Spirit Bird Journey - Softcover

Nelson, Sarah Milledge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967579805 ISBN 13: 9780967579801

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"This is a delightful book, whimsical yet based on solid scholarship." -James G. Patterson, Bibliphilos

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0967579805
• ISBN 13: 9780967579801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246