The Behavioral and Material Correlates of Site Seasonality: Lessons from Navajo Ethnoarchaeology

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Rocek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
General Information ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Black Mesa ◽  
Site Layout ◽  
Site Use

Several classes of data collected from Northern Black Mesa, Arizona, are used to identify seasonality among nineteenth- and twentieth-century Navajo sites. The data include informant accounts, site layout and composition, hogan doorway orientations, and terminal tree-ring condition from dendrochronological samples. While each class of data yields information regarding an aspect of site seasonality, analysis reveals that more than one kind of information is represented by the various data sources. Specifically, hogan doorway orientation and tree-ring seasonality provide mutually reinforcing evidence regarding season of site construction; other data relate to the season of site use. These results suggest refinements in the assessment of Navajo site seasonality, as well as providing more general information regarding the identification of site season in archaeological contexts. In addition, the recognition of the alternative seasonal information provided by the different kinds of data, suggests new approaches to analysis of mobility and activity patterns.

Battlefields from Event to Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carman ◽  
Patricia Carman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
Modern War

What is—or makes a place—a ‘historic battlefield’? From one perspective the answer is a simple one—it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organized manner to fight one another at some point in the past. But from another perspective it is far more difficult to identify. Quite why any such location is a place of battle—rather than any other kind of event—and why it is especially historic is more difficult to identify. This book sets out an answer to the question of what a historic battlefield is in the modern imagination, drawing upon examples from prehistory to the twentieth century. Considering battlefields through a series of different lenses, treating battles as events in the past and battlefields as places in the present, the book exposes the complexity of the concept of historic battlefield and how it forms part of a Western understanding of the world. Taking its lead from new developments in battlefield study—especially archaeological approaches—the book establishes a link to and a means by which these new approaches can contribute to more radical thinking about war and conflict, especially to Critical Military and Critical Security Studies. The book goes beyond the study of battles as separate and unique events to consider what they mean to us and why we need them to have particular characteristics. It will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of modern war in all its forms.

The Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain, 1895–1930

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-92
Author(s):  
Joanna Dales
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
Sense Of Reality ◽  
Wrath Of God

Abstract Many Quakers who reached maturity towards the end of the nineteenth century found that their parents’ religion had lost its connection with reality. New discoveries in science and biblical research called for new approaches to Christian faith. Evangelical beliefs dominant among nineteenth-century Quakers were now found wanting, especially those emphasising the supreme authority of the Bible and doctrines of atonement whereby the wrath of God is appeased through the blood of Christ. Liberal Quakers sought a renewed sense of reality in their faith through recovering the vision of the first Quakers with their sense of the Light of God within each person. They also borrowed from mainstream liberal theology new attitudes to God, nature and service to society. The ensuing Quaker Renaissance found its voice at the Manchester Conference of 1895, and the educational initiatives which followed gave to British Quakerism an active faith fit for the testing reality of the twentieth century.

Post-processual Landscape Archaeology: a Critique

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Heuristic Argument ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The People ◽  
New Thinking

Post-processual theorists have characterized landscape archaeology as practised in the second half of the twentieth century as over-empirical. They have asserted that the discipline is sterile, in that it deals inadequately with the people of the past, and is also too preoccupied with vision-privileging and Cartesian approaches. They have argued that it is therefore necessary to ‘go beyond the evidence’ and to develop more experiential approaches, ‘archaeologies of inhabitation’. This article argues that such a critique is misguided, notably in its rejection of long-accepted modes of fieldwork and argument and in its annexation of Cosgrove's rhetoric. ‘Post-processual’ landscape archaeology has involved the development of phenomenological approaches to past landscapes and the writing of hyper-interpretive texts (pioneered by Tilley and Edmonds respectively). It is argued that phenomenological fieldwork has produced highly questionable ‘results’. Some of the theoretical and practical consequences of adopting post-processual landscape archaeology are discussed; it is concluded that the new approaches are more problematic than their proponents have allowed. Although new thinking should always be welcomed, it would not be advisable to abandon the heuristic, argument-grounded strengths of conventional landscape archaeology.

scholarly journals Soul and psyche: The Bible in psychological perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Psyche

During the last third of the twentieth century a discipline that applies psychological and psychoanalytic insight to the study of the Bible, has resurfaced within biblical studies. In his book, Soul and Psyche, Wayne Rollins offers a psychological biblical approach as one of the new approaches to Scripture since the 1960’s. This approach tends to bring a renewed appreciation for the role of the human psyche or soul in the history of the Bible and its interpretation.

When Innovation Holds Learning and Undertaking in a Close Embrace

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-255
Author(s):  
Piero Formica
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Learning Cultures ◽  
The University

In this article, Piero Formica considers how new approaches to the notion of the university exemplify the value of creative ignorance in driving entrepreneurship and promoting a new culture of innovation based on blue sky science and open-mindedness. He takes the examples of the Minerva Schools, the Unreasonable Institute and the Singularity University and illustrates how these developments both connect us to learning cultures of the distant past and reveal the shape of an enterprising future that rejects the norms and embedded constraints of education systems developed in twentieth century.

Book reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-160
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
New Approaches

Chie Ikeya, Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma (Henk Schulte Nordholt) Thomas J. Conners, Mason C. Hoadley, Frank Dhont, Kevin Ko (eds), Pancasila’s contemporary appeal: Relegitimizing Indonesia’s founding ethos (R.E. Elson) I Nyoman Darma Putra, A literary mirror: Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century (Dick van der Meij) Margaret Jolly. Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon (eds), Oceanic encounters: Exchange, desire, violence (H.J.M. Claessen) Rudolf Mrázek, A certain age: Colonial Jakarta through the memories of its intellectuals (Lutgard Mutsaers) Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell, Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and post-colonial Cambodia (Vivek Neelakantan) Daromir Rudnyckyj, Spiritual economies: Islam, globalization and the afterlife of development (Gabrial Facal) Claudine Salmon, Sastra Indonesia awal: Kontribusi orang Tionghoa (Melani Budianta) Renate Sternagel, Der Humboldt von Java: Leben und Werk des Naturforschers Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn 1809-1864 (Andreas Weber) Wynn Wilcox (ed.), Vietnam and the West: New approaches (Hans Hägerdal) Zheng Yangwen and Charles J.H Macdonald (eds), Personal names in Asia: History, culture and identity (Rosemary Gianno)

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