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This reprinting makes available again the only book of its kind to be focused upon the prehistoric Indians of Mississippi. Although written expressly for the layreader, it has continued for more than eighty years to appeal to a wide audience that ranges from professional archeologists and scholars to weekend artifact collectors.

Published originally in 1926, Archeology of Mississippi details Brown's records collected during more than a decade of research. Anyone wishing to investigate archeology in Mississippi must start with this book. As early as 1912 Brown, a professor of romance languages at the University of Mississippi, began taking photographs of Mississippi Indian mounds. His are the only photographic records of certain cultural sites that have since then been drastically altered.

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Wetland archaeology has provided some of the most exciting discoveries in world archaeology, from bog bodies in northern Europe, to prehistoric and medieval wetland dwellings in central and western Europe, New Zealand, Japan and the Pacific Northwest. Arguably, however, the amount of evidence from these sites and the need for intense multidisciplinary scientific analysis, allied to a general tendency towards empiricist research, has led to wetland archaeology being isolated from current theoretical debates. Rethinking Wetland Archaeology shows how wetland studies can be contextualised within broader geographical, cultural and theoretical frameworks. It discusses how wetland archaeological discoveries can be understood in terms of past people’s perception and understanding of landscape, which was not only a source of economic benefit, but a storehouse of, and a metaphor for, cultural values and beliefs. It argues that archaeologists interested in the temporal rhythms of life, and in cultural biographies of place and objects, should look again at the astonishingly detailed narratives produced by wetland archaeology. Finally, it considers the past and future role of wetland archaeologists in contemporary political and social discourses. ... Read more

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Studious, well-researched, yet persuasive call
Written by Senior Lecturers in Archaeology Robert Van de Noort and Aidan O'Sullivan, Rethinking Wetland Archaeology is a thoughtful discussion of the place that wetland studies should rightfully have amid broader geographical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Chapters examine evidence of social identity in wetland archaeology, politics and practice in wetland archaeology, biographical approaches to material culture, and more. A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this studious, well-researched, yet persuasive call for reintegrating findings of wetland archaeology into current theoretical debates. ... Read more

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Caring for the Past discusses the evolution, philosophy and current practice of conservation. It is intended to encourage a better understanding of what conservation involves, and of how it can contribute to the study and enjoyment of the heritage. Issues affecting conservation and its future development are examined, and illustrated with examples. The main focus of the book is the consveration of archaeological, ethnographic and museum objects. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves, exploring this process through an extended case-study of art and social life in prehistoric south-east Italy, between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. A central argument is that a wide range of visually communicative artworks were consumed and produced in the cultural process. Such objects range from portable artefacts, to installations within sites, to monumental structures in the landscape – all of which were interwoven with people’s bodies in the experiences of daily life and special performances. More specifically, it is argued that these powerful aesthetic objects were actively used by people across space and time to perceive the world around them and to reproduce their social lives. They helped people to establish personal and collective boundaries, identities and relationships, to acquire and exercise power, to promote ideologies, and to contest them, especially at times of social tension. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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At the heart of the historical and social sciences lies the remarkable gray area of learning processes. "Learning" is usually perceived as individual childhood development at home and at school and has been written about extensively. However, little is known about learning processes outside primary and secondary socialization although insight into these learning processes appears indispensable for an understanding of social changes or the lack thereof. On the basis of historical and current case studies, philosophical reflections, and critical commentaries, Mergner (1940-1999) opened up this important area through his "theory of social limits to learning," designed to explain not only why people accept or reject structures of domination but also why people trying to emancipate themselves nonetheless form and accept new structures of domination. This anthology presents Mergner's seminal work to the non-German speaking world for the first time in order to give it the wider recognition it so clearly deserves. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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Biblical Archeology book
Interesting, but not enough current information and not easy to understand for an amateur.I am a minister and teach Biblical Archeology to parishioners. ... Read more

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A psychiatrist looks into the tortured psyche of Komitas, the great compiler and arranger of Armenian folk music. After surviving a death camp, Komitas developed a severe form of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and spent twenty years in virtual silence in mental asylums. ... Read more

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A Seminal Work
Archeology of Madness weaves a magnificent story and analysis of a life lived with faith, great creativity, tragedy, madness and, possibly, love.Profound and thorough, the book offers incites into the creativity and madness of Komitas through an interdisciplinary analysis that elegantly ties the fields of psychiatry, art, music, history and geopolitics.

