Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction - and Cultural Integratio

Informationen zum Autor Lene Melheim Klappentext This volume explores processes of colonisation and cultural integration from the end of the last Ice Age to the present from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective.All kinds of human mobility-whether across long or short distances, and whether involving short-term or longer interactions-are potential triggers for change and also cultural integration. The colonisation of an area most clearly brings into focus what kind of social fabric encompassed the actual historical processes. Recent perspectives on the social and cultural embeddedness of exchange, and how objects facilitate constructions of identities and political legitimacy, serve to frame and explicate the role of material culture in such processes.The contributions to this volume shed light on various social aspects of movement, migration and colonisation among hunter-gatherers and Neolithic groups as well as in chiefdoms and state societies. Geographically, an area spanning from the Mediterranean to central Europe and the North Sea region, Greenland and Siberia is covered. Three social and historical processes - the social aspects of colonisation, cultural integration and maritime interaction - are particularly discussed as interrelated phenomena. Zusammenfassung This volume explores processes of colonisation and cultural integration from the end of the last Ice Age to the present from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective

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• Authors: Håkon Glørstad, Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad, Lene Melheim, Lene Glorstad Melheim, MELHEIM LENE
• Assisted by: Hakon Glorstad (Editor), Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad (Editor), Lene Melheim (Editor), Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9781781790489
• ISBN: 978-1-78179-048-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology; New Directions in Anthropologi; New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)