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ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOLKLORE THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP (TAG) In this series: The Archaeology of Human Ancestry Power, Sex and Tradition edited by James Steele and Stephen Shennan The Archaeology of Iberia The Dynamics of Change edited by Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Simon Keay Cultural Identity and Archaeology The Construction of European Communities edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Siân Jones and Clive Gamble The Cultural Life of Images Visual Representation in Archaeology edited by Brian Leigh Molyneaux Managing Archaeology edited by Malcolm A.Cooper, Antony Firth, John Carman and David Wheatley Theory in Archaeology A World Perspective edited by Peter J.Ucko Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology Bridging the ‘Great Divide’ edited by Nigel Spencer Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory edited by Steven Mithen ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOLKLORE edited by Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf London and New York First published 1999 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1999 Selection and editorial matter, Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius J.Holtorf; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-98384-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-20144-6 (Print Edition) A reputed Roman road at Henley in West Sussex has recently been proved by excavation to be medieval. A lady living in the locality had occasion to inform her maid of this fact, only to hear—‘Well, miss, it has been a Roman road as long as ever I’ve known it!’ Cecil Curwen in Antiquity 11 (1937):86 Niels Milan Pedersen, 1990 CONTENTS List of illustrations xiv List of contributors xvi Part I: Archaeology and folklore studies 1 1 ‘As long as ever I’ve known it…’: on folklore and 2 archaeology Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf Constructing the past in folklore and archaeology 2 Definitions 4 Historical perspectives 5 Defining new fields: folklore and archaeology in the 6 nineteenth century Folklore and archaeology in the twentieth century 8 Folklore as a source for the study of (pre-)history: problems of 9 reliability Folklore as relic 10 Folklore as invention 11 Accuracy and interpretation 12 Folklore as another way of understanding time and ancient 13 monuments Folklore and the politics of archaeology 15 Collective identity 15 Multiple pasts 16 The folklore of archaeology 17 Conclusion 18 viii Acknowledgements 18 References 19 2 Folklore and world view 24 Robert Layton Introduction 24 Time and ‘the other’ 25 Translating folklore 27 Archaeology and folklore 28 References 30 3 Focusing on time: disciplining archaeology in Sweden 33 Mats Burström Introduction 33 Pre-modern archaeology 34 Disciplining archaeology 35 Focusing on time 37 Disregarding folklore 38 Focusing on meaning 43 References 43 4 Back to the future: resonances of the past in myth and 46 material culture Miranda J.Green When pasts collide 48 Medieval myth and the archaeology of pre-Christian paganism 50 Ancestral voices: medieval storytellers and ancient survivals 55 Conclusion: corridors of time 59 Notes 59 References 60 5 Of thunderbirds, water spirits and chiefs’ daughters: 65 contextualising archaeology and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) oral traditions John Staeck Introduction 65 ix Oral traditions as a corpus of data 67 Connecting social structure, oral traditions and archaeology 68 Results 70 Matricentred behaviour 70 Hierarchical behaviour 71 A structural caveat? 74 Conclusions 75 Note 76 References 76 6 Feminism, paganism, pluralism 80 Lynn Meskell Feminist forays 82 Visions of Çatalhöyük 83 References 86 7 Apocalypse past/future: archaeology and folklore, writ 87 large Kathryn E.L.Denning The millennium cometh 88 Apocalypse 90 Popular archaeology, revelation and eschaton 91 Apocalypses within social history 93 Archaeology and apocalypse: adapting the formula and 95 changing the ending Conclusion 99 Notes 99 Acknowledgements 100 References 100 8 Songs remembered in exile? Integrating unsung 103 archives of Highland life James Symonds The fairy-egg, and what became of it 104

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Folklore and archaeology are traditionally seen as taking very different approaches to the significance of ancient and historic monuments and to the interpretation of life in the past. Archaeology and Folklore explores the complex relationship between the two disciplines to demonstrate what they mig
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