Cultural Contours of History and Archaeology: (2 parts). History
Title | Cultural Contours of History and Archaeology: (2 parts). History PDF eBook |
Author | K. Krishna Naik |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9789350500668 |
Pedarapu Chenna Reddy, born 1959, Indian archaeologist; contributed articles.
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
Title | International Handbook of Historical Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Teresita Majewski |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 2009-06-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0387720715 |
In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today. Historical archaeology is a branch of global archaeology that has grown in the last 40 years from its North American base into an increasingly global community of archaeologists each studying their area of the world in a historical context. Where historical archaeology started as part of the study of the post-Columbian societies of the United States and Canada, it has now expanded to interface with the post-medieval archaeologies of Europe and the diverse post-imperial experiences of Africa, Latin America, and Australasia. The 36 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from the leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology. The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today.
Cultural Contours of India
Title | Cultural Contours of India PDF eBook |
Author | Vijai Shankar Śrivastava |
Publisher | Abhinav Publications |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780391023581 |
Comprises articles on the life and work of Satya Prakash, b. 1914, Indologist, and papers, most on the history and culture of Rajasthan, India.
Kalyana Mitra: Volume 2
Title | Kalyana Mitra: Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Prof. Katta Narasimha Reddy, Prof. E. Siva Nagi Reddy, Prof. K. Krishna Naik |
Publisher | Blue Rose Publishers |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2023-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Volume II Early and Medieval Indian History: The volume contains 28 articles covering studies on Early, Early medieval, Medieval, late Medieval and Modern History contributed by eminent scholars. The topics covered include. Vedic studies, Gupta history, Hereditary grants, Warfare in Vijayanagara period, Irrigation during the medieval period and polity in late medieval periods. This Volume serves as a valuable source book for students, research scholars and teachers of historical studies for the people who want to know about the evolution of mankind in different perspectives. This volume also highlights the love and affection of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy enjoys in the intellectual world. The felicitation Volume is brought out in a series of 12 independent books covering a total of 460 articles. Every volume contains two sections. The first section contains the biographical sketch of Prof. P. Chenna Reddy, his achievements and contribution to archaeology, history and Society. The second section of each volume is subject specific, E.g., Volume-I on Archaeology, Volume II on Early and Medieval Indian History, Volume III on Modern Indian History, Volume IV on Epigraphy and Numismatics, Volume V on Art, Volume VI on Architecture, Volume VII on Religion and Philosophy, Volume VIII on Economy, Trade and Commerce, Volume IX on Literature, Volume X Tribalore and Folklore, Volume XI Contemporary India and Diaspora, Volume XII, Tourism and contains as many as 460 articles.
Cultural Contours of History and Archaeology: Archaeology
Title | Cultural Contours of History and Archaeology: Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | K. Krishna Naik |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9789350500651 |
Pedarapu Chenna Reddy, born 1959, Indian archaeologist; contributed articles.
The Rise and Fall of Culture History
Title | The Rise and Fall of Culture History PDF eBook |
Author | R. Lee Lyman |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2007-07-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0585304521 |
This volume presents an insightful critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. Reasons for the acceptance and incorporation of important concepts, as well as the paradigm's strengths and weaknesses, are discussed in detail. The framework for this analysis is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used by evolutionary biologists in discussing their own discipline: materialistic/populational thinking and essentialistic/typological thinking. Employing this framework, the authors show not only why the culture history paradigm lost favor in the 1960s, but also which of its aspects need to be retained if archaeology is ever to produce a viable theory of culture change.
Living Books
Title | Living Books PDF eBook |
Author | Janneke Adema |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2021-08-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0262046024 |
Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative--not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this book, Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project--not as linear, bound, and fixed, but as fluid, remixed, and liquid, a space for experimentation. She presents a series of cutting-edge experiments in arts and humanities book publishing, showcasing the radical new forms that book-based scholarly work might take in the digital age. Adema's proposed alternative futures for the scholarly book go beyond such print-based assumptions as fixity, stability, the single author, originality, and copyright, reaching instead for a dynamic and emergent materiality. Adema suggests ways to unbind the book, describing experiments in scholarly book publishing with new forms of anonymous collaborative authorship, radical open access publishing, and processual, living, and remixed publications, among other practices. She doesn't cast digital as the solution and print as the problem; the problem in scholarly publishing, she argues, is not print itself, but the way print has been commodified and essentialized. Adema explores alternative, more ethical models of authorship; constructs an alternative genealogy of openness; and examines opportunities for intervention in current cultures of knowledge production. Finally, asking why it is that we cut and bind our research together at all, she examines two book publishing projects that experiment with remix and reuse and try to rethink and reperform the book-apparatus by taking responsibility for the cuts they make.