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Abstracts: "Cultural brokerage" and "public folklore" within a German and American field of discourse. Time and ourselves - the discomforts of reflexive disciplinary history: response to Wolfgang Kaschuba
Abstracts: Cultural brokerage and the public sector: response to Roger Abrahams. Provinces of knowledge; or, can you get out of the only game in town?
Abstracts: Cultural revolutionary. Who's buried in St. Paul's tomb?. China's great enigma: What's inside the unexcavated tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi?
Abstracts: Damming Sudan. Hiking with Hannibal. Back from the brink
Abstracts: Daniel J. Crowley (1921-98). Fred B. Kniffen's milestones in American folklife study
Abstracts: David D. Buchan (1939-1994). Warren E. Roberts (1924-99). Americo Paredes (1915-99)
Abstracts: Dead cities of the Syrian hill country. Postal propaganda: promoting the present with the past. Day of the dead
Abstracts: Death and myth: new books on Roman sarcophagi. Barriers, barracks, and beyond: remarks on some current Roman military studies
Abstracts: Declaration of independence; the case for autonomous archaeology departments at American colleges and universities
Abstracts: Decoding the megaliths: a young scholar searches for the meaning of Malta's ancient temples. Mystery mummy: a royal body may be that of Rameses I, but can we ever be sure?
Abstracts: Defiant Britain; mapping the bunkers and pillboxes built to stymie a Nazi invasion. Forgiveness in the sweat lodge
Abstracts: Dendrochronology. Radiocarbon calibration: current issues. Radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry
Abstracts: Denizens of the desert: geophysical imaging maps subterranean settlements in the hard hillsides of Israel's Negev Desert
Abstracts: De-, re-, and post-industrialization: industrial heritage as contested memorial terrain. Intercultural communication as applied ethnology and folklore
Abstracts: Did Thames Wreck take on the Armada? The executioner's moat. Pre-Christian rituals at Nazareth
Abstracts: Digging deep. Tales of the Count: adventures in showmanship. From the trenches
Abstracts: Digging in the land of Magan: excavations yield evidence of cultures spanning some 8,000 years. Warrior women of the Eurasian steppes: new evidence suggests that tales of Amazon warriors may be more than mere legend
Abstracts: Digging in the land of the Bible. Timor's safe havens: how caves helped shape the history of the world's newest nation
Abstracts: Digging under Beantown. Cyber sets and sanctuaries. Remembering the Mimbres
Abstracts: Digitizing the ancient Near East. Armageddon, Megiddo, and the end of the world. Digging at Armageddon
Abstracts: Dilemma tales in the tale type index: the theme of joint efforts. The centrality in folkloristics of motif and tale type
Abstracts: Disengagement by engagement: Volkskunde in a period of change. How big is our subject? Brokering disciplinary and national cultures
Abstracts: Displaying dialogues - the contingencies of collaboration: response to Frank Korom. Empowerment through representation and collaboration in museum exhibitions
Abstracts: Divergent paths: on the evolution of "folklore" and "folkloristics."(A Forum on the Term "Folklore") Folkloristics as an interstitial practice: response to Mary Hufford
Abstracts: Diving into history. Conversations: saved by sand. Assault on tradition: a UNESCO nomination compels a second look at the surprising history of gritty, industrial Liverpool
Abstracts: Drugs and medicines in the Roman world. Off the battlefield: the civilian's view of late Roman soldiers. Roman surveyors in Corinth, Greece
Abstracts: Earliest Egyptian glyphs: writing evolved simultaneously in Mesopotamia and Egypt. "This ain't the English department;" on becoming an archaeologist in the 1950s at Florida State University
Abstracts: Early church at Aqaba. Faking African art. Saga of the Persian princess
Abstracts: Early habitation of the Angkor plain: evidence from recent archeological research. Two thousand years of engineering genius on the Angkor plain
Abstracts: Early herders of the Eurasian Steppe. Historic glass from Block 49, a Mormon site in the Salt Lake Valley. Forest hunters of Eurasia
Abstracts: Early Transcaucasian cultures and their neighbors: Unraveling migration, trade, and assimilation. One of Iraq's earliest towns: excavating Tepe Gawra in the museum archives
Abstracts: Edible wild plants as digestive aids; ethnoarchaeology in Masailand. Mancala: games that count
Abstracts: Eighth wonder of the world: a perilous journey through Pakistan's rugged mountains along a branch of the ancient Silk Road
Abstracts: Ekron identity confirmed: a unique royal inscription offers clues to early Philistine history. Jerusalem's Temple Mount flap
Abstracts: Elijah Pierce, woodcarver. La sirena encantadora: the mermaid in Mexican folk art and legend. The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do
Abstracts: Elusive libraries of Timbuktu: scholars seek West Africa's medieval past in the city's little known manuscripts
