Negotiating Migrations

The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility

Daniela Hofmann, Catherine J. Frieman, Martin Furholt, Stefan Burmeister, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-42766-2 (ISBN)

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As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great Lakes, to discuss how a focus on small-scale inter-personal relations – on the power struggles, negotiations and choices that people make in everyday settings – can help us understand migration events in archaeology. While much archaeological scholarship, using isotopes and aDNA, focuses on migrations as large-scale phenomena and crisis responses, this book offers a new approach by exploring how moving on was embedded in social practice.

This book offers a novel reinterpretation of how the political aspects of migration shaped past people’s worlds in Europe and beyond, drawing on archaeological, historical, linguistic and aDNA evidence. Overall, the conclusion is that a bottom-up approach can help us to understand migration in the past at a variety of scales, in many different regions of the world

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo.

Daniela Hofmann is Professor in Neolithic Archaeology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Catherine J. Frieman is Associate Professor of European Archaeology at the Australian National University, Australia. Martin Furholt is Professor of Prehistoric and Social Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. Stefan Burmeister is the Director of the Varusschlacht Archaeological Museum, Germany. Niels Nørkjær Johannsen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Archaeology and Migration

1. Why a Politics of Migration?
2. Migration at the Large Scale
3. The Middle Distance: Migrations within Regions
4. Mobile People: Interactions at the Small Scale
5. Re-orienting Migration Studies in Archaeology

Conclusions

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Debates in Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	18 bw and 10 colour illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-42766-7 / 1350427667
ISBN-13	978-1-350-42766-2 / 9781350427662
Zustand	Neuware