Local, regional and ethnic identities in early medieval cemeteries in Bavaria (Premio Ottone d’Assia e Riccardo Francovich 2008)

Introduction

Preface

1. Early medieval ethnicity materialises
1.1. The creation of a myth
1.2. Culture and Volk
1.3. Tracht and the missing adjectives
1.4. The parallel universe
1.5. Excursion to Africa: anthropological approaches
1.6. Wenskus’s Stammesbildung
1.7. Debating ethnicity in history…
1.8. … and archaeology
1.9. Archaeology, anthropology, history: the state of the union
1.10. Early medieval ethnicity materialises

2. Early medieval cemeteries in Bavaria
2.1. The choice of cemeteries
2.2. The interpretive process

3. Developing a chronology
3.1. Background
3.2. Theory
3.3. Method
3.4. A history of early medieval chronologies in northern France and Germany
3.5. Developing a chronology for the cemeteries on the Munich gravel plain
3.6. Discussion of the phases
3.7. The chronological sequence

4. Barbarian identities in transition
4.1. The legacy of the empire
4.2. Competing polities
4.3. Conflict and consolidation
4.4. The return of empire
4.5. The impact of Christianity
4.6. Barbarian identities in transition

5. Local and regional identities
5.1. Ethnic identities in the cemeteries on the Munich gravel plain
5.2. The female assemblage
5.3. The male assemblage
5.4. Ethnic identities and gender

6. Kin-groups and ancestors, families and warriors: the spatial organisation of cemeteries
6.1. Altenerding: burying among the ancestors
6.2. Aubing: family plots on the move
6.3. Steinhöring: a place in the country
6.4. Pliening: warriors and robbers
6.5. Giesing: the attraction of all things Roman
6.6. Conclusion

7. Conclusions
7.1. Roman or barbarian?
7.2. Differences between cemeteries
7.3. Families and ancestors
7.4. Male and female identities
7.5. Individuals
7.6. Early medieval ethnicity and material culture
7.7. A question of origins?

Appendix A: Artefact codes and their descriptions
Appendix B: Dated graves
Appendix C: Dated artefacts

Riassunto

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