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.
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`A timeless resource of informed discussion' - Antiquity
`Presents a global perspective on an important issue facing archaeology today...the search for cultural identity in the past. It will be of particular value to archaeologists interested in the growth and migration of cultural groups and the interpretation of material culture as a medium of cultural expression ... this is an excellent collection of papers which is highly recommended.' - American Antiquity
`Presents a global perspective on an important issue facing archaeology today...the search for cultural identity in the past. It will be of particular value to archaeologists interested in the growth and migration of cultural groups and the interpretation of material culture as a medium of cultural expression ... this is an excellent collection of papers which is highly recommended.' - American Antiquity
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S. J. Shennan teaches in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
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new archaeologists, free negroes, ethnospecific rôle, chanted mythology, arkeologiska museum, actualistic research, wampum production, active potters, archaeological objectivity, chariot burials, ethnic interpretation, rewriting operations, epistemic limits, archaeological culture, raffia cloth, master shaman, linking principles, symmetry and the concept Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Leone, Native American, New York, Cambridge University Press, New England, Academic Press, Simple Figurative, Carpathian Basin, New Archaeology, Rhode Island, Upper Palaeolithic, Middle Ages, World War, Sierra Nevada, World Archaeological Congress, American Antiquity, Buenos Aires, Iron Age, Formosa Province, United States, American Anthropologist, Unwin Hyman, New South Wales, West Africa, Late Mesolithic Browse Sample Pages:
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