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Michael Rowlands

Anthropology

#1518

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#1977

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Social Anthropology

#81

World Rank

#96

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Masters Social Anthropology University of Oxford
Bachelors Anthropology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Michael John Rowlands is a retired British academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London from 1993 to 2010. Career Rowlands graduated from the University of London with a BSc in anthropology and went on complete a PhD there. He was appointed Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London in 1973 and was promoted to a readership in 1982, after which he was Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at UCL from 1993 to 2010. He was also Head of the Department of Anthropology there from 1992 to 1996. Since retiring in 2010, Rowlands has been an emeritus professor and senior research fellow at UCL; since 2012, he has also been an honorary professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

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Michael Rowlands's Published Works

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The role of memory in the transmission of culture (1993) (276)
Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World (1987) (225)
Sorcery, Power and the Modern State in Cameroon (1988) (151)
Elite associations and the politics of belonging in Cameroon (1998) (144)
Remembering to Forget: Sublimation as Sacrifice in War Memorials (1999) (78)
Theory and explanation in archaeology : the Southampton conference (1985) (62)
Monuments and memorials (2006) (59)
Social Transformations in Archaeology: Global and Local Perspectives (1998) (45)
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TRADE AND INCIPIENT STATE FORMATION ON THE BAMENDA PLATEAU IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY (1979) (40)
Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (2007) (30)
The domestication of modernity: different trajectories (1996) (27)
Of substances, palaces, and museums: the visible and the invisible in the constitution of Cameroon (2011) (25)
The politics of identity in archaeology (2007) (22)
Reconsidering Heritage and Memory (2007) (21)
Value and the Cultural Transmission of Things (2005) (20)
Descriptive Statements, Covering Laws, and Theories in Archaeology [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (20)
Conflict and heritage care (2007) (20)
Black Identity and Sense of Past in Brazilian National Culture (1999) (18)
Civilization, Violence and Heritage Healing in Liberia (2008) (18)
Reconceptualizing Heritage in China: Museums, Development and the Shifting Dynamics of Power (2014) (16)
The Internal Dynamics of the Early State [and Comments and Reply] (1984) (14)
Do you eat Achu here? Nurturing as a way of life in a Cameroon diaspora (2013) (13)
Cultural Rights and Wrongs: Uses of the Concept of Property (2020) (12)
TRAUMA, MEMORY AND MEMORIALS (1998) (11)
Civilisation Recast (2019) (9)
The Sound of Witchcraft:Noise as Mediation in Religious Transmission (2007) (9)
Postconflict Heritage (2008) (7)
Repetition and Exteriorisa tion in Narratives of Historical Origins (1988) (7)
NOTES ON THE MATERIAL SYMBOLISM OF GRASSFIELDS PALACES (2016) (7)
The evolution of social systems : proceedings of a meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects held at the Institute of Archaeology, London University (1977) (6)
8 The ‘ Stranger King ’ ( bull ) and rock art (2015) (6)
Making and unmaking heritage value in China (2017) (6)
Heritage and Cultural Property (2020) (5)
Social Transformations in Archaeology (2014) (5)
Rupture and Repair: (2019) (5)
The Relation Between Archaeology and Anthropology (1976) (4)
Entangled Memories and Parallel Heritages in Mali (2016) (3)
Aesthetics of Touch among the Elderly (2020) (3)
The Good and Bad Death: Ritual Killing and Historical Transformation in a West African Kingdom (1993) (3)
Journal of Material Culture: special issue on Postconflict Heritage (2008) (3)
Ban on South Africans (1986) (3)
Digital heritage technologies and issues of community engagement and cultural restitution in "New Style" ethnographic museums (2014) (3)
Why Do We Need a European Association of Archaeologists (1994) (3)
The elderly as 'curators' in North London (2008) (3)
The Man who would be Moses (2006) (3)
Relating Anthropology and Archaeology (2008) (2)
Historical Consciousness and the Nation-State (1985) (2)
Materialism, marxism and archaeology (2005) (2)
International African Institute Elite Associations and the Politics of Belonging in Cameroon Author ( s ) : (2008) (2)
The Unity of Africa (2003) (2)
Response to "Relations between Archaeologists and the Military in the case of Iraq" (2009) (2)
Reconceptualising heritage: museums, development and shifting dynamics of power (2015) (1)
"My son is a fanatic" or How to have things both ways in a heritage debate (2002) (1)
Civilisation in China (2019) (1)
Exclusionary Tactics in the Logic of Collective Dynamics (1985) (1)
John Lewis and the cheapjack: a study of class and identity (2005) (1)
Tendencias teóricas en la arqueología europea (1998) (0)
Relating Archaeology and Anthropology (2003) (0)
Dealing with death (2020) (0)
Memory Cultures: Critical Heritage Perspectives (2016) (0)
Heritage and religion in East Asia (2020) (0)
"Handbook of material culture", C. Tilley, W. Keane, S. Küchler, M. Rowlands, P. Spyer, London [etc.] 2006 : [recenzja] / Eleonora i Stanisław Tabaczyńscy. (2010) (0)
N. Roymans. Tribal societies in northern Gaul: an anthropological perspective. (Cingula 12.) x + 290 pages, 95 illustrations. 1990. Amsterdam: Universteit van Amsterdam, Albert Egges Van Giffen Institut Voor Prae- En Protohistorie; ISBN 90-70319-13-6 hardback Hfl. 80 (1992) (0)
Brookdale: A Landscape Structure Plan for the Suburban Development of the Wungong River System, Brookdale, on Behalf of the Armadale Redevelopment Authority (2004) (0)
Civilisation: A Critical and Constructive Review (2019) (0)
Civilisation in This Book (2019) (0)
Foreword: The Future Belongs to the Impure (2016) (0)
Mingming is a Chinese anthropologist, born in 1962 in the city of Quanzhou in southern Fujian, China. He was trained in archaeology and ethnological history at Xiamen University in the same southeastern (2016) (0)
CENTRE AND PERIPHERY (2005) (0)
The cultural economy of sacred power (1999) (0)
Consumption and Identity in the European Bronze Age (1998) (0)
Ethnicity in Archaeology as Cultural Form (1999) (0)
Monnow Bridge and Gate (1994) (0)
P.M. Graves-Brown. Matter, materiality and modern culture, xii+171 pages, 32 figures, 1 table. 2000. London: Routledge; 0-415-16704-3 & 0-415-16705-1 hardback & paperback £50 & £16.99. (2004) (0)
Memory, sacrifice and war memorials (1997) (0)
| Reclaiming Heritage | Taylor & Francis Group (2016) (0)
Book and Film Reviews (2011) (0)
Cultural Heritage and the Role of Intellectuals in Mali and Cameroon (2002) (0)

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