Culture Contact, Cultural Integration and Difference: A Case from Northern Mesopotamia (Article) -- Ancient History Encyclopedia

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by Sevil Baltali, Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University, Turkey
published on 04 June 2012

Ancient northern Mesopotamia reveals the presence of southern Uruk-style material cultural elements along with indigenous styles in fourth millennium B.C.E. In this study, I argue that we need to focus on the ways northern Mesopotamian societies constructed ‘cultural difference’ through an analysis of the meanings of southern-style elements within northern contexts. I further argue that an investigation of culturallyparticular ideas of “own” and “other” should involve a relationship between analytic and folk categories of cultural boundaries.

Stanford Journal of Archaeology

Written by Sevil Baltali, Department of Anthropology, Yeditepe University, Turkey, linked by Jan van der Crabben, published 04 June 2012. Source URL: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeology/journal/01Baltali.pdf.

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