Abstracts: Equus on ice. First farmers; a unique Syrian site, flooded after completion of a dam, yielded evidence of one of the world's oldest settlements
Abstracts: Ethiopian Folk Art: The Leavitt Collection. Response. The Assam dragon: folklore and folkloristics in India's long-closed Northeast Frontier
Abstracts: Evidence from Homer. The games people played. Past, present, future: perception of the time through the ages
Abstracts: Excavating MIAs: archaeologists probe Vietnam crash sites for remains of U.S. pilots. Hounding the dead; a remarkable Michigan mutt sniffs out ancient human remains
Abstracts: Excavations at Zhaoling, Shaanxi, China. Excavations at the upper Lovett Campsite, Alberta. A masterpiece in clay; a Han house model reflects traditional Chinese life
Abstracts: Exhibiting culture in Austria: the legacies of provincial exhibitions and the role of folk culture. Re-creating and re-imagining folk performing arts in contemporary Japan
Abstracts: Explanations, interpretations, and stories of the European Neolithic. The stone age of Greece from the Paleolithic to the advent of the neolithic
Abstracts: Exploring South America: rich and diverse, this region of the world has become a unique laboratory for studying human cultural evolution
Abstracts: Extreme sport: once the game of Maya kings and Aztec warriors, ulama lives on in the dusty playing fields of western Mexico
Abstracts: Faces from the past: first view of early humans from Spain's Pit of Bones. Subway to the past; a new metro system spurs an excavation of unprecedented size
Abstracts: Festival of American Folklife: On the National Mall. Definitions of "Folk" and "Lore" in the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife
Abstracts: Feudal identity and dogmatized folk culture. Time has come today. On the brink of the next century: the necessary invention of the present
Abstracts: Field of dreams. Lost voices of Jamestown. Where civilization began
Abstracts: Fiery finery: in ancient legends the combustible cloak was a weapon for exacting revenge. A time of giants and monsters; the discovery of huge bones in antiquity spawned vivid and imaginative myths
Abstracts: Finding artifacts is not archaeology. Parakeet to paradise; archaeology of a pet cemetery. A gentleman scholar; cultured, urbane, and a tireless excavator, Paul Sidney Martin was a pillar in the development of American archaeology
Abstracts: Finding the original home of the museum's Brahma. What was there before the museum? People, places and projects
Abstracts: First Heyerdahl, now Hollywood. Moving the moai; transporting the megaliths of Easter Island: how did they do it?
Abstracts: First lady of Amazonia: Betty Meggers is a strong-willed octogenarian with immovable beliefs about ancient jungle cultures
Abstracts: Folk-Lore and Volks-Kunde: compounding compounds. The Thomsian heritage in the Folklore Society (London). Folk-lore
Abstracts: Folklore studies applied to health. Theory as practice: some dialectics of generality and specificity in folklore scholarship
Abstracts: Folklorism revisited. The habit of folklore: remarks on lived Volkskunde and the everyday practice of European ethnology after the end of faith
Abstracts: Folk-topical recordings and American left-wing politics. Producing blues recordings. "Cielos del Norte, Alma del Rio Arriba": Nuevo Mexicano folk music revivals, recordings 1943-98
Abstracts: Forgery fallout. Getting inside skulls. Mel Gibson's Maya
Abstracts: Frederica de Laguna and her reunion under Mount Saint Elias. Food from here: struggles and truimphs at the farmer's diner in Vermont
Abstracts: Freeing captive history. Secrets in the Cinders: how Native Americans in the Southwest survived-and even profited from- an eleventh-century volcanic eruption
Abstracts: Gallery in situ: Copan's new museum highlights sculptural treasures and a sophisticated Maya cosmology. On the healer's path; a journey through the Maya rain forest
Abstracts: Gems from the Silk Road: an exhibition of artifacts almost entirely unknown in the West. The virtual silk road
Abstracts: Getty gets Fleischman collection. Diving at ground zero. Diving on the Titanic
Abstracts: Gift, offering, and reciprocity: personalized remembrance and the "small finds." (includes bibliography) (Gifts to the Goddesses: Cyrene's Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone)
Abstracts: Gifts of the desert. Tribute to a conquering king; battle scenes at Abydos honor a pharaoh's triumph over Hyskos occupiers after his reunification of Egypt
Abstracts: Goods, graves, and scholars: 18th-century archaeologists in Britain and Italy. Opening Franco's graves
Abstracts: Greece sues for Mycenaean gold. Queen of the novel. Fallen heroes; Bones of Pericles' soldiers come to New York for analysis
Abstracts: Gregory L. Possehl: Curator, Asian section. Eddie Lenihan. Shamanism and spirit
Abstracts: Group. Rethinking the public: folklorists and the contestation of public cultures. Provinces of knowledge; or, can you get out of the only game in town?
