2016 asor annual meeting – paper abstracts
... about the Use of Quantitative Methods in Western Asiatic Studies: Approaches, Concrete Targets, and Proposals” Digital tools and quantitative methods have been used quite late, infrequently, and unevenly in the disciplines that deal with the cultures of ancient Western Asia. This paper begins with a ...
... about the Use of Quantitative Methods in Western Asiatic Studies: Approaches, Concrete Targets, and Proposals” Digital tools and quantitative methods have been used quite late, infrequently, and unevenly in the disciplines that deal with the cultures of ancient Western Asia. This paper begins with a ...
38th Annual Conference Association of Art Historians
... History of Art itself has been an integral part of the Faculty of Arts, encompassing the Humanities subjects from the beginning. It currently has eight full time members of staff, and three part time, who are based here at Walton Hall, as well as three Staff Tutors, who are based in the regions. The ...
... History of Art itself has been an integral part of the Faculty of Arts, encompassing the Humanities subjects from the beginning. It currently has eight full time members of staff, and three part time, who are based here at Walton Hall, as well as three Staff Tutors, who are based in the regions. The ...
Museum Collection Development Policy 2014-2017
... founding collection was the gift of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society who since 1835 had gathered around 10,000 objects for their own museum in the city. It featured plants, shells, stuffed birds, and fossils, casts of municipal seals, scientific journals and archaeology. The Society ...
... founding collection was the gift of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society who since 1835 had gathered around 10,000 objects for their own museum in the city. It featured plants, shells, stuffed birds, and fossils, casts of municipal seals, scientific journals and archaeology. The Society ...
PHOENICIAN EXPLANATION: EXAMINATION OF PUBLIC
... hunting, as well as other pressures including technological developments both in recreational diving and how sites are found, commercial development of waterways and coastal shores, cultural and ethical pressures, administration and management of sites and restricted resources for research (Kenderdi ...
... hunting, as well as other pressures including technological developments both in recreational diving and how sites are found, commercial development of waterways and coastal shores, cultural and ethical pressures, administration and management of sites and restricted resources for research (Kenderdi ...
Via Tiburtina Space, movement and artefacts in the urban landscape
... mainly existing archaeological, urbanistic and other adequate knowledge of human movement and artefacts in the urban landscape. The aim is to open up new perspectives on the city’s historic assets and patterns – on their significance, integration and design. One specific goal is for the result to lead ...
... mainly existing archaeological, urbanistic and other adequate knowledge of human movement and artefacts in the urban landscape. The aim is to open up new perspectives on the city’s historic assets and patterns – on their significance, integration and design. One specific goal is for the result to lead ...
the birth of civilization in the near east: on henri frankfort`s approach
... The Birth of Civilization in the Near East 199 aspect of 'popularizing anthropology' that would merit further, detailed research into the broadcasts themselves and into the background to them, the records for which are partially preserved in the relevant files at the BBC. Having said that, however, ...
... The Birth of Civilization in the Near East 199 aspect of 'popularizing anthropology' that would merit further, detailed research into the broadcasts themselves and into the background to them, the records for which are partially preserved in the relevant files at the BBC. Having said that, however, ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... For this very reason my colleagues from other traditions (in India, Japan, France, Germany, and Spain) can find the debate sterile; their archaeologies have a different social and political dynamic. Their culture wars have been different and so too field archaeologists. It is important to understand ...
... For this very reason my colleagues from other traditions (in India, Japan, France, Germany, and Spain) can find the debate sterile; their archaeologies have a different social and political dynamic. Their culture wars have been different and so too field archaeologists. It is important to understand ...
Museum of Light
... following a gestation period of over three decades. Before, during and after the construction of the building, the importance of natural light was frequently emphasised by the Museum’s Swiss-French architect, Bernard Tschumi, as well as many Greek government officials, archaeologists, and other heri ...
... following a gestation period of over three decades. Before, during and after the construction of the building, the importance of natural light was frequently emphasised by the Museum’s Swiss-French architect, Bernard Tschumi, as well as many Greek government officials, archaeologists, and other heri ...
