While previous studies of dogs in human history have focused on how people have changed the species through domestication, this volume offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine connection. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages. Case studies ......
Exploring the bond between dogs and humans in case studies from across thousands of yearsThis volume offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine connection. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages. Case studies from North and South America, the ......
The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
Exploring twentieth-century urban America through trash and artifacts from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring ......
Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists
Spotlighting the rebellious performances and artistic works of Afro-queer women in Puerto Rico In Disobedient Women, Anastasia Valecce centers the voices and aesthetics of four contemporary Afro-queer Puerto Rican artists-Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colon), Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Helen Ceballos, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Valecce shows how ......
Decolonial Movements of Afro-Queer Puerto Rican Artists
Spotlighting the rebellious performances and artistic works of Afro-queer women in Puerto Rico In Disobedient Women, Anastasia Valecce centers the voices and aesthetics of four contemporary Afro-queer Puerto Rican artists-Gisela Rosario Ramos (Macha Colon), Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Helen Ceballos, and Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Valecce shows how ......
Fritz Mueller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenthcentury naturalists. In Darwin's Man in Brazil, David A. West recovers Mueller's legacy. He describes the close intellectual kinship between Mueller and Darwin, detailing a lively correspondence spanning seventeen years, in ......
Revealing the interplay and influence of dance and science during an age of colonial expansion Bringing together dance and science, two paradigms that explore the nature and possibilities of the body, this volume illuminates the meanings and articulations of dance in nineteenth-century societies. This global collection of studies reveals how the ......
The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in South America
This book is the first to explore the concept of partible paternity, the aboriginal South American belief that a child can have more than one biological father - in other words, that all men who have sex with a woman during her pregnancy contribute to the formation of her baby and may assume social responsibilities for the child after its birth. ......
A Backroads Guide to Small Museums and Other Local Treasures
Discover local history through less-traveled places that reflect the stories and communities of the region Cultural Sites of North Florida is your guide to 43 intriguing, little-known destinations in the northern part of the Florida panhandle, from Crystal River to Jacksonville. In this book, local experts Ronnie Lovler and Dixie Neilson ......
