In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the pas[...]
With people's relationship to water as a unifying theme, this book explores and interprets archaeological material from different historical periods and with topics ranging from stone-age coastal hunters to nineteenth-century pilots. Human cultural interaction with the marine environment around the [...]
The figure of the witch still has the ability to exert a powerful fascination on the modern mind. The vision of the elderly crone begging for charity at the crossroads, an object of fear and revulsion for her local community, has combined with the memory of prolonged judicial persecution and oppres[...]
First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty has exerted an enormous influence on philosophical and political thought. Numerous moral and political theorists have drawn on Mill's work, including Rawls and Raz, and his ideas remain as relevant as ever today. Here, Geoffrey Scarre provides a[...]