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Archaeology and the "Savage Slot": Displacement and Emplacement in the Premodern World

Cobb, Charles R.

American anthropologist, 2005-12, Vol.107 (4), p.563-574 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Oxford, UK: American Anthropological Association

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Title:
Archaeology and the "Savage Slot": Displacement and Emplacement in the Premodern World
Author: Cobb, Charles R.
Subjects: America and Arctic regions ; American history ; American Indians ; Anthropology ; archaeological approach ; Archaeological evidence ; Archaeological paradigms ; Archaeology ; Capitalism ; Case studies ; Ceramic cultures ; Community ; Cultural anthropology ; Cultural differences ; Displacement ; emplacement ; Funerary rituals ; Globalization ; historical anthropology ; Historical archaeology ; History ; Indigenous populations ; material culture ; Migration ; Mississippi ; Mississippian ; Modernist art ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Native North Americans ; North America ; Otherness ; Paleoanthropology ; Place ; Political anthropology ; Prehistory and protohistory ; settlement patterns ; Southeastern United States ; Stereotypes ; technology ; U.S.A ; United States ; Williams, Mark
Is Part Of: American anthropologist, 2005-12, Vol.107 (4), p.563-574
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Description: Many attempts to understand the cultural impact of the forces of modernism, capitalism, and globalization have come to highlight contemporary cultural diversity at the expense of reifying a homogenized past of traditional, static societies. The "savage slot" still provides a convenient myth for characterizing small-scale communities before the advent of modernism--communities that experienced dramatic change only as they were pulled into the world system. Archaeological evidence from the southeastern United States challenges this stereotype, as Native American groups routinely migrated and continually redefined notions of "place" and "locality"--processes often treated as distinctly (post)modern. Such case studies emphasize the importance of working toward a deep historical anthropology that will continue to undermine stereotypes about the Other in the past as well as the present.
Publisher: Oxford, UK: American Anthropological Association
Language: English

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Archaeology and the "Savage Slot": Displacement and Emplacement in the Premodern World

Cobb, Charles R.

Oxford, UK: American Anthropological Association

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