Voices in American Archaeology

Voices in American ArchaeologyArchaeological ideas and practices have experienced transformative change since the Society for American Archaeologys fiftieth Anniversary. Authors in this volume from the SAA press consider critically some of todays most noteworthy issues. Their voiceslike their viewsare as diverse as the discipline. Nonetheless, they repeatedly recognize deep articulation between archaeology and social, economic, and political milieus, from local to global scales.

Then during the Depression

The Arab–Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory

the film presence of Gaudí and his work

One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime

is woefully understudied in our discipline

opera paintings

This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices

Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data

Nachman's thought and writing

inter- and intrasectarian Buddhist polemics

and personal wellness

healing the sick and nursing the infirm