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  • Archaeological Structuration

    A Critical Engagement for the Twenty-First Century

    Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of the Greater Southwest

    Series series Routledge World Archaeology
    Updated and even more engaging, the fourth edition of Archaeology of the Greater Southwest is a comprehensive and readable summary of the current knowledge of the ancient US Southwest and northwest Mexico.The book now has a greater coverage of the entire region, including northern Mexico, and focuses more clearly on the human story of the past. Based soundly on scholarly results and collaborations ... Read more

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  • Hinterlands to Cities

    The Archaeology of Northwest Mexico and Its Vecinos

    Series series SAA Current Perspectives
    This approachable book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series is a comprehensive synthesis of Northwest Mexico from the US border to the Mesoamerican frontier. Filling a vital gap in the regional literature, it serves as an essential reference not only for those interested in the specific history of this area of Mexico but western North America writ large. A period-by-period review of ... Read more

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    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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  • Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

    Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory

    A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of Entanglement

    Entanglement theory posits that the interrelationship of humans and objects is a delimiting characteristic of human history and culture. This edited volume of original studies by leadingarchaeological theorists applies this concept to a broad range of topics, including archaeological science, heritage, and theory itself. In the theoretical explications and ten case studies, the editors and ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico

    Mixing Epistemologies

    This is an archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the early years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521. The study of households excavated in Mexico City and the probate inventories of 39 colonizers provide a vivid view of the material and social lives of the Spanish in what was once the capital of the Aztec empire. Decades of archaeological ... Read more

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  • Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    Edited by Sarah Kurnick, Joanne Baron ...
    Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the ... Read more

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  • Why We Believe

    Evolution and the Human Way of Being

    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    An "impressive" wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human (Justin Barret, American Scientist ).Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • Matters of Care

    Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds

    Series series Posthumanities
    To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and ... Read more

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Read more

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