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This book?offers a?comprehensive?and meticulous?collation?of the?early archaeological discoveries of Sanxingdui, archaeological diaries, documentary archives, and image materials collected by the Sichuan University Museum, and it restores the “origin” of Sanxingdui's scientific archaeological discoveries by “cultural relics and documentary emersion” dual evidence. Through the “cultural relics and documentary emersion” dual evidence to restore the scientific archaeology of Sanxingdui's “origin,” the “full-color archaeological drawings and test analysis description” of the Sanxingdui early archaeological discoveries that carries out a complete presentation for today's research on Sanxingdui and ancient Shu civilization to explore the source to provide valuable first-hand information. This book could also serve as a useful reference to archaeologists and cultural relics researchers, historians and researchers of ancient Shu civilization, as well as postgraduate students and professional readers who are interested in Sanxingdui culture.

The fourth edition of Living Language is fully updated with new perspectives on gender and language revitalization.

Now in its Fourth Edition, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology continues to ground students in how language both shapes and is shaped by social contexts, cultural meanings, and power dynamics. Fully updated throughout, this fourth edition covers both theory and real-world interaction, frontloading with a robust conceptual framework and equipping readers to interpret the chapters that follow.

New to this edition are discussions of AI in relation to literacy, updated coverage of transgender language research and pronouns, and a perspectival shift from language endangerment to language shift grounded in Native and Indigenous linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives. The text now explicitly addresses scale as a concept and highlights differences between Internet and cellular-based communication.

This insightful and indispensable book offers:

• Sign language scholarship integrated throughout the entire text rather than confined to a single chapter, reflecting current disciplinary approaches
• Cartoons, data tables, and relatable examples of actual language use illustrating linguistic anthropology's relevance in a globalized world
• A unified theoretical framework rooted in social theory covering language ideologies, multifunctionality, practice, and indexicality across chapters
• An accessible yet rigorous presentation that treats language as a non-neutral form of social action without oversimplifying core concepts
• A new appendix providing examples of classroom activities that can help instructors teach and students explore the key concepts of the book.

Living Language is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistic anthropology, language and culture, and language and society, as well as related courses in sociolinguistics, sociology, education, and communication. Its accessible yet theoretically grounded approach enables students to analyze language as social action across diverse cultural contexts.

This book offers an unprecedented, interdisciplinary look at one of the Pacific War's most brutal and least understood amphibious operations. Bringing together leading maritime archaeologists and marine scientists, this volume moves beyond conventional battle narratives to reconstruct Peleliu's integrated battlespace-reef, lagoon, landing beaches, and airfield-through cutting edge remote sensing, 3D photogrammetry, and meticulous archival research. Readers follow Underwater Demolition Teams, amphibious forces, Seabees, and Palauan communities through first person accounts woven tightly into the archaeological record, revealing the human experiences behind the material remains.

The book also breaks new ground by pairing conflict archaeology with detailed studies of long term coral reef resilience, demonstrating how warfare reshaped both cultural landscapes and marine environments. Timely, richly illustrated, and deeply humane, this volume will become a landmark reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

How and why do archaeologists start a project? Where do they begin? What do they do?

This book presents a case study from the ongoing Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project (SCRAP) in Belize, Central America. The authors explore their long-term archaeology research project involving foreign researchers working together with local Maya villagers.

Archaeologists Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown, Shawn G. Morton, and Jillian M. Jordan deviate from popular narratives surrounding the civilization by studying a small, relatively short-lived (ca. 700?900 AD) Ancestral Maya town along the eastern frontier, focusing on the educational processes involved in archaeological thought and practice. They examine the culture of archaeology in Belize and the Maya Peoples involved in engaging and transforming this culture and the resulting research. They liken the building of their research project to the construction of a traditional Mopan Maya house or nah. Each chapter is linked to a stage of house construction and correlated elements of the project's development and ends with the creation of a home or otoch.

