ELEMENTS OF BEING: MENTALITIES, IDENTITIES AND MOVEMENTS; ED. BY DANIELA HOFMANN

This volume is the product of a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session (held at Lampeter, Wales, in December 2003) entitled Mentalités and Identities in Motion. Included here are all the papers held there, and more besides. The session centred on the role of past ways of thinking, feeling and acting in social transformation, and exploring past worldviews as (instead of being relegated to the 'fictional' or anecdotal) an integral part of every aspect of human life, not just explicit contexts of power struggles and domination, but also approachable from the material evidence. The contributions are widely spread across space and time, ranging from Northern Ireland to Sicily, from France to Bulgaria and covering almost every period from the Mesolithic to the Thirty Years' War. On top of this, they are also very different in methodology, in the ways they have interpreted the session title and approached their evidence. Before rushing headlong into this kaleidoscopic mix, then, it is worth briefly explaining the rationale behind the session title and the selection and arrangement of papers. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents List of contributors List of figures and tables Elements of being: mentalities, identities and movements A taste of the unexpected: subverting mentalités through the motifs and settings of Irish passage tombs “Un pour tous, tous pour un”, communal identity and individualism in northern French villages during the Thirty Years’ War Private lives, public identities: a spatial analysis of privacy within Bulgarian tell architecture Agents of identity: performative practice at the Etton causewayed enclosure ‘Mending Gauls’ fences with the Romans’: spatial identities from farmsteads to sacred places in northern Gaul Fragments of power: LBK figurines and the mortuary record ‘What the Romans did for us.’ A question of identity in the Broekpolder War and domestic peace in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Abruzzo (Central Italy). Social reproduction and cultural landscapes as a starting-point for the construction of mentalités Identity and change: the inception of the Bell Beaker phenomenon in the central Mediterranean Sea area Movement as a mentalité: mobile lifeways in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Great Ouse, Nene and Welland Valleys Reopening old trails – Rethinking mobility: a study of mesolithic northeast Ireland Edited By Daniela Hofmann, Jessica Mills, Andrew Cochrane. Based On A Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference Session Held In Lampeter In 2003. Includes Bibliographical References.