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Sarah Milledge Nelson
ISBN: 9780967579801
Format: Paperback
Publisher:RKLOG
Edition: illustrated edition
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Follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland. This title recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young woman caught between two cultures. It also tells the story of Flyingbird and the Neolithic people who lived in the mound Clara is excavating.
Sarah Nelson's teaching novel follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland. The story recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young woman caught between two cultures. Nelson also tells the story of Flyingbird and the Neolithic people who lived in the mound Clara is excavating. Addressing issues of gender, shamanism, ethnic identity, and Neolithic culture, and written by a leading American archaeologist specializing in these topics, this volume is both a good read and good archaeology. It is an ideal starting point to introduce archaeology to college students.
| ISBN | 0967579805 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780967579801
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | RKLOG | | Weight (grammes) | 295 | | Imprint | RKLOG | | Published in | Littleton | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 15 Jun 2008 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 99096124 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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'This is a delightful book, whimsical yet based on solid scholarship.' James G. Patterson, Bibliophilos 'This intoxicating and poignant novel will grip you as it floats between the worlds of modern and ancient Korea.' Jared Diamond, UCLA, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel 'Nelson has given us a creative and full-of-life set of images, a truly 'peopled past'.' Margaret Conkey, American Antiquity 'A lyrical novel, which both enterains and informs without being self-indulgent.' Brian Fagan, Asian Perspectives 'Nelson's story is a multi-layered, complex study of identity, gender, archaeology, and adoptee issues... The story is seamless and well paced.' Andrea Lee, Korean Quarterly 'Thoroughly delightful... Informed by some of the most sophisticated modern scholarship on ethnic identity, gender issues, reconstructing history from myth, and recreating prehistoric lifeways [which are] some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology... gripping and entertaining.' Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA 'In Spirit Bird Journey, the author casts an astute eye on foreign encounters with Korea, and on the tricky question of what it means to be "Korean" or "American". She provides an unromantic but thoroughly entertaining portrait of archaeologists at work.' Laurel Kendall, Asia Curator, American Museum of Natural History  Be the first to write a customer review
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