Through this framing of SCRAP’s story within a central aspect of a present-day Mopan Maya community, this book attempts to turn archaeology from the study of the past to a conversation with the present.

Anxious Intersectionality offers an ethnographic exploration of feminist activism in Stockholm, Scandinavia’s largest city and a vibrant hub for feminist organizing in the late 2010s.

Drawing on thirteen months of immersive fieldwork across a diverse range of activist spaces ? including a queer feminist safe-space vegan cafe, Sweden’s feminist political party and its youth wing, an organization for male feminists and allies, a women and non-binary separatist fanzine group, feminist markets, protests, and social media ? the book examines the pervasive anxiety that shapes feminist activism today. Rather than treating anxiety as a personal or psychological issue, the book elaborates on how it is collectively produced and practiced within an activist community through the concept of interpretive precedence. Confronting the sources and drivers of internal conflict and anxiety in activist spaces, researcher Kristian Sandbekk Norsted highlights how movements risk becoming pacified and fragmented.

Offering a rare look into the world of activist communities, Norsted explores intersectionality beyond the bounds of theory. The book offers a critical yet empathetic account of underlying tensions within activist groups, contributing to broader debates on feminism, activism, intersectionality, and the emotional politics of social movements.

This book presents the latest discoveries from archaeological sites of Sanxingdui and Jinsha. As the most comprehensive and detailed compilation of the archaeological works summaries of a century with a focus on fieldwork Investigation and Evaluation, it brings together detailed excavation reports, with a particular focus on significant findings in recent years. The book systematically explores the ancient Shu civilization, examining its cultural expressions, resource utilization, social structures, and interactions with surrounding cultures. This book could serve as an essential reference for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and specialists in cultural heritage, as well as for a broader readership with an interest in ancient Chinese civilization.

This book covers the research carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan), Pakistan, during the last 35 years. The volume is divided into chapters covering the various periods during which archaeological work was carried out with different local institutions involved in the surveys and excavations.

It begins with the research conducted in the 1990s, during which surveys and excavations were carried out in the Rohri Hills and the first Mesolithic sites were discovered in the Thar Desert (Upper Sindh, Pakistan). Chapters include the team’s work done in the prehistory Karachi region, surveys at Ongar, Jhimpir, Ranikot and the problem of chert mining during the Copper and Bronze Ages of Sindh, as well as archaeology of Lake Siranda, Cape Gadani and Daun in Las Bela and a complete set of 162 dates so far obtained from this region that is currently the best radiocarbon dated coastal area of the entire Arabian Sea. A final chapter presents all the radiocarbon dates obtained from the prehistoric sites of Sindh and Las Bela during the last 35 years, to try to define a reliable radiocarbon chronology of this part of the Indus Valley, and Arabian Sea prehistory. This book appeals to readers of prehistory and archaeology of South East Asia.

Return to Storytelling is a lyrical ethnographic work that presents stories from healers, community members, storytellers, witches, sceptics, and tricksters in an intentionally unnamed Central American Indigenous community.

Anthropologist Karen Stocker investigates how stories of all kinds ? written historical accounts, stories told within the community, and stories familiar to readers from North American backgrounds ? shape people’s frameworks for interpreting both the everyday and the extraordinary. Stocker interrogates history as portrayed in sixteenth-century chronicles and upends scholarly writing styles in favour of the verbal artistry characteristic of the community as well as the Latin American magical realist genre. Thus, Return to Storytelling constitutes an inverted ethnography that prioritizes community collective memory over colonizers’ accounts, and privileges critical insight conveyed in accessible language over jargon-laden writing. At the same time, it remains grounded in sound, long-term ethnographic research and ultimately urges readers to question how they know what they know.

By refusing clear distinctions between scholarly voice and storytelling, past and present, or belief and scepticism, this book invites readers to sit with ambiguity as a productive space of knowledge. It offers not only a rethinking of ethnographic practice but also a broader meditation on storytelling as a political, ethical, and imaginative force that continues to shape lives long after colonial encounters.

