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• 00059227 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 232) and index.".
• 00059229 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 175).".
• 00059230 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059231 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059232 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-167) and index.".
• 00059233 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059234 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059235 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-159) and indexes.".
• 00059236 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index.".
• 00059237 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059237 description "Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- BRIAN V. STREET --PART I -- Literacy and development: ethnographic perspectives on schooling and adult education 19 -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Literacy, schooling and development: views of Rabari nomads, India 27 -- CAROLINE DYER AND ARCHANA CHOKSI -- 2 'Literacy - your key to a better future'? Literacy, reconciliation and development in the National Literacy Programme in Namibia 40 -- UTA PAPEN -- 3 More than just chanting: multilingual literacies, ideology and teaching methodologies in rural Eritrea 61 -- MARTHA WAGAR WRIGHT -- 4 Betrayal and solidarity in ethnography on literacy: revisiting research homework in a north Indian village 78 -- PRITI CHOPRA -- PART II -- Literacy and development: local literacies and development agendas 93 -- Introduction 95 -- 5 Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia 103 -- SHEILA AIKMAN -- 6 Another language, another literacy? Practices in northern Ghana 121 -- PAT HERBERT AND CLINTON ROBINSON -- 7 Literacy and the market: the economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh 137 -- BRYAN MADDOX -- 8 Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links? 152 -- ANNA ROBINSON-PANT -- 9 Household literacy environments as contexts for development in rural China 171 -- REGIE STITES -- 10 Literacies, gender and power in rural Pakistan 188 -- SHIRIN ZUBAIR -- Afterword: problematising literacy and development 205 -- ALAN ROGERS --Index 223.".
• 00059238 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059239 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059239 description "Machine generated contents note: List of figures viii -- List of tables xi -- List of contributors xii -- Acknowledgements xiii -- 1 Introduction: the archaeology of world religion -- TIMOTHY INSOLL -- Definitions and objectives 1 -- An approach to the archaeology of world religion? 3 -- Negative approaches to archaeology and world religion 10 Positive approaches to archaeology and world religion 16 -- The individual chapters 23 -- References 28 -- 2 The archaeology of Hinduism 33 -- DILIP CHAKRABARTI -- Introduction. A difference in perception: the West vis-a-vis the practising Hindu 33 -- The problem of delimiting an archaeological approach 35 -- Archaeological evidencefor rituals, symbols, and deities known to modern Hinduism 35 -- The implications of the archaeological evidence 51 -- Sacred space and continuity. The dimensions of sacred space in the Indian countryside 53 -- Sacred space and archaeology 55 -- The variables behind the growth and continuity of a major pilgrim centre: ancient Varanasi 57 -- Conclusions 58 -- References 59 -- 3 The archaeology of Buddhism 6 I -- ROBIN CONINGHAM -- Introduction 61 -- The life of the Buddha: a textual narrative 63 -- The life of the Buddha: an archaeological narrative 65 -- A review of the typology of Buddhist monuments 70 -- The case studies 80 -- Conclusion: towards an archaeology of Buddhism 87 -- References 91 -- 4 The archaeology ofJudaism 96 -- RACHEL HACHLILI -- Introduction 96 -- The synagogue 97 -- Jewish burial customs 105 -- Iconography and symbolism 112 -- Inscriptions 117 -- Dietary remains 119 -- The traditional domestic environment 119 -- Conclusions 120 -- References 121 -- 5 The archaeology of Islam 123 -- TIMOTHY INSOLL -- Introduction 123 -- Islam - unity and diversity 124 -- The mosque 125 -- The Muslim burial 129 -- Muslim diet 131 -- The traditional domestic environment 133 -- The communiy environment 137 -- A case study: the Cambridge mosque and cemetery 139 -- Conclusions 144 -- References 145 -- 6 The archaeology of Christianity in global perspective 148 -- PAUL LANE -- Introduction 148 -- Archaeological approaches to the study of Christianity 149 -- Interpreting Christian burials and iconography 151 -- Mission, conversion, and the 'colonisation of consciousness' 153 -- Churches and the archaeology of 'cult' 159 -- Transformations of sacred space 164 -- Monasticism and pilgrimage 170 -- Time and the emergence of a Christian core 174 -- Conclusions 176 -- References 177 -- 7 Ethics and the archaeology of world religions 182 -- ANDERS BERGQUIST -- Introduction 182 -- Religion, archaeology, and the sacred 182 -- Case studies 186 Conclusions 190 -- References 191 -- 8 Gender in the archaeology of world religion? 193 -- RACHEL MACLEAN -- Introduction 193 -- Gender and world religion 194 -- Gender and the archaeology of world religion 195 -- Gods and goddesses/goddesses and gods 199 -- Conclusions 200 -- References 201 -- 9 Death, being, and time: the historical context -- of the world religions 203 -- MIKE PARKER PEARSON -- Introduction 203 -- Technologies of belief 204 -- Late Victorian theories of the origin and evolution of religion 205 -- Death, being, and time 208 -- Changing conceptions of the supernatural in the last 5,000years 209 -- The questfor immortality on earth 210 -- The rise of the world religions 213 -- The rise of secular beliefs 214 -- Conclusions 215 -- References 218 -- Index 221.".
