Approaches to Ancient Ethnicity


The big guns:

Archaeological approaches to cultural identity

edited by Stephen Shennan.
One world archaeology 10
London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989

Renfrew, C.
The roots of ethnicity, archaeology, genetics and the origins of Europe
Roma : Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell arte in Roma v. 10, 1993.

Cultural identity and archaeology : the construction of European communities
edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Sian Jones, Clive Gamble.
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.


Nationalism and archaeology in Europe
edited by Margarita Diaz-Andreu & Timothy Champion.
London : UCL Press, 1996

Jones, S.
The archaeology of ethnicity : constructing identities in the past and present
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997 (theory alert!)

Hall, J.
Ethnic identity in Greek antiquity
Cambridge (England) ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997



A few individual articles you may not find cited elsewhere:


Arnold, B.
“The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany”
Antiquity 64 1990, 464-478

Crumley, C.
“Region, nation, history”
Exkursus 4 1991, 3-8

Dietler, M.
“‘Our Ancestors the Gauls’: Archaeology, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Manipulation of Celtic Identity in Modern Europe”
American anthropologist 96:3 1994, 584-605

Härke, H.
“Archaeologists and Migrations. A problem of attitude?”
Current Anthropology 39:1 February 1998, 19-48 (includes comments and response)

Härke, H.
“‘The Hun is a methodical chap’ Reflections on the German tradition of pre- and proto-history”
in Theory in archaeology : a world perspective
edited by Peter J. Ucko.
London ; New York : Routledge, 1995, 46-60


Those Celts:

Chapman, M
The Celts: The Construction of a Myth
New York : Macmillan 1992

Megaw, J.V.S. and M.R.
Ancient Celts and modern ethnicity.
Antiquity 70:267 1996, 175 ff.

Collis, J.
Celtic myths.
Antiquity 71:271 1997, 195 ff.

James, S.
Celts, politics and motivation in archaeology
Antiquity 72: 275 1998, 200 ff.

Megaw, J.V.S. and M.R.
The mechanism of (Celtic) dreams?': a partial response to our critics
Antiquity 72 :276 1998, 432 ff.



 

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