This open access book addresses the topic of universal access to archaeological sites?offering reflections and providing guidelines on good practices. This publication aims to create momentum so that the issue of access to cultural heritage, particularly to archaeological heritage, for individuals with disabilities becomes a practical priority in the coming years. Topics covered in this book include suggestions for enhanced research on the subject, sharing knowledge internationally, raising awareness among those in charge of managing and valorizing archaeological sites, incorporating accessibility into site management plans, creating employment opportunities in the field of accessibility, and involving people with disabilities in the governance, design, implementation, staff training, and knowledge-building processes related.

Ensuring access to these cultural experiences for everyone, regardless of gender, cultural origin, religion, class, or disability, not only fosters more inclusive societies but also aligns with the fulfilment of a fundamental human right. The international community has recognized this, as reflected in various international regulations such as the UN 2008 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Despite these efforts, there is a noticeable gap in the establishment of regional, national, and global initiatives dedicated to addressing worldwide accessibility to cultural heritage and also a lack of an international network that can look at the subject worldwide.

A revelatory history of the Native American activists who reshaped international politics?building international alliances, redefining sovereignty, and laying the foundation for today’s global Indigenous rights movement

This book uncovers the pivotal yet long?overlooked story of how Native American activists reshaped international conversations on sovereignty, human rights, and Indigenous self?determination during the transformative decade of the 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research and new oral histories, Jennifer R. O’Neal reveals how Native leaders built powerful alliances across borders, international organizations, and Indigenous nations to confront centuries of erasure and reclaim their place on the world stage.

Set against the backdrop of the Red Power movement, evolving federal Indian policy, and the rise of Cold War human rights politics, this groundbreaking study traces the work of key organizations?including the International Indian Treaty Council, the National Congress of American Indians, the National Indian Brotherhood, and the World Council of Indigenous Peoples?as they navigated shifting political landscapes to influence both domestic and global policy.

Through a lens of Indigenous relationality and resurgence, O’Neal demonstrates how activists

? reframed sovereignty as a living practice rooted in land, culture, and community, and
? resisted settler?colonial political constraints while forging new pathways toward justice.

Illuminating a defining era of Indigenous political innovation, O’Neal brings this history out of the shadows?honoring the activists who envisioned a different future and built the foundations of today’s global Indigenous rights movement.

Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: "Who or what can I depend on now?" The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on where you live. In Norway, a small European social democracy, you would almost certainly turn to the country's comprehensive public welfare system. With a work history, you could be eligible for two years of unemployment benefits that replace upwards of 62% of your previous salary. Meanwhile, you would not be too worried about covering other major expenses: annual out-of-pocket healthcare costs are capped at a few hundred dollars, parents receive monthly payments per child, public education is tuition-free, and pensions are guaranteed. What would this experience teach you about government, work, taxes, and freedom?

In Down and Out in Utopia, anthropologist Kelly McKowen explains what happens to those without jobs in one of the world's wealthiest and most egalitarian countries. Following the daily lives of a diverse group of unemployed individuals during the "oil crash" of the mid-2010s, he shows that being "down and out" in a social democracy offers people a unique moral education with lessons about the nature and value of the state, labor, welfare, and belonging.

Engaging, timely, and illuminating, Down and Out in Utopia makes the case that through social policy, we shape life's hardships ? and these hardships, in turn, shape us and how we view the world.

Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status. In the absence of such signs, however, how is the “illegal immigrant” made legible or policed? How might migrants negotiate their statuses as objects of state surveillance by exploiting their similarities or affinities with those who seek them out? Spectres of Affinity explores these issues in the east Malaysian state of Sabah, a scene of some of the largest clandestine cross-border flows in the world, and a place where migrants are widely assumed to look, talk, and otherwise behave like locals.

