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Identity-Mapping in the Sardinian Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Emma Blake
Emma Blake*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to locate in the emergence and elaboration of Sardinia's Nuragic society, a narrative of cultural identity formation. The Nuragic period is typically defined in terms of economic, social, and demographic characteristics, and a Nuragic identity is implicitly taken to be a passive byproduct of these material circumstances. Such an account overlooks the role of identity in enabling and characterizing human action. The disjointed and contradictory Nuragic period transition preceded the formation of a coherent cultural identity. This identity, it will be argued, underwent a retrospective rearticulation to establish a distinct boundary between the Nuragic society and its antecedents. The material record illustrates clearly that the history of the Nuragic identity is implicated in social development on Sardinia in the second millennium BC.

L'intention de cet article est de mettre en évidence sous forme narrative la formation d'identité culturelle durant la période d'emergence et d'élaboration de la société nouragique. On définit en général cette période en fonction de traits sociaux-économiques et demographiques et il découle implicitement de cette definition que l'identité culturelle est un sous produit passif de ces traits purement materiels. Une telle definition ne prend donc pas en compte le rôle de l'identité culturelle qui soustend et characterise l'action humaine. Une phase de transition distincte et opposée à la période nouragique précède la formation d'une identité culturelle cohérente. Cette identité, comme nous allons le discuter, a été soumise à une ré-articulation retrospective qui sépare la société nouragique de ses précurseurs. Les données materielles démontrent que l'evolution de l'identité culturelle a joué un rôle dans le développement social du deuxième millénaire avant J.C. en Sardaigne.

Zusammenfassung

Zusammenfassung

Der Schwerpunkt dieses Beitrages liegt auf der Entstehung und Herausbildung der Nuragischen Gesellschaft, ein Bericht über die Entstehung Kultureller Identität. Das Zeitalter der Nuragen wird typologisch nach äkonomischen, sozialen und demographischen Eigenheiten definiert. Eine Nuragische Identität wird implizit als ein passives Nebenprodukt dieser materiellen Gegebenheiten angesehen. Eine soiche Darstellungsweise übersieht welche Rolle der Identität bei Entstehung und Kennzeichnung menschlicher Handlungsweisen zukommt. Die unzusammenhängende und von Gegensätzen geprägte Nuragische Übergangszeit ging der Bildung einer zusammenhängenden Kulturellen Identität voraus. Diese Identität, so wird dargelegt werden, durchlief eine retrospektivische Neuformulietung um eine unterscheidbare Grenze zwischen der Gesellschaft der Nuragen und ihren Vorgängern zu etablieren. Die Sachkultur zeigt kIar, dass die Geschichte der Nuragischen Identität mit der sozialen Entwicklung auf Sardinien während des zweiten Jahrtausends vor Christus verflochten ist.

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Brbnze Agecultural identityNuragic periodSardinia
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European Journal of Archaeology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 35 - 55
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Copyright © 1999 Sage Publications 

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