Towards an Archaeology of Ethnicity
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Theoretical Archaeology, Culture History, Postmodernism, Iron AgeAbstract
In the last two decades the search for ethnicity through material culture has enjoyed a renewed boom in Archaeology. This process, which goes hand in hand with a reformulation of the concept in the Social Sciences, has led to a reconsideration of how the phenomenon itself is conceived as well as the possibilities of exploring it in groups from the past. This article attempts to make a contribution to the task of “rethinking” ethnicity in three steps: first a historiographic approach to the subject; second, a series of theoretical-methodological conclusions that will help in the ongoing task of constructing an “archaeology of ethnicity”; and, finally, a reflection on the period where these approaches have generated most interest: Protohistory.
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