Title: Museum of Light: The New Acropolis
... in Mexico City, was, however, quickly abandoned when it was decided that all the decorative Marbles of the Parthenon that remained in Greek hands (many of which were still on the monument despite the destruction being caused to them by the atmospheric pollution of Athens), were to be removed and pla ...
... in Mexico City, was, however, quickly abandoned when it was decided that all the decorative Marbles of the Parthenon that remained in Greek hands (many of which were still on the monument despite the destruction being caused to them by the atmospheric pollution of Athens), were to be removed and pla ...
aDventures in the art nexus
... I’m having a visceral reaction to what you’ve just said!’ Minutes later she was joined by another colleague who professed to feel the same, and there ensued a robust exchange between them and the speaker at the front of the room. While this particular exchange centred on social scientific portrayals ...
... I’m having a visceral reaction to what you’ve just said!’ Minutes later she was joined by another colleague who professed to feel the same, and there ensued a robust exchange between them and the speaker at the front of the room. While this particular exchange centred on social scientific portrayals ...
Cultural Transmission Theory and the Archaeological Record
... The same sort of understanding must be applied to the study of cultural variability. Gabora (2004), for example, notes that the locus of cultural replication is in the minds of individuals. Minds are more than simple ‘‘bags’’ that hold traits but complex webs of algorithms and rules for acquiring an ...
... The same sort of understanding must be applied to the study of cultural variability. Gabora (2004), for example, notes that the locus of cultural replication is in the minds of individuals. Minds are more than simple ‘‘bags’’ that hold traits but complex webs of algorithms and rules for acquiring an ...
aboriginalism and the problems of indigenous archaeology
... In dealing with a subject that is fraught with misunderstandings and emotional associations, a writer is well advised to begin by summarizing his personal viewpoint. My perspective differs little from that espoused by Wylie (2005:63), who describes it as “modest realism” and “moderate pragmatic obje ...
... In dealing with a subject that is fraught with misunderstandings and emotional associations, a writer is well advised to begin by summarizing his personal viewpoint. My perspective differs little from that espoused by Wylie (2005:63), who describes it as “modest realism” and “moderate pragmatic obje ...
Sonya Atalay University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of
... Food, Meals, and Daily Activities: The Habitus of Food Practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. First author with Christine Hastorf. American Antiquity 71(2): 283-319. Peer-Reviewed Edited Journals 2006e Decolonizing Archaeology: Efforts to Transform a Discipline. Guest editor for special issue, American ...
... Food, Meals, and Daily Activities: The Habitus of Food Practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. First author with Christine Hastorf. American Antiquity 71(2): 283-319. Peer-Reviewed Edited Journals 2006e Decolonizing Archaeology: Efforts to Transform a Discipline. Guest editor for special issue, American ...
Why the history of archaeology is essential to theoretical archaeology
... Is there information vital to the apprehension of our own deeper past locked away in these different presents and pasts? Notwithstanding a wide variety of answers to these fundamental questions, we have also long been aware of the methodological assumption that the most effective way of making the p ...
... Is there information vital to the apprehension of our own deeper past locked away in these different presents and pasts? Notwithstanding a wide variety of answers to these fundamental questions, we have also long been aware of the methodological assumption that the most effective way of making the p ...
11/WvD1 - Journal of Art Historiography
... In the study of African figurative sculpture, stylistic analysis had been pioneered by the Belgian scholar Frans Olbrechts, a Professor at Ghent University. In the late 1930s, he had applied this type of analysis to statues from the then Belgian Congo, resulting in the delineation of a handful of “s ...
... In the study of African figurative sculpture, stylistic analysis had been pioneered by the Belgian scholar Frans Olbrechts, a Professor at Ghent University. In the late 1930s, he had applied this type of analysis to statues from the then Belgian Congo, resulting in the delineation of a handful of “s ...
Introduction The past as it lives now: an anthropology of colonial
... to the past, this does not mean that all forms of ‘colonial relations’ become extinct at the same time. This suggests that colonial legacies loom large in our world. In particular, this forces upon us that colonial relations created an enduring bound that cannot be severed by decolonisation. Thus Et ...
