Cultural Identity and Archaeology: The Construction of European Communities

ISBN-13: 9780415106764 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 304 str.

Sian Jones; P. Graves-Brown

Opis

Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of the past in the construction of ethnic, national and European identity, theories of cultural identity have been neglected in archaeology. Focusing on the relationships between concepts of cultural identity today and the interpretation of past cultural groups, this text offers archaeological perspectives on the debate surrounding European identities.

Spis treści

1: Introduction; 2: The genealogy of material culture and cultural identity; 3: Constructing identities through culture; 4: Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past; 5: All things bright and beautiful?; 6: Imagining the new Europe; 7: One Europe – one past?; 8: Prehistory and the identity of Europe or, don't let's be beastly to the Hungarians; 9: European origins – ‘civilisation' and ‘barbarism'; 10: Farmers our ancestors and the identity of Europe; 11: Celts and politics; 12: Celts and Iberians; 13: The identity of France; 14: Narratives of Veøy; 15: Archaeological sources as ethnical evidence; 16: ‘Celtic' Iron Age Europe; 17: Britain after Rome

O autorze

Paul Graves-Brown is a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Southampton. He researches in interdisciplinary areas, particularly human origins and the relationships between material culture and mental processes.

Siân Jones is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton and has written and researched on ethnicity and archaeology.

Clive Gamble is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton and has published extensively on the Palaeolithic.