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Theorie - epochenübergreifend - Mitteleuropa - Nordeuropa - Identitätsdiskurs - Individum - Ethnologie - Methodendiskussion - Ethnizität - territoriale Grenzen - Kongressbericht.
The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and examines in which ways (Roman) landscapes were narrated and semantically represented. To assess the impact of Rome on landscapes, some of the twenty contributions in this volume analyse functions and implications of newly created infrastructure. Others focus on the consequences of colonisation processes, settlement structures, regional divisions, and legal qualifications of land. Lastly, some contributions consider written and pictorial representations and their effects. In doing so, the volume offers new insights into the notion of ‘Roman landscapes’ and examines their significance for the functioning of the Roman empire.
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire...
Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond
In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.
Ideologies in Archaeology
Archaeologists have often used the term ideology to vaguely refer to a “realm of ideas.” Scholars from Marx to Zizek have developed a sharper concept, arguing that ideology works by representing—or misrepresenting—power relations through concealment, enhancement, or transformation of real social relations between groups. Ideologies in Archaeology examines the role of ideology in this latter sense as it pertains to both the practice and the content of archaeological studies. While ideas like reflexive archaeology and multivocality have generated some recent interest, this book is the first work to address in any detail the mutual relationship between ideologies of the past and present...
Fluchtpunkt Geschichte
In den 1970er und 1980er Jahren fand noch ein recht reger Austausch zwischen Archäologie und Geschichtswissenschaft über Fragen der Zusammenarbeit statt. Dabei bildete sich der Konsens, dass die einstmals als Handlungsmaxime ausgegebene Parole des „Getrennt marschieren, vereint schlagen!“ nicht als methodologischer Leitfaden für die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit taugt. Leider ist der Austausch über die Grundlagen der Interdisziplinarität zwischen den Fächern seitdem fast vollständig abgeebbt und findet allenfalls noch im Bereich der Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit statt. Der vorliegende, aus einer Tagung im Jahr 2007 hervorgegangene Band hat das explizite Ziel, den eingeschlafenen Dialog neu zu beleben und den gemeinsamen Fluchtpunkt von Archäologie und Geschichtswissenschaft wiederzufinden. Der Band versammelt 14 Beiträge von Vertretern der Geschichtswissenschaft und der Prähistorischen Archäologie, der Ägyptologie und der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, die die Quellenproblematiken der jeweiligen Disziplinen genauso wie konkrete Schwierigkeiten bei der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit diskutieren.
The Farm as a Social Arena
'The Farm as a Social Arena' focusses on the social life of farms from prehistory until c. 1700 AD, based mainly, but not exclusively, on archaeological sources. All over Europe people have lived on farms, at least from the Bronze Age onwards. The papers presented here discuss farms in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Germany. Whether isolated or in hamlets or villages, farms have been important elements of the social structure for thousands of years. Farms were workplace and home for their inhabitants, women, men and children, and perhaps extended families - frequently sharing their space with domestic animals. Sometimes important events such as feasts, religious services and funerals also took ...
Die Straße, die Dinge und die Zeichen
Wann werden die materiellen Dinge einer Großstadtstraße zu »Bedeutungsdingen« und wie konstruieren wir aus ihnen unsere Straßeninterpretationen? Anhand von Interviews zur Potsdamer Straße in Berlin untersucht Eva Reblin die Bedeutungskonstitution eines Stadtraumes und entwirft dabei eine Semiotik des Konkreten. Sie zeigt, dass unsere Bilder von urbanen Räumen besonders von jenen Materialitäten geprägt sind, die über multiple Bedeutungslinien mit dem spezifischen Stadtumfeld verknüpft sind. Die Studie verbindet semiotische Modellierungen mit Ansätzen der Umweltpsychologie, um die Netze der urbanen »Objekt-Zeichen« präzise zu beschreiben.
Archaeology, history and biosciences
New scientific methods offer new insights in the past. Promising opportunities for archaeology and historiography are confronted with the challenges of interdisciplinary cooperation between the sciences and the humanities. This volume presents contributions by European researchers, arranged in four sections: fundamental questions of archaeology and biosciences, migrations, transformations, and social structures.
A Quest for Remembrance
A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate the uses of the descent topos both in antiquity and in the reception of classical literature in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. In the process, the volume explores how the hero’s quest into the underworld engages with the theme of recovering memories from the past. At the same time, we aim to foreground how the narrative format itself is concerned with forms of commemoration ranging from trans-cultural memory, remembering the literary and intellectual canon, to commemorating important historical events that might otherwise be forgotten. Through highlighting this duality this collection aims to introduce the descent narrative as its own literary genre, a ‘memorious genre’ related to but distinct from the quest narrative.
