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The archaeology of plural and changing identities : beyond identification / edited by Eleanor Conlin Casella and Chris Fowler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, c2005.Description: xii, 272 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0306486938
  • 9780306486937
  • 0306486946
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 22 CAS
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Contents:
Beyond Identification: An Introduction.- Medieval Towns, Modern Signs, Identity Inter-spaces: Some Reflections in Historical Archaeology.- "Either, or, Neither Nor":Resisting the Production of Gender, Race and Class Dichotomies in the Pre-Colonial Period.- Sexual Subjects: Identity and Taxonomy in Archaeological Research.- The Contribution of Gender to Personal Identity in the Southern Scandinavian Mesolithic.- Identity Politics: Personhood, Kinship, Gender and Power in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain.- Homing Instincts: Grounded Identities and Dividual Selves in the British Bronze Age.- "Games, Sports and What-Not": Regulation of Leisure and the Production of Social Identities in Nineteenth Century America.- Changing Identities in the Arabian Gulf: Archaeology, Religion, and Ethnicity in Context.- Caste in Cuenca: Colonial Identity in the Seventeenth Century Andes.- Natural Histories and Social Identities in Neolithic Orkney.
Summary: As people move through life, they shift affiliation from one position to another, dependent on the wider contexts of their interactions. Different forms of material culture may be employed as affiliations shift, and the connotations of any given set of artifacts may change. This book explores these overlapping spheres of social affiliation.
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Beyond Identification: An Introduction.- Medieval Towns, Modern Signs, Identity Inter-spaces: Some Reflections in Historical Archaeology.- "Either, or, Neither Nor":Resisting the Production of Gender, Race and Class Dichotomies in the Pre-Colonial Period.- Sexual Subjects: Identity and Taxonomy in Archaeological Research.- The Contribution of Gender to Personal Identity in the Southern Scandinavian Mesolithic.- Identity Politics: Personhood, Kinship, Gender and Power in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain.- Homing Instincts: Grounded Identities and Dividual Selves in the British Bronze Age.- "Games, Sports and What-Not": Regulation of Leisure and the Production of Social Identities in Nineteenth Century America.- Changing Identities in the Arabian Gulf: Archaeology, Religion, and Ethnicity in Context.- Caste in Cuenca: Colonial Identity in the Seventeenth Century Andes.- Natural Histories and Social Identities in Neolithic Orkney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

As people move through life, they shift affiliation from one position to another, dependent on the wider contexts of their interactions. Different forms of material culture may be employed as affiliations shift, and the connotations of any given set of artifacts may change. This book explores these overlapping spheres of social affiliation.

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