Author: Tim Murray File Type: pdf This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast between a scientific understanding of time and social, cultural and religious ideas of time, and show how both are important to archaeology. This survey of time and archaeology includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors and combines theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast between a scientific understanding of time and social, cultural and religious ideas of time, and show how both are important to archaeology. While much archaeological research into time has focused on the key issue of attempting to understand how people in the past had different concepts of time, this collection also shows how developing a fundamental understanding of archaeological time is central to all archaeology, and impacts on its theory and practice.

Author: Nikolas Kozloff File Type: pdf In the past few years, South America has witnessed the rise of leftist governments coming into power on the heels of dramatic social and political unrest. From Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to Evo Morales, the indigenous head of state of Bolivia, and Michelle Bachelet, the first woman president in Chile, the faces of South Americanpolitics are changing rapidly and radically. In this timely and insightful analysis, acclaimed journalist and Latin American authority, Nikolas Kozloff explores the continents new path andits affect onthe U.S. New initiatives, such as Telesur, the satellite networkwith linksto Al Jazeera, an oil-exporting consortium, and a regional currency, are coalescing South America into an emerging global player. With access to toppolitical brass and a lively reportage style, Kozloff shows how we can secure and protect our ties with our close neighbors.From Publishers WeeklyIn the past five years, Latin Americas new cadre of leftist leaders have been struggling to shake off the legacies of faltering economies and military dictatorships that have long haunted the region. Kozloff (Hugo Chavez Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the U.S.) offers a series of snapshots of steady transformation, focusing heavily on Venezuelas Chavez and key issues like oil, media and multiculturalism. Compiling current anecdotes and concise historical summaries, Kozloff describes a number of overlapping trends in the region, such as indigenous rights movements and revived labor unions, as well as a widespread desire for economic independence from the United States. Kozloff interprets these similarities as proof of increasing regional integration, but fails to provide adequate hard evidence. If anything, he succeeds in showing how the countries he writes about have moved away from cookie-cutter solutions and are each working to develop equitable societies on their own terms. (Apr.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewPraise for Revolution!While official Washington and elite media have been mucking about in the Middle East, journalist Nikolas Kozloff has charted his own path amid the terrain-shifting upsurges in Americas backyard. He casts a sympathetic but critical eye at the leftward trend in South American politics, the battles over oil and media, the rise of indigenous movements and sometimes erratic populist leaders. If you get your news on Latin America from mainstream media, this wide-ranging book is a needed corrective.--Jeff Cohen, author of Cable News Confidential and founder of the media watch group FAIRA much needed antidote to the mainstream medias canting coverage of Latin America. Kozloff is an acute observer of contemporary Latin American politics, and he proves to be an indispensable guide to the ideas, politics, and economics behind the regions yet latest attempt to wrest some wiggle room from Washington, as well as to the possibilities and perils that confront its New Left leaders and activists.--Greg Grandin, author of Empires Workshop Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New ImperialismPraise for Hugo ChavezEssential reading for all who want to understand modern global politics.--John Perkins, author of the New YorkTimes bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man[Kozloff] lets us in on his travels, Jack Kerouac-style.--Roger Lowenstein, New York Times