Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-175) and index.
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Summary
Siân Jones responds to the need for a radical reassessment of the ways in which past cultural groups are reconstructed from archaeological evidence with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The archaeological identification of peoples and cultures -- 3. Taxonomies of difference : the classification of peoples in the human sciences -- 4. Ethnicity : the conceptual and theoretical terrain -- 5. Multidimensional ethnicity : towards a contextual analytical framework -- 6. Ethnicity and material culture : towards a theoretical basis for the interpretation of ethnicity in archaeology -- 7. Conclusions : constructing identities in the past and the present.