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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 9 Father Alfred-Louis Delattre (1850-1932) versus Paul Gauckler (1866-1911): The struggle to control archaeology at Carthage at the turn of the twentieth century ; 10 Hugh Falconer: botanist, palaeontologist, controversialist ; 11 Personal and professional networks in early nineteenth-century Egyptology: The letters of Conrad Leemans to Thomas Pettigrew ; 12 Life-writing Vere Gordon Childe from secret surveillance files -- Part III, Reflections on practice. 13 Alternative narratives in the history of archaeology: Exploring diaries as a form of reflexivity ; 14 Archaeologists, curators, collectors and donors: reflecting on the past through archaeological lives ; 15 The ghosts of Mary Ann Severn Newton: Grief, an imagined life and (auto)biography…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I - Post-multicultural Constrictum -- 1 | The Right to Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples: The Continuing Quest for Equality -- 2 | The Implementation Gap fo rIndigenous Peoples' Rights to Lands and Territories in Latin America (1991-2019) -- 3 | Framework Law on Autonomy and Decentralization for Indigenous First Peoples Peasant Autonomies (AIOCs): Autonomous Regulation or Institutional Restriction? …”

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