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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America
Comparing the lives and goals of two icons of Black resistance One man dreamed of a country united in true racial equality. Another saw this as a nightmare that served only the interest of wealthy white people. Both were sons of Baptist ministers. Both grew up to be icons of the civil rights movement. Integration versus separatism. Martin ......
Arguing against the prevailing view of Edith Wharton as a realist writer, Hildegard Hoeller finds the real Wharton in the writer's sentimental voice and in her critique of realism. She demonstrates that the American writer created a dialogue between the two literary traditions.
Uncovering evidence that ancestor veneration was deeply rooted in Wari society, shaping Wari expansion, rituals, and statecraft This volume examines the central role of ancestors in Andean society during the Wari Empire of the Middle Horizon period (600-1000 CE), centuries before the rise of the Incas. As one of the earliest expansionist states ......
Discussion and case studies of ethical best practices for forensic anthropologyForensic anthropology involves the sensitive work of recovering and analyzing human remains. Its practitioners are often confronted with ethical challenges, but training in this area is limited and best practices are not fully developed across the discipline. The first ......
Contributors: Reniel Rodriguez Ramos John Angus Martin Fidel Rodriguez Velasquez Ashleigh John Morris Matthew C. Reilly Kevin Farmer Oliver Antczak Felicia J. Fricke Maaike S. de Waal Jaime R. Pagan-Jimenez Nelda Issa Marengo Camacho Oriana Chiappa Maria A. Nieves-Colon Christina M. Giovas Amy A. Victorina Andreana ......
