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  • A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If ... Read more

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  • Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean

    Exploring the Spaces in Between

    Series series Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
    Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools and integrating data from Dominica, St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Nevis, ... Read more

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  • Sent

    Reflections on Missions, Boarding School and Childhood

    . School reunions come and go for most of us, leaving our lives relatively untouched. But in 2014, a school reunion was held that changed the lives of its attendees. Deep in the jungles of the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, graduates of a mission boarding school gathered at the school for the first time as adults. They were there to assess how their time at the school changed their lives as ... Read more

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  • Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Materials

    The Historical Archaeology Laboratory Handbook Volume 2

    Edited by John M. Chenoweth ...
    Volumes II and III focus on the identification of different kinds of materials and are divided chronologically. Volume II focuses on earlier materials, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, but also extending into the early decades of the 19th century. Ceramic materials, including smoking pipes, and glass (both window and vessel) are considered in the first part and "small finds" such as ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Materials

    The Historical Archaeology Laboratory Handbook Volume 3

    Edited by John M. Chenoweth ...
    Volumes II and III focus on the identification of different kinds of materials and are divided chronologically. Volume III focuses on materials produced and used mainly during the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the materials considered in Volume II, works here outline metal cans, gun cartridges, and even electrical artifacts. ... Read more

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  • Patterns and Analysis

    Edited by John M. Chenoweth ...
    The first part of Volume I includes a guide to further research, a new Primer on Historic Ceramics, discussions of the lifecourse of objects as they are used and reused, fragmentation and "missing" artifacts, and central information on dating. Part two presents methods of analysis unique to historical archaeology, such as Binford's Pipe Stem Dating or South's Mean Ceramic Dating formulas in their ... Read more

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  • Dark Laboratory

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  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

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  • Global Culture, Island Identity

    Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a ... Read more

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  • After Art

    by David Joselit ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled ... Read more

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