Format:
1 online resource (583 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047421856
Series Statement:
The Northern World Ser. v.No. 33
Content:
Based on the study of style transmission in medieval ceramics, the author interprets the shared cultural and political history of Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD. The reproduction of cultural identity is discussed in relation to changes in politics.
Content:
Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter One The Power of the Past -- Introduction -- Perspective and method-the itinerary of an archaeologist -- For a self-critical contextual archaeology -- The hidden ties -- The Slavs -- Alliances and wars in the south -- The outlook on the Slavs in the Ostsiedlung -- From cultural integration to conflicts of interest in the east -- A people with smokehouses and kvass -- From 'subhumans' to a part of Scandinavia's history -- Ur-Slavs and the Pan-Slavic aspiration for a Slavic identity -- To arms! Slavic archaeology in hot and cold wars -- "The poor Slavic culture . . .". The view of the Slavs in Scandinavian archaeological and historical research -- Conclusions -- Chapter Two The Encounter -- Cultural identity and material culture -- Ethnic categorization in the Middle Ages -- Race, tribe, and ethnic identity -- From essentialism to subjectivism-a historical reorientation -- Cultural and ethnic identity-anthropological renewal -- Four questions for archaeologists -- Conspicuous signals and low-key communication -- Cultural transfer -- Style and cultural transfer -- Pottery and cultural identity -- Conclusions -- Chapter Three Preparing the Gift -- The Ideological Potter's Wheel Models to Explain Changes to Early and Middle Slavic Pottery -- From the Danube to the Baltic -- From the Black Sea to Ladoga -- Pottery, change, and ideology -- Late Slavic Pottery in the Homelands -- The tribes in the west -- Pomerania and the Great Poland of the Piasts -- Rus' -- Conclusions -- Chapter Four Scandinavian reception -- Baltic Ware-a Definition -- Eastern Denmark -- Lund -- Lund between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions -- Conclusion -- Rural Skåne -- Rural Skåne between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions -- The countryside and Lund -- Conclusion -- Rural Halland.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004161894
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004161894
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=468363
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