Publication: Etnoarqueología de la arquitectura en las comunidades nilo-saharianas de la frontera etíope-sudanesa
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2019-01-16
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La tesis doctoral aborda el estudio arqueológico de los espacios domésticos y los patrones aldeanos de las sociedades no jerarquizadas de Etiopía occidental. El trabajo sistematiza y analiza un gran volumen de información inédita sobre el uso del espacio en la región fronteriza etíope-sudanesa, procedente de varias campañas de investigación etnoarqueológica realizadas entre los años 2003 y 2018. En primer lugar, se presenta el área de estudio, centrándose en la descripción de la ecología y la historia cultural de tiempos largos de un territorio fronterizo que se ha definido como un “mosaico étnico”. Este recorrido se detiene especialmente en la caracterización de las sociedades “primitivas”que habitan la región, auténticas protagonistas del trabajo. Se trata de una serie de grupos étnicos y lingüísticos que la antropología clásica definió como “pre-nilóticas”, denominación basada en la presencia de amplios rasgos de arcaísmo en todos los aspectos de su cultura. Sin embargo, nuestra concepción del “primitivismo”, el “salvajismo” y el “arcaísmo” de estas sociedades se encuentra en el extremo opuesto de los planteamientos evolucionistas y colonialistas. Para nosotros se trata de una estrategia cultural y política de resistencia frente a la amenaza de asimilación completa por parte de la figura del estado...
This doctoral thesis addresses the archaeological study of domestic and village spaces of the non-hierarchical societies from Western Ethiopia. This work systematizes and analyses a great volume of unpublished information on the use of space across the Ethiopia-Sudan borderland, obtained during several ethnoarchaeological investigation campaigns conducted between 2003 and 2018. First, the study area is presented, centering on the description of ecology and long-term cultural history of a border territory that has been defined as an “ethnicmosaic”. This course makes special emphasis on the characterization of the “primitive”societies that inhabit the region, the true protagonists of this work. We are referring to a series of ethnic and linguistic groups that classic anthropology defined as “pre-nilotic”, a denomination based on the broad traits of archaism in every aspect of their culture. Nonetheless, our concept of the “primitivism”, the “savagery” and the “archaism” of these societies is located on the opposite extreme of the evolutionist and colonialist approaches. For us, it is a political and cultural strategy of resistance against the threat that total assimilation by the State figure supposes...
This doctoral thesis addresses the archaeological study of domestic and village spaces of the non-hierarchical societies from Western Ethiopia. This work systematizes and analyses a great volume of unpublished information on the use of space across the Ethiopia-Sudan borderland, obtained during several ethnoarchaeological investigation campaigns conducted between 2003 and 2018. First, the study area is presented, centering on the description of ecology and long-term cultural history of a border territory that has been defined as an “ethnicmosaic”. This course makes special emphasis on the characterization of the “primitive”societies that inhabit the region, the true protagonists of this work. We are referring to a series of ethnic and linguistic groups that classic anthropology defined as “pre-nilotic”, a denomination based on the broad traits of archaism in every aspect of their culture. Nonetheless, our concept of the “primitivism”, the “savagery” and the “archaism” of these societies is located on the opposite extreme of the evolutionist and colonialist approaches. For us, it is a political and cultural strategy of resistance against the threat that total assimilation by the State figure supposes...
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Tesis de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, leída el 14/11/2018