TY - BOOK ID - 3396363 TI - Neglected barbarians AU - Curta, Florin AU - Bliujiene, Audrone AU - Brepols PY - 2010 VL - v. 32 SN - 9782503531250 2503531253 9782503539652 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Ethnohistory KW - Ethnology KW - Ethnoarchaeology KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Ethnohistoire KW - Anthropologie sociale et culturelle KW - Ethnoarchéologie KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - History KW - Research KW - Histoire KW - Recherche KW - Europe KW - Antiquities KW - Antiquités KW - Barbar. KW - Ethnoarchäologie. KW - Geschichte 300-900. KW - Ethnoarchéologie KW - Civilisation médiévale KW - Antiquités KW - Holy Roman Empire KW - Boundaries KW - Europe [Eastern ] KW - Ethnohistorical method KW - Historical anthropology KW - Historical ethnology KW - Anthropology KW - Ethnic archaeology KW - Ethnicity in archaeology KW - Ethnology in archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Social archaeology KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Methodology KW - Barbares KW - 300-900 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3396363 AB - Although barbarians in history is a topic of perennial interest, most studies have addressed a small number of groups for which continuous narratives can be constructed, such as the Franks, Goths, and Anglo-Saxons. This volume examines groups less accessible in the literary and archaeological evidence. Scholars from thirteen countries examine the history and archaeology of groups for whom literary evidence is too scant to contribute to current theoretical debates about ethnicity. Ranging from the Baltic and northern Caucasus to Spain and North Africa and over a time period from 300 to 900, the essays address three main themes. Why is a given barbarian group neglected? How much can we know about a group and in what ways can we bring up this information? What sorts of future research are necessary to extend or fill out our understanding? Some papers treat these questions organically. Others use case studies to establish what we know and how we can ad'ance. Drawing on those separate lines of research, the conclusion proposes an alternative reading of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, viewed not from the 'centre' of the privileged but from the 'periphery' of the neglected groups. Neglected Barbarians covers a longer time span than similar studies of this kind, while its frequent use of the newest archaeological evidence has no parallel in any book so far published in any language ER -