Constructing Social and Cultural Identities in the Bronze Age

• The Bronze Age has sometimes been presented as the first period of ‘globalisation’or ‘world system’ in Europe. I propose that in order to apply such terms onto the past, we first need to understand the meaning of culture and how it is constituted.I demonstrate that in the Bronze Age, there existed symbolic fields that corresponded to institutions with different roles and geographical distributions. It speaks about societies that were highly complex, with a capacity to maintain parallel, coexisting forms of identity, some linked to a larger ‘foreign’ political world and some linked to a more ethnic and ritual world of ‘national’ identity

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HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

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Bronze Age

identity

ethnicity

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