As it appears in diverse guises - and notably as a founding narrative - the past is at the core of every functioning human society. The idea that the past can be known through scientific research has long been a fundamental challenge for western societies and for European researchers, from all disciplines concerned. Through more than four decades of outward-looking archaeological practice, the scholar, teacher and intellectual Jean-Paul Demoule has elaborated a truly global approach to European cultures and their transformations, spanning from the social inequality in Neolithic times to Indo European research to contemporary links between heritage and politics. His colleagues - British, Bulgarians, Czechs, Danes, Dutch, French, Germans, North-Americans, Spaniards, Swiss and Russians - seek to extend and enrich his vision. With contributions (written in French and in English) spanning from prehistory to the modern world, they bring in this volume new insights and data to such issues as the processes of identity construction at different scales, migratory movements in Europe, the status of gender, the role of prestige objects and megalithic monuments in the emergence of social hierarchy and in the semiology of power... without forgetting the myths and realities surrounding the Indo-European phenomenon. - Le passe sous diverses formes - et notamment celle d'un recit fondateur - est au coeur du fonctionnement de toute societe humaine. L'idee que le passe puisse etre connaissable par une recherche scientifique est un enjeu essentiel, particulierement aborde par les societes occidentales et notamment par des chercheurs europeens, toutes disciplines confondues. Par sa pratique de l'archeologie et son erudition, le chercheur et le professeur Jean-Paul Demoule a su elaborer un tableau global des cultures europeennes et de leurs transformations, incluant autant les origines neolithiques des inegalites sociales que l'emergence du mythe indo-europeen ou encore les rapports entre patrimoine et politique. Dans cet ouvrage, ses collegues allemands, britanniques, bulgares, danois, espagnols, francais, neerlandais, nord-americains, russes, suisses et tcheques prolongent et enrichissent - en anglais ou en francais - sa vision. Ils y apportent leurs reflexions et leurs donnees concernant les perspectives de l'archeologie du XXIe siecle, les processus de la construction identitaire a differentes echelles, les mouvements migratoires de l'Europe, le statut du genre, le role des objets de prestige et des monuments megalithiques dans l'emergence de la hierarchisation sociale et de la semiologie du pouvoir... sans oublier la mythologie et les realites du phenomene indo-europeen.
Laurence Manolakakis is a researcher at the CNRS, and director of the laboratory Trajectoires (CNRS/Paris 1-Pantheon-Sorbonne University). A specialist of lithic technology and resource procurement from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Europe, in both the Balkans and in Northern France, her research interests include funerary assemblages, territories and socio-economic organisation. Her main publications on the Balkan Copper Age are: Les industries lithiques eneolithiques de Bulgarie (2005), Open cast flint mining, long blades production and long distance exchange: an example from Bulgaria (2008), Le mobilier en silex taille des tombes de Varna I (2008), A flint deposit, a tell and a shaft: a lithic production complex at Ravno 3-Kamenovo? (Early Chalcolithic, North-East Bulgaria) (2011). Nathan Schlanger is professor of archaeology at the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. His research interests include prehistoric archaeology, material culture studies, archaeological heritage management, and the history and politics of archaeology. Among his recent publications: Marcel Mauss. Techniques, technologie et civilization (ed. 2012), European Archaeology Abroad. Global Settings, Comparative Perspectives (ed. 2013), Year 5 at Fukushima. A 'disaster-led' archaeology of the contemporary future (2016) and Back in business. History and evolution at the new Musee de l'Homme (2016). He has worked at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA, Paris), the Institut national de recherches archeologiques preventives (INRAP) and the Ecole du Louvre, and is now professor of archaeology at the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. Anick Coudart is Research Professor at Arizona State University, and formerly Directeur de recherche at the CNRS. She was the co-founder and long-time editor-in-chief of the professional journal Les Nouvelles de l'Archeologie. A specialist in European Neolithic, ethno-archaeology and material culture, she has co-directed during 25 years a large archaeological rescue project (from Neolithic to Iron Age) in the Aisne Valley, France. She has also developed research in Papua New-Guinea on traditional dwellings and material culture, highlighting the relationship between dwelling diversity and temporal rhythms of change. An avid photographer, she has produced a very large documentation on traditional techniques and material culture around the world. Among her main publications : L'Archeologie de la France rurale de la prehistoire aux temps modernes (ed. 1987), Architecture et societe neolithique. L'uniformite et la variance de la maison danubienne (1998), Habitat et societe (ed. 1999), Archeologie et societe. Construction(s) de l'archeologie (ed. 2008), The reconstruction of the Danubian Neolithic house and the scientific importance of architectural studies (2013), The Bandkeramik longhouses. A Material, Social, and Mental Metaphor for Small-Scale Sedentary Societies (2015), Longtemps durant... le Genre ne fut pas un genre francais sinon qu'il etait du genre masculin... E pur si muove (2015).
Title: European Archaeology - Identities & Migrations: Archéologie européenne - Identités & Migrations
Author: Laurence Manolakakis
ISBN: 9789088905209
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Publisher: Sidestone Press
Publication Date: 2017-12-04
Number of Pages: 520
Weight: 1.2477 kg