Human actions are often deeply intertwined with religion and can be understood in a strictly religious context. Yet, many volumes pertaining to discussions of religion in the archaeological past have focused primarily on the sociopolitical implications of such remains. This book states that these interpretations provide only part of the picture.
Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation.
This collection of original articles investigates social science methodological traditions that can be ethically and epistemologically applied to the study of race and ethnicity.
Offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in California archaeology, including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonisation, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others.
The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures.
Introduction: Confronting Extraction, Taking Action 1. The Great Crew Change? Structuring Work in the Oilfield 2. Mega-mining Sovereignty: Landscapes of Power and Protest in Uruguay's New Extractivist Frontier 3. Marcellus Shale as Golden Goose: The Discourse of Development and the Marginalization of Resistance in Northcentral Pennsylvania 4. Bounded Impacts, Boundless Promise: Environmental Impact Assessments of Oil Production in the Ecuadorian Amazon 5. The Power and Politics of Health Impact Assessment in the Pacific Northwest Coal Export Debate 6. Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn on the Price of Gold? 7. Corexit to Forget It: Transforming Coastal Louisiana into an Energy Sacrifice Zone 8. With or Without Railway? Post-catastrophe Perceptions of Risk and Development in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec 9. Bringing Country Back? Indigenous Aspirations and Ecological Values in Australian Mine-Site Rehabilitation 10. Harmonizing Grassroots Organizing and Legal Advocacy to Address Coal Mining and Shale Gas Drilling Issues in Southwestern Pennsylvania 11. Images of Harm, Imagining Justice: Gold Mining Contestation in Kyrgyzstan 12. El Salvador's Challenge to the Latin American Extractive Imperative 13. Unconventional Action and Community Control: Rerouting Dependencies Despite the Hydrocarbon Economy 14 .Toward Transition? Challenging Extractivism and the Politics of the Inevitable on the Navajo Nation Afterword: An Open letter to extrACTIVISTs
Thinking Through Resistance examines a diverse range of case studies of opposition to biomedical public health policies - from resistance to HPV vaccinations in Texas to disputes over HIV prevention research in Malawi - to assess the root causes of opposition. It is argued that far from being based on ignorance, resistance instead serves as a form of advocacy, calling for improvements in basic health care delivery alongside expanded access to infrastructure and basic social services. With contributions from medical anthropologists, sociologists and public health experts, the book makes important reading for researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of public health, medical anthropology and public policy.
First major English-language research volume describing the multidisciplinary archaeological research at the famous third millennium BC Syrian site of Ebla, using a regional landscape approach. číst celé