Personifying Prehistory - Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland

This book draws on the wealth of new evidence for Bronze Age burials, settlements, and landscapes to explore the construction of social relationships and community identities during this period.

Sommario

• 1: Introduction: Identity and Alterity in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland


• 2: Fragmenting the Body


• 3: Object Biographies


• 4: The Living House


• 5: Social Landscapes


• 6: Conclusion: The Flow of Life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland

Info autore

Joanna Brück is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin. Her primary area of research is the archaeology of Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. She is particularly interested in the treatment of the human body and concepts of the self; depositional practices and what these reveal about the meanings and values ascribed to objects; and the relationship between space and society including domestic architecture and the changing organisation of landscape. She co-organises the Bronze Age Forum, is Vice President of the Prehistoric Society, and is an editor of Archaeological Dialogues. She has also recently published an edited volume on the material and visual culture of the 1916 Rising in Ireland.

Riassunto

This book draws on the wealth of new evidence for Bronze Age burials, settlements, and landscapes to explore the construction of social relationships and community identities during this period.

Testo aggiuntivo

If you want a book that emphasises the complex relations out of which the past emerges, that asks us to take the daily lives of ordinary people seriously, and which recognises that the simple oppositions we draw between people, things, animals, and places weremore complex in the past than we sometimes assume, then I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joanna (Professor of Archaeology and Head o Bruck, Joanna (Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology Bruck, Joanna Brück
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780192858252
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285825-2
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria, mondo antico; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; European History, prehistory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ireland, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Archaeology by period / region, bronze age, Prehistoric archaeology, Landscape Archaeology