Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth
century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and …

In this welcome brand new fifth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese
Society, Joy Hendry takes the reader into the heart of Japanese life. Providing a clear and …

Integrating political events with cultural, economic, and intellectual movements, Modern
Japan provides a balanced and authoritative survey of modern Japanese history. A …

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's
environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto …

As archaeologists we look to the past, but where might archaeology be going in the future?
In this issue of Antiquity we begin a new feature where we invite archaeologists from …

In the 1930s, a cohort of professional human scientists coalesced around a common and
particular understanding of objectivity as the foundation of legitimate knowledge, and of …

Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From
Yanagita's â mountain people'to Umehara's â Jōmon civilisation', Japan has been an …

During the 1980s, the adoption of neoliberal precepts in archaeology initiated the process of
its privatisation. This process in turn created a new economic niche called contract …

Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social
archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and …

The triple disaster that hit eastern Japan on 11 March 2011—earthquake, tsunami and
nuclear meltdown—was a momentous event with long-term implications for archaeology …