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Product Description: Nine outstanding essays present teaching and research techniques that will give your students personal encounters in the field with artifacts.

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9780761991595 | Altamira Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Nine outstanding essays present teaching and research techniques that will give your students personal encounters in the field with artifacts.
9780942063004 | Altamira Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Nine outstanding essays present teaching and research techniques that will give your students personal encounters in the field with artifacts.
9780910050470 | Amer Assn for State & Local, June 1, 1981, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Nine outstanding essays present teaching and research techniques that will give your students personal encounters in the field with artifacts.

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Product Description: Written in co-operation with Inmos International (the company which created Occam), this book aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of Occam, a computer language specifically designed for fault-tolerant parallel processing...read more

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9780070506060 | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1987, cover price $40.00 | also contains The Tribal Arts of Africa | About this edition: Written in co-operation with Inmos International (the company which created Occam), this book aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of Occam, a computer language specifically designed for fault-tolerant parallel processing.

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Analyzes the Victorian material culture and values, and discusses how material objects reflect the character of a society

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9780226074832 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 26, 1989, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the Victorian material culture and values, and discusses how material objects reflect the character of a society

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9780750933391 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.99

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9780253327123 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $59.95

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9780253208392, titled "Hearth & Home: A History of Material Culture" | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: This colllection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life influenced, and continue to influence, American cultural history...read more

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9780813913964 | Univ of Virginia Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This colllection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life influenced, and continue to influence, American cultural history.
9780835718998 | Umi Research Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $143.90 | About this edition: This colllection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life influenced, and continue to influence, American cultural history.

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By Susan M. Pearce (editor)

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9780718512880 | Pinter Pub Ltd, April 1, 1990, cover price $42.50

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9781560981244 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Book by Lasansky, Jeannette

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9780812282610 | Union County Historical Society, June 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Lasansky, Jeannette
9780917127052 | Union County Historical Society, May 1, 1990, cover price $22.00

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9780826321251, titled "The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?" | 2 upd sub edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 1, 1999), cover price $29.95
9780826312815 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $16.95

'Revised papers from a 1988 conference on the history of ceramic technology in archaeology. Part I examines Shepard's research, covering her contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology. Part II deals with current issues, including a discussion of Mesoamerican Plumbate Ware. Part III concludes with an assessment. In addition to valuable historical analysis, important theoretical and methodological issues are addressed'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
By Ronald L. Bishop (editor) and Frederick W. Lange (editor)

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9780870811951 | Univ Pr of Colorado, March 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: 'Revised papers from a 1988 conference on the history of ceramic technology in archaeology.

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780824025076 | Garland Pub, May 1, 1991, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: First published in 1991.

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Product Description: How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also sought to keep alive memories of those who had gone before...read more

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9780948462160 | Reaktion Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: How did our ancestors die?

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Product Description: his documents five centuries of Micmac material culture covering costume and decorative techniques, birchbark work, porcupine quillwork, work in wood, bone, stone and natural fibres and basketry.

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9780919680135 | Nimbus Pub Ltd, September 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: his documents five centuries of Micmac material culture covering costume and decorative techniques, birchbark work, porcupine quillwork, work in wood, bone, stone and natural fibres and basketry.

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Product Description: Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions (such as the gift and the commodity), and the significance of material objects in social life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780674257306 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions (such as the gift and the commodity), and the significance of material objects in social life.

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9780674257313 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity.

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9780252019302 | Univ of Illinois Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $39.95

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9780824828202 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: Androgynous Objects explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea. The web of meanings 'woven' into the bag is shown to extend beyond women's lives and bodies...read more

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9783718651559 | Routledge, March 1, 1992, cover price $115.00

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9789057022708 | Routledge, April 1, 1998, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: Androgynous Objects explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea.

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Product Description: Book by Bronner, Simon
By Simon J. Bronner (editor)

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9780874211566 | 2 edition (Utah State Univ Pr, March 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Bronner, Simon

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9780879725198 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, December 1, 1992, cover price $35.00

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9780879725204 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, April 1, 1992, cover price $20.00

Product Description: "Provides an overview of North American ethnic landscapes and offers portrayals of some of the ethnic groups in the United States and Canada."--Vernacular Architecture Newsletter.Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer landscapes in western Canada, Cajun farmsteads in Louisiana, Czech settlements in South Dakota, Danish homes in Iowa and Minnesota, vernacular architecture of the German-Russian Mennonites of southeastern Manitoba, Afro-American housing in the southeastern United States, and the regional variations of Irish, English, and Scottish construction in Ontario...read more
By Allen G. Noble (editor)

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9780801841880 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: "Provides an overview of North American ethnic landscapes and offers portrayals of some of the ethnic groups in the United States and Canada.

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9780801841897 | Spiral-bound edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $36.00

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9780813913674 | Univ of Virginia Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $19.50

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9780813914008 | Univ of Virginia Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $19.50

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Product Description: In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. Pre-classical Greece, Baroque Italy, and Western postmodernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine...read more

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9780520065833 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In five wide-ranging essays, A.

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9780520205178 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1996), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In five wide-ranging essays, A.

Product Description: Taking a perspective based on folk lore, this text is an ethnographic study of the tools, artifacts, and other expressions of the material culture of literacy as it is found in the clerics' diverse activities within the context of the Hausa society in northern Nigeria...read more

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9780773495814 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Taking a perspective based on folk lore, this text is an ethnographic study of the tools, artifacts, and other expressions of the material culture of literacy as it is found in the clerics' diverse activities within the context of the Hausa society in northern Nigeria.

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Product Description: A guide to surface finds along the Kaskaskia River in central Illinois. Included photographs.

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9781878044037 | Mayhaven Pub, October 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A guide to surface finds along the Kaskaskia River in central Illinois.

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Product Description: The examination of excavated human bone finds is mainly the domain of anthropologists and forensic pathologists, the former working with ancient and historical specimens, the latter with modern finds. The methodological and diagnostic approaches to these skeletal finds are the same, regardless of the time of burial...read more
By A. N. Garland (editor), Gisela Grupe and Palaeohistology Workshop (other contributor)

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9780387546421 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1992, cover price $142.00 | About this edition: The examination of excavated human bone finds is mainly the domain of anthropologists and forensic pathologists, the former working with ancient and historical specimens, the latter with modern finds.

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