{"product_id":"9781931745710","title":"Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmploying survey archaeology, excavation, ethnographic study, and multinational archival work, the Shala Valley Project uncovered the many powerful, creative ways whereby the men and women of Shala shaped their world: through dynamic, world-systemic relationships with the powers that surrounded but never fully conquered them. The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders, the \u003cem\u003emalësorë\u003c\/em\u003e, in the full complexity of their lives, while also unveiling a new, deeper history for the region--a history that reaches back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight and Shadow \u003c\/em\u003etells many stories. Archaeologists, historians, and students of tribes, of empires, of imperial-indigenous relations, of blood feud, of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and sustainability science, and more, will find much here to digest. The people of Shala, to which \u003cem\u003eLight and Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e is dedicated, may serve as an example in our modern age, one in which persistent, tribal peoples still fight for their survival, and seek to preserve some degree of independence from capitalist economies bent on their incorporation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cotsen Institute of Archaeology","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061002453232,"sku":"9781931745710","price":97.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931745710_p0.jpg?v=1763638976","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931745710","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}