Archaeology and Ethnicity
Keywords:
archaeology,
ethnicity,
culture-historical approach,
identity,
contemporary context of research
Abstract
The paper examines the history of archaeological investigation into collective identities in the past. Culture-historical approachis fully based upon the concept of cultural group , deeply influenced by the modern understanding of nation-states – unity of territory, material culture, language and ethnic affiliation. The application of this concept led to devastating political abuses of archaeology, most notoriously in the case of Gustaf Kossinna in the Nazi Germany. The realisation that the very essence of thus conceived group identity in the past inevidably leads into the projection of the modern model of nation-state, resulted in thorough reconsideration. Over the last decades, archaeologists are investigating other possible paths of research into the group and individual identities in the past, informed by the constructivist approach.
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Cartledge, P. 2002 . The Greeks – A Portrait of Self and Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Canuto, M. A. & J. Yaeger (eds). 2000. The Archaeology of Communities. A New World Perspective. London, New York: Routledge.
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Childe, V. G. 1929. The Danube in Prehistory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Derks, T. & N. Roymans (eds). 2009. Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity – The role of power and tradition. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Díaz Andreu, M., S. J. Lucy, S. Babić & D. N. Edwards. 2005. The Archaeology of Identity, Approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religio. London, New York: Routledge.
Diaz-Andreu, M. & T. Champion (eds). 1996. Nationalism and archaeology in Europe. London: University College London Press.
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Dietler, M. 2005. The Archaeology of Colonization and the Colonization of Archaeology – Theoretical Challenges from an Ancient Mediterranean Colonian Encounter. In: The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters – Comparative Perspectives, Gil J. Stein (ed.), 33 – 68. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
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Džonson, М. 2008. Arheološka teorija. Beograd: Klio.
Gellner, E. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gibbon, G. 1989. Explanation in Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Graves-Brown, P., S. Jones, C. Gamble (eds). 1996. Cultural Identity and Archaeology – The Construction of European Communities. London, New York: Routledge.
Goff, B. (ed). 2005. Classics and Colonialism. London: Duckworth.
Gosden, C. 1999. Anthropology and Archaeology. London, New York: Routledge.
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Hall, E. 1989. Inventing the Barbarian – Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hall, J. M. 1997. Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Härke, H. 1995. 'The Hun is a methodical chap' – Reflections on the German tradition of pre- and proto-history. In: Theory in Archaeology – A World Perspective, P. J. Ucko (ed.), 46 – 60. London, New York: Routledge.
Harrison, T. (ed). 2002. Greeks and Barbarians. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hartog, F. 1980. Le miroir d'Herodote. Essai sur la representation de l'autre. Paris: Gallimard.
Hingley, R. 2005. Globalizing Roman Culture – Unity, diversity and empire. London, New York: Routledge.
Hobsbom, E. i T. Rejndžer (ur). 2002. Izmišljanje tradicije. Beograd: Biblioteka XX vek.
Insoll, T. (ed). 2007. The Archaeology of Identities. London, New York: Routledge.
Isbell, W. H. 2000. What we should be studying. The “imagined community” and the “natural community”. In: The Archaeology of Communities. A New World Perspective, Canuto, M. A. & J. Yaeger (eds), 243 – 266. London, New York: Routledge.
Jones, S. 1997. The Archaeology of Ethnicity – Constructing Identities in the Past and Present. London, New York: Routledge.
Kuklick, H. 1996. Diffusionism. In: Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, A. Barnard & J. Spencer (eds), 160 – 162. London, New York: Routledge.
Kohl, P. & C. Fawcett (eds). 1995. Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lucy, S. 2005. Ethnic and cultural identities. In: The Archaeology of Identity, Approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion,Díaz Andreu, M., S. J. Lucy, S. Babić & D. N. Edwards (eds), 86 – 109. London, New York: Routledge.
Meskell, L. (ed). 1998. Archaeology Under Fire – Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. London, New York: Routledge.
Olsen, B. 2002. Od predmeta do teksta. Teorijske perspektive arheoloških istraživanja. Beograd: Geopoetika.
Renfrew, C. 1987. Archaeology & Language. The Puzzle of the Indo-European Origins. London: Jonathan Cap
Shanks, M. & C. Tilley. 1987. Re-constructing Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas, J. 2000. Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology. In: Interpretive Archaeology: A Reader, J.Thomas (ed), 1 – 18. London, New York: Leicester University Press.
-------------- 2004. Archaeology and Modernity. London, New York: Routledge.
Trigger, B. 1989. A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vinkelman, J. J. 1996. Istorija drevne umetnosti. Sremski Karlovci, Novi Sad: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića.
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2010-02-19
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Babić, Staša. 2010. “Archaeology and Ethnicity”. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 5 (1), 137 -49. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v5i1.7.
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