ARCHAEOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

University Press of Florida 9780813068954 Pub Date: 12/13/2022 $30.00 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback 242 Pages Literary Criticism / American LIT004040 9 in H | 6 in W

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To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

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How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture

In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan paradise. McInnis discusses how this favorable "melting pot" narrative depends on the obfuscation of racialized violence against people of African descent.

Analyzing novels, short stories, and memoirs by Edwidge Danticat, M.J. Fievre, Carlos Moore, Carlos Eire, Patricia Stephens Due, and Tananarive Due, as well as films such as Dawg Fight and Moonlight, McInnis demonstrates how these creations push back against erasure by representing the experiences of Black Americans and immigrants from Caribbean nations. McInnis considers portrayals of state-sanctioned oppression, residential segregation, violent detention of emigres, and increasing wealth gaps to conclude that celebrations of Miami's diversity disguise the pervasive, adaptive nature of white supremacy and anti-Blackness.

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Tatiana D. McInnis is instructor of American studies and humanities at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

University Press of Florida 9780813064314 Pub Date: 3/12/2019 $24.95 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback 206 Pages Social Science / Anthropology SOC002010 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 lb Wt

Edible Insects and Human Evolution

Julie J. Lesnik

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Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological record. In this volume, Julie Lesnik highlights a different food source, tracing evidence that humans and their hominin ancestors also consumed insects throughout the entire course of human evolution. Lesnik combines primatology, sociocultural anthropology, reproductive physiology, and paleoanthropology to examine the role of insects in the diets of huntergatherers and our nonhuman primate cousins. She posits that women would likely spend more time foraging for and eating insects than men, arguing that this pattern is important to note because women are too often ignored in reconstructions of ancient human behavior. Because of the abundance of insects and the low risk of acquiring them, insects were a reliable food source that mothers used to feed their families over the past five million years.

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Julie J. Lesnik is assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State University.

University Press of Florida 9780813066622 Pub Date: 11/3/2020 $90.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards 236 Pages Social Science / Anthropology SOC002010 Series: Cultural Heritage Studies 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.6 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

The Valkyries’ Loom

The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic

Michèle Hayeur Smith

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Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies

In The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While previous researchers have overlooked textiles as insignificant artifacts, Hayeur Smith is the first to use them to understand gender and economy in Norse societies of the North Atlantic.

This groundbreaking study is based on the author’s systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál), and how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing.

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Michèle Hayeur Smith is research associate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.

University Press of Florida 9780813066844 Pub Date: 6/22/2021 $80.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 136 Pages Social Science / Archaeology SOC003000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.4 in T | 0.8 lb Wt

Heritage and the Existential Need for History

Maud Webster

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In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society. In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society.

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Maud Webster is an independent scholar based in Athens, Greece. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Punctuated Insularity: The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia.