scholarly journals Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Díaz-Guardamino ◽  
Leonardo García-Sanjuán ◽  
David Wheatley ◽  
José Antonio Lozano-Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel Ángel Rogerio-Candelera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Unique Site ◽  
The One

This paper examines how monuments with ‘local’ idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even ‘global’ dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, materiality and iconography, we show how a remarkable Iberian ‘warrior’ stela brings together the geo-strategic potential of a unique site, located literally between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic worlds, the century-long dialogue between shared and local identities and the power of connectivity of inexorable global processes. Previous approaches to Iberian late prehistoric stelae have had problems in developing bottom-up, theoretically informed and empirically sound approaches to their simultaneously local and supra-local character. The remarkable site of Almargen provides the opportunity to explore this issue. Located in Lands of Antequera (Málaga), a region with a strong tradition of landscape-making through monuments going back to the Late Neolithic, the Almargen ‘warrior’ stela serves us to explore the notion of ‘glocalization’, which embodies persistent local engagements with material culture, sites and landscapes on the one hand, and their connections with wider regional and even ‘global’ worlds on the other.

scholarly journals Catalogación, Digitalización y Valorización de las fortalezas defensivas de la frontera Galicia - norte de Portugal

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
José L. De Nicolás Sánchez ◽  
Mariana Correia ◽  
Juan A. Villasante
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Military History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Virtual Paths ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
The One

<p>The project, cofinanced by the line of the UE “INTERREG IIIA”, was focused, on the one hand, in Identification, Study, Cataloguing and Valuation of missing and preserved components of defensive fortifications, located in the geographical area under study. On the other hand were put up in virtual paths different fortifications that made up the defensive system. Besides, the foundations were laid for the development of sustainable Management Plans for the property, with the consequent strengthening of local identities and the improvement of the local tourist promotion. In popularization phase, a Database website was developed and it will be enriched by military history experts, and the results were announced in conferences and exhibitions.</p>

Traditions of Metal-Working in the Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Britain: Part I

1963 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 258-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Britton
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Metal Working ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
The One

This paper is concerned with the earliest use in Britain of copper and bronze, from the first artifacts of copper in the later Neolithic until the transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age, as marked by palstaves and haft-flanged axes. It does not attempt to deal with all the material, but instead certain classes of evidence have been chosen to illustrate some of the main styles of workmanship. These groups have been considered both from the point of view of their archaeology, and of the technology they imply.Such an approach requires on the one hand that the artifacts are sorted into types, their associations in graves and hoards studied, their distributions plotted, and finally a consideration of the evidence for their affinities and chronology. On the other hand there are questions also of interest that need a different standpoint. Of what metals or alloys are the objects made? Can their sources be located? How did the smiths set about their work? Over what regions was production carried out? If we are to understand as much as we might of the life of prehistoric times, then surely we should look at material culture from as many view-points as possible—in this case, the manner and setting of its production as well as its classification.

scholarly journals Traditional family rites of the Ukrainians of Podolia: archaic elements of а cultural text

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Inna Gorofyanyuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Rituals ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
The One

Podolia is an ethnographic region of Ukraine, which is known for active interethnic contacts for many centuries, which, on the one hand, have systematically enriched the Podolsk spiritual and material culture, and on the other hand, in various spheres of the traditional culture of the Podolians, there is a preservation of many Slavic archaic elements. The article presents the archaic elements of the traditional culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia in traditional family rituals – birthlore, wedding and funeral on the material of the verbal component of the cultural text. Field records of dialectal texts, made by the author in 2006–2014 in more than 100 villages of Vinnitsa region served as empirical basis of the study. The family rites texts attest the realization of the main semantic oppositions of the Slavic picture of the world: "top" – "bottom", "full" – "empty", "own" – "alien". The motives of the cult of ancestors, deception of death, syncretism of agrarian and family rituals are elements of the archaic, which constitute an essential part of the folk consciousness and beliefs of the Podolians. Several fragments of the folk culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia presented in the article through the prism of the comparative typological analysis, with the involvement of data from other Slavic traditions, signal the preservation of the general archaic fund of the spiritual culture of the Slavs

Baptisteries in Ancient Sites and Rites

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
H. Richard Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Water Bath ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Initiation ◽  
The One ◽  
Structure And Design

The archaeology of ancient Christian baptisteries, purpose-built venues for the initiation of new Christians, opens new avenues to study early Christianity. Through consideration of structure and design, space, liturgy, and the afterlife of baptisteries, this chapter brings the archaeology and liturgical tradition into a dialogue between site and rite about Christian initiation in Late Antiquity. Archaeology highlights the important role played by a water bath and anointing with blessed oil, on the one hand, and the corresponding evolution of liturgical space, on the other, illustrating how ritual evolution went hand in hand with changes in the material culture. The chapter empowers readers visiting any ancient baptistery to view the space as a sacred vestige of early Christianity through new lenses attuned to archaeology and material culture.

