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Back to the stone age : race and prehistory in contemporary culture / / Ben Pitcher



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Autore: Pitcher Ben <1979-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Back to the stone age : race and prehistory in contemporary culture / / Ben Pitcher Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-2280-1562-6
0-2280-1561-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910795981703321
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