Kristin Armstrong Oma

Gebundenes Buch

The Sheep People

The Ontology of Making Lives, Building Homes and Forging Herds in Early Bronze Age Norway

Beschreibung

The overarching aim of The Sheep People is to examine what happens to the understanding of past societies when animals are perceived as sentient beings, agents with the ability to impact human lives.

Autor

Dr. Kristin Armstrong Oma is currently the Head of the department of education and public service at the University of Stavanger, Archaeological museum (2013-present). She is an archaeologist and holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Southampton (2002-2004), and a postdoctoral fellowship in archaeology from the University of Oslo (2010-2013). Previously, she was a junior lecturer in the department of archaeology at the University of Oslo, and has also participated in a wide range of archaeological fieldwork. Her research is situated in-between archaeology and human-animal studies. In her scholarly work she actively engages in arenas of archaeology and also of interdisciplinary human-animal studies arenas. She has published extensively on the relationships between humans and animals in the past, and she was guest editor of a Society and Animals special issue on archaeology, as well as co-editor of a World Archaeology volume called Humans and Animals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781781792513
• ISBN-10: 1781792518
• Artikelnr.: 47636596