Settlement and Society

Settlement and SocietyEssays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflecting his research and themes. Ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. The intellectual threads Adams pioneered tie the volume together, incl. the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems and use of a comparative approaches such as ethnographic analogy.

this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change

In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu

Examines the tenets of liberalism

people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole

New historical and anthropological insights into the making of marriage

especially those interested in the histories of sex

Mary Louise Pratt

litigation funding

This book tells the true story of Hannah Beswick

validate and speak about diversity in performance practice with a specific focus on the experience of differently-abled dance artists within the changing world of the arts in the UK

This book is a study of human creative behaviour from a computational modelling perspective

employed crucifixion to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies