Mobility Meaning And Transformations Of Things

Author : Hans Peter Hahn,Hadas Weis
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782970842

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Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things by Hans Peter Hahn,Hadas Weis Pdf

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life. While travelling through time, objects also circulate through space, and their spatial mobility alters their meaning and use with respect to new cultural horizons. As objects transform through time and space, so does the value attributed to them. Mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material, allows us to grasp the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken on by its valued 'stuff'. It also provides insights into the nature of materiality, through the value ascribed to objects at a given point in time and space. This edited volume brings together studies of material culture, materiality and value, with regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing the ways in which societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm of the material reflects upon society.

Author : Jim Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317083436

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Past Mobilities by Jim Leary Pdf

The new mobilities paradigm has yet to have the same impact on archaeology as it has in other disciplines in the social sciences - on geography, sociology and anthropology in particular - yet mobility is fundamental to archaeology: all people move. Moving away from archaeology’s traditional focus upon place or location, this volume treats mobility as a central theme in archaeology. The chapters are wide-ranging and methodological as well as theoretical, focusing on the flows of people, ideas, objects and information in the past; they also focus on archaeology’s distinctiveness. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological evidence for movement, from paths, monuments, rock art and boats, to skeletal and DNA evidence, Past Mobilities presents research from a range of examples from around the world to explore the relationship between archaeology and movement, thus adding an archaeological voice to the broader mobilities discussion. As such, it will be of interest not only to archaeologists and historians, but also to sociologists, geographers and anthropologists.

Author : Bretton T. Giles,Shawn P. Lambert
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683402466

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New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery by Bretton T. Giles,Shawn P. Lambert Pdf

In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and expressions of power in the communities that created the artwork. Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, these essays reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.  These case studies offer innovative examples of how to use style to identify and compare artifacts, how symbols can be interpreted in the absence of writing, and how to situate and historicize Mississippian imagery. They examine designs carved into shell, copper, stone, and wood or incised into ceramic vessels, from spider iconography to owl effigies and depictions of the cosmos. They discuss how these symbols intersect with memory, myths, social hierarchies, religious traditions, and other spheres of Native American life in the past and present. The tools modeled in this volume will open new horizons for learning about the culture and worldviews of past peoples. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series  Contributors: David Dye | Shawn P. Lambert | Bretton T. Giles | Vernon J. Knight, Jr. | Anna Semon | J. Grant Stauffer | Jesse Nowak | George E Lankford

Author : Chiara Giuliani,Kate Hodgson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000798463

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Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture by Chiara Giuliani,Kate Hodgson Pdf

With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture. This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.

Author : Barry Molloy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702341

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Of Odysseys and Oddities by Barry Molloy Pdf

Of Odysses and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and material encounters or displacements. Linked to this are the ways we conceptualise spatial and social entities in past societies (scales) and how we learn about who was actively engaged in interaction and how and why they were (modes). The papers provide a broad chronological, spatial and material range but, taken together, they critically address many of the ways that scales and modes of interaction are considered in archaeological discourse. Ultimately, the intention is to foreground material culture analysis in the development of the arguments presented within this volume, informed, but not driven, by theoretical positions.

Author : Arkadiusz Blaszczyk,Robert Born,Florian Riedler
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783737011686

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Transottoman Matters by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk,Robert Born,Florian Riedler Pdf

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility—as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation—involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.

Author : Astrid Van Oyen,Martin Pitts
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785706790

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Materialising Roman Histories by Astrid Van Oyen,Martin Pitts Pdf

The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).

Author : Catriona D. Gibson,Kerri Cleary,Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785709333

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Making Journeys by Catriona D. Gibson,Kerri Cleary,Catherine J. Frieman Pdf

Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modeling and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artifacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’ journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches to artifacts include the recognition that culture contact and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.

Author : Andrew P. Roddick,Ann B. Stahl
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816532605

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Knowledge in Motion by Andrew P. Roddick,Ann B. Stahl Pdf

Knowledge in Motion brings together archaeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists to examine communities from around the globe as they engage in a range of practices constituting situated learned and knowledge transmission. The contributors lay the groundwork to forge productive theories and methodologies for exploring situated learning and its broad-ranging outcomes.

Author : Jim Leary
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781837730261

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Footmarks by Jim Leary Pdf

'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS 'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS 'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME SONG ' A triumph!' JAMES CANTON, AUTHOR OF THE OAK PAPERS 'I loved this book' FRANCIS PRYOR On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archaeologists have in fact always found evidence for humanity's irrepressible restlessness. Now, latest developments in science and archaeology are transforming this evidence and overturning how we understand the past movement of humankind. In this book, archaeologist Jim Leary traces the past 3.5 million years to reveal how people have always been moving, how travel has historically been enforced (or prohibited) by people with power, and how our forebears showed incredible bravery and ingenuity to journey across continents and oceans. With Leary to show the way, you'll follow the footsteps of early hunter-gatherers preserved in mud, and tread ancient trackways hollowed by feet over time. Passing drovers, wayfarers and pilgrims, you'll see who got to move, and how people moved. And you'll go on long-distance journeys and migrations to see how movement has shaped our world.

Author : Ruth Oldenziel,Helmuth Trischler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781782389712

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Cycling and Recycling by Ruth Oldenziel,Helmuth Trischler Pdf

Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520660

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Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.

Author : Hans Peter Hahn,Anja Klöckner,Dirk Wicke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789258158

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Values and Revaluations by Hans Peter Hahn,Anja Klöckner,Dirk Wicke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004512719

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A Companion to Medieval Pisa by Anonim Pdf

This volume comprises a multidisciplinary study of Pisa’s socio-economic, cultural, and political history, art history, and archaeology at the time of the city’s greatest fame and prosperity during the transformative period of the Middle Ages.

Author : Matthew G. Knight,Dot Boughton,Rachel E. Wilkinson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789692495

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Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts by Matthew G. Knight,Dot Boughton,Rachel E. Wilkinson Pdf

How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.