Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison

The papers in this volume, many of which derive from a conference held at Brown University, analyze interactions between distinct antiquarian traditions in the colonial Americas and Ottoman Empire. The editors and multiple contributors consider moreover the broader implications of such case studies for the histories of ideas and archaeology.

Read more at the site of the publisher, Oxbow Books.

Otros pasados: Ontologías alternativas y el estudio de lo que ha sido

This volume, which builds upon a conference held at Universidad de los Andes, brings the anthropological study of ontologies into dialogue with the history of archaeology. Are there radical differences in the ways that different people and communities seek the past in things?

All chapters are available for free download from the site of the publisher, MUSA.