The Death of Prehistory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199684595
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 221x144x29 mm
- Weight 618 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume provides authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.
MoreLong description:
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 and mental 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 history and historical identify to peoples throughout the world.
The fourteen essays, by notable archaeologists of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia, provide authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Death of Prehistory
Part I: Histories of Prehistory
Prehistory's History
Presencing the Past: Implications for Bridging the History-Prehistory Divide
Part II: Perspectives Arising Out of Africa and India
Routes to History: Archaeology and Being Articulate in Eastern Africa
Historical Archaeology, Colonial Entanglements, and Recuperating 'Timeless' Histories through Structuralism
Swahili Historical Chronicles from an Archaeological Perspective: Bridging History, Archaeology, Coast, and Hinterland in Southern Tanzania
Creating Prehistory and Protohistory: Constructing otherness and politics of contemporary indigenous populations in India
Part III: Perspective Arising Out of the Americas
History Interrupted: Doing 'Historical Archaeology' in Central America
Rethinking the Archaeology of Human/Environmental: Interactions in Deep-Time History
Sites in History, History in Sites: Archaeology, historical anthropology and indigenous knowledge in the Chesapeake
The Tyranny of Prehistory and the Search for a Deeper History
Cultural Practice and Authenticity: The search for real Indians in New England in the 'historical' period
Pueblo Time, Space, and History in the Aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Conclusion: Reflections on Reforming the Past, Looking to the Future
Appendix: Swahili Chronicles
Bibliography
Index
