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Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology (Visiting Scholar Conference Volumes) by James G. Cusick; Kathleen Deagan; Prudence M. Rice; Robert L. Schuyler; Ann F. Ramenofsky; Edward M. Schortman; Patricia A. Urban; Jonathan D. Hill; Theresa A. Singleton; John Edward Terrell; Gil J. Stein; Stuart Tyson Smith; Michael Dietler; Peter S. Wells; Susan Toby Evans; Christopher R. DeCorse; Douglas V. Armstrong; Rebecca Saunders; Mark J. Wagner; Joel W. Palka; Rani T. Alexander is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. __Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology,__ edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contact. In this collection of essays, anthropologists and archaeologists working in Europe and the Americas consider three forms of culture contact—colonization, cultural entanglement, and symmetrical exchange. Part I provides a critical overview of theoretical approaches to the study of culture contact, offering assessments of older concepts in anthropology, such as acculturation, as well as more recently formed concepts, including world systems and center-periphery models of contact. Part II contains eleven case studies of specific contact situations and their relationships to the archaeologic

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Author

James G. Cusick; Kathleen Deagan; Prudence M. Rice; Robert L. Schuyler; Ann F. Ramenofsky; Edward M. Schortman; Patricia A. Urban; Jonathan D. Hill; Theresa A. Singleton; John Edward Terrell; Gil J. Stein; Stuart Tyson Smith; Michael Dietler; Peter S. Wells; Susan Toby Evans; Christopher R. DeCorse; Douglas V. Armstrong; Rebecca Saunders; Mark J. Wagner; Joel W. Palka; Rani T. Alexander

Publisher

Center for Archaeological Investigations;Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809334100

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Social Science

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14