Anthropology program seminar: Dr Andrew Kipnis
Activity
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
Activity
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,…