Inimkond: Marika Mägi
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iCal calendarOn Wednesday, 29 November Marika Mägi, a Senior Researcher at Tallinn University School of Humanities, Institute of History, Archaeology and Art History will give a presentation:
Estonian Prehistoric Society: Different Interpretations
The interpretation of Estonian prehistoric society has been modelled on the earlier derogatory attitudes towards local peoples practised by Baltic German and Russian 18th-19th-century scholars. Even in later times, the national-romantic view of the prehistoric past included an idealised image of early society as firmly egalitarian and more or less democratic. New approaches appeared in the 1990s, when theories that a socially and economically stratified society had been established in Estonia as early as the Late Bronze Age had been put forward by Priit Ligi.
My research during the last decade has suggested somewhat different interpretation, based on social aspects as the ratio between collective and individual attitudes, or gender balance reflected in burial customs. The speech here argues for a heterarhic society with strong corporal power structures that presumably characterised the areas inhabited by Baltic Finns before the Middle Ages.
Public talk takes place at 16:15 at Tallinn University in room A-325.
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