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This document discusses the debate around using archaeology to study ethnicity in the medieval period. It notes that while ethnicity was once seen as either primordial or instrumental, it is now viewed as a social construct. The document argues that material culture plays an active role in negotiating ethnic identity, as elites choose symbolic cultural traits to represent and mobilize ethnic groups. However, ethnicity cannot be directly reflected in material culture alone. Recent archaeological studies have

Author

Muris Šetkić

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EN