... to key approaches from the past 50 years, including adaptive approaches, such as cultural ecology, and also more recent interpretive approaches. The two key areas of ethnoarchaeology and gender are also considered. The chapter concludes by reviewing diversity in current hunter-gatherer research, both...

...This chapter provides an accessible introduction to interpretive approaches in the study of religion and identifies core themes and ideas that cut across the volume’s diverse chapters. In tracing areas of similarity and divergence across the different interpretive lenses that contributors bring...

.... alliances cereals dolmen farmers gift-exchange herding interpretive approaches metaphor phenomenology Chapter frontispiece: ‘Stones over Avebury’ (wood-engraving, Hilary Paynter) 16 This vivid engraving is an aerial perspective over the massive henge from the south-west, with the church...

... in the network, which point to discursive formations that structure meaning. discourse analysis newspaper selection and sampling discourse network analysis discourse analysis methodology digital humanities interpretive approaches This book develops and applies a new method to enable a systematic...

... his work to the interpretive approaches, and the historical and cultural conditions underpinning them. It also asks: why did Hemingway's early critics persist in deriving a concept of authentic manhood from narrative evidence that is by no means wholly in its favor? “Capital of the World...

... constructs of personhood personhood social relations religion and ritual diet subsistence and foodways gender gender based division of labour identity childscapes hunter-gatherer evolutionary approaches interpretive approaches technology archaeogenetics landscape personhood gender religion...

... of interpretive approaches, ranging from historical-critical to the recent queer and postcolonial, noting, too, how greater attention to readers’ diversity has led to context itself becoming a hermeneutical key. Further interpretive challenges are noted before two case studies of diverse readings of Rahab (Josh...