Back to the stone age : race and prehistory in contemporary culture / / Ben Pitcher
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| Autore: |
Pitcher Ben <1979->
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| Titolo: |
Back to the stone age : race and prehistory in contemporary culture / / Ben Pitcher
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
| ©2022 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Antiquities, Prehistoric |
| Human beings - Origin | |
| Popular culture | |
| Race | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Anthropocene |
| Belonging | |
| Brexit | |
| Cheddar Man | |
| DNA | |
| Difference | |
| Homo sapiens | |
| Neanderthals | |
| Neolithic | |
| Piltdown | |
| Racism | |
| Stonehenge | |
| affect | |
| ancestry | |
| capitalism | |
| caveman | |
| citizenship | |
| civilization | |
| climate crisis | |
| colonialism | |
| deep time | |
| environment | |
| evolution | |
| extinction | |
| feminism | |
| gender | |
| genetics | |
| hunter-gatherer | |
| imperialism | |
| indigenous | |
| landscape | |
| lifestyle | |
| mannequins | |
| megaliths | |
| nationalism | |
| nature | |
| paleo | |
| paleolithic | |
| popular culture | |
| postcolonial | |
| prehistoric | |
| primitivism | |
| representation | |
| species | |
| survival | |
| time travel | |
| tribes | |
| whiteness | |
| Classificazione: | cci1icc |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Back to the Stone Age -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 | A Turn to Prehistory -- 2 | Becoming Prehistoric -- 3 | Prehistory and the Popular Culture of the Anthropocene -- 4 | Genetic Prehistory -- 5 | Prehistory, Landscape, and Belonging -- 6 | Facing Up to Prehistory -- 7 | Piltdown Man and the Endomorphic Gravel Pit -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, better people. Back to the Stone Age explores how ideas about race are tightly woven into the prehistoric imagination, revealing insights into present-day anxieties and showing that the human past is not set in stone. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Back to the stone age |
| ISBN: | 0-2280-1562-6 |
| 0-2280-1561-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795981703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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