Mediating Marginality: Mounds, Pots and Performances at the Bronze Age Cemetery of Purić-Ljubanj, Eastern Croatia
By (author) Sandy Budden-Hoskins By (author) Andreja Malovoz By (author) Mu-Chun Wu By (author) Lisa Waldock
Paperback (Published)
(April 2022)
ISBN: 9781789699722
8.07 x 11.42 inches
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This study draws on eight years of excavation and survey at the newly discovered Bronze Age Cemetery of Puric-Ljubanj in the county of Vukovar-Syrmia in eastern Croatia.
Mediating Marginality draws on eight years of excavation and survey at the newly discovered Bronze Age Cemetery of Puric-Ljubanj in the county of Vukovar-Syrmia in eastern Croatia. It also incorporates data from an ongoing landscape project that continues to provide evidence of an extensive, hitherto unknown, cultural group living on the margins between well known and documented groups, such as the Belegis and West Serbian variant of the Vatin cultural complex. The monograph explores what this marginality may have meant for these people and how they built a strong community identity through ongoing landscape modification that involved appropriating materials from a very limited palette and reworking and redepositing these in very specific ways over an exceptionally long period of time. Ideas surrounding the deployment of skill, stocks of knowledge and scales of performance are used to interrogate the social world the Spacva-Ljubanj mound builders created for themselves and reveal that although apparently marginalised they were far from impoverished and indeed appear to have created a thriving cultural heritage. The monograph closes with a discussion of how the project intends to go forward, placing particular emphasis on how the modern community can best benefit from continued research in the area.
Preface ;
Introduction ;
Chapter 1: Research History, Survey and Excavation Strategy at Purić-Ljubanj ;
Chapter 2: Placing Purić-Ljubanj in its Local and Regional Context ;
Chapter 3: Pottery Assemblages and Burial Features at Purić-Ljubanj ;
Chapter 4: Translating Geology, Resources, and Redistributed Materials into Skill and Performance ;
Chapter 5: Scales of performance at Purić-Ljubanj: assembling the cemetery, the landscape, and the dead ;
Chapter 6: Mediating Marginality ;
References ;
Index
- By (author) Sandy Budden-Hoskins
- By (author) Andreja Malovoz
- By (author) Mu-Chun Wu
- By (author) Lisa Waldock
'The book is beautifully illustrated, incorporating a site report as well as an exploration into the wider landscape of the county of Vukovar-Syrmia. It highlights a previously unknown distinct cultural group that lived in the margins of well-studied groups around them.' – Marion Uckelmann (2024): Antiquity Vol. 98
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