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A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond
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All this has resulted in the public interest in kinship in the past, as well as an increasing funding of research programs and a rapidly growing scholarly literature. However, as a line of work in its infancy, the academic landscape is fraught with confusion and interpretive uncertainty. There are various ways of understanding kinship and assorted ways of approaching it from archaeology.
The common identification of kinship as biological relatedness is only a restrictive and context-dependent way of understanding it, which may serve to comprehend our Western society, but is not directly applicable to any other. Archaeology must critically construct its own methods of inference and narratives about kinship as a social matter. It is therefore urgent to reclaim a social archaeology of kinship that collaborates yet is not subordinated to other sciences.
This volume aims to contribute to this challenge. To this end, it compiles case-based essays elaborated by renowned international scholars (archaeologists and geneticists) in which inference methods and interpretative possibilities about kinship in the past are discussed. The volume's scope is mainly focused on Iberia, although case-studies are drawn worldwide. Spain is a dynamic research hub belonging to a minority archaeological tradition, where varied theoretically informed and promising approaches to the subject are being undertaken and is therefore paradigmatic of current trends and prospects in the international scene.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 250
- Release Date:
- 2025-11-12
- Publication Date:
- 2025-11-13
- Publisher:
- Sidestone Press
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 9464264047
- ISBN13:
- 9789464264043
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 728 g
- Height:
- 18.2 cm
- Width:
- 25.7 cm
- Thickness:
- 1.7 cm
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