Habitus?: The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation: 3 (Scales of Transformation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9088907838 ISBN 13: 9789088907838

Publisher: Sidestone Press, 2019

Synopsis

The issue of the social dimension of technology and transformation, seen from the perspective of ‘Habitus’, has repeatedly been discussed in the scientific discourse exploring prehistoric and archaic communities. However, the complexity of related phenomena constantly provokes new approaches in different archaeological contexts, which leads to interesting findings. By presenting the latest studies on the social dimension of technology and transformation, this book contributes to a better understanding of a system of embodied dispositions hidden within Bourdieu's concept of ‘Habitus’. These studies mainly cover European areas; from Scandinavia to Italy, the Balkans to the British Isles, and Ukraine to the Northern Caucasus. In addition, ethnoarchaeological field studies from distant Indonesia are used to interpret the Hallstatt Culture in Europe. The papers span a chronological dimension from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age and in summary include a diachronic perspective. Rock art, Trypillian megasites, stone axes and adzes, metallurgy, wagons, archery items, ceramics produced on potter’s wheels, mechanisms of cultural genesis and dualistic social systems are examples of the topics discussed. This book also provides comments on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, including the concept of ‘Habitus’. This book is addressed to international academia, presenting an important set of information and interpretations for archaeologists and readers interested in European prehistory. It comprises contributions to the CRC 1266 International Workshop ‘Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation’, held in 2018 at Kiel University.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Sławomir 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-Skłodowska 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.

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Sidestone Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9088907838
• ISBN 13: 9789088907838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Kadrow Sławomir, Müller Johannes