Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

Bioarchaeological studies of children have, until recently, centered on population data- driven topics like mortality rates and growth and morbidity patterns. This volume examines emerging issues in childhood studies, looking at historic and prehistoric contexts and framing questions about the nature and quality of children’s lives. 

In this book, Paul Mullins examines a wide variety of material objects and landscapes that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us, looking at the way the material world shapes how we imagine, express, and negotiate difficult historical experiences.

<p>Tooth modification has been practiced throughout many time periods and places to convey information about individual people, their societies, and their relationships to others. This volume represents the wide spectrum of intentional dental modification in humans across the globe over the past 16,000 years.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city&rsquo;s material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan paradise.

Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf&rsquo;s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries--a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf&rsquo;s pioneering modernist style can be seen.

The emergence of village societies out of hunter-gatherer groups profoundly transformed social relations in every part of the world where such communities formed. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, this volume explores the development of villages in eastern North America from the Late Archaic period to the eighteenth century. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

<p>This book tells the little-known story of how the United States used modern art as a cultural defense strategy in South America during World War II.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>