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    The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    Chris Gosden

    A unique history of the forgotten, oldest strand of human history, and its resurgence today

    Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and…

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    Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction

    Chris Gosden (Professor of European Archaeology, Oxford University)

    Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written…

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    Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship

    Chris Gosden

    This volume provides an introduction to the theories and methods of anthropology and archaeology. It covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of the two inter-related subjects.

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    Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    Chris Gosden

    Originally published in 2020 by Viking, Great Britain, as The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present –Title page verso.

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    Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present

    Chris Gosden (University of Oxford)

    In this wide-ranging study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. He argues that modern colonialism, giving rise to settler societies, is historically unusual and that…

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    Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present

    Chris Gosden (University of Oxford)

    In this wide-ranging study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. He argues that modern colonialism, giving rise to settler societies, is historically unusual and that…

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    Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    Chris Gosden

    Originally published in 2020 by Viking, Great Britain, as The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present –Title page verso.

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    Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    Chris Gosden

    Drawing on decades of research around the world, Chris Gosden shows what magic can offer us today, and how we might use it to rethink our relationship with the world.

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    An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology

    A. Mark Pollard, Chris Gosden

    This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology…

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    Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945

    Chris Gosden,Frances Larson

    This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and…

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    Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change

    Chris Gosden,Chantal Knowles

    Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally.

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    Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change

    Chris Gosden,Chantal Knowles

    Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally.

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    Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    Chris Gosden

    Drawing on decades of research around the world, Chris Gosden shows what magic can offer us today, and how we might use it to rethink our relationship with the world.

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    The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change

    This book tackles the issues of subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact.

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    The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change

    This book tackles the issues of subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact.

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    Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture

    Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers

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    The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology

    The Handbook, written by 35 leading experts, provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological activities past and present. It will give the reader a sense of the…

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    The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology

    The Handbook, written by 35 leading experts, provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological activities past and present. It will give the reader a sense of the…

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    Technologies of Enchantment?: Exploring Celtic Art: 400 BC to AD 100

    Duncan Garrow (Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Liverpool),Chris Gosden (Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford)

    This volume connects Celtic art to its archaeological context, looking at how it was made, used, and deposited. Based on a comprehensive database, it brings together current theories concerning the…

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    Art in the Eurasian Iron Age: Context, Connections and Scale

    Explores Iron Age art at a Eurasian scale, as well as its long-distance connections.

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    Communities and Connections

    A collection of essays by many of the leading specialists in the archaeology of the Iron Age and early Roman periods in Britain and western Europe, paying tribute to Professor…

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    English Landscapes and Identities: Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

    Chris Gosden (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford),Chris Green (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford),Anwen Cooper (Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, The University of Manchester),Miranda Creswell (Project Artist),Victoria Donnelly (Arup)

    Based on The English Landscapes and Identities project, this volume synthesises major available data sources of English archaeology to provide the first comprehensive account of the English landscape over a…

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