The issue of the social dimension of technology and transformation, seen from the perspective of ‘Habitus’, has repeatedly been discussed in the scientific discourse exploring prehistoric and archaic communities. However, the complexity of related phenomena constantly provokes new approaches in different archaeological contexts, which leads to interesting findings. By presenting the latest studies on the social dimension of technology and transformation, this book contributes to a better understanding of a system of embodied dispositions hidden within Bourdieu's concept of ‘Habitus’. These studies mainly cover European areas; from Scandinavia to Italy, the Balkans to the British Isles, and Ukraine to the Northern Caucasus. In addition, ethnoarchaeological field studies from distant Indonesia are used to interpret the Hallstatt Culture in Europe. The papers span a chronological dimension from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age and in summary include a diachronic perspective. Rock art, Trypillian megasites, stone axes and adzes, metallurgy, wagons, archery items, ceramics produced on potter’s wheels, mechanisms of cultural genesis and dualistic social systems are examples of the topics discussed. This book also provides comments on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, including the concept of ‘Habitus’. This book is addressed to international academia, presenting an important set of information and interpretations for archaeologists and readers interested in European prehistory. It comprises contributions to the CRC 1266 International Workshop ‘Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation’, held in 2018 at Kiel University.
Author(s): Sławomir Kadrow, Johannes Müller
Series: Scales of Transformation, 3
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 236
City: Leiden
Preface
Habitus? the social dimension of technology and transformation – an introduction
Sławomir Kadrow*, Johannes Müller**
Habitus as a theoretical concept
VPJ Arponen*
Society and technology in the Neolithic and Eneolithic of the Balkans
Marko Porčić*
Axe as landscape technology. How did it transform societies and landscapes?
Jan Kolář*
‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change‘: the case of Trypillia
Bisserka Gaydarska*
Does the social field cause or accelerate social and cultural changes? The case of Eneolithic Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex
Aleksandr Diachenko*
The Maykop legacy- new social practice and new technologies in the 4th millennium BCE in the North Caucasus
Sabine Reinhold*
The production and use of archery-related items as a reflection of social changes during the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age in Europe
Clément Nicolas*
The appearance, disappearance, and reappearance of non-figurative rock art during the southern Scandinavian Neolithic and Bronze Age
Rune Iversen*
Changing pottery production technologies in urbanizing societies in the Bay of Naples (8th-7th centuries BCE)
Lieve Donnellan*
Dualist socio-political systems in South East Asia and the interpretation of late prehistoric European societies
Christian Jeunesse*
The diversity in a theory of cultural genesis for the eastern European Bronze Age
Valentine Pankowski*
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