Cultural Identity and Archaeology: The Construction of European Communities

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Cultural Identity and Archaeology: The construction of European communities
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List of contributors
General editor\'s preface
Preface
1. Introduction: archaeology and cultural identity in Europe
	Constructions of identity: Europeanism, nationalism, ethnicity, racism
	Theories of cultural identity
	The idea of Europe: \'festung Europa\'
	Archaeology and Europe
	Searching for the first Europeans: the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the Celtic Iron Age
	Plurality and multiculturalism in prehistory
	Archaeology and the politics of identity
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
2. The genealogy of material culture and cultural identity
	Introduction
	The problem
	History
	The late Renaissance: collecting the world
	The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the well laid table
	Nineteenth century: modernity, man, language, life, labour and nation
	Conclusions: late/post-modernity
	Notes
	Bibliography
3. Constructing identities through culture: the past in the forging of Europe
	Introduction
	The concepts of natio, gens and populus
	The emergence of the term \'culture\'
	Nationalism and culture
	The twentieth century: the triumph of the term \'culture\'
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
4. Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past
	Peoples and cultures
	Ethnicity and culture
	Towards a practice theory of ethnicity
	A reconsideration of archaeological approaches to ethnicity
	Conclusions: discourses of history and place in the construction of ethnicity
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
5. All things bright and beautiful? Species, ethnicity and cultural dynamics
	Some roots
	Landscape and context
	Reinforcement and recognition
	Species and ethnicity: identity in life
	Ethnicity and material culture
	Conclusion: safety in numbers?
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
6. Imagining the new Europe: identity and heritage in European Community discourse
	EC discourses and the construction of Europe
	Inventing Europe: EC initiatives in the cultural sector
	Representations of \'European culture\' in EC iconography
	Imagining Europe: the role of historiography
	Political implications of EC discourse
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
7. One Europe - one past?
	East meets West?
	Europe in archaeological publication
	The influence of the West
	Conclusion: plus ca change?
	Acknowledgements
	Note
	Bibliography
8. Prehistory and the identity of Europe, or, don\'t lef s be beastly to the Hungarians
	Of languages and \'nations\'
	On ethnicity
	Ethnicity among the Celts
	Social reality and \'the Indo-Europeans\'
	The European background
	Bibliography
9. European origins - \'civilisation\' and \'barbarism\'
	Myths of origin
	Origins redefined
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
10. Farmers our ancestors and the identity of Europe
	Introduction
	Farmers our ancestors
	A contemporary case in point: agricultural transition and the Indo-European origins
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
11. Celts and politics
	A brief history of the Irish question - a study of ethnicity in action
	Archaeology and politics
	The historical Celts
	The Celts and archaeology
	Acknowledgements
	Bibliography
12. Celts and Iberians: ideological manipulations in Spanish archaeology
	From ancient written sources to archaeological identification of Celts and Iberians
	Franco\'s dictatorship and the manipulation of the past
	Celts and Iberians: current approaches
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
13. The identity of France: archetypes in Iron Age studies
	Introduction
	Collective memory and the dating of the Gallic period
	The power of symbols
	Hero, archetype and repetitive acts
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Bibliography
14. Narratives of Veoy: on the poetics and scientifics of archaeology
	The problems
	Geographical, historical and archaeological setting of Veoy
	The other histories of Veoy
	The other storytellers and their histories
	On dialogue, questionnaires and emotions
	Archaeology, community and cultural identity
	Bibliography
15. Archaeological sources as ethnical evidence: the case of the Eastern Vistula mouth
	The Vistula mouth: archaeoloc ileal context
	Archaeology and written sources
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
16. \'Celtic\' Iron Age Europe: the theoretical basis
	Introduction
	The Iron Age in Europe
		The Iron Age
		Celtic Europe
		Celts and classicism
		Constructing Celticity
		Language
		Celtic art
		Classical texts
	\'Celtic\' Iron Age Europe: time less and traditional?
	Contemporary Celts
	Acknowledgements
	Bibliography
17. Britain after Rome: between multiculturalism and monoculturalism
	Introduction
	Britain under Rome: imperialism and cultural diversity
	\'The land of the English\'
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index