Carmel Schrire

Carmel Schrire(born 15 May 1941) is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University whose research focuses on historical archaeology, particularly in South Africa and Europe.

Quotes

• The apparent aim of this paper is to reveal the contribution of archaeology to understanding the social relations of capitalism.
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• The burden of this particular study of rural settlement in the Scottish Highlands is to show that archaeology helps to achieve a deeper understanding of the transition from clan ownership to individual ownership during the period of Improvement that heralded the dawn of the new commercial age in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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• If ever one wondered whether the life of a single man could illuminate a

century, [this] brilliant biography … proves the point.”

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