Human expeditions
Subtitle: inspired by Bruce Trigger
By: edited by Stephen Chrisomalis and Andre Costopoulos
Contributors: Bard, Kathryn A.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781442614222
Subjects: Influence; Archaeology; Anthropology; Archéologie; Anthropologie
Description: "In its 2007 obituary of Bruce Trigger (1937-2006), the Times of London referred to the Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist as "Canada's leading prehistorian" and "one of the most influential archaeologists of his time." Trained at Yale University and a faculty member at McGill University for more than forty years, he was best known for his History of Archaeological Thought, which the Times called "monumental." Trigger inspired scholars all over the world through his questioning of assumptions and his engagement with social and political causes. Human Expeditions pays tribute to Trigger's immense legacy by bringing together cutting edge work from internationally recognized and emerging researchers inspired by his example. Covering the length and breadth of Trigger's wide-ranging interests -- from Egyptology to the history of archaeological theory to North American aboriginal cultures -- this volume highlights the diversity of his academic work and the magnitude of his impact in many different areas of scholarship."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Land of Punt and recent archaeological and textual evidence from the Pharaonic Harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt  -- Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich -- The Impact of Blackness on the formation of classics / -- Martin Bernal; title: "Slaves" and slave-raiding on the Northern Plains and Rupert's Land  -- Alice Beck Kehoe; title: Contextualising the phenomenology of landscape  -- John Bintliff; title: The independence of ethnoarchaeology  -- Jerimy J. Cunningham; title: Experiments and their application to lithic archaeology : an experimental essay  -- Harry Lerner; title: The history of archaeology as a field : from marginality to recognition  -- Oscar Moro Abadía; title: Cultural continuity, identity and archaeological practice in the Indian context  -- Neha Gupta; title: A citation analysis of the works Included in Americanist culture history : fundamentals of time, space and form  -- Jennifer Bracewell; title: Bruce Trigger : "A second international Marxist"?  -- Thomas C. Patterson; title: Bruce Trigger and the philosophical matrix of scientific research  -- Mario Bunge; title: What are the bases of domain specificity?  -- Jérôme Rousseau; title: Age, equality, and inequality : a new model for social evolution  -- Csilla Dallos; title: Figurative activity in an evolutionary perspective / Leo S. Klejn.