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  • Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture

    Edited by Mariana Correia, Gilberto Carlos, Sandra Rocha ...
    In a continuously changing world, there has been a growing interest in the protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. The need to protect and enhance this fragile heritage via intelligent responses to threats from nature and the environment has become evident.Historically, vernacular heritage research focussed on philosophical aspe ... Read more

    $570.29 CAD

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    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Edited by Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Theory of Conservation

    by Salvador Munoz-Vinas ...
    Classical theories of conservation are well known in the heritage community, but in the last two decades thinking has shifted, and classical theory has faced increasing criticism. Contemporary Theory of Conservation brings together current ideas in conservation theory, presenting a structured, coherent analysis of the subject for the first time. This engaging and readable text is split into 3 ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Yutopian

    Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina

    by Joan M. Gero ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly, people were also producing and circulating exotic goods: polychrome ceramics, copper and gold ... Read more

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  • Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

    Lessons, Projects and Prospects from Lisbon

    Edited by João Rafael Santos, Maria Matos Silva, Ana Beja da Costa ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large, urbanised landscapes.The book offers a multidimensional and multi ... Read more

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  • Bio-Architecture

    by Javier Senosiain ...
    Bio-Architecture studies the natural principles of animal and human constructions from several different perspectives, and presents a great part of the knowledge that gives origin and shape to built form.Organic architecture offers a design approach arising from natural principles, bringing us back to local history, tradition, and cultural roots to give us built forms which are in harmony with ... Read more

    $160.99 CAD

  • Lessons from Vernacular Architecture

    Edited by Willi Weber, Simos Yannas ...
    The architectural community has had a strong and continuing interest in traditional and vernacular architecture. Lessons from Vernacular Architecture takes lessons directly from traditional and vernacular architecture and offers them to the reader as guidance and inspiration for new buildings. The appropriate technical and social solutions provided by vernacular and traditional architecture are ... Read more

    $309.99 CAD

  • Caves in Context

    The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe

    Edited by Knut Andreas Bergsvik, Robin Skeates ...
    Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversity of caves over space and time. Caves and rockshelters are found all over Europe, and have frequently been occupied by human groups, from prehistory right ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

    by Izumi Shimada ...
    Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism.This book presents a "biography" of ... Read more

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  • The Cord Keepers

    Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village

    by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Frank L. Salomon ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have ... Read more

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  • Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity

    A Global Archaeological Perspective

    Edited by Hannah V. Mattson ...
    Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ... Read more

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  • Living with Nature, Cherishing Language

    Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History

    Edited by Justyna Olko, Cynthia Radding ...
    This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and ... Read more

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