Author: Orlaith O'Sullivan File Type: pdf The Reformation period was one of crisis and innovation in society. This work brings together 12 new essays which examine the complex history of the Bible during this period. Authored by some of the most respected specialists in the field.

Author: Siân Jones File Type: pdf The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of cultures from archaeological remains. However, many argue that such associations of remains with past ethnic groups is hopelessly inadequate. This study calls into question how such evidence is used and what conclusions can legitimately be drawn from it. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record, with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In doing so, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.ReviewSian Jones develops here a new framework for the analysis of ethnicity in archaeology that has methodological, interpretative and political implications. Minerva...powerful and definitive... New ScientistIn critically picking a way through the confusing history of ideas and theories, The Archaeology of Ethnicity offers a timely and much-needed synthesis and critique. With coherence and style, this book illustrates how far archaeology has come in recognising the relativity of ethnicity and the distance it still has to travel. Times Literary SupplementThis volume makes a valuable contribution to the discussion of ethnicity in archaeology, and is a must for archaeologists considering aspects of ethnic identity. The Archaeological JournalThis book is useful because it summarises a long and complicated discussion of ethnicity and attempts to apply it to archaeology. ARCThis is an useful introduction to current social theories of ethnicity and a concise summary of archaeological approaches to it. It deserves to be widely raed and ought to form a springboard for further exploration. AntiquityThis book is useful because it summarises a long and complicated discussion of ethnicity and attempts to apply it to archaeology. Archaeological Review, CambridgeA remarkable book and a welcome contribution to archaeological and anthropological reasoning about ethnicity and cultural identity. It is warmly recommended and deserves a wide readership far beyond our own disciplinary boundaries. Norwegian Journal of Archaeology The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the identification of cultures from archaeological remains, in spite of the fact that many consider the association of remains with past ethnic groups to be hopelessly inadequate. Sian Jones examines historical misuses of this type and argues that the archaeology of ethnicity has never really been subjected to any serious theoretical analysis. She responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In so doing, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.

Author: Jennifer Malkowski File Type: pdf In Dying in Full Detail Jennifer Malkowski explores digital medias impact on one of documentary films greatest taboos the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up to their promise to reveal the world in greater fidelity. Malkowski analyzes a wide range of death footage, from feature films about the terminally ill (Dying, Silverlake Life, Sick), to surreptitiously recorded suicides (The Bridge), to #BlackLivesMatter YouTube videos and their precursors. Contextualizing these recordings in the long history of attempts to capture the moment of death in American culture, Malkowski shows how digital media are unable to deliver death in full detail, as its metaphysical truth remains beyond representation. Digital technologys capacity to record death does, however, provide the opportunity to politicize individual deaths through their representation. Exploring the relationships among technology, temporality, and the ethical and aesthetic debates about capturing death on video, Malkowski illuminates the key roles documentary death has played in twenty-first-century visual culture. **

Author: Brian D. Jacobs File Type: pdf Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces. Community groups find it difficult to gain access to the political system. Ethnic minorities strive for empowerment while indebted city governments battle to maintain basic services. Such is the urban crisis of the 1990s. Fractured Cities describes the political economy of urban change and explores the future of the city.Review`...cities (are) afloat in the most profound sea changes in decades. National governments have cut grants and regulations, local governments are privatizing. Some are abandoning centralism, and rethinking socialism, others are rolling back Thatcherism and empowering the underclass. Traditional parties, unions, and national civil servants have been supplanted by consumer-oriented Yuppies, Greens, feminists, multiple New Rights, immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, gays and greys... Jacobs provides a road map to all this and more. - Terry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago`A comprehensive introduction to urban politics in the United States and Britain which both surveys recent developments and explains the theoretical and political significance of these changes...an important contribution to recent urban political economy. - Desmond S. King, St Johns College, Oxford.