{"id":6845,"date":"2019-05-02T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2019-05-02T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:12:52","slug":"archaeologies-and-cosmologies-in-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/05\/02\/archaeologies-and-cosmologies-in-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologies and Cosmologies in the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/9780429433948\">Relational Archaeologies and Cosmologies in the North<\/a><\/em>, coming soon.  Some dunderheaded cover-bot at Routledge has given it a most misleading cover photo of a moose crossing a road. Either they&#8217;re hoping for the <em>Northern Exposure<\/em> crowd, or the bot&#8217;s auto-semantics module confused <em>animistic<\/em> with <em>animal<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Surely Routledge makes enough profit on its over-priced academic books that it can afford some proper cover designers?  But apparently not.  It&#8217;s time that authors started demanding oversight of their cover designs at academic publishers, I&#8217;d suggest, as the trend toward robo-designers increases.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, despite the misleading cover, the book is actually a survey of&#8230; &#8220;animistic-shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human-environment relations from the Neolithic to modern times&#8221; in the far-north, which incorporates the latest thinking and discoveries.  Looks fascinating.  No ebook, but <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IY7X7F\">the paperback<\/a> looks somewhat affordable at about \u00a330.  It&#8217;s due toward the end of July 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relational Archaeologies and Cosmologies in the North, coming soon. Some dunderheaded cover-bot at Routledge has given it a most misleading cover photo of a moose crossing a road. Either they&#8217;re hoping for the Northern Exposure crowd, or the bot&#8217;s auto-semantics module confused animistic with animal. Surely Routledge makes enough profit on its over-priced academic books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}