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Death, Burial, and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity
Drawing on the sociological theory of Max Weber, this volume charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world.
Fashion History
Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time. Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization...
American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinct...
Northwest Coast
From the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series, this concise overview of the archeology of the Northwest Coast of North America challenges stereotypes about complex hunter-gatherers. Madonna Moss argues that these ancient societies were first and foremost fishers and food producers and merit study outside socio-evolutionary frameworks. Moss approaches the archaeological record on its own terms, recognizing that changes through time often reflect sampling and visibility of the record itself. The book synthesizes current research and is accessible to students and professionals alike.
Persons, Animals, Ships, and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian
"From Master and Commander to The Hundred Days, this dictionary identifies every name, fictional and factual, in the 19 Aubrey-Maturin novels published through 1998. The roles and relationships of fictional characters are concisely described and their appearances noted by novel and chapter. Historical figures are identified both by their mention in the novels and their biographical details. Literary allusions are located and explained."--BOOK JACKET.
Structured Worlds
Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe, Siberia, Jomon Japan, the Northwest Coast, the northern Plains, and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement, technology, mobility, migration, demography, and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day, 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs, ritual, and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture, animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need.
The Smoots of Maryland and Virginia
William Smute was born about 1596/97 and was in England in 1633. Shortly thereafter he immigrated to Hampton, York (now Elizabeth City) Co., Virginia. He moved to the present St. Mary's County, Maryland, and died in 1716.
Draupnir's Sweat and Mardöll's Tears
This book focuses on a social analysis of Viking jewellery from Iceland (870-1000 AD), an older data set stemming predominantly from burials. The author explores jewellery as a symbol and uses it to examine the social perceptions and cultural attitudes that adornment encompasses. Jewellery by its very nature and its association with dress and adornment encodes issues of social and cultural identity within any society. Identity is a multifaceted sentiment touching upon a diverse range of elements, including gender, status, religious belief and affiliation, group belonging and cultural affinity. While we cannot know all of the sentiments ancient Icelanders attached to their belongings, we do know they placed these assemblages on their dead to imbue and evoke statements of identity. Therefore, this data set has the potential to offer first-hand evidence of some of these aspects of identity.
