The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2405511 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew M Bauer (0000-0002-6668-8587, Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, corresponding author), Peter G Johansen (Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada), Peter Johansen (0009-0004-0823-0553, McGill University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-50 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1469-6053 • E-ISSN: 1741-2951 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14696053221138580 |
| OpenAlex | W4311325419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper considers the intersections of memorialization practices and politics throughout a period of emergent social differentiation during the Neolithic and Iron Age periods in the Deccan region of southern India. Rather than focus on how mortuary architecture and grave assemblages might correlate with the status, rank, or class of the deceased individuals-as has often been suggested-we place emphasis on how mortuary practices and the production of megalithic places contributed to the establishment and maintenance of social collectives among living communities. More specifically, we identify at least two modes of political practice associated with megalithic production in prehistoric South India: one related to the constitution of collectives of labor and shared consumption activities involved in the process of making monuments; and a second related to the material legacy of monuments in constituting cultural and historical places of social affiliation. In making these arguments about the social significance of megalithic places, we also critically consider new materialist and posthumanist theoretical frameworks in archaeology
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Historicity (philosophy · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Megalith · Memorialization · Political science · Politics · Prehistory · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Law
Archaeology and Social Memory
Introducing the New Materialisms
Feasts
Echoes of Empire
Urbanism and the temporality of materiality on the medieval Deccan
The Political Landscape
Mortuary Practices
Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices in a Mesolithic Population from Wadi Haifa, Sudan
Reassembling the Social
Site maintenance practices and settlement social organization in Iron Age Karnataka, India
Koppa Archaeological Research Project (Karp)
Beyond culture history at Maski
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices
Introduction to Webs of Memory, Frames of Power
Things Are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology
Early ironworking in Iron Age South India
Graecia Capta
Prehistoric Mortuary Practices and the Constitution of Social Relationships
Hybrid Geographies
Questioning a Posthumanist Political Ecology
Toward a Political Ecology in Early South India
Situating megalithic burials in the Iron Age-Early Historic landscape of southern India
Dating the Neolithic of South India
Ceramics, seeds and culinary change in prehistoric India
In defence of representation
The Condition of Postmodernity
Aryans and British India
Decolonizing Methodologies
The Perception of the Environment
Rock Paintings and Engravings in Raichur, Hyderabad
How things act
The politics of spatial renovation
On the Matter of Resources and Techno-Politics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |