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  • Magic: A History

    From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Magic: Unveiling the Enduring Power of an Ancient Art in Human HistoryIn Magic: A History, Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden explores the unique and often misunderstood history of magic—the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior. Gosden reveals magic's essential role in shaping civilizations, from the curses and charms of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish traditions to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Art in the Eurasian Iron Age

    Context, Connections and Scale

    Edited by Courtney Nimura, Helen Chittock, Peter Hommel, Chris Gosden ...
    Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition, which emerged in Europe around 500 BC. Classical influence has often been cited as the main impetus for this new and distinctive way of decorating, but although Classical and Celtic Art share certain motifs, many of the design principles behind the two ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology

    by A. Mark Pollard, Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Elements in Archaeological Perspectives on Materials and Technologies
    This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology, which is one of few since the pioneering publications of the 1960s. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology. In doing ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • English Landscapes and Identities

    Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

    by Chris Gosden, Chris Green, Anwen Cooper, Miranda Creswell, Victoria Donnelly, Tyler Franconi, Roger Glyde, Zena Kamash, Sarah Mallet, Laura Morley, Daniel Stansbie, Letty ten Harkel ...
    Long before the Norman Conquest of 1066, England saw periods of profound change that transformed the landscape and the identities of those who occupied it. The Bronze and Iron Ages saw the introduction of now-familiar animals and plants, such as sheep, horses, wheat, and oats, as well as new forms of production and exchange and the first laying out of substantial fields and trackways, which ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Collecting Colonialism

    Material Culture and Colonial Change

    by Chris Gosden, Chantal Knowles ...
    Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally. This book takes twentieth-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, and charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through the flow of material culture. Exploring the links between colonialism and material ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Sensible Objects

    Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture

    Series series Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
    Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Prehistory of Food

    Appetites for Change

    Edited by Chris Gosden, Jon G. Hather ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case studies. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Archaeology

    A Changing Relationship

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects.This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It takes a broad historical approach, setting the early history of the disciplines with the colonial period during which the Europeans encountered and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Magic

    A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Narrated by Clarke Peters ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 6 min

    Over the last few centuries, magic has developed a bad reputation—thanks to the unsavory tactics of shady practitioners, and to a successful propaganda campaign on the part of religion and science, which denigrated magic as backward, irrational, and "primitive." In Magic, however, the Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden restores magic to its essential place in the history of the world ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Whole Picture

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