of the current state of repatriation in terms of policy, practice and theory.

International contributors examine the way in which modern technology is revolutionising arch- aeological knowledge. Will improved techniques and communication lead to the democratisation of archaeological knowledge on a global basis?

This volume explores the concept of "sacred" and what it means to people in differing cultures. The book attempts to describe the belief systems surrounding such sites and in relating these beliefs and practices to the practical problem of heritage management.

This text presents papers from the third World Archaeological Congress, held in New Delhi in 1994. Contributing to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, it provides varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents.

The contributors to "The Archaeology of Africa" offer new insights and perspectives on a whole range of themes critical to African prehistory and early history.

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, providing new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents.

Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context promises to become a basic reference for students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology.

Archaeology and Language I is representative of groundbreaking work into two areas which have only recently been correlated: linguistics and archaeology.

This work asks whether the idea of world heritage is an essential mechanism for the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, or whether it subjugates a diversity of cultural traditions to specifically Western ideas.

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.

A unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, exposing sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.

'...uses a wealth of perspectives and case studies from archaeology and its related disciplines to delineate and assess the mechanisms of dominance and of its counterpart, resistance.' N - British Archaeology

A ground-breaking book which argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education and shows how the exclusion of aspects of the past tends to impoverish and distort social and educational experience.

An illuminating and provocative look at historical interpretation, which draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in archaeology.

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

This volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality, providing a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion and spirituality.

This book examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past. By creating another people's cultural history, scholars appropriate it. This collection looks at how 'post-colonial' scholars are redefining the nature of scholarship.

Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expanding discussions about the mechanisms and consequences of community participation.

Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation.Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements.

This volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary collaborations between contemporary art, heritage, anthropological, and archaeological practitioners. Established topics such as cave art, monumental architecture and land art will be discussed alongside contemporary video art, performance art and relational arts practices.

Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation.Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements.

'This outstanding overview creates an effective framework on which to hang 13 diverse papers. The papers are tightly written and good editing has successfully merged them into a very successful volume.' - American Antiquity

Should we keep the physical evidence of conflicts and wars? This collection challenges our perception of cultural heritage, with essays investigating among others Cambodia, the Berlin Wall and concentration camps.