Metal burial: Understanding caching behaviour and contact material culture in Australia's NE Kimberley

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-52
Author(s):  
Sam Harper ◽  
Ian Waina ◽  
Ambrose Chalarimeri ◽  
Sven Ouzman ◽  
Martin Porr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contact Material ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Burials

This paper explores identity and the recursive impacts of cross-cultural colonial encounters on individuals, cultural materials, and cultural practices in 20th-century northern Australia. We focus on an assemblage of cached metal objects and associated cultural materials that embody both Aboriginal tradition and innovation. These cultural materials were wrapped in paperbark and placed within a ring of stones, a bundling practice also seen in human burials in this region. This ‘cache' is located in close proximity to rockshelters with rich, superimposed Aboriginal rock art compositions. However, the cache shelter has no visible art, despite available wall space. The site shows the utilisation of metal objects as new raw materials that use traditional techniques to manufacture a ground edge metal axe and to sharpen metal rods into spears. We contextualise these objects and their hypothesised owner(s) within narratives of invasion/contact and the ensuing pastoral history of this region. Assemblage theory affords us an appropriate theoretical lens through which to bring people, places, objects, and time into conversation.

scholarly journals Architectural ruins: geoculture of the anatomy of buildings as illustrated by Casa Ippolito, Malta

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lino Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Building Physics

AbstractRuins are a statement on the building materials used and the construction method employed. Casa Ippolito, now in ruins, is typical of 17th-century Maltese aristocratic country residences. It represents an illustration of secondary or anthropogenic geodiversity. This paper scrutinises these ruins as a primary source in reconstructing the building’s architecture. The methodology involved on-site geographical surveying, including visual inspection and non-invasive tests, a geological survey of the local lithostratigraphy, and examination of notarial deeds and secondary sources to support findings about the building’s history as read from its ruins. An unmanned aerial vehicle was used to digitally record the parlous state of the architectural structure and karsten tubes were used to quantify the surface porosity of the limestone. The results are expressed from four perspectives. The anatomy of Casa Ippolito, as revealed in its ruins, provides a cross-section of its building history and shows two distinct phases in its construction. The tissue of Casa Ippolito—the building elements and materials—speaks of the knowledge of raw materials and their properties among the builders who worked on both phases. The architectural history of Casa Ippolito reveals how it supported its inhabitants’ wellbeing in terms of shelter, water and food. Finally, the ruins in their present state bring to the fore the site’s potential for cultural tourism. This case study aims to show that such ruins are not just geocultural remains of historical built fabric. They are open wounds in the built structure; they underpin the anatomy of the building and support insights into its former dynamics. Ruins offer an essay in material culture and building physics. Architectural ruins of masonry structures are anthropogenic discourse rendered in stone which facilitate not only the reconstruction of spaces but also places for human users; they are a statement on the wellbeing of humanity throughout history.

scholarly journals A materialidade de uma cultura imaterial: aspectos da cultura material da Capoeira no Rio de Janeiro no século XIX

Horizontes ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Martins Porto Lussac
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Play Fighting ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Culture History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Determining Factor

ResumoA História da Educação cada vez mais debruça seu olhar sobre práticas não escolares da educação, entendendo que esta é realizada dentro de um mosaico de interações sociais. Compreender as utilidades e os significados dos aspectos materiais envolvidos na transmissão de práticas culturais é um fator fundamental e determinante para se conhecer os processos educativos envolvidos em qualquer fenômeno sociocultural em que habite uma relação de ensino-aprendizagem. Este artigo objetivou investigar a cultura material do patrimônio cultural imaterial que é a Capoeira, e seus processos pedagógicos no Rio de Janeiro no século XIX. Este estudo ilumina parcialmente acomplexa relação dos sujeitos que desenvolveram o modo de fazer a Capoeira – cultura imaterial – com os objetos, materiais e ambientes que compuseram a cultura material do jogo-luta, e suas respectivas simbologias, bem como o seu modo de transmissão e aprendizagem no período estudado.Palavras-chave: Capoeira; Cultura Material; História. The materiality of an immaterial culture: aspects of material culture of Capoeira in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth centuryAbstractThe history of education increasingly focuses on non-school education practices, understanding that this is done within a mosaic of social interactions. Understanding the uses and meanings of the material aspects involved in the transmission of cultural practices is an essential and determining factor to know the educational processes involved in any sociocultural phenomenon that inhabits a relationship of teaching and learning. This article aimed to investigate the material culture of the intangible cultural heritage that is Capoeira, and its pedagogical processes in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century. This study partially illuminates the complex relationship of individuals who developed the way of doing Capoeira - immaterial culture - with objects, materials and environments that formed the material culture of the play-fighting, its symbols, and its mode of transmission and learning during the studied time.Keywords: Capoeira; Material Culture; History. 

