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Peter R. (Hrsg.) Schmidt

The Death of Prehistory

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Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of physical andmental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained concept of prehistory-deeply entrenched in European minds up to the beginning of the twenty-first century-continues to deny hist… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Mrozowski, Stephen A. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-150752-6
  • EAN: 9780191507526
  • Produktnummer: 16938273
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 32'384 KB
  • Abbildungen: 30 in-text illustrations

Über den Autor


Peter Schmidt is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He has engaged historical archaeology and the archaeology of ancient times in Africa for the last 45 years and his interests range across many theoretical issues and fields of practice, including ethnoarchaeology, symbolic studies, the social construction of technology, and historical representation.Stephen Mrozowski is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he also serves as Director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research. He has carried out archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Eastern North America, Alaska, Northern Britain, Iceland and Barbados

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