Overview
These cases and theoretical approaches demonstrate how the axes of race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, gender, personhood, health, and /or religion contribute to both material expressions of social affiliations and transient experiences of identity
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identity: Category and Practice
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Identity and Place
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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 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 remains.
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These cases and theoretical approaches demonstrate how the axes of race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, gender, personhood, health, and /or religion contribute to both material expressions of social affiliations and transient experiences of identity.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities
Book Subtitle: Beyond Identification
Editors: Eleanor Conlin Casella, Chris Fowler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b109969
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48693-7Published: 11 January 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48694-4Published: 08 September 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48695-1Published: 05 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology