Adventures in Eating [[electronic resource] ] : Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World |
Autore | Haines Helen R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 394.1/209 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SammellsClare A |
Soggetto topico |
Dinners and dining
Electronic books. -- local Food habits Food preferences Manners & Customs Anthropology Social Sciences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-60732-015-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Wold Map; CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Food and Feasting around the World; Methodologies, or What Food Can Tell Us; Setting the Table; Notes; References; SECTION I The Main Course; CHAPTER TWO Boiled Eggs with Chicks Inside, or What Commensality Means; Appetizer; First Course: The Meanings of Commensality; Second Course: Reflux and Reflexivity; Third Course: Gustatory Distinctions and Ambivalence; Fourth Course: Bland Yet Filling Food Connections; DESSERT; References; CHAPTER THREE A Rat by Any Other Name
Biology and History of Agouti PACAMy First Experience with Gibnut; It's All About Dinner; The End of My Ignorance; Notes; References; CHAPTER FOUR The Delicacy of Raising and Eating Guinea Pig; Introduction: The Cuy; First Encounters: Acceptance and Tolerance; Post-Initiation: Raising the General State of the Cuy; Conclusion: Hopes and Dreams of Cavia Porcellus; Note; References; CHAPTER FIVE Termites Tell the Tale; Adventures with Termites; Termites are Good to Think; Research Site and Methods; Globalization of an Indigenous Food System; From Abundance to Scarcity Globalization and Enjala (Hunger)Globalization and Social Change; Epilogue: Becoming Musamia, or We Are What We Eat; Notes; References; SECTION II Side Dishes and Accompaniments; CHAPTER SIX Ode to a Chuño; How to Plant a ChuÑo; Making ChuÑo; The Beginning of a Love Affair with a Not-Exactly Potato; ChuÑo-Less Tourists; Good to Eat; Good to Think; Good to Relate; Touristic Cuisines; Notes; References; CHAPTER SEVEN Durian; Durian Facts; Views on Durian; Trying Durian; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER EIGHT MSG and Sugar; Fieldwork Research in an Urban Jungle Emergence of Dominican Food SystemsDominican Food Practices in New York City; MSG And Sugar; Surviving the Field: To Confess or Not to Confess; Eating in the Field and the Predicaments of Native Ethnography; References; SECTION III Table Manners and Other Rules to Eat By; CHAPTER NINE Eating Incorrectly in Japan; The Incident; Relativism in Anthropology and in Life; Why do the Japanese Still Eat Whale?; Food and Identity; Recent Developments; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER TEN No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs; Reference; CHAPTER ELEVEN Buona Forchetta; Note; References CHAPTER TWELVE "No Thanks, I Don't Eat Meat"Argentina and Beef; TucumÁn and Methods; Beef Eating; The First Asado; Doing the Research as a Vegetarian; Further Understanding the Beef; Conclusion; Note; References; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eating with the Blackfeet; Background and History; Blackfeet Foodways Today; The Bidirectional Gaze; Note; References; SECTION IV Beverages; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Drinking Ethiopia; Ethiopia: The Land and the Food Resources; A Comment on the Culturally Symbolic Significance of Food And Drink; Injera: The Mainstay thin Pancake-Like Sourdough Bread Berbere: The Mainstay Sauce in Ethiopian Cuisine |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458586903321 |
Haines Helen R | ||
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Adventures in eating : anthropological experiences in dining from around the world / / edited by Helen R. Haines and Clare A. Sammells |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 394.1/209 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HainesHelen R
SammellsClare A. <1973-> |
Soggetto topico |
Electronic books. -- local
Food habits Food preferences Dinners and dining |
ISBN | 1-60732-015-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Wold Map; CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Food and Feasting around the World; Methodologies, or What Food Can Tell Us; Setting the Table; Notes; References; SECTION I The Main Course; CHAPTER TWO Boiled Eggs with Chicks Inside, or What Commensality Means; Appetizer; First Course: The Meanings of Commensality; Second Course: Reflux and Reflexivity; Third Course: Gustatory Distinctions and Ambivalence; Fourth Course: Bland Yet Filling Food Connections; DESSERT; References; CHAPTER THREE A Rat by Any Other Name
Biology and History of Agouti PACA; My First Experience with Gibnut; It's All About Dinner; The End of My Ignorance; Notes; References; CHAPTER FOUR The Delicacy of Raising and Eating Guinea Pig; Introduction: The Cuy; First Encounters: Acceptance and Tolerance; Post-Initiation: Raising the General State of the Cuy; Conclusion: Hopes and Dreams of Cavia Porcellus; Note; References; CHAPTER FIVE Termites Tell the Tale; Adventures with Termites; Termites are Good to Think; Research Site and Methods; Globalization of an Indigenous Food System; From Abundance to Scarcity Globalization and Enjala (Hunger); Globalization and Social Change; Epilogue: Becoming Musamia, or We Are What We Eat; Notes; References; SECTION II Side Dishes and Accompaniments; CHAPTER SIX Ode to a Chuño; How to Plant a ChuÑo; Making ChuÑo; The Beginning of a