Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration
Graciela S. Cabana and Jeffery J. Clark
Abstract
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 research ... More
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. This book 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 chapters 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.
Keywords:
migration,
anthropology,
archaeology,
biological anthropology,
bioarchaeology,
linguistic anthropology,
diaspora,
population movement,
culture change
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780813036076 |
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813036076.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Graciela S. Cabana, editor
University of Tennessee
Jeffery J. Clark, editor
Center for Desert Archaeology in Tucson, Arizona
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