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Material Culture and Other Things
Post-disciplinary Studies in the 21
st
Century
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Material Culture and Other Things
Post-disciplinary Studies in the 21st Century
Gotarc, Series C, No 61
Edited By:
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
© 2004
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard,
and respective authors
English revision
Niel Tomkinson
Layout & Typography
Fredrik Fahlander
Photo on cover by
Rune Østigård
Printed by
Elanders Gotab
Vällingby 2004, 400 ex.
Distributed by
Department of Archaeology
University of Gothenburg
ISBN 91-85245-12-7
Contents
Introduction.
- Material Culture and Post-disciplinary Sciences ………….. 1
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
The World as Artefact
- Material Culture Studies and Archaeology ………………... 21
Terje Oestigaard
Social Identity, the Body, and Power …………..…………..... 57
Per Cornell
Prehistoric Material Culture
- Presenting, Commemorating, Politicising ……………….... 93
Gro Kyvik
Discontinious Maya Identities.
- Culture and Ethnicity in Mayanist Discourse ....................... 109
Johan Normark
Operational Ethnicity …………………..………………........ 161
- Serial Practice and Materiality
Jörgen M. Johannensen
Archaeology and Anthropology: Brothers in Arms?
- On Analogies in 21st Century Archaeology ……………..... 185
Fredrik Fahlander
MRT Confidential ……………………………………......... 213
Pontus Forslund
An Essay on Material Culture
- Some Concluding Reflections ………………………......... 259
Kristian Kristiansen
About the Authors
279
Introduction
Material Culture and Post-disciplinary Sciences
Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
In 1978 a conference on
Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Area Analysis
was held at St. John’s College, Cambridge (Burnham &
Kingsbury 1979). The report is provoking in many senses, despite
the fact that most of the articles are seldom present in today’s
reference lists. The conference had an outspoken agenda of being
cross-disciplinary,
aiming to incorporate the methods and ter-
minology of history and social anthropology into archaeology, but
also being able to contribute the other way round. The focus lies
on the relations between the individual, the group and the society
in different periods of prehistory. In 21
st
-century eyes, the enthusi-
asm of the authors is rather touching in the way in which they
outline a new “interdisciplinary archaeology”. This passion was,
however, not shared by the commentators from outside archae-
ology. Eric Hobsbawn represented the historian’s point of view
(1979). He is quite pessimistic about the attempts to write history
without written sources and consequently he is not at all mesmer-
ized by what the archaeologists can offer to history.
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