Full Description
All too often, anthropologists study specific facets of human migration without guidance from the other subdisciplines (archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics) that can provide new insights on the topic. The equivocal results of these narrow studies often make the discussion of impact and consequences speculative.
In the last decade, however, anthropologists working independently in the four subdisciplines have developed powerful methodologies to detect and assess the scale of past migrations. Yet these advances are known only to a few specialized researchers.
Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration brings together these new methods in one volume and addresses innovative approaches to migration research that emerge from the collective effort of scholars from different intellectual backgrounds. Its contributors present a comprehensive anthropological exploration of the many topics related to human migration throughout the world, ranging from theoretical treatments to specific case studies derived primarily from the Americas prior to European contact.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Part I. Setting the StageIntroduction. Migration in Anthropology: Where We Stand — Graciela S. Cabana and Jeffery J. Clark
1. The Problematic Relationship between Migration and Culture Change — Graciela S. Cabana
Part II. Archaeological Approaches
2. Migration in Fluid Social Landscapes — Wesley R. Bernardini
3. Movement and the Unsettling of the Pueblos — Severin M. Fowles
4. S-cuk Kavick: Thoughts on Migratory Process and the Archaeology of O'odham Migration — J. Andrew Darling
5. Disappearance and Diaspora: Contrasting Two Migrations in the Southern U.S. Southwest — Jeffery J. Clark
Part III. Archaeolinguistic Approaches6. Using Cognitive Semantics to Relate Mesa Verde Archaeology to Modern Pueblo Languages — Scott G. Ortman
7. Power, Agency, and Identity: Migration and Aftermath in the Mezquital Area of North-Central Mexico — Christopher S. Beekman and Alec F. Christensen
Part IV. Ethnolinguistic Approaches
8. Linguistic Paleontology and Migration: The Case of Uto-Aztecan — Jane H. Hill
9. A Numic Migration? Ethnographic Evidence Revisited — Catherine S. Fowler
10. Loanword Histories and the Demography of Migration — Christopher Ehret
Part V. Bioanthropological Approaches
11. Identifying Archaeological Human Migration using Biogeochemistry: Case Studies from the South Central Andes — Kelly J. Knudson
12. Migration in Anthropological Genetics — Alan G. Fix
13. Continuity and Change in Anthropological Perspectives on Migration: Insights from Molecular Anthropology — Deborah A. Bolnick
14. Migration Muddles in Prehistory: The Model-Bound Versus Model-Free Distinction — Susan R. Frankenberg and Lyle W. Konigsberg
15. Evolutionary Models of Migration in Human Prehistory and their Anthropological Significance — Keith L. Hunley
Part VI. Lessons from Contemporary Migration
16. Modern Perspectives on Ancient Migrations — Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
List of Contributors
Index
