ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOLKLORE

Libro editado por Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf (1999)

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Part I: Archaeology and folklore studies

1 ‘As long as ever I’ve known it…’: on folklore and archaeology
Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf

Constructing the past in folklore and archaeology
Definitions
Historical perspectives
Defining new fields: folklore and archaeology in the nineteenth century
Folklore and archaeology in the twentieth century
Folklore as a source for the study of (pre-)history: problems of reliability
Folklore as relic
Folklore as invention
Accuracy and interpretation
Folklore as another way of understanding time and ancient monuments
Folklore and the politics of archaeology
Collective identity
Multiple pasts
The folklore of archaeology
Conclusion

2 Folklore and world view
Robert Layton

Introduction
Time and ‘the other’
Translating folklore
Archaeology and folklore

3 Focusing on time: disciplining archaeology in Sweden
Mats Burström

Introduction
Pre-modern archaeology
Disciplining archaeology
Focusing on time
Disregarding folklore
Focusing on meaning

4 Back to the future: resonances of the past in myth and material culture
Miranda J.Green

When pasts collide
Medieval myth and the archaeology of pre-Christian paganism
Ancestral voices: medieval storytellers and ancient survivals
Conclusion: corridors of time

5 Of thunderbirds, water spirits and chiefs’ daughters: contextualising archaeology and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) oral traditions
John Staeck

Introduction
Oral traditions as a corpus of data
Connecting social structure, oral traditions and archaeology
Results
Matricentred behaviour
Hierarchical behaviour
A structural caveat?
Conclusions

6 Feminism, paganism, pluralism
Lynn Meskell

Feminist forays
Visions of Çatalhöyük

7 Apocalypse past/future: archaeology and folklore, writ large
Kathryn E.L.Denning

The millennium cometh
Apocalypse
Popular archaeology, revelation and eschaton
Apocalypses within social history
Archaeology and apocalypse: adapting the formula and changing the ending
Conclusion

8 Songs remembered in exile? Integrating unsung archives of Highland life
James Symonds

The fairy-egg, and what became of it
The rise and fall of anthropological folklore
Landscapes, things, oral tradition and historical archaeology
Tir a’ Mhurain—Land of bent grass
Oral history and the problem of objectivity
Songs for everyday life?
Sun-wise motion
Technologies for remembering
Reintegrating folklore: towards a historical ethnography?

9 Of ‘The Green Man’ and ‘little green men’
John Collis

Folklore and popular culture
Equality of treatment
Levels of incorporation
Archaeologists in society

Part II: Interpreting monuments in archaeology and popular culture

10 Integrating the past: folklore, mounds and people at Çatalhöyük
David Shankland

Background and aims
Çatalhöyük and Küçükköy
The village and the remains of the past
Protecting the heritage
Those who are closer to God
Variations in belief and practice
Conclusion

11 On the folklore of the Externsteine—or a centre for Germanomaniacs
Martin Schmidt and Uta Halle

The history of research at the Externsteine
From 1945 to the present
Ordinary tourism
Neo-pagans
Neo-Nazi groups
Other esoteric groups
Pseudo-scientific groups
Conclusion

12 The continuing reinvention of the Etruscan myth
Diura Thoden van Velzen

Introduction
The dawn of the Renaissance Etruscan revival
The political dimension
The Etruscans in the oral tradition of the lower classes
Popular perceptions of the Etruscans from the Renaissance to modern times
Modern Etruscan myths: the tales that justify tomb robbing
The general public and the Etruscans: mystery and identity
Conclusion

13 Naming the places, naming the stones
Sara Champion and Gabriel Cooney

Introduction
Naming the places
Removing the stones, changing meanings
Same places, different stories
From megalith to non-place
Speaking from the hills

14 Clearance cairns: the farmers’ and the archaeologists’ views
Ingunn Holm

The antiquities
The tradition
The cairn fields and their popular interpretation
The archaeologist, the tradition and the local population

15 Coming to terms with local approaches to Sardinia’s nuraghi
Emma Blake

The local life of the nuraghi
The archaeological and the local: separate but equal?
Introducing a Pragmatist archaeology
Learning from the local

16 Archaeology as folklore: the literary construction of the megalith Pentre Ifan in west Wales
Julia Murphy

Early interpretations
Twentieth-century writings
Breaking with tradition
Conclusion

17 The last refuge of the faeries: archaeology and folklore in East Sussex
Martin Brown and Pat Bowen

Setting the ground
The landscape
Presenting pasts
Inner journeys, inner values
Experiencing space