Aves de piedra, barro y oro en la Costa Rica precolombina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aves de piedra, barro y oro en la Costa Rica precolombina write by Patricia Fernández Esquivel. This book was released on 2009. Aves de piedra, barro y oro en la Costa Rica precolombina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scholarly and physically stunning presentation of the use of bird imagery in pre-Columbian Costa Rican art, with an equal balance of photos and text. Includes indigenous culture, contemporary links, and comparative photos of artifacts and actual birds
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology write by William F. Keegan. This book was released on 2013-02-07. The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. Though these islands were never isolated from the surrounding mainland, their histories are sufficiently diverse to warrant their identification as distinct areas of culture. Over the past 20 years, Caribbean archaeology has been transformed from a focus on reconstructing culture histories to one on the mobility and exchange expressed in cultural and social dynamics. This Handbook brings together, for the first time, examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past. The Handbook is divided into five sections. Part I, Islands of History and the Precolonial History of the Caribbean Islands, provides an introduction to Caribbean Archaeology and its history. The papers in the following Ethnohistory section address the diversity of cultural practices expressed in the insular Caribbean and develop historical descriptions in concert with archaeological evidence in order to place language, social organization, and the native Taínos and Island Caribs in perspective. The following section, Culture History, provides the latest research on specific geographical locations and cross-cultural engagements, from Jamaica and the Bahama archigelago to the Saladoid and the Isthmo-Antillean Engagements. Creating History, the fourth section, includes papers on specific issues related to the field, such as Zooarchaeology, Rock Art, and DNA analysis, among others. The final section, World History, centers on the consequences of European colonization.
Golden Kingdoms
Golden Kingdoms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Golden Kingdoms write by Joanne Pillsbury. This book was released on 2017-09-26. Golden Kingdoms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology write by William F. Keegan. This book was released on 2013-03-21. The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.
Ethno-ornithology
Ethno-ornithology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethno-ornithology write by Sonia C. Tidemann. This book was released on 2012-08-06. Ethno-ornithology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can assist in framing research methods of western scientists working in related areas. As well as its knowledge base, this book provides practical advice for professionals in conservation and anthropology by demonstrating the relationship between mutual respect, local participation and the building of partnerships for the resolution of joint problems. It identifies techniques that can be transferred to different regions, environments and collections, as well as practices suitable for investigation, adaptation and improvement of knowledge exchange and collection in ornithology. The authors take anthropologists and biologists who have been trained in, and largely continue to practise from, a western reductionist approach, along another path - one that presents ornithological knowledge from alternative perspectives, which can enrich the more common approaches to ecological and other studies as well as plans of management for conservation.
