'Mortuary practices in Mesolithic and Neolithic perspectives of Northern and southern Europe'
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The presentation will be based on results of excavations of large cemeteries from hunter-gather societies in Southern Scandinavia and Latvia (8.500-4.500 BC) as well as from a megalithic tomb in southern Portugal. The cemeteries of hunter-gatherers of Northern Europe are located on islands in…
Embodying Piety: Disciplining Body and Lifestyle of Cadarese in Indonesia
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Embodying Piety: Disciplining Body and Lifestyle of Cadarese in Indonesia This study focuses on the efforts of cadarese (face-veiled women) in Indonesia, particularly those who attach themselves to Tablighi Jam??at and diverse Salafi movements, to be true Muslima (Muslim women) by disciplining…
Anthropology program seminar: Dr Andrew Kipnis
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Chinese Nation-Building as, instead of and before Globalization In this era of "globalization", nation building has been a relatively neglected topic by anthropologists. In this essay, I use Thomas Erikesen's textbook, Globalization, as a framework for exploring nation-building in China.…
On War and Memory and the Memory of War: the Bronze Age Hvidegaard burial revisited
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Since the Balkan war in the early 1990s there has been a growing global interest within the archaeological field for the study of war and warriors, not least within the study of the European Bronze Age. This lecture explores this new field in relation to cultural memory practice and through…
Using Projectile Technology to Infer Aboriginal Land-Use Strategies in Western North America
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Projectile Points have long been used by North American archaeologists as!markers for culture, historical and temporal periods. A projectile point is an object that was part of a projectile such as a spear or arrow and is an excellent indicator of the function that the artefact had. For instance,…