Artifacts and Personal Identity

White, Carolyn L.; Beaudry, Mary C.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-72071-5_12

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“…The interplay of the movement of persons, people, and ideas are essential for our understanding of the ebb and flow of human physical, cultural, and social evolution (Helms, 1994; Urry, 2007; White & Beaudry, 2009; Shellar, 2011). However, until quite recently, socio-analyses of cultural flux revolved mainly around the flow of objects rather than of persons.…”

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Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

Reiter

Frei

2019

Eur. j. archaeol

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In the last decade, the exponential increase in migration studies focusing on the mobility of groups and single individuals—mostly based on aDNA and strontium isotope analyses—has provided an important extra layer of information regarding past social dynamics. The current relatively large quantity of data and their constant increase provide an opportunity to examine human mobility in unprecedented detail. In short, the course of academic dialogue is changing from producing evidence for movement to examining differences or similarities in human mobilities across temporal and geographical barriers. Moreover, the amount and type of new data are beginning to provide new kinds of information that can help us grasp why that movement first came about. We present the first potential mobility model focusing on single individuals during different life stages based on in vivo movement patterns. We draw on previous studies in recent mobility research that provide a variety of case studies to illustrate the model. We hope that this model will prove valuable for future discussions regarding human mobility by integrating the present archaeological contextual discourse with the increasing body of data being produced.

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Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

Reiter

Frei

2019

Eur. j. archaeol

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“…Ethnographic sources have shown that ornaments are often associated with symbolic systems, ethnic identity, and personhood (Miller 2009;Roach-Higgins and Eicher 1992;Seeger 1975;Strathern 1979;Turner 1995Turner , 2012Wiessner 1982). For this reason, ornaments are thought to provide a window into social, cultural, and cognitive aspects of past human societies otherwise elusive in the archaeological record (DiPaolo Loren 2009;Joyce 2005;Kuhn and Stiner 2007;Moro Abadía and Nowell 2015;Newell et al 1990;Vanhaeren and d'Errico 2006;White 1992;White and Beaudry 2009;Wright and Garrard 2003). Great efforts have thus been put into the study of ornament assemblages from a wide variety of contexts and time periods.…”

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New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections

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J Archaeol Method Theory

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The use of microwear analysis has made substantial contributions to the study of archaeological bodily ornaments. However, limitations persist with regard to the interpretation of use and the reconstruction of systems of attachment, hampering a holistic understanding of the diversity of past bodily adornment. This is because the complexities of ornament biographies and the resulting wear traces cannot be grasped exclusively from the study of experimental reference collections. In this paper, we propose to bridge this gap in interpretation by systematically researching ethnographic collections. We conducted a microscopic study of 38 composite ornaments from lowland South America housed at the Musée du quai Branly (Paris). These objects involve organic, biomineral, and inorganic components, attached through different string configurations. The combined use of optical and 3D digital microscopy at different magnification ranges provided a thorough understanding of wear trace formation, distribution, and characterization. We demonstrate how individual beads develop characteristic use-wear in relation to one another and to the strings. We further challenge common assumptions made in the analysis of archaeological ornaments. In sum, this research addresses methodological and interpretative issues in the study of bodily adornment at large, by providing insight into the biographies of objects that were actually worn in a lived context. In the future, our results can be applied as reference for a more effective understanding of the use of ornaments worldwide.

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“…This research builds on three bodies of interdisciplinary scholarship: archaeological analyses of adornment, Black feminist theory, and historical archaeology of enslavement and post-emancipation. Within historic archaeological scholarship on adornment, the multivalent meanings behind artifacts recovered in the archaeological record that relate to dress practices are tools for the formation of identity (Beaudry, 2006;Fisher & Loren, 2003;Galle, 2004;Heath, 1999Heath, , 2004Loren, 2001Loren, , 2010Thomas & Thomas, 2004;White & Beaudry, 2009). I argue that beads, buttons, rivets, suspenders, bodices, hairpins, and hook-and-eye closures are some of the material culture data that, alongside documentary data, serves as evidence of sartorial practices of selfmaking that form identity and constitute the body through daily iterative practice.…”

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African Diasporic Choices

Flewellen¹

2019

NTIK

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The year 2017 marked the centennial transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States. In light of this commemoration, topics related to representations of the past, and the preservation of heritage in the present -- entangled with the residuum of Danish colonialism and the lasting impact of U.S. neo-imperial rule -- are at the forefront of public dialogue on both sides of the Atlantic. Archaeological and archival research adds historical depth to these conversations, providing new insights into the lived experiences of Afro-Crucians from enslavement through post-emancipation. However, these two sources of primary historical data (i.e., material culture and documentary evidence) are not without their limitations. This article draws on Black feminist and post-colonial theoretical frameworks to interrogate the historicity of archaeological and archival records. Preliminary archaeological and archival work ongoing at the Estate Little Princess, an 18th-century former Danish sugar plantation on the island of St. Croix, provides the backdrop through which the potentiality of archaeological and documentary data are explored. Research questions centered on exploring sartorial practices of self-making engaged by Afro-Crucians from slavery through freedom are used to illuminate spaces of tension as well as productive encounters between the archaeological and archival records.

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Artifacts and Personal Identity

Cited by 56 publications

References 36 publications

Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections

African Diasporic Choices

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