Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Shennan, S. J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134866281
• Artikelnr.: 42725948

Autorenporträt

Shennan, S. J.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors Foreword Introduction: archaeolgical appraoches to
cultural identity Objectivity, Interests and Cultural Difference in
Archaeological Interpretation 1. Ethnic concepts in German prehistory: a
case study on the relationship between cultural identity and archaelogical
objectivity 2. The Vandals: myths and facts about a Germanic tribe of the
first half of the 1st millennium AD 3. Theory, profession, and the
political role of archaeolgy 4. An epistemological enquiry into some
archaeological and historical interpretations of 17th century native
American-European relations 5. Matters of fact and matters of interest 6.
The role of `local knowledge' in archaeological interpretation Cultural
Identity and its Material Expression in the Past and the Present 7.
Material aspects of Limba, Yalunka and Kuranko ethnicity: archaeological
research in northeastern Sierra-Leone 8. Multiculturalism in the eastern
Andes 9. The property of symmetry and the concept of ethnic style 10.
Patterns of learning, residence and descent among potters in Ticul,
Yucatan, Mexico 11. Some ethnospecific features in central and eastern
European archaeology during the early Middle Ages: the case of Avars and
Hungarians 12. Ancient ethnic groups as represented on bronzes from Yunnan,
China 13. The archaeology of the Yoruba: problems and possibilities 14.
Ethnicity and traditions in Mesolithic mortuary practices of southern
Scandinavia 15. Detecting political units in archaeology - an Iron Age
example The Genesis, Maintenance and Disappearance of Ethnicity and
Cultural Variation 17. Sociocultural and economic elements of the
adaptation systems of the Argentine Toba: the Nacilamolek and Taksek cases
of Formosa Province 18. Spatial heterogeneity in Fuego-Patagonia 19.
Cultural and ethnic processes in prehistory as seen through the evidence of
archaeology and related disciplines 20. Research with style: a case study
from Australian rock art 21. Steppe traditions and cultural assimilation of
a nomadic people: the Cumanians in Hungary in the 13th-14th century 22. An
ethnic change or a socio-economic one? The 5th and 6th centuries Index