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1. Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia

   Edited by Catharine Alexander, Victor Buchli, Caroline Humphrey

   Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and...

   Published February 29th 2012 by UCL Press
2. Material Culture

   Edited by Victor Buchli

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   Material culture is the study of material products of human manufacturing processes, or 'the history of things'. Since material culture studies re-emerged within Anglo-American archaeology and anthropology in the late 1960s, this field of study has spread to a variety of other disciplines including...

   Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge
3. Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

   By Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas

   Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology.This volume represents the most recent...

   Published January 24th 2001 by Routledge
4. Interpreting Archaeology

   Finding Meaning in the Past

   Edited by Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carmen, Ian Hodder, Jonathan Last, Gavin Lucas, Michael Shanks

   There has been a profound shift in the direction of archaeological activity in the last fifteen years, a change reflected in this volume. While excavation remains a professional priority, the interpretation of archaeological evidence is now attracting increasing critical study. In part this is...

   Published April 9th 1997 by Routledge