Recasting the Foundations: New Approaches to Regional Understandings of South Asian Archaeology and the Problem of Culture History
2003
The archaeological record of South Asia's rich and diverse past has been largely
dominated by interpretational frameworks, which have the construction of culture
histories as their core, if not their end. Normative and conservative understandings
of culture implicit in the culture-history paradigm have resulted in the construction
of static archaeological cultures coterminous with ethnolinguistic communities, races
or 'peoples' from material culture trait lists. An understanding of culture that recognizes
its contingent, dynamic, and categorical nature is required in order to
approach the complex and unique sets of historical circumstances and relationships
that have shaped South Asia's past. Articles in this volume present new research and
perspectives that pose a variety of new questions about the organization of social,
political, and economic processes that push beyond the epistemic limitations of the
culture-history foundations of South Asian archaeology.
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