scholarly journals Rock Art of Soqotra, Yemen: A Forgotten Heritage Revisited

Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Julian Jansen van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Spatial Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Historical Accounts

This paper presents a comprehensive review of historical and current rock art research on the island of Soqotra, Yemen and places these sites within a spatial framework from which it analyses themes concerning water and the visibility and invisibility of these sites within the broader landscape. The analysis of these sites shows how water was of fundamental importance to the indigenous inhabitants over the longue durée. It also highlights how rock art has not only been able to reinforce the ethnographic and historical accounts of the indigenous inhabitants, but also strengthen our temporal knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the inhabitants of Soqotra.

scholarly journals Recent Rock Art Research on East Seram, Maluku: A key site in the rock art of West Papua and South East Maluku

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adhi Agus Oktaviana ◽  
Peter Van Lape ◽  
Marlon NR Ririmasse
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Geometric Patterns ◽  
Eastern Indonesia ◽  
The Social ◽  
West Papua ◽  
American Research ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Art Research

Gambar cadas di Indonesia mulai diteliti sejak sebelum abad 20. Sejumlah publikasi ilmiah sebelumnya mencatat keberadaan situs gambar cadas di Pulau Seram, Provinsi Maluku yaitu di tebing Sawai dan Sungai Tala. Survei arkeologi terkini di kawasan Seram Timur dan Seram Laut yang dilakukan oleh gabungan Tim Peneliti Indonesian-American berhasil menemukan Situs gambar cadas baru di pesisir Seram Timur. gambar cadas ini terlukiskan di permukaan dinding tebing bernama lokal tebing Watu Sika. Gambar cadas di Situs Watu Sika tampak mirip dengan sejumlah situs gambar cadas lainnya di Indonesia Timur yang sebagian besar terlukis di dinding tebing karst sepanjang wilayah pesisir. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode perekaman verbal dan piktorial dibantu aplikasi Dstretch untuk memperjelas gambar-gambar agar mudah diidentifikasi. Penelitian ini menganalisis sejumlah pola figuratif dan non figuratif pada motif-motif gambar cadas di Situs Watu Sika. Hasil identifikasi terhadap sejumlah motif gambar cadas di situs ini diketahui terdapat motif gambar cadas berbentuk figur manusia, hewan, ikan, perahu, hand stencils negatif, dan pola geometris. Penelitian ini juga membahas analisis latar belakang konteks sosial terhadap tradisi gambar cadas di wilayah sekitarnya, yaitu wilayah Laut Banda. Berdasarkan jaringan persebaran temuan gambar cadas di Indonesia Timur, maka menghasilkan pengetahuan baru bahwa analisis data sementara ini menunjukkan Situs Watu Sika merupakan kunci penghubung jalur persebaran gambar cadas yang berasal dari wilayah barat ke dua jalur, pertama jalur ke arah Timur Laut, yaitu wilayah Papua dan Jalur ke Selatan, yaitu ke arah Kepulauan di sekitar Laut Banda.Rock art in Indonesia has been investigated before the 20th century. A number of previous scientific publications noted the existence of rock art sites on Seram Island, Maluku Province, which was on the cliff of Sawai and Tala River. Recent archaeological surveys in the area of East Seram and Seram Laut conducted by a joint Indonesian-American Research Team discovered a new rock art site in the coast of East Seram. The rock art is painted on the cliff wall which is called by the locals as Watu Sika. Rock art on the Watu Sika Site is similar to a number of rock art at other sites in Eastern Indonesia which were mostly painted on karstic cliffs along the coast. This study used verbal and pictorial recording methods using the Dstretch application to clarify images to support identification. This study analyzed a number of figurative and non-figurative patterns of rock art motifs at Watu Sika Site. The results of the identification of a number of rock art motifs on this site show that there are several patterns including figures of human, animal, fish, boats, negative hand stencils, and geometric patterns. This study also discussed an analysis of the social context background of rock art tradition in the surrounding region, particularly at the Banda Sea region. Based on the distribution network of rock art findings in eastern Indonesia, new insights are generated that this interim data analysis show that Watu Sika Site is the key to connecting the distribution path of rock art originating from the western region into two lanes. The first lane to the Northeast, which is the Papua region and South Lane, expanding towards the Islands around the Banda Sea.

Social and Environmental History in the Anthropocene

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Warde
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

This chapter takes seriously the notion of the ‘Anthropocene’—the concept of the period of history from which human activities have had global effects on the environment—and looks at it historically, across the longue durée, noting that the environment is itself a concept with a history of its own. The chapter argues that environmental history is very largely entwined with social history and that this poses a challenge for historians. Should we think of ‘the social’ and ‘the environmental’ as two different (albeit connected) spheres, or should we reconceptualize what ‘society’ and ‘environment’ might mean, both historically and for the future?

