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Bronze Age Worlds: A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Bronze Age Worlds: A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Johnston, Robert

Paperback

AnthropologyArchaeologyAncient History General

ISBN10: 1138037885
ISBN13: 9781138037885
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 27 2020
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.

Britain and Ireland's diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations during the twenty-fifth to eighth centuries BC. People's lives were shaped by migrations, changing beliefs about death, making and thinking with metals, and living in houses and field systems. This book offers accounts of how these processes emerged from social life, from events, places and landscapes, informed by a novel theory of kinship. Kinship was a rich and inventive sphere of culture that incorporated biological relations but was not determined by them. Kinship formed personhood and collective belonging, and associated people with nonhuman beings, things and places. The differences in kinship and kinwork across Ireland and Britain brought textures to social life and the formation of Bronze Age worlds.

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