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Lost city, found pyramid : understanding alternative archaeologies and pseudoscientific practices /
"Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational "pseudoarchaeology," from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Alternatives and pseudosciences: a history of archaeological engagement with extraordinary claims / Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson
- Steampunk inquiry: a comparative vivisection of discovery pseudosciences / Jeb J. Card
- Part I. Case studies in alternative constructions of the past: methods, ideologies, and practitioners
- The Lost White City of the Honduras: discovered again (and again) / Christopher Begley
- Witches, shamans, and looters: alternative uses and contemporary ritual reuse of archaeological remains in the north-central coast of Peru / Stacy Dunn
- Black Olmecs and White Egyptians: a parable for professional archaeological responses to pseudoarchaeology / David S. Anderson
- Creationist history-making: producing a heterodox past / James S. Bielo
- Creating pyramids: participation, performance, and pseudoarchaeology in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Tera C. Pruitt
- Part II. How archaeologists should or should not engage with pseudoarchaeology
- The central Australian face: a study of archaeological responses to a pseudoarchaeological claim / Denis Gojak
- The proliferation of pseudoarchaeology through "reality" television programming / Evan A. Parker
- Lessons learned from lost civilizations / Kenneth L. Feder, Terry Barnhart, Deborah A. Bolnick, and Bradley T. Lepper
- Ghost hunting as archaeology: archaeology as ghost hunting / April M. Beisaw
- Answering pseudoarchaeology / Kenneth L. Feder.