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Wells, Peter S.

doi:10.1023/a:1022828421770

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“…Irrespective of any epistemological focus, any material approach to ethnicity will face the same challenge: how to extract abstract, subjective and qualitative information from a 'specific and quantitative' material record. The 'new wave' of the archaeology of the ethnicity has bypassed such hurdles by breaking old historiographical dogmas, such as the equation 'archaeological culture = ethnic group' (Jones 1997;Wells 1998), following new approaches from different fields of study (e.g. Cohen 1974;Hodder 1982;Shennan 1989;Wiessner 1983).…”

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“…These new approaches not only provided academic functionality to an outdated topic, but also a new framework of study in which materiality was understood as an active part of identity building. Groundbreaking works linking ethnic identity and materiality (Hall 1997;Jones 1997;Wells 1998) paved the way for later approaches that recovered and reappraised the potential of archaeology to identify dynamics of collective self-classification (Díaz-Andreu et al 2005;Fernández-Götz 2014;Mac Sweeney 2009).…”

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Texts, Politics and Identities: New Challenges on Iron Age Ethnicity. A Case from Northwest Iberia

Nión-Álvarez

2024

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This paper presents an approach to the study of European Iron Age ethnicity, a core topic for several decades which has begun to lose interest in the last years. A review of some of the uncertainties involved in the archaeology of ethnicity, focused on several key issues, is proposed. Moreover, some relevant topics that are usually undermined are suggested in order to address new challenges in the discipline: the introduction of political identity as a major focus of study, the reassessment of the etic perspective as an inner part of processes of collective differentiation, or the need for a holistic approach to join and combine different forms of expression. Finally, these approaches will be explored in a case study based on the northwest of the Iberian peninsula. This region has been chosen because of the feasibility of combining the results of different studies about social and political organizsation with relevant textual evidence to extract information about their ethnic dynamics.

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