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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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Unpacking Personhood and Identity in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona
TL;DR: A general overview of studies of identity can be found in this article, where the authors present an overview of personhood, individual identity, and social status in the context of Mortuary Customs in the Southwest.
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Living Places or Animated Objects? Sámi Sacrificial Places with Metal Objects and Their South Scandinavian Parallels
TL;DR: In this paper, the similarities and differences between the two traditions are discussed, focusing on some possible links between aspects of animistic world views and biographical perspectives on artefacts, and it is argued that the sites with metal objects of the nine to fourteenth centuries in a number of ways are comparable to acts of deposition in south Scandinavia.
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Social Relations and the Local: Revisiting Our Approaches to Finding Gender and Age in Prehistory. A Case Study from Bronze Age Scotland
TL;DR: In many periods, our efforts to understand social relations from the burial record are frustrated by the small size of cemeteries and the relative poverty of grave good assemblages as mentioned in this paper.
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Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how monastic experience responded to illness, ageing and disability in the context of monastic healing, and examine the active role of space and material culture in shaping religious agency and embodiment.
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Death, personhood, and relatedness in the South Andes a thousand years ago
TL;DR: Acuto, Felix Alejandro as mentioned in this paper, and Saavedra, Alejandro, 2015. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas and Tecnicas.