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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities
    sub title: Beyond Identification
  name:
    name part: Casella, Eleanor Conlin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fowler, Chris.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 272 p. online resource.
  abstract: "Questions of identity have plagued the field of archaeology since its earliest antiquarian origins. The ability to discover, recover, or uncover a past culture required the assumption of a direct relationship between its material remains and social identity. Artifacts and architectural features alike have been conceptualized as "signatures" or "representations" of specific cultures – from the "Beaker People" of the European Neolithic to the "Georgian" world view of eighteenth century Colonial America. Thus, archaeologists have employed an explicitly material focus in their examinations of identity. Yet, as people move through life they continually 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. In this volume the authors explore these overlapping spheres of social affiliation. Social actors belong to multiple identity groups at any moment in their life. It is possible to deploy one or many potential labels in describing the identities of such an actor. Two main axes exist upon which we can plot experiences of social belonging -- the synchronic and the diachronic. Identities can be understood as multiple during one moment (or the extended moment of brief interaction), over the span of a lifetime, or over a specific historical trajectory." - from the Introduction The international group of contributions each illuminate how the various identifiers of race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, gender, personhood, health, and/or religion are part of both material expressions of social affiliations, and transient experiences of identity. The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification will be of great interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, curators and other social scientists interested in the mutability of identification through material rem…
  table of contents: Identity and Social Change -- 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 -- Identity: Category and Practice -- 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 -- Identity and Place -- “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.
  note: edited by Eleanor Conlin Casella, Chris Fowler.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: CC1-960
  classification: 930.1
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780306486951
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b109969
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