Natural Histories and Social Identities in Neolithic Orkney

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Contents:

Beyond Identification: An Introduction.- Part I. Identity and Social Change. Medieval Towns, Modern Signs, Identity Inter-spaces: Some Reflections in Historical Archaeology.- "Either or Neither Nor": Resisting the Production of Gender, Race and Class Dichotomies in the Pre-Colonial Peiod.- Part II. Identity: Category and Practice. Sexual Subjects: Identity and Taxonomy in Archaeological Research. The Contribution of Gender to Personal Identity in the Southern Scandinavian Mesolithic.- Identity Politics: Personhood, Kinship, Gender and Power in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain.- Homing Instincts: Grounded Identities and Dividual Selves in the British Bronze Age.-Part III. Identity and Place.-"Games, Sports and What-Not": Regulation of Leisure and the Porduction of Social Identities in 19th Century America. Changing Identities in the Arabian Gulf: Archaeology, Religion, and Ethnicity in Context. Caste in Cuenca: Colonial Identity in the 17th Century Andes.- Natural Histories and Social Identities in Neolithic Orkney.- Index.