CHAPTER 6 Beyond Ethnicity: Technological Choice and Communities of Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables, Figures, and Maps viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Anthropology, History, and the Middle Ages
7. CHAPTER 1 Manifesto for an Anthropology of Historicity 11
8. CHAPTER 2 Mirror of the Medieval 30
9. CHAPTER 3 Anthropology’s Lost Medieval Heritage 48
10. Part II Identity, Power, and the Medieval Past in the Eastern Alpine Region
11. CHAPTER 4 German Imperialism and the Early Medieval Past 71
12. CHAPTER 5 Slovenian Identity and the Early Medieval Past 93
13. CHAPTER 6 Beyond Ethnicity: Technological Choice and Communities of Practice 109
14. CHAPTER 7 Christianization, Syncretism, and an Archaeology of Time 134
15. Conclusion: Mourning Modernity and the Myth of the Middle Ages 155
16. References 163
17. Index 191