Archaeological approaches to cultural identity / / edited by Stephen Shennan

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Ethnoarchaeology; Ethnicity; Ethnic barriers
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ShennanStephen
• Note generali: Chiefly papers presented at the World Archaeological Congress, held Sept. 1986, at Southampton, England.; Originally published: London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 relationsMatters 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, MexicoSome 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 identitySociocultural 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 landsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeological approaches to cultural identity
• ISBN: 1-134-86629-1; 1-134-86628-3; 1-280-44268-9; 9786610442683; 0-203-11114-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449965503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: One world archaeology ; ; 10.