Reconceptualizing the Archaeology of Southern India: Beyond Periodization and Toward a Politics of Practice...

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Peter Johansen Andrew M. Bauer

Reconceptualizing the Archaeology of Southern India

Beyond Periodization and Toward a Politics of Practice

Peter Johansen, Andrew M. Bauer

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English

Routledge
16 September 2024

Asian history; Archaeology by period & region; Landscape archaeology

This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India’s deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and textual records of the Deccan to disrupt its conventional archaeological periodizations, which have tended to reify and dehistoricize social and cultural differences.

This book draws on over 20 years of original archaeological research from the southern Deccan region of India to critically reappraise the historiography that has framed its deep history. It fundamentally questions conventional archaeological paradigms, rooted in early colonial scholarship, which have structured interpretations of deep time with curiously ahistorical narratives of the past. This volume offers a more nuanced assessment of historical changes across a diversity of cultural, social, and political practices through the novel application of theoretical framings to archaeological and historical data, including political ecology, techno-politics, resource materialities, and landscape production.

This book will interest an interdisciplinary audience of graduate and undergraduate students and professional academics, primarily in the fields of archaeology, history, and South Asian studies. Its theoretical interventions will also be of interest to those invested in the anthropology and the archaeology of politics, chronology, historicity, historiography, materiality and landscapes.

By: Peter Johansen, Andrew M. Bauer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032792286
ISBN 10: 1032792280
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 16 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Johansen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. His research and teaching interests focus on issues of politics, social distinctions and inequalities, landscape production, materiality, metallurgical production, ritual, and representational practices, particularly in South India’s ancient and medieval pasts. He is codirector of the Maski Archaeological Research Project, an ongoing multi-disciplinary archaeological field project in South India. He is also interested in the historiography of South Asian archaeology and the contemporary politics of Indigenous heritage sovereignty in Canada. Andrew M. Bauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University and the current director of the Stanford Archaeology Center. His research and teaching interests address the history of archaeological thought, archaeological method and theory and environmental anthropology, with particular emphasis on South India, where he codirects the Maski Archaeological Research Project. He is also interested in the intersections of landscape histories, spatial production, and modern framings of nature as they relate to the politics of conservation and climate change.