Local identities : landscape and community in the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region / Fokke Gerritsen.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Gerritsen, Fokke Albert.

Series:

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9.

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Europe, Western.

Prehistoric peoples.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe, Western.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Human settlements--Europe, Western.

Human settlements.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Europe, Western.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 306 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Gerritsen's study investigates how small groups of people--households, or local communities--constitute and represent their social identity by shaping the landscape around them. Examining things like house building and habitation, cremation and burial, and farming and ritual practice, Gerritsen develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective on the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. An explicitly diachronic approach reveals processes of cultural and social change that have previously gone unnoticed, providing a basis for a much more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of this region.

Notes:

This book is a slightly revised version of the doctoral dissertation the author completed in June 2001 and defended at the Faculty of Arts of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2001.

Thesis (doctoral)--Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.

ISBN:

9053565884

OCLC:

51952232