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In this adaptation of Ciraj Rassool's chapter "Human Remains, the Disciplines of the Dead, and the South African Memorial Complex" from The Politics of Heritage in Africa, go behind the scenes of anthropological work in Southern Africa.
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Hendrik W. Day, the author of The Afterlife of the Roman City, takes readers through the maze of Roman cities to explore how the way a state is ruled shapes its architecture: from ancient Constantinople to today's Pyongyang.
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When the New York Times called David F. Lancy's The Anthropology of Childhood "the only baby book you'll ever need", it jump-started a conversation about examining children and childhood from a global perspective. Here, Lancy examines the way children learn in the Peruvian Amazon to shed new light on today's educational challenges.
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After the success of his 1851 book on The Roman Wall, in 1863 John Collingwood Bruce (1805–92) published this shorter work, intended as 'a guide to pilgrims journeying along the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus'.
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Joel Cabrita, the author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church, explains the Nazaretha Christians of Southern Africa and the eclectic influences that helped them build their church.
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Panayiotis Tzamalikos, the editor and translator of An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation, explains his work on the Scholia in Apocalypsin.
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The land and history of Egypt have fascinated Western visitors since the time of Herodotus, and probably earlier. The Greeks allegedly tried to disguise their reaction to the gigantic remains of Egypt’s past by naming them with diminutives: ‘obeliskos’, a little ‘obelos’, or cooking spit; ‘puramis’, a small cake.
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Paul Heggarty, a contributor to the Cambridge World Prehistory, explores the origins and fates of human languages through the course of prehistory, and how they open up a rich new window on our past. Dr. Heggarty is based at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
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