The many faces of homo habilis. Koobi Fora research project, Vol. 4: Hominid cranial remains. By Bernard Wood (1991). Oxford: Clarendon Press. xxvi + 466 pp. $220.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-857502-5

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Tattersall
Keyword(s):  
Koobi Fora ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Homo Habilis ◽  
The Many

Studying National Commemoration and Political Celebrations in Africa: The Online Archive African Independence Days

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. vii-xxviii
Author(s):  
Marie-Christin Gabriel ◽  
Carola Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Online Archive ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

AbstractThe Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz hosts a comprehensive archive on African Independence Day celebrations. Created in 2010, the archive is one of the outcomes of a large comparative research project on African national days directed by Carola Lentz. It offers unique insights into practices of as well as debates on national commemoration and political celebrations in Africa. The archive holds more than 28,000 images, including photographs, newspaper articles, documents, and objects from twelve African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, and Tanzania. It primarily consists of an online photo and newspaper archive (https://bildarchiv.uni-mainz.de/AUJ/; https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-ifeas-eng/departmental-archives/online-archive-african-independence-days/); some of the material is also stored in the physical archive on African Independence Days at ifeas as well as in the department's ethnographic collection (https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-ifeas-eng/ethnographic-collection/). Most of the material concerns recent celebrations, but the collection has been complemented by some documentation of earlier festivities. Archives hold many stories while they also have a story to tell in their own right. This article discusses both aspects. It first traces the history of the Online Archive African Independence Days at ifeas. It then provides an overview of the different categories of material stored in the archive and tells a few of the many stories that the photos, texts and objects contain. We hope to demonstrate that the archive holds a wealth of sources that can be mined for studies on national commemoration and political celebrations in Africa, and, more generally, on practices and processes of nation-building and state-making.

Koobi Fora Research Project, Volume 5: Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Creighton Gabel ◽  
Glynn LL. Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Koobi Fora ◽  
Research Project

‘Golden Age’ Poetry in Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian Poetry

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziva Ben-Porat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Hebrew Poetry ◽  
Cognitive Accessibility ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Many ◽  
Historical Trajectory

This article is a small part of a research project dealing with the presence of Hebrew poetry from al-Andalus in Israeli culture in general and in Israeli poetry in particular. In spite of its indisputably canonic status and 800-year history as a central model for the writing of poetry, this magnificent corpus is quite unknown to today’s readers, and its genres are obsolete. It is, as I shall explain, a ‘dinosaur-like’ canonic entity. The article contains some explanatory references to the historical trajectory of the poetry in question, from a central and active position to a marginal and passive presence – dealing with both the particular beneficial conditions in al-Andalus and current internal and external political situations. However, the paper is not about literary history or cultural politics. Rather, it focuses on the ways ‘dinosaur-like’ canonic status is revealed in the writing of contemporary poetry and in its readings. I begin with a short introduction concerned both with the poetry of al-Andalus and with the cognitive and inter-textual aspects related to the ‘dinosaur-like’ existence of texts and models. Owing to lack of space, I then deal with only three of the many characteristic features of this phenomenon: cognitive accessibility (illustrated by two readings of a Palestinian poem by Sami al-Kilani), manifested distancing (illustrated by Amnon Shamosh’s poem that converses with Yehuda Halevi), and modes of alluding (illustrated by a poem of Yehuda Amichai).

scholarly journals From Tale to Tail: Unwinding the Twisted Life Story of PIG 05049

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
The Many

Pig 05049 is a book and research project by Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma that chronicles the many consumer products that were made from a pig called 05049. The book offers an insightful look into how this one animal, a single source, provides raw material for a vast number of everyday objects. Meindertsma’s clinical presentation of each laboriously researched object, page by page, organised by body part, follows the progress of the dissection of Pig 05049 and the subsequent use of each part. Some products, she found, are expected and familiar, whilst other diverge dramatically: ammunition, medicine, photo paper, cigarettes, conditioner, and bio diesel. PIG 05049 is currently in its 5th edition. The book won the Dutch Design Award in 2008 and the Index award in 2009 in the category Play. The article is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation between Commodity Frontiers editor, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Christien Meinderstma in September 2021.

The emergence of the genus Homo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Ayala ◽  
Camilo J. Cela-Conde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Koobi Fora ◽  
Homo Habilis ◽  
Genus Homo ◽  
Geographic Dispersal

This chapter’s focus is the emergence of the genus Homo in the Pliocene, proposing Homo habilis as the oldest species. The features of the H. habilis taxon are examined by means of the specimens from Olduvai and Koobi Fora. Next, the presence is considered of other early Homo taxa in the Rift (H. rudolfensis), South Africa (H. gautengensis and H. naledi), and, outside Africa, in Georgia (H. georgicus). The last part of the chapter investigates the phylogenetic relationships between the australopithecines and the earliest exemplars of Homo; the disappearance of Homo’s monophyly if the early specimens (before H. erectus) are included in the taxon; and the geographic dispersal of hominin populations during the Pliocene. Interpreting the evolutionary process of Pliocene hominins is necessary not only to consider the named genera and species, and the age of available specimens, but also to consider their geographic location.

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