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The Search for the First Americans : Science, Power, Politics / by Davis, Robert V., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…American Indian creation myths -- Euro-American theories -- Clovis-first -- Pre-Clovis: Monte Verde and Meadowcroft -- Case studies: Atlantis and Chinese bestiary -- Anthropology and archaeology -- Bioanthropology -- The other sciences: genetics, linguistics, and physics -- Laboratories and museums -- Identity and heritage preservation -- Native American graves protection and Repatriation Act -- Case studies: Kennewick Man and Tarim Basin.…”
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The Search for the First Americans : Science, Power, Politics / by Davis, Robert V., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…American Indian creation myths -- Euro-American theories -- Clovis-first -- Pre-Clovis: Monte Verde and Meadowcroft -- Case studies: Atlantis and Chinese bestiary -- Anthropology and archaeology -- Bioanthropology -- The other sciences: genetics, linguistics, and physics -- Laboratories and museums -- Identity and heritage preservation -- Native American graves protection and Repatriation Act -- Case studies: Kennewick Man and Tarim Basin.…”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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Biblical narrative and the death of the rhapsode by Kawashima, Robert S., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The novelty of biblical narrative -- From song to story : the Genesis of narrative in Judges 4 and 5 -- Narration and discourse : the linguistic dualism of biblical narrative and its literary consequences -- Represented consciousness in biblical narrative -- Biblical time and epic time : from grammar to narrative technique -- The art of biblical narrative as technique : making strange the tradition -- Conclusion: Toward an archaeology of ancient Israelite knowledge.…”
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Listening to the logos speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / by Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness -- Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech -- Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness -- Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life -- Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen -- Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought -- Epilogue.…”
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Biblical narrative and the death of the rhapsode by Kawashima, Robert S., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The novelty of biblical narrative -- From song to story : the Genesis of narrative in Judges 4 and 5 -- Narration and discourse : the linguistic dualism of biblical narrative and its literary consequences -- Represented consciousness in biblical narrative -- Biblical time and epic time : from grammar to narrative technique -- The art of biblical narrative as technique : making strange the tradition -- Conclusion: Toward an archaeology of ancient Israelite knowledge.…”
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Listening to the logos speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / by Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness -- Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech -- Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness -- Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life -- Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen -- Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought -- Epilogue.…”
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Rituals types, efficacy and myths /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Ritual complexes of north-west Siberia in XVII-XVIII centuries : (according to archaeological data) / Oleg Kardash -- Ritual healing : a history of its development and proliferation in Brazil / Sidney M. …”
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Rituals types, efficacy and myths /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Ritual complexes of north-west Siberia in XVII-XVIII centuries : (according to archaeological data) / Oleg Kardash -- Ritual healing : a history of its development and proliferation in Brazil / Sidney M. …”
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Pastoralism in Africa : past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Specialisation and diversification among African pastoral societies / Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg -- Herders before pastoralism : prehistoric prelude in the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer -- 'I hope your cattle are well' : archaeological evidence for early cattle-centred behaviour in the eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad / Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja P�ollath -- Trajectories to pastoralism in northern and central Kenya : an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence / Paul Lane -- From first stock keepers to specialised pastoralists in the West African savanna / Veerle Linseele -- A short history of early herding in Southern Africa / Karim Sadr -- Establishing a pre-colonial 'modern' cattle and gun society : (re-)pastoralisation, mercantile capitalism and power amongst Herero in nineteenth century central Namibia / Dag Henrichsen -- The emergence of commercial ranching under state control and the encapsulation of pastoralism in African reserves / Christo Botha -- Land, boreholes and fences : the development of commercial livestock farming in the Outjo district, Namibia / Ute Dieckmann -- The political ecology of specialisation and diversification : long-term dynamics of pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias �Osterle -- Social-ecological change and institutional development in a pastoral community in north-western Namibia / Michael Bollig -- Pastoral belonging : causes and consequences of part-time pastoralism in north-western Namibia / Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner -- State, conflict and pastoralism in contemporary eastern Chad : the case of Zaghawa-Tama relationships / Babett J�anszky and Grit Jungstand -- Unofficial trade when states are weak : the case of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa / Peter D. …”
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Pastoralism in Africa : past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Specialisation and diversification among African pastoral societies / Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg -- Herders before pastoralism : prehistoric prelude in the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer -- 'I hope your cattle are well' : archaeological evidence for early cattle-centred behaviour in the eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad / Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja P�ollath -- Trajectories to pastoralism in northern and central Kenya : an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence / Paul Lane -- From first stock keepers to specialised pastoralists in the West African savanna / Veerle Linseele -- A short history of early herding in Southern Africa / Karim Sadr -- Establishing a pre-colonial 'modern' cattle and gun society : (re-)pastoralisation, mercantile capitalism and power amongst Herero in nineteenth century central Namibia / Dag Henrichsen -- The emergence of commercial ranching under state control and the encapsulation of pastoralism in African reserves / Christo Botha -- Land, boreholes and fences : the development of commercial livestock farming in the Outjo district, Namibia / Ute Dieckmann -- The political ecology of specialisation and diversification : long-term dynamics of pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias �Osterle -- Social-ecological change and institutional development in a pastoral community in north-western Namibia / Michael Bollig -- Pastoral belonging : causes and consequences of part-time pastoralism in north-western Namibia / Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner -- State, conflict and pastoralism in contemporary eastern Chad : the case of Zaghawa-Tama relationships / Babett J�anszky and Grit Jungstand -- Unofficial trade when states are weak : the case of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa / Peter D. …”
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Water, life & civilisation climate, environment, and society in the Jordan Valley /

Table of Contents: “…Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures; Part VI. …”
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Water, life & civilisation climate, environment, and society in the Jordan Valley /

Table of Contents: “…Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures; Part VI. …”
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At the font of the marvelous exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / by Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.…”
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At the font of the marvelous exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / by Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.…”
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Polish film and the Holocaust politics and memory / by Haltof, Marek

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Postwar Poland: geopolitics and cinema -- Wanda Jakubowska's return to Auschwitz: the last stage -- Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Border Street -- Images of the Holocaust during the Polish School period (1955-1965) -- Years of organized forgetting (1965-1980) -- Return of the repressed: "The poor Poles look at the ghetto" (1981- ) -- Andrzej Wajda responds: Korczak (1990) and holy week -- Documentary archaeology of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish past -- Afterword.…”
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Polish film and the Holocaust politics and memory / by Haltof, Marek

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Postwar Poland: geopolitics and cinema -- Wanda Jakubowska's return to Auschwitz: the last stage -- Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Border Street -- Images of the Holocaust during the Polish School period (1955-1965) -- Years of organized forgetting (1965-1980) -- Return of the repressed: "The poor Poles look at the ghetto" (1981- ) -- Andrzej Wajda responds: Korczak (1990) and holy week -- Documentary archaeology of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish past -- Afterword.…”
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Peasants, citizens and soldiers studies in the demographic history of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100 / by Ligt, L. de

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Maya Gods of War / by Bassie-Sweet, Karen, 1952-

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