The limits of agency in the analysis of elite Iron Age Celtic burials

Journal of Social Archaeology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 210-224

  Arnold, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; burial; Celtic; doxa; individual; Iron Age; ritual

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992884186     PISSN: 14696053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146960530100100204     Document Type: Article

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