Archaeology and Folklore

Table of contents :
BOOK COVER……Page 1
HALF-TITLE……Page 2
TITLE……Page 4
COPYRIGHT……Page 5
CONTENTS……Page 8
ILLUSTRATIONS……Page 15
CONTRIBUTORS……Page 17
PART I ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOLKLORE STUDIES……Page 20
CONSTRUCTING THE PAST IN FOLKLORE AND ARCHAEOLOGY……Page 21
DEFINITIONS……Page 23
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES……Page 24
Defining new fields: folklore and archaeology in the nineteenth century……Page 25
Folklore and archaeology in the twentieth century……Page 27
FOLKLORE AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF (PRE-)HISTORY: PROBLEMS OF RELIABILITY……Page 28
Folklore as relic……Page 29
Folklore as invention……Page 30
Accuracy and interpretation……Page 31
FOLKLORE AS ANOTHER WAY OF UNDERSTANDING TIME AND ANCIENT MONUMENTS……Page 32
Collective identity……Page 34
Multiple pasts……Page 35
The folklore of archaeology……Page 36
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……Page 37
REFERENCES……Page 38
INTRODUCTION……Page 43
TIME AND ??THE OTHER??……Page 44
TRANSLATING FOLKLORE……Page 46
ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOLKLORE……Page 47
REFERENCES……Page 50
INTRODUCTION……Page 52
PRE-MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY……Page 53
DISCIPLINING ARCHAEOLOGY……Page 54
DISREGARDING FOLKLORE……Page 56
REFERENCES……Page 62
CHAPTER FOUR BACK TO THE FUTURE……Page 65
WHEN PASTS COLLIDE……Page 67
MEDIEVAL MYTH AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PRE-CHRISTIAN PAGANISM……Page 69
ANCESTRAL VOICES: MEDIEVAL STORYTELLERS AND ANCIENT SURVIVALS……Page 74
NOTES……Page 78
REFERENCES……Page 79
INTRODUCTION……Page 84
ORAL TRADITIONS AS A CORPUS OF DATA……Page 86
CONNECTING SOCIAL STRUCTURE, ORAL TRADITIONS AND ARCHAEOLOGY……Page 87
Matricentred behaviour……Page 89
Hierarchical behaviour……Page 90
A STRUCTURAL CAVEAT?……Page 93
CONCLUSIONS……Page 94
REFERENCES……Page 95
CHAPTER SIX FEMINISM, PAGANISM, PLURALISM……Page 99
FEMINIST FORAYS……Page 101
VISIONS OF CATALHOYUK……Page 102
REFERENCES……Page 105
CHAPTER SEVEN APOCALYPSE PAST/FUTURE……Page 106
THE MILLENNIUM COMETH……Page 107
APOCALYPSE……Page 109
POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY, REVELATION AND ESCHATON……Page 110
APOCALYPSES WITHIN SOCIAL HISTORY……Page 112
ARCHAEOLOGY AND APOCALYPSE: ADAPTING THE FORMULA AND CHANGING THE ENDING……Page 114
NOTES……Page 118
REFERENCES……Page 119
CHAPTER EIGHT SONGS REMEMBERED IN EXILE?……Page 122
THE FAIRY-EGG, AND WHAT BECAME OF IT……Page 123
THE RISE AND FALL OF ANTH ROPOLOGICAL FOLKLORE?……Page 127
LANDSCAPES, THINGS, ORAL TRADITION AND HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY……Page 129
TIR A??MHURAIN??LAND OF BENT GRASS……Page 132
ORAL HISTORY AND THE PROBLEM OF OBJECTIVITY……Page 134
SONGS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE?……Page 135
Sun-wise motion……Page 137
TECHNOLOGIES FOR REMEMBERING……Page 139
REFERENCES……Page 141
CHAPTER NINE OF ??THE GREEN MAN?? AND ??LITTLE GREEN MEN??……Page 145
FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE……Page 146
EQUALITY OF TREATMENT……Page 147
LEVELS OF INCORPORATION……Page 148
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN SOCIETY……Page 149
PART II INTERPRETING MONUMENTS IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND POPULAR CULTURE……Page 152
CHAPTER TEN INTEGRATING THE PAST……Page 153
BACKGROUND AND AIMS……Page 154
CATALHOYUK AND KUCUKKOY……Page 156
THE VILLAGE AND THE REMAINS OF THE PAST……Page 158
PROTECTING THE HERITAGE……Page 159
Account 3……Page 161
Account 5……Page 162
Account 7……Page 163
Account 9……Page 164
THOSE WHO ARE CLOSER TO GOD……Page 165
Account 11……Page 166
VARIATIONS IN BELIEF AND PRACTICE……Page 167
REFERENCES……Page 170
CHAPTER ELEVEN ON THE FOLKLORE OF THE EXTERNSTEINE……Page 172
THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH AT THE EXTERNSTEINE……Page 174
Neo-pagans……Page 178
Neo-Nazi groups……Page 180
Pseudo-scientific groups……Page 181
REFERENCES……Page 185
INTRODUCTION……Page 189
THE DAWN OF THE RENAISSANCE ETRUSCAN REVIVAL……Page 191
THE POLITICAL DIMENSION……Page 192
THE ETRUSCANS IN THE ORAL TRADITION OF THE LOWER CLASSES……Page 194
POPULAR PERCEPTIONS OF THE ETRUSCANS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO MODERN TIMES……Page 198
MODERN ETRUSCAN MYTHS: THE TALES THAT JUSTIFY TOMB ROBBING……Page 199
THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THE ETRUSCANS: MYSTERY AND IDENTITY……Page 202
CONCLUSION……Page 205
REFERENCES……Page 206
INTRODUCTION……Page 209
NAMING THE PLACES……Page 211
REMOVING THE STONES, CHANGING MEANINGS……Page 214
SAME PLACES, DIFFERENT STORIES……Page 217
FROM MEGALITH TO NON-PLACE……Page 218
SPEAKING FROM THE HILLS……Page 221
REFERENCES……Page 223
CHAPTER FOURTEEN CLEARANCE CAIRNS……Page 226
THE ANTIQUITIES……Page 227
THE TRADITION……Page 229
THE CAIRN FIELDS AND THEIR POPULAR INTERPRETATION……Page 233
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST, THE TRADITION AND THE LOCAL POPULATION……Page 236
REFERENCES……Page 239
THE LOCAL LIFE OF THE NURAGHI……Page 241
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND THE LOCAL: SEPARATE BUT EQUAL?……Page 244
INTRODUCING A PRAGMATIST ARCHAEOLOGY……Page 245
LEARNING FROM THE LOCAL……Page 246
REFERENCES……Page 249
CHAPTER SIXTEEN ARCHAEOLOGY AS FOLKLORE……Page 250
EARLY INTERPRETATIONS……Page 251
TWENTIETH-CENTURY WRITINGS……Page 255
BREAKING WITH TRADITION……Page 259
CONCLUSION……Page 262
REFERENCES……Page 263
SETTING THE GROUND……Page 265
THE LANDSCAPE……Page 269
PRESENTING PASTS……Page 273
INNER JOURNEYS, INNER VALUES……Page 275
EXPERIENCING SPACE……Page 278
NOTES……Page 280
REFERENCES……Page 281
INDEX……Page 283