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This collection of essays in **__Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement__** draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space. The volume argues that understanding movement in the past requires a shift away from traditional, fieldwork-based archaeological ontologies towards fluid, trajectory-based studies. Archaeology, by its very nature, locates objects frozen in space (literally in their three-dimensional matrices) at sites that are often stripped of people. An archaeology of movement must break away from this stasis and cut new pathways that trace the boundary-crossing contextuality inherent in object/person mobility. Essays in this volume build on these new approaches, confronting issues of movement from a variety of perspectives. They are divided into four sections, based on how the act of moving is framed. The groups into which these chapters are placed are not meant to be unyielding or definitive. The first section, "Objects in Motion," includes case studies that follow the paths of material culture an

Who reads Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Book 35)?

Author

Mary C. Beaudry, Travis G. Parno, Mary C Beaudry

Publisher

Springer New York

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461462101

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities