Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration

by Graciela S. Cabana; Jeffery J. Clark

• ISBN13: 9780813036076
• ISBN10: 0813036070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-12
• Publisher: University of Florida Press

Summary

In The Last Decade, anthropologists working independently across a range of subdisciplines have developed powerful methodologies to detect and assess the scale of past migrations. Yet too often, such advances are known only to a few specialized researchers.

Author Biography

Graciela S. Cabana is assistant professor of anthropology and director of the Molecular Anthropology Laboratories at the University of Tennessee. Jeffery J. Clark is a preservation archaeologist at the Center for Desert Archaeology in Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Setting the Stage
Introduction. Migration in Anthropology: Where We Stand	p. 3
The Problematic Relationship between Migration and Culture Change	p. 16
Archaeological Approaches
Migration in Fluid Social Landscapes	p. 31
Movement and the Unsettling of the Pueblos	p. 45
S-cuk Kavick: Thoughts on Migratory Process and the Archaeology of O'odham Migration	p. 68
Disappearance and Diaspora: Contrasting Two Migrations in the Southern U.S. Southwest	p. 84
Archaeolinguistic Approaches
Using Cognitive Semantics to Relate Mesa Verde Archaeology to Modern Pueblo Languages	p. 111
Power, Agency, and Identity: Migration and Aftermath in the Mezquital Area of North-Central Mexico	p. 147
Ethnolinguistic Approaches
Linguistic Paleontology and Migration: The Case of Uto-Aztecan	p. 175
A Numic Migration? Ethnographic Evidence Revisited	p. 191
Loanword Histories and the Demography of Migration	p. 207
Bioanthropological Approaches
Identifying Archaeological Human Migration Using Biogeochemistry: Case Studies from the South-Central Andes	p. 231
Migration in Anthropological Genetics	p. 248
Continuity and Change in Anthropological Perspectives on Migration: In-sights from Molecular Anthropology	p. 263
Migration Muddles in Prehistory: The Distinction between Model-Bound and Model-Free Methods	p. 278
Evolutionary Models of Migration in Human Prehistory and Their Anthropological Significance	p. 293
Lessons from Contemporary Migration
Modern Perspectives on Ancient Migrations	p. 313
List of Contributors	p. 339
Index	p. 341
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