Creating Material Worlds

The volume demonstrates how successfully archaeologists can talk about identity in lots of different contexts and with lots of different evidence. This is what is important right now. * European Journal of Archaeology * This is an excellently conceived and considered volume. The chapters are not only produced with thoughtfulness and intelligence, but provide a certain piquancy and challenge to the theoretical approach of those working throughout archaeology and material cultural studies. * Antiquaries Journal * At times philosophical (touching on Descartes and Gilles Deleuze) and perhaps best suited to those with some grasp of such theoretical terminology as the 'ontological turn', this book delivers some fascinating insights. * Current Archaeology *

Louisa Campbell received her PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2011. Her main research interests are in Roman material culture, the Roman and Provincial interface and theoretical approaches to culture contact. Adrian Maldonado is lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Chester. He is most interested in the ontological transformations that came with the conversion to Christianity and the adoption of literacy beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire. Elizabeth Pierce has worked in commercial archaeology in Britain and the U.S., and taught courses on the archaeology of the Vikings and early medieval Scotland at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include the Middle Ages in the North Atlantic, exotic materials such as walrus ivory and jet, and recumbent monuments in medieval Scotland.

Contents Contributors Preface Introduction: creating material worlds, Adrian Maldonado and Anthony Russell 1. Becoming post-human: identity and the ontological turn Oliver J.T. Harris 2. Materialising the afterlife: the long cist in early medieval Scotland Adrian Maldonado 3. Move along: migrant identities in Scandinavian Scotland Erin Halstad McGuire 4. Smoke and mirrors: conjuring the transcendental subject John L. Creese 5. Drinking Identities and Changing Ideologies in Iron Age Sardinia Jeremy Hayne 6. Impressions at the edge: belonging and otherness in the post-Viking North Atlantic Elizabeth Pierce 7. We are not you: being different in Bronze Age Sicily Anthony Russell 8. There is no identity: discerning the indiscernible Dene Wright 9. Food, Identity and Power Entanglements in South Iberia between the 9th-6th Centuries BC Beatriz Marin-Aguilera 10. Proportionalising practices in the past: Roman fragments beyond the frontier Louisa Campbell 11. Afterword by A. Bernard Knapp