Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants' and refugees' experience of identity and quest for well-being.

Product Description: “Artfully integrates scholarship on both past and present migration. With its thematic focus on disruption, this volume develops unprecedented nuance in the treatment of migration.”—Graciela S. Cabana, coeditor of Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration   “A significant contribution to the social sciences in general and a future staple for archaeologists and anthropologists...read more

Presents background information on Scotland's history and culture, outlines itineraries in each region of the country, and includes tips on shopping, dining out, nightlife, and special events

Product Description: This book offers the only synthesis of early-period Marianas archaeology, marking the first human settlement of Remote Oceania about 1500 B.C.  In these remote islands of the northwest Pacific Ocean, archaeological discoveries now can define the oldest site contexts, dating, and artifacts of a Neolithic (late stone-age) people...read more

Product Description: What effect do spatial mobility and migrations have on the diffusion of knowledge? In this volume, papers dealing with the topic have been collected from various culture-historical and theoretical disciplines. Chronologically they range from non-literate cultures to an insight into contemporary research on economic innovation...read more

Product Description: ​This collection of essays in Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space...read more

Product Description: This fully revised and updated second edition of Migration in World History traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, noted world historian Patrick Manning guides the reader through: the earliest human migrations, including the earliest hominids, their development and spread, and the controversy surrounding the rise of homo sapiens the rise and spread of major language groups (illustrated with original maps) an examination of civilizations, farmers and pastoralists from 3000 BCE to 500 CE trade patterns including the early Silk Road and maritime trade in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean the effect of migration on empire and industry between 1700 and 1900 the resurgence of migration in the later twentieth century, including movement to cities, refugees and diasporas the various leading theories and debates surrounding the subject of migration...read more

Product Description: Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U...read more

Product Description: This book provides an answer to the question 'Who are the Native Americans?' Their origins are significant in world history because they suggest early globalisation. "Peopling of the Americas, Currents, Canoes, and DNA" explains that cultural diffusion from the Old World to the New World is a reality and a concept no longer to be marginalised...read more

Presents background information on Scotland's history and culture, outlines itineraries in each region of the country, and includes tips on shopping, dining out, nightlife, and special events