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Sarah Nelson's teaching novel follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland. The story recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young woman caught between two cultures. Nelson also tells the story of Flyingbird and the Neolithic people who lived in the mound Clara is excavating. Addressing issues of gender, shamanism, ethnic identity, and Neolithic culture, and written by a leading American archaeologist specializing in these topics, this volume is both a good read and good archaeology. An ideal starting point to introduce archaeology to college students.
Sarah Nelson's teaching novel follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland. The story recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young woman caught between two cultures. Nelson also tells the story of Flyingbird and the Neolithic people who lived in the mound Clara is excavating. Addressing issues of gender, shamanism, ethnic identity, and Neolithic culture, and written by a leading American archaeologist specializing in these topics, this volume is both a good read and good archaeology. An ideal starting point to introduce archaeology to college students.
Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; Chapter 38; Chapter 39; Chapter 40; Chapter 41; Chapter 42; Chapter 43; Chapter 44; Chapter 45; Chapter 46; Chapter 47; Chapter 48; Chapter 49; Chapter 50; Chapter 51; Chapter 52; Chapter 53; Chapter 54; Chapter 55; Chapter 56; Chapter 57; Chapter 58; Chapter 59; Chapter 60; Chapter 101 ;
Sarah Milledge Nelson is John Evans Professor of Archaeology at the University of Denver. She is a specialist in cultural development, the origins of agriculture, and gender in the ancient world. Recent books include The Archaeology of Korea (1993), The Archaeology of Northeast China (ed.)(1995), Handbook of Gender and Archaeology (2005), and two editions of the textbook Gender in Archaeology (1997/2004) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.
'This is a delightful book, whimsical yet based on solid scholarship.' James G. Patterson, Bibliophilos 'This intoxicating and poignant novel will grip you as it floats between the worlds of modern and ancient Korea.' Jared Diamond, UCLA, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel 'Nelson has given us a creative and full-of-life set of images, a truly 'peopled past'.' Margaret Conkey, American Antiquity 'A lyrical novel, which both enterains and informs without being self-indulgent.' Brian Fagan, Asian Perspectives 'Nelson's story is a multi-layered, complex study of identity, gender, archaeology, and adoptee issues... The story is seamless and well paced.' Andrea Lee, Korean Quarterly 'Thoroughly delightful... Informed by some of the most sophisticated modern scholarship on ethnic identity, gender issues, reconstructing history from myth, and recreating prehistoric lifeways [which are] some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology... gripping and entertaining.' Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA 'In Spirit Bird Journey, the author casts an astute eye on foreign encounters with Korea, and on the tricky question of what it means to be "Korean" or "American". She provides an unromantic but thoroughly entertaining portrait of archaeologists at work.' Laurel Kendall, Asia Curator, American Museum of Natural History
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