Human Mobility in Archaeology: Practices, Representations and Meanings (Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology)

ISBN 10: 1789691214 / ISBN 13: 9781789691214

Published by Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019

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• Title: Human Mobility in Archaeology: Practices, Representations and Meanings (Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology)
• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789691214
• ISBN 13: 9781789691214
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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It has been abundantly demonstrated that theories and paradigms in the humanities are influenced by historical, economic and socio-cultural conditions, which have profoundly influenced archaeology's representation of migration. This was mostly conceived as the study of the movement of large and homogenous population groups, whose identity was often represented as ethnically characterized. The present-day shift of attention from collective to individual agency and the countless facets of migration goes hand in hand with new socio-political and cultural scenarios such as the extraordinary migratory flows into Europe, shifting boundaries, alternative forms of citizenship and identity, and the emergence of emotive reactionism. The third volume of Ex Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to understand patterns of change and continuity in past worlds; reconsider the movement of people, objects, and ideas alongside mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative traditions, rituals, practices, religions and theologies; and provide insights into the multifaceted relationship between mobile practices and their shared meanings and how they are represented socially and politically.