The Cultural Evolutionary Perspective: Toward a Multidisciplinary Method to Ethnic Identity Research

Abstract

Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past makes a disciplinary rupture from the precedent thinkers about the study of identity oriented on ethnicity, reviewing the role of ethnicity in social identification among peoples in the present and the past. Claiming all the potential development for the research on peoples’ ethnicity and identity that the collective highlights within the book, it underpins though the complexity for archaeologists to understand this kind of extrasomatic phenomenon solely on the basis of material culture. The case studies assembled together provide a synthesis and demonstrate mastery from the contributors of the early works relating to ethnicity in archaeology, anthropology and history.