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Author Weber, Kathryn O

Title Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages)
Contents List of Figures and Table; List of Contributors; Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: An Introduction; Adam T. Smith, Kathryn O. Weber, Emma Hite and Lori Khatchadourian; Part 1; Making Time: Constructed Temporalities and Foregone Futures ; Chapter 1; Tin and Oil: Can We Foresee the Future through the Remote Past?; Mikheil Abramishvili; Chapter 2; Tempus Interruptus: Archaeological Explanation and the Unraised Columns of Oğlanqala Period III; Hilary Gopnik; Chapter 3
One Eye Forward, One Eye Back: Multiple Temporalities, Community, and Social Change in the Culture History of the Southern Urals, Russian Federation (2100-1300 bc)James A. Johnson; Chapter 4; Echoes in Eternity: Social Memory and Mortuary Stone Monuments in Bronze-Iron Age Mongolia; Erik G. Johannesson; Chapter 5; Paths, Pathos, and Portables: Nomadic Culture and Materiality of Movement in the Black Lands of Kalmykia; Irina Shingiray; Part 2; Culture and Counter-Culture: Practice, Place, and Eurasian Prehistory; Chapter 6
Long-Term Occupation and Seasonal Mobility in Mongolia: A Comparative Study of Two Mobile Pastoralist CommunitiesJean-Luc Houle; Chapter 7; Bronze Age Communities and Potting Techniques along the Kazakh Steppe Fringe; Paula N. Doumani Dupuy; Chapter 8; Settlement Mobility and the Politics of Ritual among Late Bronze Age Fortress Communities: Recent Findings from the Site of Tsaghkahovit, Armenia; Ian Lindsay; Chapter 9; Explaining the Kura-Araxes; Mitchell S Rothman; Chapter 10; Land of the Unrule-ables: Bactria in the Achaemenid Period; Xin Wu; Part 3
Timelessness and the Politics of the Past Chapter 11; Unruly Remains: Ethnogenesis and Physical Anthropology in the South Caucasus; Maureen E. Marshall; Chapter 12; Chinese Autochthony and the Eurasian Context: Archaeology, Mythmaking and Johan Gunnar Andersson's "Western Origins"; Magnus Fiskesjö; Chapter 13; Orientalism in Russia: The Caucasus, Historical Narrative and the Formation of a National Identity; Kathryn O. Weber; Index
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Subject Time -- Social aspects -- Eurasia -- History -- To 1500
Time -- Social aspects
Eurasia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hite, Emma
Khatchadourian, Lori
Smith, Adam T
ISBN 9789004325470
9004325476