Sebastian Brather

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Sebastian Brather
Sebastian Brather
Born (1964-06-28) 28 June 1964 (age 59)
NationalityGerman
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Institutions

Sebastian Brather (born 28 June 1964) is a German medieval archaeologist and co-editor of Germanische Altertumskunde Online.

Career

Brather received his

Feldberger Keramik
und frühe Slawen: Studien zur nordwestslawischen Keramik der Karolingerzeit.

In 2002 his habilitation thesis in

Goethe University in Frankfurt and Main, to return to Freiburg where taught as a holder of GRF
scholarship. Since 2006 has been Professor of Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology at the same university.

A member of the Historical Commission for Silesia and German Archaeological Institute, since 2003 is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval Archaeology and since 2011 contributes as co-editor to the Germanische Altertumskunde Online published by De Gruyter.

Brather has conducted much research on the archaeology of

ethnic identity to be a social construct which is out of reach of archaeology and argues against culture-historical methodology of easily making direct links between material culture and ethnic identities.[1][2][3][4][5]

Bibliography

Sources

  1. ^ Walter Pohl, Mathias Mehofer (2010). Archaeology of Identity - Archäologie der Identität. Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, vol. 17, Verlag der Österrechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, pp. 9–23, ISBN 978-3-7001-6502-6
  2. ^ Castillo, Juan Antonio Quirós (2011). "Trends and thoughts on the archaeology of Germanic cemeteries". Arqueología y Territorio Medieval. 18: 9–14. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ Susanne Hakenbeck (2011). Local, regional and ethnic identities in early medieval cemeteries in Bavaria. All'insegna del giglio. Borgo S. Lorenzo, pp. 7–11, ISBN 978-88-7814-432-3
  4. ^ Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu (2011). "Culture-Historical Archaeology and the Production of Knowledge on Ethnic Phenomena". Dacia. Vol. LV, pp. 5–24
  5. ^ Curta, Florin (2013). "The elephant in the room". Ephemeris Napocensis. 23: 163–174.

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