Zmienność kulturowa i społeczna w ujęciu archeologii

• Authors: Danuta Minta-Tworzowska

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Cultural and social variability from the archaeological perspective

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Three major trends in archaeology: traditional, processual and postprocessual, conceptualize the change differently. The first one formulates the change generally in the category of evolution and partly of history, as taking place in accordance with general laws and the phenomenon of diffusion. Another trend, processual archaeology, explains the change in terms of adaptive processes, and the postprocessual trend recognizes it as history of creative activities of individuals. In the paper, I present analytical ways of approach to cultural and social variability in archaeology, which, in fact, lead to change of identity. They are proposals of interpretation of the changes as: a) the change of utility, b) the variability of the use of objects, c) the change in the way of “consumption”, as a result of the pursuit of prestige.

Keywords

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temporality; cultural change; cultural variability; change of utility; variability of the use of objects; change in the way of consumption; transformation; cultural dynamics; traditional; processual and postprocessual archaeology; social theory

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Przegląd Archeologiczny
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 59
• Pages: 5-26

Contributors

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Danuta Minta-Tworzowska

• nstytut Prahistorii Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza ul. Św. Marcin 78 61-809 Poznań