scholarly journals Interpreting a Tatanua Mask

Museum Worlds ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-164
Author(s):  
Bruno Haas ◽  
Philipp Schorch ◽  
Michael Mel
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Real Word ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Complex Response ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The One

This article introduces the art historical method of functional deixis into the study of material culture in anthropology. Functional deixis begins with a thorough empirical description of communicative effects—visual and embodied—produced by a material thing on the beholder. It then proceeds by tending to a kind of formalisation that enables us, on the one hand, to sharpen our intuitive reaction to the thing and, on the other, to obtain detailed knowledge about the ways material things produce significance. Here, the method is applied to a tatanua mask originating from present-day Papua New Guinea and currently housed at the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig, Germany. Based on a thick description, we propose an in-depth interpretation of the mask as a complex response to a fundamental injury, articulating a symbolic expression of grief (left side) with an iconic expression overcoming grief (right side) after a passage through a real word expressed through the front of the mask. In doing so, the article offers a tool to study with rather than a text to read off.

Crimes Against Humanity

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Vasuki Nesiah
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
The One ◽  
Absent Presence

Race and racism have a schizophrenic life in international criminal law (ICL) histories, both ever-present, and ever-elusive. This chapter excavates this double-life by tracing, not race, but its repression, in ICL historians’ projection of ICL’s origins to the mid-nineteenth century regime instituted to implement the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade in the name of ‘humanity’. This regime included treaty born transnational tribunals (‘Mixed Commissions’) with jurisdictional authority that extended beyond national borders. Racialized structures and imaginaries hide in plain sight in histories of these tribunals as an embryonic ICL—present everywhere yet not acknowledged anywhere. This chapter argues that this absent presence is constituted, on the one hand, by juridification, and on the other, by moralization. Troubling legacies of juridification and moralization entails unpacking continuities and discontinuities with contemporary ICL and the work of race-invisibility in putting wind in the sails of humanity’s racially mal-distributive global dynamics.

scholarly journals Interfaces Híbridas: armas e armadilhas de caça e pesca no alto Rio Negro

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Lopes da Costa Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Comparative Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
Rio Negro ◽  
The One ◽  
Indigenous Hunting ◽  
Hunting And Fishing

O presente trabalho enfoca as relações entre humanos, artefatos, animais e o território no alto rio Negro, noroeste da Amazônia brasileira. Partindo de uma etnografia feita junto aos Baniwa-Hohodeni, o texto articula dados advindos de outros povos e analisa as tecnologias de caça e pesca na região. No contexto destas atividades, armas e armadilhas envolvidas nestas técnicas serão tomados como objetos privilegiados de análise. De um lado, estes artefatos e conhecimentos técnicos serão descritos como objetificações do conhecimento territorial e etológico dos Baniwa; de outro, eles serão analisados a partir da noção de "comunicação não-verbal" e das interações entre humanos e não-humanos características da região.Palavras-chave: Cultura Material e Tecnologia, Caça e Pesca, Territorialidade, Baniwa, alto rio Negro.Hybrid Interfaces: guns and traps for hunting and fishing on the upper Rio NegroAbstractThe present work focuses on the relationships between humans, artifacts, animals and territory in the upper Rio Negro, in northwestern Brazilian Amazonia. Based on an ethnography of the Baniwa-Hohodeni, the text musters comparative data from other  peoples of the upper Rio Negro in an analysis of hunting and fishing technologies in the region. In the context of these activities, my analysis will privilege the weapons and traps entangled in these techniques. On the one hand, these artifacts and technical knowledge will be described as objectifications of the territorial and ethological knowledge of the Baniwa. On the other, they will be analyzed through the notion of "non-verbal communication" and the interactions between humans and nonhumans that are characteristic of the region.Keywords: Material Culture and Technology. Indigenous Hunting and Fishing. Territoriality. Baniwa. Alto Rio Negro. 

scholarly journals Marching the devotional subject: The bodily-and-material cultures of religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmila Mohan ◽  
Jean-Pierre Warnier
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cognitive Gaps ◽  
The One

