About the Book
Much has been written in recent years about Identities, understood as social, nested or constructing identities; or 'Ethnic Identity', presented as a strategy of distinction and/or identification, as a multidimensional or endogenous ethnicity, or also interpreted as a social construction, social network, negotiated or group identity; and concerning the 'Archaeology of the Identity', including the explicit relation between mortuary practices and Social Identities in a 'multi-ethnic' perspective or as a 'constructed strategy of shifting identities'. This book is not 'another brick in the wall', but a contribution to 'break the wall' between different disciplines in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary framework.
We present in this volume fifteen papers focused on theoretical and interpretative proposals from the textual, archaeological and bioarchaeological record, as well as a series of 'case studies' on certain European areas essentially throughout the analysis of the funeral world in the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Table of Contents:
Foreword and Acknowledgements Jorge LOPEZ QUIROGA (Autonomous University of Madrid) Michel KAZANSKI (CNRS-UMR 8167, 'Orient & Mediterranee', Paris) Vujadin IVANISEVIC (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade) INTERPRETING IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS: HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES Ethnicities, Entangled Identities and Otherness in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe. Views for an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda Jorge LOPEZ QUIROGA (Autonomous University of Madrid) Michel KAZANSKI (CNRS-UMR 8167, 'Orient & Mediterranee', Paris) Vujadin IVANISEVIC (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade) The Archaeology of Identities and Alterities. Opposite Perspectives for the Early Middle Ages Sebastian BRATHER (University of Freiburg) Le refus de l'Alterite dans la loi romaine du Breviaire d'Alaric Michel ROUCHE (University of Paris-IV, Paris-Sorbonne) Barbaria, Barbaricum and the Location of the Barbarus Michael KULIKOWSKI (Department of History, Penn State University) La conversion au Christianisme comme un mecanisme d'Identite et d'Alterite chez les Barbares Bruno DUMEZIL (University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Defense) Did the Goths Really Come from Poland? Changing Interpretations in Changing Political Situations Jorg KLEEMANN (Institute of History and International Relations, Chair of Archaeology, University of Szczecin, Poland) Forensic Anthropology, Identification and Identity. How It Can Help the Identity and Otherness Problematic Luis RIOS FRUTOS (Autonomous University of Madrid) Bones Don't Lie. Bioarchaeological Identity and Entangled Social Identities in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe Jorge LOPEZ QUIROGA (Autonomous University of Madrid) ETHNICITY, SOCIAL IDENTITY, OTHERNESS AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD: CASE STUDIES Les antiquites germaniques a l'Est europeen au Bas-Empire et a l'epoque des Grandes Migrations: Etat des recherches Michel KAZANSKI (CNRS-UMR 8167, 'Orient & Mediterranee', Paris) Anna MASTYKOVA (Institute d'Archeologie de l'Academie des Sciences de Russie, Moscou) The Many Identities of the Barbarians in the Middle Danube Region in the Early Middle Ages Tivadar VIDA (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) Social Identity on the Platter. Clay Pans in Sixth to Seventh Century Ceramic Assemblages Florin CURTA (Department of History, University of Florida) Ethnicity on the Move. New Evidence from Viking Winter Camps Dawn HADLEY (University of Sheffield) Otherness and Identity in the Merovingian Cemetery Guy HALSALL (University of York) Archeologie Funeraire et Ethnicite en Gaule a l'epoque merovingienne (Reponse a Guy Halsall) Michel KAZANSKI (CNRS-UMR 8167, 'Orient & Mediterranee', Paris) Patrick PERIN (Directeur Honoraire du Musee d'Archeologie Nationale, Saint Germain-en-Laye) Gender, Kinship and Social Identity in the Funerary Dimensions of the Kingdom of the Lombards (568-774) Annamaria PAZIENZA (University Ca'Foscari of Venetia)5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'>
About the Author :
Jorge Lopez Quiroga is a Senior Scientist in the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is author/editor of more than a dozen books and more than 100 articles in scientific journals and papers in International Congresses focused on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Mediterranean. Michel Kazanski is Director of Research in the CNRS (UMR 8167, 'Orient et Mediterranee', College de France). He is author/editor of more than a dozen of books and more than 100 articles in scientific journals and papers in International Congresses focused on the Archaeology of the barbarian peoples during the Great Migrations and the Protobyzantine material civilization (4th-7th centuries). Vujadin vanisevic is Director of Research at the Archaeological Institute of Belgrade. He is author/editor of several monographs and more than 100 articles in scientific journals focused on Byzantine Archaeology and barbarian peoples at the time of the Great Migrations, Monetary history of the Balkans in the Middle Ages, Byzantine Sigillography and Landscape Archaeology.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana'> Contributors: Sebastian Brather (University of Freiburg), Florin Curta (University of Florida), Bruno Dumezil (University of Paris X), Dawn Hadley (University of Sheffield), Guy Halsall (University of York), Vujadin vanisevic (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade), Michel Kazanski (CNRS-College de France), Jorg Kleemann, Michael Kulikowski (University of Pennsylvania), Jorge Lopez Quiroga (Autonomous University of Madrid), Anna Mastykova (Academy of Science, Moscow), Patrick Perin (Archaeological National Museum, Paris), Annamaria Pazienza (University of Venice), Luis Rios Frutos (Autonomous University of Madrid), Michel Rouche (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Tivadar Vida (University of Budapest).
Review :
This volume makes a good contribution in focusing on issues of identity of both communities and individuals and in questioning some of the assumptions made about group identity, ethnicity, and practices of acculturation in the past. Anonymous reviewer
