Archaeological approaches to cultural identity / edited by Stephen Shennan.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Shennan, Stephen.

Conference Name:

World Archaeological Congress (1st : 1986 : Southampton, England)

Series:

One world archaeology ; 10.

One world archaeology ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Ethnicity--Congresses.

Ethnicity.

Ethnic barriers--Congresses.

Ethnic barriers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors page; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: archaeological approaches to cultural identity; OBJECTIVITY, INTERESTS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; Ethnic concepts in German prehistory: a case study on the relationship between cultural identity and archaeological objectivity; The Vandals: myths and facts about a Germanic tribe of the first half of the 1st millennium AD; Theory, profession, and the political rle of archaeology

An epistemological enquiry into some archaeological and historical interpretations of 17th century Native American-European relations Matters of fact and matters of interest; The rle of 'local knowledge' in archaeological interpretation; CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ITS MATERIAL EXPRESSION IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT; Material aspects of Limba, Yalunka and Kuranko ethnicity: archaeological research in northeastern Sierra Leone; Multiculturalism in the eastern Andes; The property of symmetry and the concept of ethnic style

Patterns of learning, residence and descent among potters in Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico Some ethnospecific features in central and eastern European archaeology during the early Middle Ages: the case of Avars and Hungarians; Ancient ethnic groups as represented on bronzes from Yunnan, China; The archaeology of the Yoruba: problems and possibilities; Ethnicity and traditions in Mesolithic mortuary practices of southern Scandinavia; Detecting political units in archaeology; an Iron Age example; THE GENESIS, MAINTENANCE AND DISAPPEARANCE OF ETHNICITY AND CULTURAL VARIATION

Who is what? A preliminary enquiry into cultural and physical identity Sociocultural and economic elements of the adaptation systems of the Argentine Toba: the Nacilamolek and Taksek cases of Formosa Province; Spatial heterogeneity in Fuego-Patagonia; Cultural and ethnic processes in prehistory as seen through the evidence of archaeology and related disciplines; Research with style: a case study from Australian rock art; Steppe traditions and cultural assimilation of a nomadic people: the Cumanians in Hungary in the 13th 14th century; An ethnic change or a socio-economic one? The 5th and 6th centuries AD in the Polish lands; Index

Notes:

Chiefly papers presented at the World Archaeological Congress, held Sept. 1986, at Southampton, England.

Originally published: London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-134-86629-1

1-134-86628-3

1-280-44268-9

9786610442683

0-203-11114-1

9780203111147

OCLC:

57077240