Human expeditions : inspired by Bruce Trigger /

Human expeditions : inspired by Bruce Trigger / edited by Stephen Chrisomalis and Andre Costopoulos. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xx, 295 pages) : illustrations, 1 map, 1 portrait

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Land of Punt and recent archaeological and textual evidence from the Pharaonic Harbor at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt / "Slaves" and slave-raiding on the Northern Plains and Rupert's Land / Contextualising the phenomenology of landscape / The independence of ethnoarchaeology / Experiments and their application to lithic archaeology : an experimental essay / The history of archaeology as a field : from marginality to recognition / Cultural continuity, identity and archaeological practice in the Indian context / A citation analysis of the works Included in Americanist culture history : fundamentals of time, space and form / Bruce Trigger : "A second international Marxist"? / Bruce Trigger and the philosophical matrix of scientific research / What are the bases of domain specificity? / Age, equality, and inequality : a new model for social evolution / Figurative activity in an evolutionary perspective / Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich -- The Impact of Blackness on the formation of classics / Martin Bernal -- Alice Beck Kehoe -- John Bintliff -- Jerimy J. Cunningham -- Harry Lerner -- Oscar Moro Abadía -- Neha Gupta -- Jennifer Bracewell -- Thomas C. Patterson -- Mario Bunge -- Jérôme Rousseau -- Csilla Dallos -- Leo S. Klejn.

"In its 2007 obituary of Bruce Trigger (1937-2006), the Times of London referred to the Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist as "Canada's leading prehistorian" and "one of the most influential archaeologists of his time." Trained at Yale University and a faculty member at McGill University for more than forty years, he was best known for his History of Archaeological Thought, which the Times called "monumental." Trigger inspired scholars all over the world through his questioning of assumptions and his engagement with social and political causes. Human Expeditions pays tribute to Trigger's immense legacy by bringing together cutting edge work from internationally recognized and emerging researchers inspired by his example. Covering the length and breadth of Trigger's wide-ranging interests --



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Trigger, Bruce G.
Trigger, Bruce G.--Influence.


Archaeology--Canada.
Anthropology--Canada.


Electronic Books.

CC115 / .H863 2013