scholarly journals Architectural Ruins: Geoculture of the anatomy of buildings as illustrated by Casa Ippolito, Malta

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lino Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Building Physics

Abstract Ruins are a statement on the building materials used and the construction method employed. Casa Ippolito, now in ruins, is typical of seventeenth-century Maltese aristocratic country residences. It represents an illustration of secondary or anthropogenic geodiversity. This paper scrutinises these ruins as a primary source in reconstructing the building’s architecture. The methodology involved on-site geographical surveying, including visual inspection and non-invasive tests, a geological survey of the local lithostratigraphy, and examination of notarial deeds and secondary sources to support findings about the building’s history as read from its ruins. An unmanned aerial vehicle was used to digitally record the parlous state of the architectural structure and karsten tubes were used to quantify the surface porosity of the limestone. The results are expressed from four perspectives. The anatomy of Casa Ippolito, as revealed in its ruins, provides a cross-section of its building history and shows two distinct phases in its construction. The tissue of Casa Ippolito – the building elements and materials – speaks of the knowledge of raw materials and their properties among the builders who worked on both phases. The architectural history of Casa Ippolito reveals how it supported its inhabitants’ wellbeing in terms of shelter, water and food. Finally, the ruins in their present state bring to the fore the site’s potential for cultural tourism. This case study aims to show that such ruins are not just geocultural remains of historical built fabric. They are open wounds in the built structure; they underpin the anatomy of the building and support insights into its former dynamics. Ruins offer an essay in material culture and building physics. Architectural ruins of masonry structures are anthropogenic discourse rendered in stone which facilitate not only the reconstruction of spaces but also places for human users; they are a statement on the wellbeing of humanity throughout history.

Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society

Curatopia ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 244-261
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Labrum
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social History ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Majority Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Material History ◽  
Settler Society

This chapter considers social history in a post-colonial contest. It specifically examines how the history of the majority culture in a post-settler society has and might be curated. Using Aotearoa New Zealand as its case study, it considers the figure of the Pakeha (non-indigenous) curator in relation to, and also in contrast with, indigenous collections and displays. What does a history curator look like in a post-settler society? Does the history curator continue the mutual asymmetry that has characterised relations and curatorial endeavours? Or is there a way to recognise cross-cultural material histories? In considering the development of history, and specifically social history, it suggests that a more useful concept is material history, rather than historical material cultures studies. The rest of the chapter ranges across a broad range of material history, including fashion and clothing, and design, to consider how contemporary museums deal with everyday life and its material aspects in museums, which are still to a large extent focussed on discrete objects and forms of material culture, and which carry the burden of the historical development of their collections into a post-settler world.

scholarly journals Architectural Ruins: A geocultural essay on the anatomy of buildings as illustrated by Casa Ippolito, Malta

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lino Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
History Of ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Building Physics

Abstract Ruins are a statement on the building materials used and the construction method employed. Casa Ippolito, now in ruins, is typical of seventeenth-century Maltese aristocratic country residences. It represents an illustration of secondary or anthropogenic geodiversity. This paper scrutinises these ruins as a primary source in reconstructing the building’s architecture. The methodology involved on-site geographical surveying, including visual inspection and non-invasive tests, a geological survey of the local lithostratigraphy, and examination of notarial deeds and secondary sources to support findings about the building’s history as read from its ruins. The results are expressed from four perspectives. The anatomy of Casa Ippolito, as revealed in its ruins, provides a cross-section of its construction history and shows two distinct phases in its construction. The tissue of Casa Ippolito – the building elements and materials – speaks of the knowledge of raw materials and their properties among the builders who worked on both phases of its construction. The architectural history of Casa Ippolito reveals how it met its inhabitants’ needs for shelter, water and food. Finally, the ruins in their present state bring to the fore the site’s potential for cultural tourism. This case study aims to show that such ruins are not just geocultural remains of historical built fabric. They are open wounds in the built structure; they underpin the anatomy of the building and support insights into its former dynamics. Ruins offer an essay in material culture and building physics. Architectural ruins of masonry structures are anthropogenic essays rendered in stone which facilitate not only the reconstruction of spaces but also places for human users; they are a statement on the wellbeing of humanity throughout history.