In Sabah, the ability of outsiders to pass as insiders has long animated public anxieties about the boundaries of citizenship, ethnicity, race, religion, labour, and language. Against this backdrop of social indeterminacy and political uncertainty, migrants and Malaysians are now jointly evaluating and adjudicating the ways they are sama, tapi berbeza ? “the same, but different” ? to sometimes devastating effect. In exploring the social life of comparison in the shadow of a notoriously porous Southeast Asian border, Spectres of Affinity calls for renewed attention to comparison not merely as a rarefied social scientific method or mode of inquiry, but as part of people’s everyday equipment for living in increasingly uncertain and unsettling times.

This book is an ethnographic study of perinatal loss ritual in Spain, spanning nine decades from 1936 to 2022. It investigates whether and how people in Spain have used ritual to confront the loss of a pregnancy or the death of a newborn, and what it costs them when they cannot.

Drawing on qualitative interviews with more than forty participants and fieldwork across Spain's autonomous communities, the book examines four dimensions of ritual: the actions people perform, the actors who participate, the objects they deploy, and the places they create. Situating these findings within Spain's distinctive political, religious, legal, and medical history - from the Franco dictatorship through the contemporary perinatal loss activism movement - it documents a dramatic shift. Before 2008, fewer than half of participants had engaged in any ritual action in relation to their loss; after 2008, only a small minority had not. The book argues that ritual, however improvised or unsanctioned, is fundamental to the social recognition of perinatal loss and to the personhood of the lost child.

The Use of Ritual for Perinatal Loss in Spain will appeal to scholars and students in anthropology, sociology, ritual studies, medical humanities, and reproductive health. It is also essential reading for healthcare professionals, policymakers, counselors, and perinatal loss advocates seeking evidence-based insight into the therapeutic and social dimensions of bereavement ritual across cultural and historical contexts.

Indigenous journalism has proliferated in Indigenous communities for almost 200 years. But it has only gained global prominence in non-Indigenous communities for a little over a decade, revealing unique cultural pathways of communication that have existed for generations. At the same time, social media, streaming platforms, and other interactive digital media proliferated, enabling and empowering Native voices to connect, mobilize, and share stories internationally. In Storytelling Sovereignty, volume editors Cristina L. Azocar and Meta G. Carstarphen build upon the 2012 book American Indians and the Mass Media with a brand-new volume to showcase the diversity and resilience of Indigenous storytelling in today's media context. Together, their contributors?ranging from media scholars to Indigenous content creators?document experiences, analyze representations, and provide a platform for a conversation about how mass media can lead consumers toward social justice.

Azocar and Carstarphen elegantly combine scholarly chapters with interviews with well-known Indigenous authors and media practitioners, including?among others?journalists Mark N. Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes) and Tsanavi Spoonhunter (Northern Arapaho Tribe and Northern Paiute descendant); actor, writer, and producer Tai Leclaire (Mohawk Nation); and rappers LiL Mike and FunnyBone (Pawnee Nation). Indigenous voices and experiences therefore frame and ground the scholarship. Part one, "News," examines news-gathering about Indigenous communities and explores media and Native identity through the framework of Indigenous Standpoint Theory, which centers Indigenous knowledge, experiences, and perspectives. Part two, "Multimedia," spotlights Indigenous perspectives about social media, radio, television, and filmmaking. And in part three, "Influence," an array of media producers and scholars demonstrate how Indigenous identities use media, from rap to documentary filmmaking, to reflect authentic experiences and reject harmful stereotypes.

At a time when media serve as a particularly powerful tool for cultural expression and political agency, it has also played an indelible role in Indigenous storytelling. Storytelling Sovereignty helps readers not only understand Indigenous-produced media but also why it is so vital. Storytelling Sovereignty is a crucial contribution to the field.