Drawing on the Maussian notion of the technologies of the body, on the Schilderian theory of the Körperschema, on the neurocognitive sciences and the Foucauldian concept of subjectivation, this article shifts the study of religion away from the verbalized creeds, doctrines and texts towards the consideration of the bodily-and-material cultures that are prominent in most, if not all, religious traditions. This shift helps us to understand how the bodily-and-material cultures of religious practice contribute to producing the devotee and obtaining compliance. The potential synergies, tensions and cognitive gaps between the verbalized creeds, on the one hand, and the bodily techniques and material culture, on the other hand, are emphasized for a better understanding of the complexities of the devotional subject.

scholarly journals Dinámica y cautiva: la cultura material de la casa. Una mirada etnográfica sobre el habitar en Haedo, Provincia de Buenos Aires

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
María Florencia Blanco Esmoris ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Other ◽  
Know How ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to problematize, on the one hand, the relationship that people establishes with their homes in the daily dynamics. That is, how they occupy, decorate, use and organize the environments of the house. On the other hand, the objective is to know how this living is produced in relation to the locality where they live: Haedo. The material culture is appealed to in two senses: of the house and of the objects that compose the inhabitant. The data comes from the ethnography I made between 2015 and 2019 with the family of Gloria, a resident of Haedo.

Context Types of site Figurines have been found in four broad categories of sites: village sites in the open (30 figurines, 18 sites); occupied caves (11 figurines, 3 sites); caves and rock-shelters used for burial and other cult purposes (8 figurines, 5 sites); other funerary sites (11 figurines, 4 sites). There seems to be a clear chronological distinction in the types of context. In the earlier period the vast majority of figurines come from settlement contexts — either open villages or occupied caves — while a few come from cult caves. By contrast, all but one of the 12 figurines of the later period (Late Neolithic and Copper Age) come from burials, mostly individual, either from the tombs themselves or from votive pits closely associated with graves. As we shall see, there are also typological distinctions between the types of figurines found in different contexts. Some of these may represent chronological rather than (or as well as) contextual differences, but a possible difference may also be detected between the figurines from settlement sites and those from cult caves within the earlier Neolithic time range. There are also regional differences in the proportions of different types of context occurring. In northern Italy, 13 sites have produced figurines; of these 8 are village sites, 2 are occupied caves, 1 is a tomb and the other 2 are either certainly or possibly cult cave/ rockshelter sites. In central Italy only 4 sites, all settlements, have produced figurines, while in southern Italy, 9 sites have produced figurines; of these 6 sites are settlements, 1 is a tomb and 2 are cult caves. The situation in Sicily stands out as markedly different in many ways: here 5 sites have produced figurines, of which only 2, both Neolithic, are occupation sites (one cave, one village), 2 are cemetery sites of Copper Age date, and 1 is a cult cave, used in both the Neolithic and the Copper Age (but yielding 2 figurines one definitely, the other presumptively, from Neolithic levels). Specific contexts Unfortunately we have specific evidence of location for very few of the figurines. For those coming from settlement sites, none seem to have been associated with buildings of any kind, domestic or other. Some are unstratified surface finds, while others were found in residual layers, redeposited from earlier levels. The only clear contexts in which figurines have been found is in pits (Rivoli, Vhò), a hollow (Alba) and a compound ditch (Passo di Corvo) and in all cases these may represent secondary depositions, as rubbish. In the occupied caves the figurines, when stratified at all, are found either in original occupation layers or in later layers with other redeposited material. The situation is a little better with the cult caves/rock-shelters. While two figurines, one from Grotta di Ponte di Vara (no. 17) and one from Grotta di San Calogero (no. 51), are unstratified, those from Riparo Gaban (nos 8-10) and Grotta di San Calogero (no. 50) come from stratified Neolithic deposits. Moreover, we have two examples from primary and significant depositions: these are the two distinctive clay heads from the central Apulian cult caves of Grotta di Cala Scizzo (no. 39) and Grotta Pacelli (no. 40). The first was found placed in the corner of an artificial stone enclosure at the back of a small cave used for cult purposes, in a layer with late Serra d'Alto and Diana wares and a C date of c.4340 - 3710 cal.BC (lc). The second was placed face downwards on a hearth inside a limestone slab-built monument; the pottery from this level was of Serra d'Alto type, typologically slightly earlier than that from Grotta di Cala Scizzo. On the basis of their contexts, it seems reasonable to interpret these two figurines as performing some function in the rituals carried out in these caves. This is discussed further below. For some of the 11 figurines from cemeteries or individual tombs we have more detailed evidence of context. Of the two stone figurines attributed to the Late-Final Neolithic, the one from Arnesano (no. 46) in southeast Italy apparently came from a rock-cut tomb of

2016 ◽  
pp. 109-110
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
The One ◽  
Artificial Stone ◽  
Rock Shelters
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