Individual lifeworlds and social structured societies in Merovingian settlements of the Munich Gravel Plain
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Zitat: Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, Individual lifeworlds and social structured societies in Merovingian settlements of the Munich Gravel Plain. In: Liv Helga Dommasnes / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann / Alf Tore Hommedal, The Farm as a Social Arena (Münster 2016), 105-125. -----
Abstract:
Cemeteries and graves from the Merovingian Period on the Munich Gravel Plain are well known as an archaeological source: These graves are often richly furnished with non-organic parts of clothing, weapons and jewellery, tools and other objects. Furthermore,
these grave goods show a close connection to the buried person, and can be connected to main aspects of the deceased’s lifeworld. The analysis of many graves with and without grave goods can show aspects of a structured society, i. e. ranked as well
as organized in a more complex way, in this rural area, for which we also have hints in
the written sources.
Settlements are in general not as well known from Merovingian times as graves and cemeteries, but in the Munich gravel plain, also some Merovingian houses, farms and settlements have been excavated, and some of them have been recently published.
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To appreciate better the uncertain and unstable way that Herero women of Botswana understand their distinctive dress, I extend Bakhtin's notion of "sparkle" to include the disparate modalities through which meaning is constituted. An embodied subjectivity, or experiential sensibility, intrudes upon structured contrasts that also give the dress meaning in such registers as gender, ethnic relations, and the political economy of the liberal democratic state. I use Herero women's sense of the dress to question recent approaches to "culture" among scholars who look only at its differentiating function, since Herero women also see the dress as a means of building mutuality.
Link zur Publikation: https://eos-verlag.de/gruenderzeit/ ----- Zitat: Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann / Anja Pütz, Aschheim: Ein zentraler Ort? Eine Indiziensuche in den archäologischen Funden und Befunden. In: Jochen Haberstroh / Irmtraut Heitmeier (Hrsg.), Gründerzeit. Siedlung in Bayern zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter (St. Ottilien 2019) 691-720.
The explanations of burial customs provided by previous anthropologists are examined at length together with the assumptions and data orientations that lay behind them. Both the assumptions and explanations are shown to be inadequate from the point of view of systems theory and from a detailed examination of the empirical record. A cross-cultural survey drawn from the Human Relations Area Files shows that associations do exist between measures of mortuary ritual variety and structural complexity. It was found that both the number and specific forms of the dimensions of the social persona commonly recognized in mortuary ritual vary significantly with the organizational complexity of the society as measured by different forms of subsistence practice. Moreover, the forms that differentiations in mortuary ritual take vary significantly with the dimensions of the social persona symbolized. Hence, much of contemporary archaeological conjecture and interpretation regarding processes of cultural change, cultural differentiation, and the presence of specific burial customs is inadequate as well as the ideational propositions and assumptions underlying these notions. Inferences about the presumed “relationships” compared directly from trait lists obtaining among archaeological manifestations are useless without knowledge of the organizational properties of the pertinent cultural systems.
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