People are always fascinated by the creative process, by what inspires great works of art and the great artists that produce them.The Archeology of Madness, seemingly through exhaustive research and original thought, draws lines between this great artist's childhood, life's experiences, relationships with the Church, the Armenian nation, friendships and love, music, creativity, the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide and his madness.

I recommend this book to all who wish to gain an incite into a great creative mind, its making and destruction.

The truth about Komidas' childhood by his close relatives
Dear Sir,
As a close relative of Komidas I disagree and reject the statements of the author about Komidas' childhood. My maternal grandmother Marig who is referred to in the book is Komidas' cousin and they have been brought up together and fed by my great grandmother. Having been supplied our family's version of the true story told by Marig herself, the author has totally disregarded the truth and even misquoted Marig's statements, (footnote-21 page-18) that is, the words published in the author's book were taken out of context to reflect the opposite meaning, thus distorting the childhood life of Komidas. The author has consciously manipulated the words of the original article of my mother and grandmother Marig and used the manipulated version to prove her own point.
The Karakashian and Tashjian families regretfully reject the author's opinion and false statements about Komidas' childhood life.
Sincerely,
Sebouh Z. Tashjian
Sydney - Australia

A precious find
I have been exposed to Komitas's music all my life and I have heard so much about him. I had heard that the genocide of 1915 had driven him crazy. I did not know he lived another 20 years, mostly in asylums in France.

The author of this book went digging for information about those two decades and about earlier events that led to Komitas's mental illness. She found that 1915 did not suddenly drive him mad. An accumulation of earlier events (e.g., he was an orphan) had him on the edge. Well, all great artists are slightly mad, I suppose.

She writes about his strained relations with the church (he was a celibate priest) and about his "relationship" with a certain woman.

All in all a very informative book about an important person for Armenians.

The book Archeologhy of Madness - Komitas - ...
Dear Sir,
As a reader of the above mentioned book and a close relative of Komitas, I disagree and reject the statements of the author about Komitas' childhood. My maternal grandmother, Marig who is referred to in the book, is Komitas' cousin and they have been brought up together and fed by my grand grandmother. Although the author was supplied our true version of the story told by Marig herself, the author has totally disregarded the truth and even misquoted Marig's statements thus distorting the childhood life of Komitas.
The Karakashian and Tashjian families, being the close relatives of Komitas, regretfully reject the author's opinion and false statements about Komitas' childhood life.
Sincerely,
Sebouh Z. Tashjian
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Pre-Columbian Metallurgy
I ran across this book (Indians before Columbus: Twenty thousand years of North American history revealed by archeology by Paul Sidney Martin, George L. Quimby and Donald Collier 1947) by accident in a used book store (sorry!), and was fascinated by the authors' descriptions of pre-Columbian metallurgy...in the "New-World."

Although one notes the use of words no longer applied in scientific circles the details the authors present are fascinating, e.g.:

p. 40 "An aboriginal copper mine was a shallow trench which was dug into the side of a hill with the floor at the entrance or beginning of the cut low enough to provide natural drainage....rarely more than twenty four feet deep and two hundred feet long..."

p. 42 and the suggestions what seem to be canoe paddles were used for digging and that the copper could have come from as far away asCuba, suggests a quite different view of trading and Caribbean contacts in the Americas before Columbus (who noted this in his voyages of discovery).

pp. 42-46 The descriptions of the manufacture of copper objects such as their purity, their hardening, working and other processing are most interesting reading, even almost sixty years after publication.

It seems that in the books description at Amazon.com mention of co-authors George L. Quimby and Donald Collier has been omitted.
Given the date of publication, it was found necessary to do some background searches. Notable finds from this computer search are :

A short vitae of Professor Paul Sidney Martin is found at [http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/paul_martin/martin_web/biostate.html], and [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/martin_paul.html].

And one notes the authors' work continues to be used in instruction [http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~mmap/summer_2004/mod04pr.htm].






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