The Archaeology of Magunkaquog

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-73
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Mrozowski
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
New England ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Town Meeting ◽  
John Eliot ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Praying Town

Chapter 3 details the history of the Magunkaquog site from the features and material culture recovered through archaeological investigations in the late 1990s, combined with information from documentary records. With this site, the location of a seventeenth-century praying town meeting house, collaboration began between the archaeologists and the Nipmuc Nation. Certain practices revealed through archaeology conducted at this site provide clear evidence of a continuum between the post-contact inhabitants at Magunkaquog and their pre-contact cultural practices. Connections to other Native sites in southern New England also exist. Analyses of soils, ceramics, metals, glass, pipes, lithics, buttons and other artifacts provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of the site’s inhabitants 350 years ago as they encountered intense cultural changes with the arrival of John Eliot and other European settlers coupled with the adoption of European products into their lives.

scholarly journals Espaços, mobiliário escolar e práticas culturais no ginásio Sagrado Coração de Senhor do Bonfim – BA (1951)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Virgínia Pereira da Silva Ávila ◽  
Nilton Ferreira Bittencourt Junior ◽  
Dulcineia Cândida Cardoso de Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultura Escolar ◽  
School Furniture ◽  
New Facilities

Este texto analisa o papel atribuído aos espaços, ao mobiliário escolar e às práticas culturais no relatório de verificação do Ginásio Sagrado Coração, localizado em Senhor do Bonfim – BA. Organizado pelo inspetor Othoniel Almeida Moura, em 1951, o relatório registra a história da instituição, mas também apresenta as marcas e a significação do momento histórico e político vivenciado na sociedade brasileira. O relatório possui 110 páginas e contém dados sobre o histórico do estabelecimento, os aspectos relativos à estrutura física, a capacidade das salas, o corpo docente em exercício, a relação de livros da biblioteca, os materiais didáticos, a relação de materiais e os equipamentos de Educação Física, além de 26 fotografias. Composto de 07 (sete) divisões, nele são expostos e avaliados de maneira pormenorizadas, numa escala de 0 a 10 (dez), diversos aspectos referentes à localização, ao edifício, às instalações, às salas de aula, às salas especiais e os materiais didáticos, às instalações para semi-internato, às instalações para internatos. O texto dialoga com os estudos sobre cultura material, cultural escolar e patrimônio histórico-educativo. Autores como Benito (2012), Vinão Frago (2005), Castro e Gaspar da Silva (2011), Alcântara e Vidal (2018) e Rocha (2018) auxiliam na compreensão do patrimônio material escolar como o registro empírico e efetivo das práticas culturais “de uma época, de cada época, de todas épocas”. Por fim, o estudo possibilitou o levantamento de hipóteses das práticas culturais desenvolvidas pela instituição, assim como a compreensão da utilização dos espaços e dos materiais seguindo os padrões nacionalmente estabelecidos.Palavras-chave: Ginásio. Fontes de pesquisa. História da Educação.Spaces, school furniture and cultural practices in the Sagrado Coração de Senhor do Bonfim gymnasium - Ba (1951)ABSTRACTThis text analyzes the role attributed to spaces, school furniture and cultural practices in the verification report of the new facilities of the Ginásio Sagrado Coração, located in Senhor do Bonfim – BA. Organized by inspector Othoniel Almeida Moura, in 1951, the report records not only the history of the institution, but also presents the marks and the significance of the historical and political moment experienced in Brazilian society. The report has 110 pages and contains data on the history of the establishment, the aspects related to the physical structure, the capacity of the rooms, the teaching staff in the office, the list of books in the library, the teaching materials, the list of materials and the equipment of Physical Education, in addition to 26 photographs. Composed of 07 (seven) divisions, it is exposed and evaluated in a detailed way, on a scale of 0 to 10 (ten), several aspects related to the location, the building, the facilities, the classrooms, the special rooms, and the materials educational facilities, semi-boarding facilities, boarding facilities. The text dialogues with studies on material culture, school culture and historical-educational heritage. Authors such as Benito (2012), Vinão (2005), Castro and Gaspar da Silva (2011), Alcântara and Vidal (2018) and Rocha (2018) help to understand school material heritage as the empirical and effective record of cultural practices “of one season, each season, all seasons”. Finally, the study made it possible to raise hypotheses about cultural practices developed by the institution, as well as to understand the use of spaces and materials following nationally established standards.Keywords: Gymnasium. Search sources. History of Education.Espacios, mobiliario escolar y prácticas culturales en el gimnasio Sagrado Coração de Senhor do Bonfim - Ba (1951)RESUMENEste texto analiza el papel atribuido a los espacios, el mobiliario escolar y las prácticas culturales en el informe de verificación de las nuevas instalaciones del Ginásio Sagrado Coração, ubicado en Senhor do Bonfim – BA. Organizado por el inspector Othoniel Almeida Moura, en 1951, el informe registra no solo la historia de la institución, sino que también presenta las marcas y la importancia del momento histórico y político experimentado en la sociedad brasileña. El informe tiene 110 páginas y contiene datos sobre la historia del establecimiento, los aspectos relacionados con la estructura física, la capacidad de las habitaciones, el personal docente en la oficina, la lista de libros en la biblioteca, los materiales de enseñanza, la lista de materiales y el equipo. de Educación Física, además de 26 fotografías. Compuesto por 07 (siete) divisiones, se expone y evalúa de manera detallada, en una escala de 0 a 10 (diez), varios aspectos relacionados con la ubicación, el edificio, las instalaciones, las aulas, las salas especiales y los materiales, instalaciones educativas, instalaciones de semi-embarque, instalaciones de embarque. El texto dialoga con estudios sobre cultura material, cultura escolar y patrimonio histórico-educativo. Autores como Benito (2012), Vinão (2005), Castro y Gaspar da Silva (2011), Alcântara y Vidal (2018) y Rocha (2018) ayudan a entender el patrimonio material escolar como el registro empírico y efectivo de las prácticas culturales “de una temporada, cada temporada, todas las estaciones”. Finalmente, el estudio permitió plantear hipótesis sobre las prácticas culturales desarrolladas por la institución, así como comprender el uso de espacios y materiales siguiendo estándares establecidos a nivel nacional.Palabras clave: Gimnasio. Buscar fuentes. Historia de la educación.

