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Invisible Cultures : Historical and Archaeological Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443884150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invisible CulturesDDC classification:
  • 301.45
LOC classification:
  • JC312 -- .I585 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Narratives and Invisibility -- Invisible Cultures in Archaeology -- Part I: Populations -- What Has Become of Damas? -- Post-colonial Immigration Memory in Contemporary France -- Part II: Gender -- Gender Amender -- (Un-)veiling Politics -- With Pen or Brush -- Part III: Socio-Economic Issues -- Urban Marginality -- Archaeological Indicators for Medieval Prisons -- Part IV: Pastoralism -- Transhumant Sheep Farming and Seigniorial Economy in the Veronese Pre-Alps -- In Search of the Shepherds -- Part V: Further Issues -- Society in Erto and Casso -- Traces of an Indian Community in the City of Sumhuram, Oman -- People and Things -- Where Have All the Pirates Gone?.
Summary: Cultural and social groups whose outlines are difficult to identify are often considered "invisible". Occasionally, material remains compensate for the absence of historiographical records or literary sources concerning these groups; sometimes communities or individuals mentioned in literary sources do not appear to have left material signs of their presence. On the other hand, there are groups or individuals whose existence has to be assumed in every historical period, even though they are invisible in both historiography and archaeology. Before trying to understand the lifestyle and historical agency of these "invisible cultures", it is necessary to highlight the reasons why the memory of certain marginalized individuals or socio-cultural units disappeared or was obliterated in material culture and in literary sources. The postgraduate conference "Invisible Cultures: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives" brought together young scholars from various backgrounds and research interests to discuss these issues. This volume presents the results of this debate, through a series of selected papers, from various interdisciplinary perspectives, which analyse a variety of case studies, leading to the identification of new theoretical and methodological perspectives aimed at returning voice and presence to the "invisibles" of history.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Narratives and Invisibility -- Invisible Cultures in Archaeology -- Part I: Populations -- What Has Become of Damas? -- Post-colonial Immigration Memory in Contemporary France -- Part II: Gender -- Gender Amender -- (Un-)veiling Politics -- With Pen or Brush -- Part III: Socio-Economic Issues -- Urban Marginality -- Archaeological Indicators for Medieval Prisons -- Part IV: Pastoralism -- Transhumant Sheep Farming and Seigniorial Economy in the Veronese Pre-Alps -- In Search of the Shepherds -- Part V: Further Issues -- Society in Erto and Casso -- Traces of an Indian Community in the City of Sumhuram, Oman -- People and Things -- Where Have All the Pirates Gone?.

Cultural and social groups whose outlines are difficult to identify are often considered "invisible". Occasionally, material remains compensate for the absence of historiographical records or literary sources concerning these groups; sometimes communities or individuals mentioned in literary sources do not appear to have left material signs of their presence. On the other hand, there are groups or individuals whose existence has to be assumed in every historical period, even though they are invisible in both historiography and archaeology. Before trying to understand the lifestyle and historical agency of these "invisible cultures", it is necessary to highlight the reasons why the memory of certain marginalized individuals or socio-cultural units disappeared or was obliterated in material culture and in literary sources. The postgraduate conference "Invisible Cultures: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives" brought together young scholars from various backgrounds and research interests to discuss these issues. This volume presents the results of this debate, through a series of selected papers, from various interdisciplinary perspectives, which analyse a variety of case studies, leading to the identification of new theoretical and methodological perspectives aimed at returning voice and presence to the "invisibles" of history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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