Enclosing the Past: inside and outside in prehistory

Libro editado por Anthony Harding, Susanne Sievers y
Natalie Venclová (2006)

Contenido:

Introduction
Anthony Harding, Susanne Sievers and Natalie Venclová

1. Enclosures and fortifications in Central Europe
Evžen Neustupný

2. Large prehistoric enclosures in Bohemia: the evidence from the air
Martin Gojda

3. Does enclosure make a difference? A view from the Balkans
John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska, with Karen Hardy

4. Neolithic and post-Neolithic enclosures in Moravia in their central European context
Vladimír Podborský and Jaromír Kovárník

5. The first known enclosures in southern Britain: their nature, function and role, in space and time
Roger J. Mercer

6. Zambujal and the enclosures of the Iberian Peninsula
Michael Kunst

7. Enclosing and excluding in Bronze Age Europe
Anthony Harding

8. Defining community: iron, boundaries and transformation in later prehistoric Britain
Richard Hingley

9. Oppida und ihre linearen Strukturen
Susanne Sievers

10. Spätkeltische Viereckschanzen in Süddeutschland: Umfriedung – Abgrenzung – Umwehrung
Günther Wieland

11. Enclosing, enclosures and elites in the Iron Age
Natalie Venclová

12. Enclosure in Iron Age Wessex viewed from modern Ávila
John Collis

Sacred Objects and Sacred Places : Preserving Tribal Traditions

Libro de Andrew Gulliford (2000)

Contenido general:

Introduction
1 Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of Native American Human Remains
2 Native Americans and Museums: Curation and Repatriation of Sacred and Tribal Objects
3 Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes
4 From the Sweetgrass Hills to Bear's Lodge: Preservation of Tribal Sacred Places
5 Living Tribal Cultures
Appendix A: Tribal Traditional Cultural Places (from the National Park Service)
Appendix B: Current Tribal Museums and Community Centers (from the American Association for State and Local History)

THE PREHISTORY OF FOOD

Appetites for change


Libro editado por Chris Gosden y Jon Hather (1999)


Indice

Part I Food and culture

1 Cash-crops before cash: organic consumables and trade
Andrew Sherratt
2 Cultural implications of crop introductions in Andean prehistory
Christine A.Hastorf
3 Uywaña, the house and its indoor landscape: oblique approaches to, and beyond, domestication
Alejandro F.Haber
4 Of water and oil: exploitation of natural resources and social change in eastern Arabia
Soren Blau
5 Plant exploitation among the Nukak hunter-gatherers of Amazonia: between ecology and ideology
Gustavo G.Politis

Part II Introductions

6 Food processing technology: its role in inhibiting or promoting change in staple foods
Helen M.Leach
7 Subsistence changes in India and Pakistan: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plant use today
K.L.Mehra
8 Megalithic monuments and the introduction of rice into Korea
Sarah Milledge Nelson
9 The dispersal of domesticated plants into north-eastern Japan
Catherine D’Andrea
10 Native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Spanish Florida
Elizabeth J. Reitz

Part III Food and the landscape

11The meaning of ditches: deconstructing the social landscapes of New Guinea, Kuk, Phase 4
Tim Bayliss-Smith and Jack Golson
12 Different histories: a common inheritance for Papua New Guinea and Australia?
Chris Gosden and Lesley Head
13 From the swamp to the terrace: intensification of horticultural practices in New Caledonia, from first settlement to European contact
Christophe Sand
14 Warfare and intensive agriculture in Fiji
Robert Kuhlken
15 Whose land is it anyway? An historical examination of land tenure and agriculture in northern Jordan
Carol Palmer
16 Getting a life: stability and change in social and subsistence systems on the North-West Frontier, Pakistan, in later prehistory
Ken Thomas
17 Interaction of maritime and agricultural adaptations in the Japan Sea basin
Yuri E.Vostretsov
18 Invisible pastoralists: an inquiry into the origins of nomadic pastoralism in the West African Sahel
Kevin MacDonald
19 Evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin, northern Syria
Willem van Zeist

Part IV Plants and people
20 Tracking the banana: its significance in early agriculture
Edmond De Langhe and Pierre de Maret
21 The puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile valley
Randi Haaland
22 The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America: an example from the Jama river valley, coastal Ecuador
Deborah M.Pearsall
23 Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea
Michael Therin, Richard Fullagar and Robin Torrence
24 Traditional seed cropping systems in the temperate Old World: models for antiquity
Ann Butler

25 Agrarian change and the beginnings of cultivation in the Near East: evidence from wild progenitors, experimental cultivation and archaeobotanical data
George Willcox

The Archaeology of Shamanism

Las prácticas rituales, donde el/la chaman/a a través de la percepción de otras realidades cumple el rol de mediador/a entre humanos y el mundo supernatural, tienen un correlato en el registro arqueológico de los pueblos prehistóricos.

En esta compilación de artículos sobre esta temática editada en el año 2001 por Neil Price, quien hace una introducción general a la arqueología del chamanismo o de los “estados alterados”, brinda discusiones teóricas con casos de estudio detallados del hemisferio norte (Groenlandia, Nepal, Siberia, Kazakhstan, etc.) en un marco temporal que abarca desde el Paleolítico Superior hasta la actualidad, acercándose a la cultura material y paisajes chamánicos, el uso de arquitectura ritual y la práctica chamánica en el contexto de esos otros sistemas de creencias.

Además, en este libro se establece una revisión al concepto de chamanismo como un constructo antropológico poniendo énfasis en la interpretación de las creencias chamánicas en términos de la neurociencia cognitiva y sobre la percepción pública moderna del chamanismo del pasado. Se abordan temas que atraviesan el concepto, tales como género, cuerpo, identidad, paisaje, percepción social de animales, “arte” rupestre y mobiliario, y herencia de la práctica e identidad cultural de los pueblos indígenas.

Considero que en muchos otros sures, estas prácticas también pueden ser abordadas desde una arqueología hiperborea... sin mal (me rio con Nietzsche). O tal vez, mejor sea construir mágicamente otra forma de abordarla, como un/a verdadero/a aprendiz que le queda la responsabilidad eterna de curar o resolver problemas.