This book offers an anthropological study of butoh dance as an artistic somatic practice which can be oriented toward self-knowledge and transformation, for creativity and healing. Based on immersive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Japan and the UK, it reflects on the use of butoh as a tool for creative expression but also to engage with the daily question of what it is be alive. The book examines butoh practitioners' notions and experiences of dancing vis-a-vis the author's own creative inquiries as an anthropologist-cum-butoh practitioner. Paola Esposito argues that, through the intertwining of sensory perception and imagination, butoh practice can be an art of inquiry into one's lived body. Detailing elements of training and performance through an 'anthropology with art' approach, the volume highlights distinctive modalities of 'thinking in movement' through butoh as mediated by techniques which support the exploration of mimetic and metamorphic potentialities of the human body.

Ethnographic Experimentation introduces readers to an experimental style of ethnography in which ethnographers and their companions conduct inquiries together.

This is not a conventional methods manual, since there can be no single, shared method for experimentation. Instead, the book offers a collection of ethnographic case studies and concepts through which readers can think with and cultivate an experimental sensibility. By cultivating this form of inquiry, the book shows readers how ethnography is not merely a practice dedicated to describing the world but a collective endeavour for intervening and make a difference within it.

The book will be essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, STS, and related fields for whom ethnography is a key research method.

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Classical Houses and Households offers a comprehensive guide to the archaeology of Graeco?Roman houses and households.

This handbook provides a chronologically expansive and geographically diverse survey of the material, both of housing itself and of topics related to households as revealed through archaeological research. It covers a broad depth of time, spanning Early Iron Age Greece through to Late Antiquity. Geographical coverage embraces not just Greece and Italy but takes into account the wider Mediterranean basin. Presentations of housing from a range of sites place them into their historical and archaeological contexts and include not only well?known examples but also those from less conspicuous locations.

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Classical Houses and Households is for undergraduates to graduate students, professionals, and researchers in Archaeology and Classics interested in the social life of the Greek and Roman worlds and beyond.

This book explores the archaeology of ancient freediving in the Mediterranean through an overview of the existing available textual and material sources, proposing a novel methodological and conceptual framework to approach this fascinating subject.

While traditional research has focused on human activities "above water", or even in the case of underwater archaeology, on structures and objects that were once above water, our understanding of ancient human interactions "below the surface" is rather limited. This work broadens the understanding of ancient coastal communities' interactions with the underwater environment and, for the first time, the study of ancient divers goes beyond the mere listing of references about their activities in ancient resources to include a deep reassessment of both the material culture their practitioners left behind, and the medium (natural, social, and symbolic) in which their activity took place. This book demonstrates how the most recent re-evaluation of material culture has revealed evident underwater applications, and how a cognitive-sensory approach to the visual and textual representations of underwater spaces shows that many of these were indeed influenced by real-world diving experiences.

By establishing new avenues of research and directions for future study, this volume is primarily for archaeologists dealing with ancient maritimity and the relationship between humans and the marine environment.

Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Ethiopia, this ethnography examines the circumstances that lead children to enter orphanages and the difficult decisions that result in family separation. Based on research conducted in an Ethiopian orphanage and surrounding communities, it challenges common assumptions about orphanhood by showing that many children living in institutional care had living parents or extended family members and were not, in the conventional sense, orphans. Through the perspectives of birth mothers, fathers, social workers, and caregivers, the chapters further an understanding of how poverty, food insecurity, gender inequality, illness, social stigma, and shifting child welfare policies influence decisions about relinquishment, abandonment, and care. It also explores children's everyday experiences within institutional settings and traces the profound changes that accompanied the rapid expansion and eventual closure of intercountry adoption in Ethiopia. Combining ethnographic observation, interviews, and longitudinal research spanning more than a decade, the analysis reveals the complex realities behind child separation, institutional care, and adoption. Challenging simple narratives of abandonment and rescue, the book demonstrates that parental concern, attachment, and hopes for children's futures often persist long after separation. It will be relevant to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, psychology, childhood studies, African studies, and international development.

e-Topia: Localizing the Digital foregrounds the lived experiences of people who engage with, resist, reimagine, and reshape digital systems in diverse and often unexpected ways. It challenges dominant narratives that portray technology as an autonomous force that drives inevitable societal change.