Thinking with Clay: Procreation and the Ceramic Paradigm in Israelite Religion

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-207
Author(s):  
Kerry M. Sonia
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Israelite Religion ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Apparent Association

Abstract The cross-cultural connection between ceramic production and the creation of humans in the ancient Near East offers a new lens through which to examine biblical discourse about procreation and subject formation. The physical properties of clay make it an effective discursive tool in ancient Near Eastern texts, including the Hebrew Bible, for conceptualizing the processes that form and shape the human. Adopting a materialist approach, this article argues that biblical writers are not simply thinking about clay in relation to procreation and subject formation, but are thinking with it – that the raw materials, technologies, and objects of ceramic production helped to generate the ideologies and ritual processes that shape the human from gestation to birth and into early childhood. Material culture from ancient Israel supports this assessment. The manufacture of Judean Pillar Figurines out of clay and their apparent association with childbirth and the nurture of young children further suggest the prevalence of the ceramic paradigm in ancient religious ideology and ritual.

The Beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arezou Azad
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political System ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
Initial Conversion ◽  
The Way

Covering the period from 709 to 871, this chapter traces the initial conversion of Afghanistan from Zoroastrianism and Buddhism to Islam. Highlighting the differential developments in four regions of Afghanistan, it discusses the very earliest history of Afghan Islam both as a religion and as a political system in the form of a caliphate.  The chapter draws on under-utilized sources, such as fourth to eighth century Bactrian documents from Tukharistan and medieval Arabic and Persian histories of Balkh, Herat and Sistan. In so doing, it offers a paradigm shift in the way early Islam is understood by arguing that it did not arrive in Afghanistan as a finished product, but instead grew out of Afghanistan’s multi-religious context. Through fusions with Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, early Abrahamic traditions, and local cult practices, the Islam that resulted was less an Arab Islam that was imported wholesale than a patchwork of various cultural practices.

The theory and history of ekphrasis. A summary and prospects of research, or, forty-five articles on ekphrasis

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-215
Author(s):  
N. M. Perlina
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Similar Development

The article is devoted to ekphrasis, its historical and literary evolution, as well as aspects of its stylistic, cultural, and ideological origins. The research is based on the versatile collection of The Theory and History of Ekphrasis [Teoriya i istoriya ekfrasisa], which contains a number of previously little known texts and theories on ekphrasis, developed in regions with different ethnic and cultural characteristics. The author spares no effort in the examination of this monograph and, using the observations made by various scholars, discerns a similar development process of cross-cultural and cross-aesthetic transformations and transpositions, which, however, adopts divergent paths. Transpositions, the author suggests, occur in the model of a text awaiting a pictorial interpretation. The article concentrates on the ways to present an image anticipated in a written word, and to generate a new text, whose subject and content draw not only on poeticized observations of the source material, but also on metapoetic tales about its creators.

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