Reconceptualizing the Archaeology of Southern India: Beyond Periodization and Toward a Politics of Practice

by Peter Johansen and Andrew M. Bauer

This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India's deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and textual records of the Deccan to disrupt its conventional archaeological periodizations, which have tended to reify and dehistoricize social and cultural differences.

This book draws on over 20 years of original archaeological research from the southern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032792280
• ISBN13: 9781032792286
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages