From the Ground Up: Agency,Practice, and Community in the Southwestern British Bronze Age |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Mary?Ann?OwocEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania;(2) Department of Anthropology, Mercyhurst College, 501 E 38th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania, 16546 |
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Abstract: | Embodied, sensual, engagements between people, earthly elements, and celestial bodies during focused, periodic acts of ritual
construction and artifact deposition in the southwestern British Bronze Age resulted in the remaking of identities, local
communities, symbolic/mythical knowledge, and the landscape itself. To appreciate how material culture, time, and space were
employed to define the criteria by which people understood themselves and their world necessitates an archaeological focus
upon shared practices in particular settings that served to define rules of engagement with the environment based upon shared
human perceptions. Agency appears in this encounter as central in the construction and perpetuation of symbolic perception,
shared social memory, and community identity. |
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Keywords: | Community ritual shared practice traditions of knowledge |
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