The Lithic Garden

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The Lithic Garden

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Author : Mailan S. Doquang
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018

The Lithic Garden written by Mailan S. Doquang and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architecture categories.

The Lithic Garden addresses the formal, symbolic, and ideological functions of foliate ornament in medieval French churches, offering remarkable new insights on the complex relationship between organic and figural sculptures, interior and exterior design, sacred and profane spaces, and artistic form and liturgy.

Home

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Author : Johannes Lenhard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-19

Home written by Johannes Lenhard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Social Science categories.

How are notions of ‘home’ made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how home gains its meaning and significance through ongoing efforts to create, sustain or remake a sense of home. The volume explores how researchers and informants alike are always involved in the process of making and unmaking home, and challenges readers to reimagine ethnographic practice in terms of active, morally complex process of home-making. Contributions reach across the globe and across social contexts, and the book includes chapters on council housing and middle-class apartment buildings, homelessness and migration, problems with accessing the field as well as limiting it, physical as well as sentimental notions of home, and objects as well as inter-human social relations. Home draws attention to processes of sociality that normally remain analytically invisible, and contributes to a growing and rich field of study on the anthropology of home.

The Lives Of Stone Tools

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Author : Kathryn Weedman Arthur
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2018-04-24

The Lives Of Stone Tools written by Kathryn Weedman Arthur and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with Art categories.

"This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.

Threads Of Arctic Prehistory

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Author : David A. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01

Threads Of Arctic Prehistory written by David A. Morrison and has been published by University of Ottawa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Social Science categories.

This collection of eighteen papers honours the long and productive career of Dr. William E. Taylor, Jr. They deal with a range of topics in Canadian Arctic archaeology from the Mackenzie Delta to Labrador and from the earliest Palaeoeskimo to historical questions such as the origins of the Copper Inuit and the mysterious demise of the Sadlermiut. Published in English.

Gardens Of Prehistory

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Author : Thomas W. Killion
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1992-09-30

Gardens Of Prehistory written by Thomas W. Killion and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-30 with Social Science categories.

Gardens of Prehistory details the social developments that were created by the prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World.

The Architecture Of Landscape 1940 1960

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Author : Marc Treib
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2002-10

The Architecture Of Landscape 1940 1960 written by Marc Treib and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10 with Architecture categories.

The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 provides a groundbreaking collection of worldwide perspectives on a vital and underappreciated era of landscape architecture. It is also the first critical assessment of this period, with information and insight previously unavailable to English-language readers.

Gardens Of Lono

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Author : Melinda S. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Gardens Of Lono written by Melinda S. Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Science categories.

The Prehistory Of Rapa Nui Easter Island

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Author : Valentí Rull
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-07-11

The Prehistory Of Rapa Nui Easter Island written by Valentí Rull and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-11 with Science categories.

This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island’s (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective. The main topics include: (i) the time of first settlement and the origin of the first settlers; (ii) the main features of prehistoric Rapanui culture and their changes; (iii) the deforestation of the island and its timing and causes; (iv) the extinction of the indigenous biota, (v) the occurrence of climatic shifts and their potential effects on socioecological trends; (vi) the evidence for a cultural and demographic collapse before European contact; and (vii) the influence of Europeans on prehistoric Rapanui society. The book is subdivided into thematic sections and each chapter is written by renowned specialists in disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleoecology, ethnography, linguistics, ethnobotany, phylogenetics/phylogeography and history. Contributors have been invited to provide an open and objective vision that includes as many views as possible on the topics considered. In this way, the readers may be able to compare different of points of view and make their own interpretations on each of the subjects considered. The book is intended for a wide audience including graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, university teachers and researchers interested in the subject. Given its multidisciplinary character and the topics included, the book is suitable for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines and interests.

Islands And Cultures

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Author : Kamanamaikalani Beamer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-01

Islands And Cultures written by Kamanamaikalani Beamer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Social Science categories.

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between approximately 3,000 and 800 years ago. Bringing with them both material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, settlers had to adapt to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered. The authors of this book analyze the formation of their human-environment systems by using oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records, arguing that the Polynesian islands can serve as useful models for how human societies in general interact with their environments. The islands' clearly defined (and relatively isolated) environments, comparatively recent discovery by humans, and innovative and dynamic societies allow for unique insights not available when studying other cultures. Kamana Beamer, Te Maire Tau, and Peter Vitousek have collaborated with a dozen other scholars, many of them Polynesian, to show how these cultures adapted to novel environments in the past and how we can draw insights from these cultures and their adaptations for global sustainability today.

Cultural And Environmental Change On Rapa Nui

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Author : Sonia Haoa Cardinali
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-09

Cultural And Environmental Change On Rapa Nui written by Sonia Haoa Cardinali and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-09 with Social Science categories.

Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the exhaustion of resources. Others argue that the introduction of Western pathogens and the slave raids of 1862 were to blame for the near extinction of the otherwise resilient Rapa Nui people. Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui brings together the latest studies by prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over the world to explore the island’s past and present, from its discovery by Polynesians, through the first documented contact with Western culture in 1722, to the 20th century. The exiting new volume looks beyond the moai to examine such questions as: was there was a cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui develop to adjust to naturally- or humanly-induced environmental change? This volume will appeal to scholars and professionals in the fields of history, archaeology and ecology, as well as anyone with an interest in the challenges of sustainable resource management, and the contentious history of Rapa Nui itself.