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The Archaeology of Personhood: An Anthropological Approach
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The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past
Applying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts.
The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture.read more
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Parting (with) the dead: Body partibility as evidence of commoner ancestor veneration
TL;DR: In this article, a multiscalar frame is applied to a burial sample comprised of decedents from varied social settings in the Three Rivers region, northwestern Belize, and special attention is paid to the death history of Individual 71.
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Aging Well: Treherne's ‘Warrior's Beauty’ Two Decades Later
Catherine J. Frieman,Joanna Bruck,Katharina Rebay-Salisbury,Sophie Bergerbrant,Sandra Montón Subías,Joanna Sofaer,Christopher J. Knüsel,Helle Vandkilde,Melanie Giles,Paul Treherne +9 more
TL;DR: For instance, Treherne's seminal meditation on Bronze Age male identity and warriorhood stands out as both the highest cited and the most regularly downloaded paper in our archive as mentioned in this paper.
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Fragments of a conversion: handling bodies and objects in pagan and Christian Scandinavia ad 800–1100
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss aspects of changing relationships between the living and the dead in Scandinavia in the Viking Age (800-1050AD) and the beginning of the Early Middle Ages (1050-1100AD).
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Persistent Place-Making in Prehistory: the Creation, Maintenance, and Transformation of an Epipalaeolithic Landscape
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Inconspicuous Consumption: Non-Display Goods and Identity Formation
TL;DR: This paper explored the deeply held relationship of identity to material culture using examples from the ethnographic present such as pharmaceuticals, underwear, and hygiene products, and developed the idea of "reflexive identity" to describe how people use material objects in private to define themselves prior to and independent of their social roles as perceived by others.