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One World Archaeology

About the Book Series

The One World Archaeology series brings together the ideas of archaeologists, anthropologists and academics in a host of related disciplines from around the world. Integral to this unique, worldwide interdisciplinary approach are the contributions made by non-academics from a wide variety of cultures - Inuit, Australian Aborigine and Native American, the result is a contemporary global, cross-cultural approach.
The fourth World Archaeological Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in January 1999, with the Right Honourable Nelson Mandela as Patron.

42 Series Titles


The Politics of the Past

The Politics of the Past

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Gathercole, David Lowenthal
September 28, 1994

'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America, ...

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

2nd Edition

Edited By S. J. Shennan
September 21, 1994

Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity....

What is an Animal?

What is an Animal?

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Ingold
September 21, 1994

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity....

Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology

Who Needs the Past?: Indigenous Values and Archaeology

2nd Edition

Edited By R. Layton
September 19, 1994

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past....

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

2nd Edition

Edited By R. Layton
September 15, 1994

The first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and peoples they study and can easily disturb....

The Meanings of Things Material Culture and Symbolic Expression

The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression

1st Edition

Edited By I. Hodder
December 05, 1991

This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western ...

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