Johannessen Sissel (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 139 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 333 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 115-138 pages with diagrams and illustrations. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers American Anthropologist volume 95 complete number 1. First edition. While archaeologists have the capacity to track changing food use in the archaeological record, they have not tended to use food systems in the study of social and political change. To do so, an awareness must be gained of the meanings of foods, which then can illuminate the strategic use of a particular food in the creation of relationships of dependence and prestige. Archaeological evidence from the central Andes of Peru indicates that the role of maize changed between AD 500 and 1500, shifting from a culinary item, simply prepared by boiling, to a more complex symbolic food, transformed through grinding and brewing into beer, with elaborated political meanings. this change in maize processing and consumption occurred at a time of heightened political and social tensions. The authors propose that the shift in maize use reflected and participated in a new political dynamics, demonstrating how food ways can inform Archaeologists about past social and political systems. Condition: Very good.…

Condition: Very Good. 1987. North America, Native Americans, Journals. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site report, Illinois Department of Transportation, Volume 15. University of Illinois, 454p., very good paperback/monograph. with minor sun fading to spine 10/26 2cc.

1984, Journals, North America, Resource Investigation Program, Research Report No.14, 31 p., very good Comb Bound paperback, previous owner's stamp on front cover.

Spiral bound. Condition: Very Good+. Spiral bound complete in 136 bright pages - previous owner stamp - fully illustrated.

Condition: Good. Good; Softcover; Light overall wear to the covers with a few light reading-creases along the spine and one small corner-crease;; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.9 lbs; Black covers with title in gold lettering; 1994, Westview Publishing; 550 pages; "Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World (University of Minnesota Publications in Anthropology, No 5)," by Sissel Johannessen & Christine A. Hastorf.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first softcover edition, first print (full number line ending with 1). The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. A sharp copy.

Paper Back. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st. 623pp. SC blk.w/gilt; some rub w/some ink check-marks & underline,otherwise clean,tight pgs. "In this volume, scholars from the fields of archaeology, agronomy, genetics, linguistics, and biochemistry address methodological substantive, and interpretive aspects of understanding prehistoric maize." illus.…