The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities Beyond Identification /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Casella, Eleanor Conlin (Editor), Fowler, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

"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 feature...

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.