UID:
edocfu_9959244031602883
Format:
1 online resource (xxv, 317 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-134-86629-1
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1-134-86628-3
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1-280-44268-9
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9786610442683
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0-203-11114-1
Series Statement:
One world archaeology ; 10
Content:
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.
Note:
Chiefly papers presented at the World Archaeological Congress, held Sept. 1986, at Southampton, England.
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Originally published: London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-13902-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-09557-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203111147
