Research Skills for Journalists is a comprehensive, engaging and highly practical guide to developing the varied skillset needed for producing well researched, quality journalism across a range of pla
Judging from this collection of eight essays, which are reprinted from Part IV of Handbook of Gender in Archeology the study of gender has spread to all continents and all schools of thought in archeo
Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done over three decades into a single volu
Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in studying gender in the ancient world and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done over three decades into a single volu
Nelson (archaeology, U. of Denver) offers an overview of the growth of feminist archaeology and explores some of the major themes to which it has given rise in recent years. She first outlines the the
In a text derived from Part I of the Handbook of Gender in Archeology (2006) which she edited, Nelson (archeology, U. of Denver) introduces nine feminist perspectives on archeology. Interpreting gende
This collection of articles describes how, according to the physical evidence of the past, the concept of gender has worked alongside race, class, the formation of the self, and the development of ind
This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 y
InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the deve
In 25 essays that stand together as comprehensive chapters, contributors describe how archeologists are placing gender in the context of the past. Working at theoretical as well as field levels, they
The Archaeology of Korea surveys Korean prehistory from the earliest Palaeolithic settlers, of perhaps half a million years ago, through the formation of the Three Kingdoms, and on to the creation of United Silla in AD 668, when the peninsula was largely united for the first time. The author examines the development of state-level societies and their relationship to polities in Japan and China, and the emergence of a Korean ethnic identity. Emphasising the particular features of the region, she dispels the notion that the culture and traditions of Korea are only pale imitations of those of its neighbours, China and Japan. Sarah Nelson has specialised in Korean archaeology for twenty years. She draws on her own research and that of Korean colleagues; and while much of the data comes from the Republic of Korea, the north is considered as far as sources permit.
Sarah Milledge Nelson’s bold thesis is that the development of states in East AsiaChina, Japan, Koreawas an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans. Usi
This teaching novel is an archaeological suspense story set in northeast China at a site that is called the Goddess Temple. Clara, protagonist of Nelson’s Spirit Bird Journey, begins work at an excava
Active anthropologists from many parts of the world look to archaeological evidence for the agency of men and women beyond their purported artifacts among hunter-gatherers, early horticulturists, inci
Shedding new light on the division of power, the essays in this volume explore the variety of roles and assumptions about queens from the Americas to Eurasia. Together they provide a global tour of ar