Love Affair with a Not-Exactly Potato; ChuÑo-Less Tourists; Good to Eat; Good to Think; Good to Relate; Touristic Cuisines; Notes; References; CHAPTER SEVEN Durian; Durian Facts; Views on Durian; Trying Durian; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER EIGHT MSG and Sugar; Fieldwork Research in an Urban Jungle Emergence of Dominican Food Systems; Dominican Food Practices in New York City; MSG And Sugar; Surviving the Field: To Confess or Not to Confess; Eating in the Field and the Predicaments of Native Ethnography; References; SECTION III Table Manners and Other Rules to Eat By; CHAPTER NINE Eating Incorrectly in Japan; The Incident; Relativism in Anthropology and in Life; Why do the Japanese Still Eat Whale?; Food and Identity; Recent Developments; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER TEN No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs; Reference; CHAPTER ELEVEN Buona Forchetta; Note; References CHAPTER TWELVE "No Thanks, I Don't Eat Meat"; Argentina and Beef; TucumÁn and Methods; Beef Eating; The First Asado; Doing the Research as a Vegetarian; Further Understanding the Beef; Conclusion; Note; References; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eating with the Blackfeet; Background and History; Blackfeet Foodways Today; The Bidirectional Gaze; Note; References; SECTION IV Beverages; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Drinking Ethiopia; Ethiopia: The Land and the Food Resources; A Comment on the Culturally Symbolic Significance of Food And Drink; Injera: The Mainstay thin Pancake-Like Sourdough Bread; Berbere: The Mainstay Sauce in Ethiopian Cuisine |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791572203321 |
Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Adventures in eating : anthropological experiences in dining from around the world / / edited by Helen R. Haines and Clare A. Sammells |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 394.1/209 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HainesHelen R
SammellsClare A. <1973-> |
Soggetto topico |
Electronic books. -- local
Food habits Food preferences Dinners and dining |
ISBN | 1-60732-015-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Wold Map; CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Food and Feasting around the World; Methodologies, or What Food Can Tell Us; Setting the Table; Notes; References; SECTION I The Main Course; CHAPTER TWO Boiled Eggs with Chicks Inside, or What Commensality Means; Appetizer; First Course: The Meanings of Commensality; Second Course: Reflux and Reflexivity; Third Course: Gustatory Distinctions and Ambivalence; Fourth Course: Bland Yet Filling Food Connections; DESSERT; References; CHAPTER THREE A Rat by Any Other Name
Biology and History of Agouti PACA; My First Experience with Gibnut; It's All About Dinner; The End of My Ignorance; Notes; References; CHAPTER FOUR The Delicacy of Raising and Eating Guinea Pig; Introduction: The Cuy; First Encounters: Acceptance and Tolerance; Post-Initiation: Raising the General State of the Cuy; Conclusion: Hopes and Dreams of Cavia Porcellus; Note; References; CHAPTER FIVE Termites Tell the Tale; Adventures with Termites; Termites are Good to Think; Research Site and Methods; Globalization of an Indigenous Food System; From Abundance to Scarcity Globalization and Enjala (Hunger); Globalization and Social Change; Epilogue: Becoming Musamia, or We Are What We Eat; Notes; References; SECTION II Side Dishes and Accompaniments; CHAPTER SIX Ode to a Chuño; How to Plant a ChuÑo; Making ChuÑo; The Beginning of a Love Affair with a Not-Exactly Potato; ChuÑo-Less Tourists; Good to Eat; Good to Think; Good to Relate; Touristic Cuisines; Notes; References; CHAPTER SEVEN Durian; Durian Facts; Views on Durian; Trying Durian; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER EIGHT MSG and Sugar; Fieldwork Research in an Urban Jungle Emergence of Dominican Food Systems; Dominican Food Practices in New York City; MSG And Sugar; Surviving the Field: To Confess or Not to Confess; Eating in the Field and the Predicaments of Native Ethnography; References; SECTION III Table Manners and Other Rules to Eat By; CHAPTER NINE Eating Incorrectly in Japan; The Incident; Relativism in Anthropology and in Life; Why do the Japanese Still Eat Whale?; Food and Identity; Recent Developments; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER TEN No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs; Reference; CHAPTER ELEVEN Buona Forchetta; Note; References CHAPTER TWELVE "No Thanks, I Don't Eat Meat"; Argentina and Beef; TucumÁn and Methods; Beef Eating; The First Asado; Doing the Research as a Vegetarian; Further Understanding the Beef; Conclusion; Note; References; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eating with the Blackfeet; Background and History; Blackfeet Foodways Today; The Bidirectional Gaze; Note; References; SECTION IV Beverages; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Drinking Ethiopia; Ethiopia: The Land and the Food Resources; A Comment on the Culturally Symbolic Significance of Food And Drink; Injera: The Mainstay thin Pancake-Like Sourdough Bread; Berbere: The Mainstay Sauce in Ethiopian Cuisine |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817080903321 |
Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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After Monte Albán : transformation and negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico / / edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 972/.74 |
