Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration

Graciela S. Cabana (Edited by), Jeffery J. Clark (Edited by)

9780813068190

Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2020

362 pages, 43 black & white illustrations, 16 tables
23.3 x 15.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.525 kg

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.

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Part I. Setting the StageIntroduction. 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 Approaches6. 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