Ethnographies of Heritage

Peter van Dommelen

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World - Department of Anthropology

Archaeologists study objects and socio-cultural anthropologists investigate culture is how stereotypes and conventions have long had it. As material culture studies have increasingly blurred these boundaries, the distinction is entirely meaningless when it comes to archaeological heritage. Archaeological remains, or the material heritage more generally, are after all not just objects or ruins from the past, but they also represent material culture that is part of and exists in the present.

Shepherd posing on a prehistoric megalithic tomb (Sardinia, Bauladu)

ANTH 1126 | W 3.00-5.30 | Rhode Island Hall 008 | winter-spring 2019

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ANTH1126 Spring19 S01 Ethnographies of Heritage: Community and Landscape of the Mediterranean and Beyond