Collana | Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley - Antiquities
Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley - Historiography Ethnohistory - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley Ethnoarchaeology - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-87081-940-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Changing cloud formations : the sociopolitics of Oaxaca in late classic/postclassic Mesoamerica / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Advances in defining the classic-postclassic portion of the Valley of Oaxaca ceramic chronology : occurrence and phyletic seriation / Robert Markens -- The postclassic period in the Valley of Oaxaca : the archaeological and ethnohistorical records / Michel R. Oudijk -- Heirlooms and ruins : high culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the postclassic Oaxacan tradition / Byron Ellsworth Hamann -- The classic to postclassic at Lambityeco / Michael D. Lind -- Ethnohistory, oral history, and archaeology at Macuilxóchitl : perspectives on the postclassic period (800-1521 CE) in the Valley of Oaxaca / Robert Markens, Marcus Winter, and Cira Martínez López -- Domination, negotiation, and collapse : a history of centralized authority on the Oaxaca coast before the late postclassic / Arthur A. Joyce -- Interregional networks of the Oaxacan early postclassic : connecting the coast and the highlands / Stacie M. King -- Legitimization, negotiation, and appropriation in postclassic Oaxaca : Mixtec stone codices / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Tree birth, the solar oracle, and Achiutla : Mixtec sacred history and the classic to postclassic transition / Bruce E. Byland -- Classic and postclassic archaeological features of the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua region of Guerrero : why didn't anyone tell me the classic period was over? / Gerardo Gutierrez -- Classic to postclassic in four Oaxaca regions : the Mazateca, the Chinantla, the Mixe Region, and the Southern Isthmus / Marcus Winter. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455226103321 |
Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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After Monte Albán : transformation and negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico / / edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 972/.74 |
Collana | Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley - Antiquities
Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley - Historiography Ethnohistory - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley Ethnoarchaeology - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley |
ISBN | 0-87081-940-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Changing cloud formations : the sociopolitics of Oaxaca in late classic/postclassic Mesoamerica / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Advances in defining the classic-postclassic portion of the Valley of Oaxaca ceramic chronology : occurrence and phyletic seriation / Robert Markens -- The postclassic period in the Valley of Oaxaca : the archaeological and ethnohistorical records / Michel R. Oudijk -- Heirlooms and ruins : high culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the postclassic Oaxacan tradition / Byron Ellsworth Hamann -- The classic to postclassic at Lambityeco / Michael D. Lind -- Ethnohistory, oral history, and archaeology at Macuilxóchitl : perspectives on the postclassic period (800-1521 CE) in the Valley of Oaxaca / Robert Markens, Marcus Winter, and Cira Martínez López -- Domination, negotiation, and collapse : a history of centralized authority on the Oaxaca coast before the late postclassic / Arthur A. Joyce -- Interregional networks of the Oaxacan early postclassic : connecting the coast and the highlands / Stacie M. King -- Legitimization, negotiation, and appropriation in postclassic Oaxaca : Mixtec stone codices / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Tree birth, the solar oracle, and Achiutla : Mixtec sacred history and the classic to postclassic transition / Bruce E. Byland -- Classic and postclassic archaeological features of the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua region of Guerrero : why didn't anyone tell me the classic period was over? / Gerardo Gutierrez -- Classic to postclassic in four Oaxaca regions : the Mazateca, the Chinantla, the Mixe Region, and the Southern Isthmus / Marcus Winter. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778533803321 |
Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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After Monte Albán : transformation and negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico / / edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
Disciplina | 972/.74 |
Collana | Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley - Antiquities
Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley - Historiography Ethnohistory - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley Ethnoarchaeology - Mexico - Oaxaca Valley |
ISBN | 0-87081-940-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Changing cloud formations : the sociopolitics of Oaxaca in late classic/postclassic Mesoamerica / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Advances in defining the classic-postclassic portion of the Valley of Oaxaca ceramic chronology : occurrence and phyletic seriation / Robert Markens -- The postclassic period in the Valley of Oaxaca : the archaeological and ethnohistorical records / Michel R. Oudijk -- Heirlooms and ruins : high culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the postclassic Oaxacan tradition / Byron Ellsworth Hamann -- The classic to postclassic at Lambityeco / Michael D. Lind -- Ethnohistory, oral history, and archaeology at Macuilxóchitl : perspectives on the postclassic period (800-1521 CE) in the Valley of Oaxaca / Robert Markens, Marcus Winter, and Cira Martínez López -- Domination, negotiation, and collapse : a history of centralized authority on the Oaxaca coast before the late postclassic / Arthur A. Joyce -- Interregional networks of the Oaxacan early postclassic : connecting the coast and the highlands / Stacie M. King -- Legitimization, negotiation, and appropriation in postclassic Oaxaca : Mixtec stone codices / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Tree birth, the solar oracle, and Achiutla : Mixtec sacred history and the classic to postclassic transition / Bruce E. Byland -- Classic and postclassic archaeological features of the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua region of Guerrero : why didn't anyone tell me the classic period was over? / Gerardo Gutierrez -- Classic to postclassic in four Oaxaca regions : the Mazateca, the Chinantla, the Mixe Region, and the Southern Isthmus / Marcus Winter. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810255503321 |
Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agency in ancient writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Englehardt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 411/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EnglehardtJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Agent (Philosophy) Paleography Social archaeology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-60732-209-9
1-4571-7404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462033603321 |
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agency in ancient writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Englehardt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 411/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EnglehardtJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Agent (Philosophy) Paleography Social archaeology |
ISBN |
1-60732-209-9
1-4571-7404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786329803321 |
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agency in ancient writing / / edited by Joshua Englehardt |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 411/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EnglehardtJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Agent (Philosophy) Paleography Social archaeology |
ISBN |
1-60732-209-9
1-4571-7404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816788003321 |
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alternative Pathways to Complexity / edited by Lane F. Fargher and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza |
Autore | Fargher Lane F |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, CO, : University Press of Colorado, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (423 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Technological complexity
Archaeology - Cross-cultural studies Architecture and archaeology Economic anthropology Social archaeology |
Soggetto non controllato |
Archaeology
archaeology architecture economics |
ISBN | 1-60732-533-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | It was the economy, stupid / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- Alternative pathways to power in formative Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber -- Built space as political fields : community vs. lineage strategies in the Tequila Valleys / Christopher S. Beekman -- Complexity without centralization : corporate power in postclassic Jalisco / Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- Central Precinct Plaza : replication and corporate groups in Mesoamerica / Barbara L. Stark -- Featherwork as a commodity complex in the late postclassic Mesoamerican world system / Frances F. Berdan -- Classic Maya marketplaces and exchanges : examining market competition as a factor for understanding commodity distributions / Lisa J. LeCount -- Enduring nations and emergent states : rulership, subjecthood, and power in early Scandinavia / T.L. Thurston -- The Bakitara (Banyoro) of Uganda and collective action theory / Peter Robertshaw -- Cognitive codes and collective action at Mari and the Indus / Rita Wright -- "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us" : interpreting architectural evolution in a Sinhalese Village / Deborah Winslow -- Network strategy and war / Peter N. Peregrine and Carol R. Ember -- Framing the rise and variability of past complex societies / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas -- Pathways to power : corporate and network strategies; staple and wealth finance; and primary and secondary states / Tim Earle -- Corporate power strategies, collective action, and control of principals : a cross cultural perspective / Lane F. Fargher. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150336503321 |
Fargher Lane F | ||
Boulder, CO, : University Press of Colorado, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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