Light and Shadow - Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania

Informationen zum Autor Michael L. Galaty is professor of anthropology at Millsaps College in Jackson! Mississippi! and a former chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Ols Lafe is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tirana! Albania. He is Director of Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Tourism! Culture! Youth and Sports. Wayne E. Lee is professor of history at the University of North Carolina! USA! and currently the chair of the Curriculum in Peace! War! and Defense. Zamir Tafilica has since 1987 been responsible for the Department of Archaeology at the Historical Museum of Shkoder and became director of the museum in 2008. Klappentext Employing survey archaeology! excavation! ethnographic study! and multinational archival work! the Shala Valley Project uncovered the many powerful! creative ways whereby the men and women of Shala shaped their world: through dynamic! world-systemic relationships with the powers that surrounded but never fully conquered them. Zusammenfassung The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders in the full complexity of their lives! and unveils a new! deeper history for the region! back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. For archaeologists! historians! and students of kinship! of the built landscape! of world-systems theory and sustainability science! and more..

Product details

• Authors: Michael L. (EDT)/ Lafe Galaty
• Assisted by: Michael L. Galaty (Editor), Ols Lafe (Editor), Wayne E. Lee (Editor), Zamir Tafilica (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9781931745710
• ISBN: 978-1-931745-71-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Monumenta Archaeologica; Monumenta Archaeologica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous