Migration and disruptions : toward a unifying theory of ancient and contemporary migrations /
In this groundbreaking unifying theory of migration, a group of researchers from various anthropological disciplines attempt to identify the social and environmental disruptions that led to migration, regardless of its temporal space. Never before has such a diverse group of scholars met to identify...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: A conceptual framework.
- Introduction: bridging the past and present in assessing migration / Brenda J. Baker and Takeyuki Tsuda
- Unifying themes in studies of ancient and contemporary migrations / Takeyuki Tsuda, Brenda J. Baker, James F. Eder, Kelly J. Knudson, Jonathan Maupin, Lisa Meierotto, and Rachel E. Scott
- Part II: Past perspectives
- The Anglo-Saxon migration: an archaeological case study of disruption / Catherine Hills
- Religious disruption and the Islamic conquest of Andalucía / Sonia Zakrzewski
- Causes and consequences of migration in epiclassic Northern Mesoamerica / Christopher S. Beekman
- The debated role of migration in the fall of ancient Teotihuacan in central Mexico / George L. Cowgill
- Migration as a response to environmental and political disruption: the middle horizon and late intermediate periods in the south-central Andes / Kelly J. Knudson and Christina Torres-Rouff
- Part III: Modern perspectives
- "Disruption, " use wear, and migrant habitus in the Sonoran Desert / Jason De León, Cameron Gokee, and Anna Forringer-Beal
- Environmental disruption as a consequence of human migration: the case of the U.S.-Mexico border / Lisa Meierotto
- Rethinking "causation" and "disruption": the environment-migration nexus in northern Ethiopia / James Morrissey
- Migration and disruption on Palawan Island, the Philippines: a comparison of two cases / James F. Eder
- Unequal in the court of public opinion: Mexican and Asian immigrant disruptions in the United States / Takeyuki Tsuda
- Perceptions of disruption: media representations and medical staffs' perceptions of undocumented immigrants? Impact on healthcare services in post-SB 1070 Arizona / Jonathan Maupin
- Conclusion: migration and disruptions from prehistory to the present / Takeyuki Tsuda and Brenda J. Baker.
