The Archaeology of Islands - Brossura

Rainbird, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521619610 ISBN 13: 9780521619615

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Riassunto

Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.

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Recensione:

'... this is an interesting and engaging introduction to this sub-discipline for the anthropologist/archaeologist, and an introduction to the delights of archaeology for the new reader.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Descrizione del libro:

Paul Rainbird provides a new perspective on the historical construction of the characterization of islands as distinct physical and social entities, through a series of detailed case studies of prehistoric archaeology. It will be of primary interest to academics in archaeology, bioarchaeology, environmental archaeology and anthropology.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521619610
• ISBN 13: 9780521619615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216