• 00059240 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059241 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii).".
• 00059242 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059243 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059244 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-248) and indexes.".
• 00059245 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-147) and index.".
• 00059247 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059249 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059252 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.".
• 00059253 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-122) and index.".
• 00059254 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and indexes.".
• 00059255 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-692) and index.".
• 00059259 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059260 description "Includes bibliographical references ([223]-244) and indexes.".
• 00059261 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267).".
• 00059262 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059264 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059265 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059269 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059272 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-395) and index.".
• 00059273 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-320) and index.".
• 00059274 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059275 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059276 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059277 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059278 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059280 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059282 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059283 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059284 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059285 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-110).".
• 00059286 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059287 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059288 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059289 description "At a picnic near Beaumount, Texas, in 1892, Billy Jack and Sarah Jane Thornton become involved in their Sunday School teacher's dream of finding oil at Spindletop Hill and they befriend an Indian widow who lives nearby.".
• 00059289 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140).".
• 00059290 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059291 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-99) and index.".
• 00059292 description "Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.".
• 00059293 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.".
• 00059295 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059296 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 580-583) and index.".
• 00059297 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.".
• 00059298 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059299 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-284) and index.".
• 00059302 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-317) and indexes.".
• 00059303 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 109).".
• 00059305 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-461) and index.".
• 00059306 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059307 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059312 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059314 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-266) and index.".
• 00059318 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059321 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059322 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.".
• 00059323 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-181) and index.".
• 00059324 description "While spending the summer on an archaeological dig in Oaxaca, Mexico, with Uncle Carl and his girlfriend, Eliza Lomax meets a Zapotec boy who takes her back in time to try to stop a deadly game meant to punish her uncle for disturbing the dead. Includes a tourist guide to Mexico City and Oaxaca.".
• 00059325 description "While their parents are at a conference, sisters Robin and Jo are left to see the sights of Paris in the care of a secretive woman and the girls find themselves involved in a sequence of mysterious events.".
• 00059328 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 141).".
• 00059330 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]) and index.".
• 00059332 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059333 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277).".
• 00059334 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059336 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.".
• 00059337 description "When seven-year-old Willimena spends all the money she earned selling Girl Scout cookies, her big sister Tina helps her come up with a plan to earn the money back.".
• 00059338 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059340 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059341 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-192) and index.".
• 00059343 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-351) and index.".
• 00059344 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231) and index.".
• 00059345 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059346 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-156) and index.".
• 00059347 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059348 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059349 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059350 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059351 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059352 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and indexes.".
• 00059353 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-236) and index.".
• 00059354 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• 00059355 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 00059356 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059358 description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
• 00059358 description "Kept up to date by supplements.".
• 00059358 description "v. 1. Evidence--weapons for winning -- v. 3. Lay witness & expert opinion.".
• 00059361 description "Includes bibliographical references.".

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