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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Svanberg, Fredrik and Katty H. Wahlgren (2007) Publik Arkeologi. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. 152 pp., illustrations (many in colour), pbk, ISBN 978-91-89116-96-2, SEK 169 (= ca € 18). Order here.
Public archaeology is a fast growing area of Anglophone archaeology, with strong centres in both the UK and the US. Now ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Alfredo Gonzalez Ruibal posted an interesting review on Archaeolog:
Richard J. Gould: Disaster Archaeology, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2007, ISBN 978-0-87480-894-0, 288 p., 55 figures, 5 tables, cloth.
Richard Gould's new book shows us the usefulness of archaeology to understand contemporary disasters and the relevance of forensic ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
A classic archaeological parody by Hans Traxler is available again in a cheap German Reclam edition. "Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel" (The Truth about Hansel and Gretel) was inspired by Ceram's "Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte" (Gods, Graves and Scholars) and first published in 1963. This new edition even contains ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Just discovered that the journal CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, published by the US National Park Service is freely available online in full, starting with Vol 1, Number 1, Fall 2003. The title of the journal is a bit of a mouthful, especially when you - like me - ...
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
I recently read Shirley Fedorak's new book Anthropology Matters! It is about the relevance of anthropology in our everyday lives as human beings in the Western world.
The best chapters discuss questions such as these:
Of What Use is Anthropology to the Business World?
Is Female Circumcision a Violation of Human ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Der Band basiert auf der Habilitationsschrift von Marek Dulinicz, die in Polen bereits vor einiger Zeit unter dem Titel Kształtowanie się Słowiańszczyzny Północno-Zachodniej. Studium archeologiczne (Warszawa 2001) erschienen ist, in den vergangenen Jahren jedoch wesentlich ausgebaut und um zahlreiche Literaturangaben ergänzt werden konnte. Die Arbeit stellt ein kompetentes Kompendium dar, ...
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Vitor Oliveira Jorge, EAA member and Professor of Archaeology at Porto, has launched his own blog containing all sorts of information on archaeological events but also music and some of his own poetry. Most is in Portuguese.
http://trans-ferir.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Matthew Edgeworth published an essay, beautifully illustrated by Fotis Ifantidis, about "THE CLEARING: Heidegger and Excavation" on Stanford's Archaeolog.
He concludes:
The fact that Husserl and Heidegger - and later Merleau-Ponty - all employed archaeological metaphors to help elucidate the existential structure of human experience testifies to the unique and extraordinary character ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Kristian Kristiansen, former EAA President, recently sent me an offprint of a paper on "Who own the past? Reflections on roles and responsibilities" which he published in the 2004 book Archaeologist: Detective and Thinker (pp. 79-86) compiled in honour of Lev Klejn (University of St. Petersburg. ISBN 5-288-03491-5).
As always, ...
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