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The Death of Prehistory

Buch | Hardcover
392 Seiten
2013
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-968459-5 (ISBN)
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This volume provides authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.
Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of physical and mental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained concept of prehistory--deeply entrenched in European minds up to the beginning of the twenty-first century--continues to deny history and historical identify to peoples throughout the world.

The fourteen essays, by notable archaeologists of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia, provide authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.

Peter Schmidt is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He has engaged historical archaeology and the archaeology of ancient times in Africa for the last 45 years and his interests range across many theoretical issues and fields of practice, including ethnoarchaeology, symbolic studies, the social construction of technology, and historical representation. Stephen Mrozowski is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he also serves as Director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research. He has carried out archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Eastern North America, Alaska, Northern Britain, Iceland and Barbados

PREFACE; LIST OF FIGURES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; PART I: HISTORIES OF PREHISTORY; PART II: PERSPECTIVES ARISING OUT OF AFRICA AND INDIA; PART III: PERSPECTIVE ARISING OUT OF THE AMERICAS; APPENDIX: SWAHILI CHRONICLES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Zusatzinfo 30 in-text illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 144 x 221 mm
Gewicht 618 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-968459-6 / 0199684596
ISBN-13 978-0-19-968459-5 / 9780199684595
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