... to the past, this does not mean that all forms of ‘colonial relations’ become extinct at the same time. This suggests that colonial legacies loom large in our world. In particular, this forces upon us that colonial relations created an enduring bound that cannot be severed by decolonisation. Thus Et ...
Approaching material culture
... The post-processual archaeologists’ emphasis on landscape analysis is an approach that incorporates the material world inhabited by people. Landscape, environment, nature, space or other words can be used to designate the physical surroundings or the world humans live in, but different meanings and ...
... The post-processual archaeologists’ emphasis on landscape analysis is an approach that incorporates the material world inhabited by people. Landscape, environment, nature, space or other words can be used to designate the physical surroundings or the world humans live in, but different meanings and ...
culture contact studies - redefining the relationship
... written from the perspective of affiuent European men who documented little about the lifeways of lower class laborers and their relations with local native men, women, and children. Ethnohistorical research often provides little or highly selective information on the pluralistic laboring class in c ...
... written from the perspective of affiuent European men who documented little about the lifeways of lower class laborers and their relations with local native men, women, and children. Ethnohistorical research often provides little or highly selective information on the pluralistic laboring class in c ...
The Contract with God: Patterns of Cultural Consensus across Two
... Pentecostal doctrine and ritual, I expect that this method will be able to identify aspects of the cultural domain where they have significant sharing or overlap of knowledge, and other areas where there is more subcultural differentiation. BACKGROUND The data used to demonstrate the analytical usef ...
... Pentecostal doctrine and ritual, I expect that this method will be able to identify aspects of the cultural domain where they have significant sharing or overlap of knowledge, and other areas where there is more subcultural differentiation. BACKGROUND The data used to demonstrate the analytical usef ...
Re-Presenting the Past
... (2) Some representations of the archaeological past are objectively and subjectively better than others. There can be the possibility of improved representation that does not simply adhere to the analytical preoccupations of any one generation of scholars. The first point builds on the recent idea t ...
... (2) Some representations of the archaeological past are objectively and subjectively better than others. There can be the possibility of improved representation that does not simply adhere to the analytical preoccupations of any one generation of scholars. The first point builds on the recent idea t ...
TOC and sample chapter - University Press of Colorado
... from environmental/ecological determinism and toward issues of perception and cognition, the interpretive archaeology agenda has offered studies of ancient perceptions of the skies more solid theoretical underpinnings (Ruggles 2005a). These render obsolete (what to anthropologists always were) embar ...
... from environmental/ecological determinism and toward issues of perception and cognition, the interpretive archaeology agenda has offered studies of ancient perceptions of the skies more solid theoretical underpinnings (Ruggles 2005a). These render obsolete (what to anthropologists always were) embar ...
Gilded Ages and Gilded Archaeologies of American Exceptionalism
... order of the frontier would provide “social” control and order for the new American population. Among the social controls Ross proposed was a regulated system for reproduction ensuring only those most fit were given ample opportunity to reproduce. The greatest threat to the race, according to Ross, ...
... order of the frontier would provide “social” control and order for the new American population. Among the social controls Ross proposed was a regulated system for reproduction ensuring only those most fit were given ample opportunity to reproduce. The greatest threat to the race, according to Ross, ...
Anth 551: Strategies in Archaeology
... Strategies in Archaeology introduces students to the major theoretical frameworks shaping anthropological archaeology. The course emphasizes current issues and debates in the discipline rather than a comprehensive historical overview. However, the early weeks of the course will be devoted to a consi ...
... Strategies in Archaeology introduces students to the major theoretical frameworks shaping anthropological archaeology. The course emphasizes current issues and debates in the discipline rather than a comprehensive historical overview. However, the early weeks of the course will be devoted to a consi ...
Historical Archaeology from a World Perspective
... archaeologists to refer to the post-prehistoric period (from the fifteenth century onwards), as pre-European and colonial settlements are easy to distinguish. However, the clear-cut binary oppositions prevailing in the United States were not present in Latin America, for the catholic Conquistador wa ...
... archaeologists to refer to the post-prehistoric period (from the fifteenth century onwards), as pre-European and colonial settlements are easy to distinguish. However, the clear-cut binary oppositions prevailing in the United States were not present in Latin America, for the catholic Conquistador wa ...