Cultural biographies, cognitive landscapes and dirty old bits of boat:‘theory’ in maritime archaeology

Flatman, Joe

doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.2003.tb01441.x

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“…The possibilities of this sort of work are, I would argue, one of the greatest things underwater archaeology has to offer. Joe Flatman (2003) has pointed out that the maritime archaeologist has the unusual ability to 'fly' around a site, 'sampling evidence in a form more open to multivariate interpretation' giving the maritime archaeologist a real time bird's eye view that GIS specialists work hard to create in virtual space (Fisher and Unwin 2002).…”

Section: Swimming Into Placementioning

confidence: 98%

Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu

Garrett

2009

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________________________________________________________________This article is a brief overview of an instance where landscape inundation has disconnected culture from place. The Winnemem Wintu, a Native American tribe in Northern California, had most of their ancestral landscape along the McCloud River submerged by the construction of Shasta Dam just after World War II. The tribe's remaining traditional cultural properties are under continual threat of loss and/or destruction, leaving the tribe's ability to practice traditional ceremonies crippled by legal battles and fights against the continual assertion of United States hegemonic power over tribal cultural identity. As part of archaeological research on these submerged places, the tribe's spiritual leader, Caleen Sisk-Franco, and Tribal Headman, Mark Franco, spoke with the author about these threats and how their culture must adapt to meet them. ________________________________________________________________Résumé: Cet article est une brève vue d'ensemble d'un exemple dans lequel l'inondation du territoire a interrompu la culture du lieu. Les Winnemen Wintu, sont une tribu amérindienne du nord de la Californie, dont la plupart de ses territoires ancestraux le long de la rivière McCloud, ont été immergés lors de la construction du barrage Shasta peu après la deuxième guerre mondiale. Ainsi ces propriétés traditionnelles et culturelles de la tribu sont soumises aux perpétuelles menaces de l'oubli et/ou de la destruction, étant également paralysées par les conflits et les poursuites juridiques contre l'hégémonie du gouvernement des Etats-Unis a propos de l'identité culturelle tribale qui rendent difficile la pratique des cérémonies traditionnelles. Partie intégrante de la recherche archéologique sur ces territoires immergés, le leader spirituel de la tribu, Caleen Sisk-Franco, et le chef de tribu, Mark Franco, parlent de ces menaces avec l'auteur et de la manière dont leur culture doit s'adapter pour y faire face. ________________________________________________________________Resumen: El presente artículo presenta brevemente un caso en que la inundació n del paisaje ha desconectado la cultura del lugar. La Winnemem Wintu, una tribu Americana nativa del norte de California, vio có mo la mayor parte de su paisaje ancestral a lo largo río McCloud quedó sumergida por la construcció n de la presa de Shasta justo después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El resto de propiedades culturales de la tribu sufre continuas amenazas de pérdida y destrucció n, mermando la capacidad de la tribu para practicar sus ceremonias tradicionales debido a que tienen que enzarzarse en batallas y luchas jurídicas contra la continua afirmació n del poder hegemó nico de los Estados Unidos sobre la identidad cultural tribal. Dentro de las investigaciones arqueoló gicas de estos lugares sumergidos, el líder espiritual de la tribu, Caleen Sisk-Franco y el jefe tribal Mark Franco, hablaron con el autor sobre estas amenazas y de có mo su cultura debe aprender a adaptarse a ellas. ________________...

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Section: Swimming Into Placementioning

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Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu

Garrett

2009

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“…What is the nature of our discipline and objects (e.g. Adams 2002;Bass 1966;Carpenter 1991;Firth 1995;Flatman 2003;Gundersen 2000Gundersen , 2007Løseth 2006;Muckelroy 1978;McGrail 1984;Nymoen 1997;Westerdahl 1989Westerdahl , 1992Westerdahl , 1995Westerdahl , 2008Jasinski , 1995aJasinski , b, 1999Kvalø 2000). An extensive amount of adjectives have been presented through research history for describing the activity on the sea floor, and some have based large parts of their academic career on shaping and intensify those definitions.…”

Section: Maritimity Actor Network Theory and Quasi Objectsmentioning

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Maritime Cultural Landscapes, Maritimity and Quasi Objects

Tuddenham

2010

J Mari Arch

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Does the concept of maritime cultural landscapes bridge a division between land and sea, or does it maintain a gap that perhaps doesn't even exist? This paper discusses maritime and maritime cultural landscapes as phenomena in the light of Actor Network Theory, where maritimity is given attention as a derivation of the modern metaphysics as described by Bruno Latour. The paper makes use of a case study from Norwegian Cultural Heritage Management (CHM), where land and sea archaeologists meet each other in a joint venture project at the island of Smøla, Møre & Romsdal County.

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“…A number of recent publications (Flatman, 2003;Gibbins and Adams, 2001;Gould, 2000;Ward et al, 1999) argue explicitly or implicitly for greater integration of terrestrial and maritime approaches to the study of shipwreck sites by using material culture to approach social relations and behavior. Ships sunk while engaged in trade present unique opportunities to address questions relevant to technology and to the movement of goods from place to place with the result that these topics consequently receive most attention, yet shipwreck archaeology enables us to investigate the lives of those living and working aboard.…”

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Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia from the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt

Ward¹,

Baram

2006

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Shipwreck archaeology provides unique evidence for trade, commercial relationships, and the day-to-day existence of occupational communities defined by residence and employment within the industrial space aboard a ship. These concerns are addressed particularly well by finds of utilitarian items such as a small assemblage of 21 clay pipes and three other smoking-related artifacts recently excavated from the ca. 1765 Sadana Island ship which sank at anchor while loaded with coffee, porcelain, qulal, and other goods. Analysis of the assemblage specifically contributes to questions of chronology and typology and presents new evidence for regionalism, style, and the impact of far-reaching trade routes on markets with a global perspective.

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Cultural biographies, cognitive landscapes and dirty old bits of boat:‘theory’ in maritime archaeology

Cited by 32 publications

References 67 publications

Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu

Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu

Maritime Cultural Landscapes, Maritimity and Quasi Objects

Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia from the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt

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