Taking a unique approach, this book counters grand narratives with anthropological insights gathered over more than three decades of fieldwork across Asia, Europe, and North America. It calls for a reorientation of the study of digital technology and poses critical questions: Can we better understand technology by studying how individuals experience, interpret, develop, and use new tools and devices? What can we learn from observing everyday interactions with social media, e-governance platforms, cryptocurrencies, and robotaxis? What happens when we shift the research focus to everyday life? Ultimately, the book is about reclaiming agency by recognizing that technologies are products of design choices, contestations, and diverse visions of the future. Central to this inquiry is the tension between centralized and distributed modes of technopolitics.

The book will appeal to students and researchers of anthropology, science and technology studies, media studies, and global studies, particularly those interested in the politics and poetics of digital technology.

Stories have the power to unify, challenge, and heal. All too often, though, the stories of marginalized peoples are silenced or distorted by those in power. Counterstories, on the other hand, center the knowledge, experiences, and voices by presenting alternative accounts. Indigenous people have been telling stories as a teaching device for centuries, but this pathbreaking volume is the first collection to examine Indigenous counterstory as both a concept and practice.

Indigenous Counterstories features contributions by Indigenous scholars and allies. Using critical counterstory as their framework, the contributors share firsthand accounts from their classroom and workplace experiences to demonstrate how Indigenous storytelling is a knowledge-making enterprise. Chapters like A. Ellie Mitchell's "Homing In" feature a composite character and chronicles a day in the life of a new Anishinaabe academic that explores the tokenization of many academics from marginalized communities. In "Reclaiming Agency through Storytelling", Nicole Augustine draws on her personal history of intimate partners violence and being a Mi' kmaq woman to critique the patriarchal effects of colonization. Jacquetta Shade-Johnson and Catheryn Jennings, two Cherokee Nation scholars and friends, draw on their shared educational background as both students and educators to consider Indigenous-serving academic institutions framed through the narrative structure of a podcast episode.

In sharing their observations and experiences, the contributors to this volume employ experimental and nonlinear styles common to Indigenous storytelling. As a result, their chapters both exemplify and enhance our understanding of Indigenous counterstorytelling. Appealing to scholars and students alike, this innovative collection invites readers to embrace a more inclusive method of academic research and writing.

The Social Life of Cemeteries explores the evolution of modern cemeteries as they have developed across the globe since their origins in 19th-century Europe. It examines cemeteries not only as spaces built by the living for the dead but also as places for the living to thrive, where the richness of human cultures and communities is expressed in meaningful, symbolic, and artistic ways.

As havens of architectural and natural beauty, cemeteries provide opportunities for solitude and reflection, as well as for recreation and tourism. They serve as extraordinary venues for learning about both past individuals and events, and the change in current social customs and traditions. By shaping - and telling - the history, memory, and identity of communities and individuals, cemeteries can offer plenty of meaningful insights into a specific society.

This book, with its cross-national, multicultural perspective and theoretical approach, is intended for researchers and students in anthropology and social sciences, as well as for a larger academic public in fields like history, geography, art history, architecture, and urban planning. It also offers numerous references to specific locations and cultural features for educated travelers, cemetery enthusiasts, and thanatourists worldwide.

This edited volume introduces memoryscapes to explain how collective memory moves between conflict and healing. Through a dynamic framework and diverse cases, it shows how inclusive, participatory practices can transform violent pasts and foster accountability, reconciliation and sustainable peace.

Readers gain a practical framework to analyze and shape memory work that supports healing, justice and sustainable peace. The book delivers this through its three-gradient model (healing, dissent, resistance), a methodological toolkit, and comparative cases from museums, monuments, heritage and burial sites, refugee camps, media, education and the arts-while confronting politicisation, institutionalisation and post-truth challenges.

Intended for researchers, students and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, heritage and memory studies, anthropology, sociology, political science and media/education, as well as museum and memorial professionals, peacebuilders, educators, civil society organisers and policymakers working with contested pasts.