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The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers. Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River.
Annalies Corbin
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Description for The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers. Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River.
Paperback. Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology. Num Pages: 254 pages, 58 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; HD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
For many years, one of my favorite classroom devices in historical archaeology was to ask the students to imagine that they had to make the choice between saving—from some unnamed calamity—all master’s theses or all doctoral disser tations in anthropology, but not both. Like good students, they usually looked to their Ph.D. holding professor and chose the dissertations. Much to their surprise, Iwouldrespondthatthetheseswould win withouteventakingtime to ponderthe issue. The issue is clearly one of often naïve and rarely eloquent theses full of good primary data versus sometimes more sophisticated and better written works full of irrelevant theory and meaningless statistics. ... Read more
For many years, one of my favorite classroom devices in historical archaeology was to ask the students to imagine that they had to make the choice between saving—from some unnamed calamity—all master’s theses or all doctoral disser tations in anthropology, but not both. Like good students, they usually looked to their Ph.D. holding professor and chose the dissertations. Much to their surprise, Iwouldrespondthatthetheseswould win withouteventakingtime to ponderthe issue. The issue is clearly one of often naïve and rarely eloquent theses full of good primary data versus sometimes more sophisticated and better written works full of irrelevant theory and meaningless statistics. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475773484
SKU
V9781475773484
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Reviews for The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers. Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River.
`This data base on Missouri steamboats is an impressive piece of research and should prove invaluable to those doing research on the Missouri river trade. The writing style of the author allows easy and quick reading of this book. ...historic archaeologists will find the artifact descriptions and figures useful. ...this work will often be cited ... Read more