The historical anthropology of thought

Focaal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (55) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Greek Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

This article illustrates the need for a historical anthropology of the longue durée, dealing with pre-modern societies, by analyzing the work of Jean-Pierre Vernant on the development of thought in ancient Greece. Vernant's anthropologies began with Marx and the historical psychologist Ignace Meyerson; he was influenced by the Durkheimian Louis Gernet and later by Lévi-Strauss. His early interest in relating Greek rationality to social organization led him increasingly into work on Greek religion and tragedy. This article builds on his work by studying the social contexts of communication that facilitated the proposal and elaboration of unconventional ideas.

A History Without the Social Sciences?

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (02) ◽  
pp. 271-283
Author(s):  
Claire Lemercier
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Time Scales ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Crucial Question ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

Abstract According to David Armitage and Jo Guldi, digitized sources and quantification almost naturally lead to the sort of longue durée history that they seek to promote. This article questions that assertion on the basis of the long tradition of quantitative history, open to exchanges with the social sciences and revived, not annihilated, by microhistory. The digitization of numerous historical sources does not call for less caution in our analyses—quite the contrary, as it creates new biases. More importantly, it does not solve the crucial question of controlled anachronism, that is, the need for carefully constructed categories in any quantification based on the longue durée. The article also addresses the implications of choosing the longue durée as the exclusive basis for reflections on historical processes and causality. Is the longue durée purely a scale for description? If not, can it escape a simplistic vision, a monocausal path dependency? If we are to avoid such pitfalls, the wider debates within all the social sciences on time-scales and causality must be taken into account.

Rock Art as Cultural Expressions of Social Relationships and Kinship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam M. Brady ◽  
John J. Bradley ◽  
Amanda Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gulf Country ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Relational Contexts

This chapter examines rock art as cultural expressions of social relationships and kinship. More specifically, it considers the type(s) of relationships that exist or emerge in Indigenous contexts and how appreciation of these relationships can elucidate the meaning, symbolism, and significance of rock art. It first explores the relational contexts of rock art by citing examples involving sorcery before discussing the social embeddedness of rock art and the network of relationships that rock art operates within. It then analyzes the regional relatedness and social connectedness of rock art and shows that the breadth of relationships into which rock art is embedded involves ontology and epistemology. The chapter uses a series of case studies drawn primarily from rock art research with Yanyuwa, a maritime-oriented Indigenous language group in northern Australia’s southwest Gulf country, supplemented with examples from the American Southwest and other areas within Australia.

scholarly journals A buried past: five thousand years of (pre) history on the Jing-Wei floodplain

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ye Wa ◽  
Anke Hein
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Historical Accounts

Abstract The Jing-Wei Floodplain, located in Shaanxi, China, has been home to various groups of people over the last 5000 years. Drawing together evidence from archaeology, paleobotany, geomorphology, climate sciences, and history, this paper provides a longue durée study of the local (pre)history of human occupation in this area with a special focus on human adaptation strategies and environmental history. In particular, the study summarizes and evaluates archaeological and geomorphological field research conducted over the last ten years and connects it with often overlooked local historical accounts and recent climate research in the Wei River Valley and observations on recent economic developments and their impact on both the environment and the people living in it. In spite of a rather long hiatus in occupation from the second century BCE to the twelfth century CE, the evidence shows that there are close similarities in human-environment relations and even continuities into the modern period. Though being a highly localized study, this paper can serve as an example for how such longue durée studies may be conducted in other regions, and it provides some suggestions for future field and laboratory research.

Chronological Depths and the Longue Durée

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (02) ◽  
pp. 285-291
Author(s):  
Christian Lamouroux
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Short Contribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Fernand Braudel

Abstract This short contribution seeks to place David Armitage and Jo Guldi’s article within a broader historiographical context, enlarged to include the history of China. From the outset, Fernand Braudel was careful to link his vision of the longue durée with the new “area studies” exploring international cultures. By studying social and economic history and more generally by using approaches drawn from the social sciences, European and American specialists of China have deconstructed the overly longue durée of Chinese history and shed light on its dynamism, previously repressed and concealed by the notion of a so-called “civilization.” This process facilitated a successful specialization, which can today be supported by the “big data” being compiled in circles close to the two authors.

Santé des voyageurs sur des vols aériens de longue durée. Rôle du médecin traitant

2010 ◽  
Vol 194 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Bazex ◽  
Emmanuel Alain Cabanis ◽  
Mmes Brugère-Picoux ◽  
Moneret-Vautrin ◽  
M.M. Ardaillou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Médecin Traitant
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