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Migration and Disruptions : Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations /

In this groundbreaking unifying theory of migration, a group of researchers from various anthropological disciplines attempt to identify the social and environmental disruptions that led to migration, regardless of its temporal space. Never before has such a diverse group of scholars met to identify...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tsuda, Takeyuki (Editor ), Baker, Brenda J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: A conceptual framework.
  • Introduction: bridging the past and present in assessing migration / Brenda J. Baker and Takeyuki Tsuda
  • Unifying themes in studies of ancient and contemporary migrations / Takeyuki Tsuda, Brenda J. Baker, James F. Eder, Kelly J. Knudson, Jonathan Maupin, Lisa Meierotto, and Rachel E. Scott
  • Part II: Past perspectives
  • The Anglo-Saxon migration: an archaeological case study of disruption / Catherine Hills
  • Religious disruption and the Islamic conquest of Andalucía / Sonia Zakrzewski
  • Causes and consequences of migration in epiclassic Northern Mesoamerica / Christopher S. Beekman
  • The debated role of migration in the fall of ancient Teotihuacan in central Mexico / George L. Cowgill
  • Migration as a response to environmental and political disruption: the middle horizon and late intermediate periods in the south-central Andes / Kelly J. Knudson and Christina Torres-Rouff
  • Part III: Modern perspectives
  • "Disruption," use wear, and migrant habitus in the Sonoran Desert / Jason De León, Cameron Gokee, and Anna Forringer-Beal
  • Environmental disruption as a consequence of human migration: the case of the U.S.-Mexico border / Lisa Meierotto
  • Rethinking "causation" and "disruption": the environment-migration nexus in northern Ethiopia / James Morrissey
  • Migration and disruption on Palawan Island, the Philippines: a comparison of two cases / James F. Eder
  • Unequal in the court of public opinion: Mexican and Asian immigrant disruptions in the United States / Takeyuki Tsuda
  • Perceptions of disruption: media representations and medical staffs' perceptions of undocumented immigrants? Impact on healthcare services in post-SB 1070 Arizona / Jonathan Maupin
  • Conclusion: migration and disruptions from prehistory to the present / Takeyuki Tsuda and Brenda J. Baker.