Gerritsen's study investigates how small groups of people--households, or local communities--constitute and represent their social identity by shaping the landscape around them. Examining things like house building and habitation, cremation and burial, and farming and ritual practice, Gerritsen develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective on the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. An explicitly diachronic approach reveals processes of cultural and social change that have previously gone unnoticed, providing a basis for a much more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of this region.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN-10
9053565884
ISBN-13
9789053565889
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2829057
Product Key Features
Author
Fokke Gerritsen
Publication Name
Local Identities : Landscape and Community in the Late Prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt Region
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
8.2in
Item Weight
0.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gn700-890
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Archaeology, Human Geography, Anthropology / General