Abstracts: Guidespeak. Civil War in the West. What's on line? Digging into the World Wide Web
Abstracts: Guns of Sandy Hook: how America caught up with world powers on the Jersey shore. Native wonders of Middle America
Abstracts: Ham hocks on your cornflakes. Written in bone. Habitus, ethnomimesis: a note on the logic of practice
Abstracts: Hamlet had it wrong; a journey through medieval Denmark flips the switch on the "Dark Ages." The Gospels' holiest sanctum
Abstracts: High definition archaeology: ideas and evaluation. Archaeological biographies: realizing human lifecycles, -courses and -histories
Abstracts: Holly Pittman. Paleolithic archeology: the search for our human heritage. Middle Egypt in prehistory: a search for the origins of modern human behavior and human dispersal
Abstracts: Homage to Oman: reflections on an Arabian kingdom's illustrious past. An endangered sanctuary
Abstracts: Homeless collections. Taino encounters; New York's Museo del Barrio showcases the first Caribbean islanders. Occupational hazards; oh, the risks in store for the unwary archaeologist
Abstracts: Horace's healing spring: scholars unveil a cold-water spa possibly patronized by the Roman poet and Augustus himself
Abstracts: Household craft specialization and shell ornament manufacture in Ejutla, Mexico. Living on the Mesa: Hanat Kotyiti, a post-revolt Cochiti community in Northern New Mexico
Abstracts: Hunting Alexander's tomb. Cruising Lake Nasser. Tombs of the pyramid builders
Abstracts: Images of conquest: scholars in the Dominican Republic study a Columbus-era Taino town and some intriguing rock art
Abstracts: Images of dynasty: China's golden age of archaeology. The Princess of Chen's necklaces. Legacy of racism: South African archaeology emerges from half a century of apartheid
Abstracts: Imaging Maya art: infrared video "prospecting" of Bonampak's famous murals yields critical details no longer visible to the naked eye
Abstracts: Immunochemistry applied to archaeology. Preliminary excavations in the gardens of Hadrian's villa: the Canopus area and the Piazza d'Oro
Abstracts: Infancy and the spirit world in ancient China. Travel guide to the ancient world 1995. Utah's Ancient Ones
Abstracts: In Schliemann's shadow: Frank Calvert, the unheralded discoverer of Troy. Rethinking Troy
Abstracts: In search of Anau's past. Black Sea coastal cultures: trade and interaction. Eurasian archaeology
Abstracts: Insider: unfair fairways? The Viking experiment. Spectacular Viking hoard
Abstracts: Insistent questions: a simple test could resolve the matter. Is the mask a hoax?
Abstracts: In the valley of the eagle. The heart of creation, the heart of darkness: Sacred caves in Mesoamerica. Caves as sacred places on the Tibetan plateau
Abstracts: Introducing the patient's voice: an applied folklore approach to autonomy in adolescent health care. Indexing folktales: a critical survey
Abstracts: Invisible no more. Reshaping Waterloo. In Flanders fields
Abstracts: Iran beckons. First churches of the Jesus cult. City of the dead
Abstracts: Iraq alert: an extraordinary heritage is now at risk. The specter of war: protecting Iraq's museum collections and archaeological sites in the event of an invasion
Abstracts: Is the mask a hoax? The case for authenticity. Behind the mask of Agamemnon: is Schliemann's famous find a modern-day forgery?
Abstracts: Japan's new past: how a century of archaeology helped dispel a nation's mythic origins. Archaeology meets the 104th Congress
Abstracts: Japan's new past: how a century of archaeology helped dispel a nation's mythic origins. part 2 New York's mythic slum: digging lower Manhattan's infamous Five Points
Abstracts: Joseph Wegner:Associate curator, Egyptian section. Out of heaviness, enlightenment. The centennial potlatch
Abstracts: "Jumping the broom": on the origin and meaning of an African American wedding custom. "Jumping the broom": a further consideration of the origins of an African American wedding custom
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