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JCA Book Reviews: Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City. By Trinidad Rico

On January 23, 2018 By Equinox Publishing
Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City. By Trinidad Rico. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Hardback, 136pp. ISBN 978-1-62958-437-9. Not long after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, I visited one of the UK’s seismology monitoring centres in relation to its heritage. I dwelt on a printout that was stuck to [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Studies in Forensic Biohistory. Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan

On January 22, 2018 By Equinox Publishing
Studies in Forensic Biohistory. Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hardback, 350 pp. 76 b/w illus., 7 tables. ISBN 978-1-107-07354-8. ‘Dead people come with a curriculum vitae or resume’ (Katherine Verdery) Why should we care if “Abraham Lincoln had Marfan syndrome” or “all the Romanovs [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Stones Tell Stories at Osu: Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade by H. Nii-Adziri Wellington

On January 22, 2018 By Equinox Publishing
Stones Tell Stories at Osu: Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. By H. Nii-Adziri Wellington. Legon-Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers 2011 (2nd edition in press). Paperback, 342 pp. 76 colour illus. ISBN 978-9988-647-40-7 Denmark’s imperial and colonial history and its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade remains insufficiently interrogated, despite a [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: La muerte del verdugo: Reflexiones interdisciplinarias sobre el cadáver de los criminales de masa [The Death of the Executioner; interdisciplinary reflections on the dead body of mass criminals]. Edited by Sévane Garibian

On January 22, 2018 By Equinox Publishing
La muerte del verdugo; Reflexiones interdisciplinarias sobre el cadáver de los criminales de masa [The Death of the Executioner; interdisciplinary reflections on the dead body of mass criminals]. Edited by Sévane Garibian. Buenos Aires: Míño y Davíla, 2016. Paperback, 268 pp. ISBN 978-84-16467-63-1. In 1980, a couple went on holiday to Spain with their two [...]
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Journal of Islamic Archaeology 3.1 Supplement

On September 9, 2016 By Eve Hooper
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JCA Book Reviews: Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage. Edited by Kathyrin Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico

On June 9, 2016 By Eve Hooper
Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage. Edited by Kathyrin Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. Authenticity. Civil society. Cultural diversity. Cultural property. Democratization. Difficult heritage. Equity. Heritage at risk. Heritage discourse. Intangible heritage. Memory. Natural heritage. Place. Rights. Sustainability. These “keywords” serve as chapter titles for this volume, framed [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Cold Wars and Summer-Night Dances: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor, by Anna McWilliams and Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History) by Maria Persson

On June 9, 2016 By Archaeology Blog
By Eve Hooper An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor. By Anna McWilliams, Södertörns Högskola, 2013. Paperback, 252 pp. ISBN 978-9-186-06978-0. Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (English: Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History). By Maria Persson, Gothenburg University, 2014. Hardback, 329 pp. ISBN 978-9-185-24555-0. Archaeology [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Cold Wars and Summer-Night Dances: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor, by Anna McWilliams and Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History) by Maria Persson

On June 9, 2016 By Eve Hooper
An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor. By Anna McWilliams, Södertörns Högskola, 2013. Paperback, 252 pp. ISBN 978-9-186-06978-0. Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria (English: Memories of our Time: Archaeology, Materiality and Contemporary History). By Maria Persson, Gothenburg University, 2014. Hardback, 329 pp. ISBN 978-9-185-24555-0. Archaeology of the contemporary past is [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune.

On June 9, 2016 By Archaeology Blog
By Eve Hooper Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 6/2014, Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5. Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts is special issue of the popular science magazine Archäologie in Deutschland, presenting recent work in contemporary [...]
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JCA Book Reviews: Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune.

On June 9, 2016 By Archaeology Blog
By Eve Hooper Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts (English: Archaeology at Crime Scenes of the Twentieth Century). By Claudia Theune. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 6/2014, Paperback, 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-8062-2961-5. Archäologie an Tatorten des 20. Jahrhunderts is special issue of the popular science magazine Archäologie in Deutschland, presenting recent work in contemporary [...]
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