Archaeology and folklore /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gazin-Schwartz, Amy, 1952-, Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series:Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 'As long as ever I've known it ...' : on folklore and archaeology / Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf
  • Folklore and world view / Robert Layton
  • Focusing on time : disciplining archaeology in Sweden / Mats Burström
  • Back to the future : resonances of the past in myth and material culture / Miranda J. Green
  • Of thunderbirds, water spirits and chiefs' daughters : contextualising archaeology and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) oral traditions / John Staeck
  • Feminism, paganism, pluralism / Lynn Meskell
  • Apocalypse past/future : archaeology and folklore, writ large / Kathryn E.L. Denning
  • Songs remembered in exile? Integrating unsung archives of Highland life / James Symonds
  • Of 'The Green Man' and 'little green men' / John Collis
  • Integrating the past : folklore, mounds and people at Catalhöyük / David Shankland
  • On the folklore of the Externsteine-- or a centre for Germanomaniacs / Martin Schmidt and Uta Halle
  • Continuing reinvention of the Etruscan myth / Diura Thoden van Velzen
  • Naming the places, naming the stones / Sara Champion and Gabriel Cooney
  • Clearance cairns : the farmers' and the archaeologists' views / Ingunn Holm
  • Coming to terms with local approaches to Sardinia's nuraghi / Emma Blake
  • Archaeology as folklore : the literary construction of the megalith Pentre Ifan in west Wales / Julia Murphy.
  • Last refuge of the faeries : archaeology and folklore in East Sussex / Martin Brown and Pat Bowen.