Habitus?: The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 9088907838 ISBN 13 : 9789088907838

Editeur : Sidestone Press, 2019

Synopsis

The problem of the social dimension of technology and transformation seen in the perspective of the habitus has been repeatedly undertaken in various works. However, the complexity of these phenomena causes subsequent attempts to be presented and explained again in new contexts, bringing interesting observations.

The edited volume aims to contribute to our better understanding of a system of embodied dispositions hidden under the term 'habitus'. This will be achieved by presenting the latest studies in the social dimension of technology and transformation. These studies mainly cover the areas of Europe from Scandinavia to Italy and to the Balkans and from the British Isles to the Ukraine and to the North Caucasus. In one case, ethnoarchaeological field studies were conducted in distant Indonesia, but they are used to interpret the Hallstatt Culture in Europe. In the chronological dimension, they include the time from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age. Among the topics discussed are rock art, Trypillian megasites, stone axes and adzes, metallurgy, wagons, archery items, pottery produced on a fast wheel, mechanisms of cultural genesis, dualistic social systems and comments on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, including the concept of habitus.

The volume Habitus, the social dimension of technology and transformation is intended for international academia, representing an important set of information and interpretations for all archaeologists and readers interested in European prehistory.

Contents:
Introduction
Sławomir Kadrow, Johannes Müller

Habitus as a Theoretical Concept
Vesa P. J. Arponen

Society and technology in the Neolithic and Eneolithic of the Balkans
Marko Porčić

Axe as landscape technology. How did it transform societies and landscapes?
Jan Kolář

'If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change': the case of Trypillia
Bisserka Gaydarska

Does the social field cause or accelerate social and cultural changes? The case of Eneolithic Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex
Aleksandr Diachenko

The Maykop legacy - new social practice and new technologies in the 4th millennium BC in the North Caucasus
Sabine Reinhold

The production and use of archery-related items as a reflection of social changes during the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age in Europe
Clément Nicolas

The Appearance, Disappearance, and Reappearance of Non-Figurative Rock Art during the South Scandinavian Neolithic and Bronze Age
Rune Iversen

Changing pottery production technologies in urbanising societies in the Bay of Naples (8th-7th centuries BCE)
Lieve Donnallan

Dualist socio-political systems in SE Asia and the interpretation of late prehistoric European societies
Christian Jeunesse

The Diversity in a Theory of Cultural Genesis for the East European Bronze Age
Valentine Pankowski

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Slawomir Kadrow's main research interests lie in prehistoric Central Europe. Currently he leads the project Great culture transformation in microregional perspective. Trends of changes inside Danubian farmers in SE Poland. Previously he worked at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków. He was a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at Berlin University (FU), afterwards at Bamberg University and in 2018 Mercator Fellow of the CRC 1266 'Scales of Transformation' at Kiel University.

Johannes Müller (PhD, University of Freiburg, 1990) is a Professor and Director of the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany. He is the founding director of the Johanna Mestorf Academy, Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre "Scales of Transformation: Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies" and of the Excellence Cluster "ROOTS - Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies".

He conducts research on Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe, including the challenge of interlinking natural, social, life sciences, and the humanities within an anthropological approach of archaeology. Intensive fieldwork was and is carried out in international teams, e.g., on Tripolye mega-sites in Eastern Europa, the Late Neolithic tell site of Okoliste in Bosnia-Hercegovina, different Neolithic domestic and burial sites in Northern Germany, and Early Bronze Age sites in Greater Poland. Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork has been conducted, e.g., in India. Within the Kiel Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes", now the Young Academy of ROOTS, and the Scandinavian Graduate School "Dialogues of the Past", Johannes Müller promotes international PhD projects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sidestone Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9088907838
• ISBN 13: 9789088907838
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Kadrow Sławomir, Müller Johannes
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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