Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration
Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration
"Cabana and Clark have chosen to base their research into migration on careful study of how real people actually behave over time and space. We are well served by this rugged empiricism and by the multidisciplinary breadth of their approach."—Dean R. Snow, Pennsylvania State University
"A thorough survey of the ways in which anthropologists across the four subfields have defined and analyzed human migration."—John H. Relethford, author of Reflections of Our Past: How Human History Is Revealed in Our Genes
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.
Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration 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 contributors 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.
Contributors: | Christopher S. Beekman | Wesley R. Bernardini | Deborah A. Bolnick | Graciela S. Cabana | Alexander F. Christensen | Jeffery J. Clark | J. Andrew Darling | Christopher Ehret | Alan G. Fix | Catherine S. Fowler | Severin M. Fowles | Susan R. Frankenberg | Jane H. Hill | Keith L. Hunley | Kelly J. Knudson | Lyle W. Konigsberg | Scott G. Ortman | Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
An excellent set of papers that showcase the rapid advances that are being made in anthropological studies of migration. This is a book that every anthropologist should read, and many of the papers will be of interest well beyond this subset of scholars.’—Journal of Anthropological Research ‘A good resource to introduce students to anthropological studies.’—Human Biology ‘This is a volume that every scholar of migration will want to read.’—KIVA
Graciela S. Cabana is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Molecular Anthropology Laboratories at the University of Tennessee. Jeffery J. Clark is a preservation archaeologist at Archaeology Southwest in Tucson, Arizona, and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
Contents List of Tables List of Figures Preface Part I. Setting the Stage Introduction. Migration in Anthropology: Where We Stand Graciela S. Cabana and Jeffery J. Clark 1. The Problematic Relationship between Migration and Culture Change Graciela S. Cabana Part II. Archaeological Approaches 2. Migration in Fluid Social Landscapes Wesley R. Bernardini 3. Movement and the Unsettling of the Pueblos Severin M. Fowles 4. S-cuk Kavick: Thoughts on Migratory Process and the Archaeology of O’odham Migration J. Andrew Darling 5. Disappearance and Diaspora: Contrasting Two Migrations in the Southern U.S. Southwest Jeffery J. Clark Part III. Archaeolinguistic Approaches 6. Using Cognitive Semantics to Relate Mesa Verde Archaeology to Modern Pueblo Languages Scott G. Ortman 7. Power, Agency, and Identity: Migration and Aftermath in the Mezquital Area of North-Central Mexico Christopher S. Beekman and Alec F. Christensen Part IV. Ethnolinguistic Approaches 8. Linguistic Paleontology and Migration: The Case of Uto-Aztecan Jane H. Hill 9. A Numic Migration? Ethnographic Evidence Revisited Catherine S. Fowler 10. Loanword Histories and the Demography of Migration Christopher Ehret Part V. Bioanthropological Approaches 11. Identifying Archaeological Human Migration using Biogeochemistry: Case Studies from the South Central Andes Kelly J. Knudson 12. Migration in Anthropological Genetics Alan G. Fix 13. Continuity and Change in Anthropological Perspectives on Migration: Insights from Molecular Anthropology Deborah A. Bolnick 14. Migration Muddles in Prehistory: The Model-Bound Versus Model-Free Distinction Susan R. Frankenberg and Lyle W. Konigsberg 15. Evolutionary Models of Migration in Human Prehistory and their Anthropological Significance Keith L. Hunley Part VI. Lessons from Contemporary Migration 16. Modern Perspectives on Ancient Migrations Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda List of Contributors Index
