The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities Beyond Identificat

"Questions of identity have plagued the field of archaeology since its earliest antiquarian origins. The ability to discover, recover, or uncover a past culture required the assumption of a direct relationship between its material remains and social ident

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The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities Beyond Identification

Edited by

Eleanor Conlin Casella University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom

and

Chris Fowler University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers New York Boston Dordrecht London Moscow

ISSN HB: 0-306-48693-8 PB: 0-306-48694-6 e-Book: 0-306-48695-4  C 2005 by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 233 Spring Street, New York, New York 10013

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To the memories of MARY AGNES CONLIN 1908–2004 ELIZABETH ‘NANCY’ HILTON 1911–2002

Contributors Joanna Bruck, ¨ Department of Archaeology, John Henry Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield Campus, Dublin 4, Ireland Eleanor Conlin Casella, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom Chris Fowler, Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom Timothy Insoll, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom Ross W. Jamieson, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 Tadhg O’Keeffe, Department of Archaeology, John Henry Newman Building, University College, Dublin, Belfield, Campus, Dublin 4, Ireland Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield Southampton, SO17 1BF, United Kingdom Lynette Russell, Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University, PO Box 55, VIC 3800 Australia Robert A. Schmidt, Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 Barbara L.Voss, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305–2134 vii

Contents

1. Beyond Identification: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eleanor Conlin Casella and Chris Fowler

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Beyond Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Negotation of Identity through Different Material Media: Architecture, Landscape, Text, Body and Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Polysemic Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .