Échanges de coquillages entre amateurs et professionnels

Faugère, Elsa

doi:10.4000/tc.6652

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“…It dates between the third and fourth centuries AD and was discovered in a lead coffin in association with the corpse of a twelve-year-old girl (Farago-Szekeres and Duday 2013). Such collections are widespread in contemporary societies (Bondaz et al 2016;Derlon and Jeudy-Ballini 2016;Faugère and Senépart 2012) and studied via cabinets of curiosities (Gargam 2009). Nevertheless, the act of collecting is often overlooked as a potential use of shells discovered in archaeological contexts.…”

Section: Mesolithic Shell Middensmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Archaeological Evidence for Collecting Empty Shells Along the French Atlantic Coast: An Important Activity for Coastal Populations

Dupont

2019

Journal of Ethnobiology

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This article discusses the importance of empty shells used as artifacts and their differences with mollusks collected for subsistence by means of three French archaeological examples. The aim is to help archaeologists consider all shells as potential artifacts. The first example considers shell ornaments of hunter-gatherer populations who lived along the Atlantic coast during the sixth millennium BC. The second example focuses on a “treasure box” belonging to a child buried between the third and fourth centuries AD. The third examines a decoration style dating from the third century AD, which consisted of decorating the walls of opulent villas with shells. The archaeomalacofaunal analysis of these examples of shell use entails a description of the physical characteristics of the chosen shells. It shows that the latter were carefully selected, but not necessarily modified before being used. It is clear that the shells were intended to be exposed, as prehistoric ornaments or elements of mural decoration. The shells that were selected differ from those selected for consumption. This is interesting, as it shows a marked division between the economic contribution of marine mollusks and the symbolic value bestowed upon the shell. One shared aspect of the three cases is that shells of deep water species were gathered from high water marks on beaches. People rarely encountered these mollusks alive, which may have held additional cultural meaning. Ultimate artifact function of shells may, thus, relate closely to activities of shell selection from prehistoric beaches.

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Section: Mesolithic Shell Middensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multiple socio-economic factors drive shell collection (Burgos 2016;Faugère and Senépart 2012;Malinowski 1974;Moss 1993). These include socio-political hierarchy in human groups, knowledge of marine environments, culturally specific technologies at a given time and place, as well as a dependency on marine resources.…”

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Archaeological Evidence for Collecting Empty Shells Along the French Atlantic Coast: An Important Activity for Coastal Populations

Dupont

2019

Journal of Ethnobiology

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“…Elle consiste à faire sortir la discipline de son enceinte académique et universitaire en enrôlant une diversité de partenaires qu'il s'agit de convaincre de l'intérêt de la systématique. Parmi ces partenaires, on trouve, de longue date, de nombreux amateurs bénévoles qui permettent de compenser, partiellement au moins, la faiblesse du recrutement académique et participent au dynamisme de la discipline (Kohler, 1991(Kohler, , 2006Charvolin, 2009 ;Charvolin, Micoud, Nyhart, 2007 ;Lawrence, Turnhout, 2010 ;Faugère, 2012 Mais sortir la discipline de sa seule enceinte académique et universitaire ne consiste pas uniquement à enrôler des amateurs. Elle consiste également à convaincre d'autres types d'acteurs de l'importance de l'entreprise taxonomique.…”

Section: Le Dossier : Discipliner La Systématiqueunclassified

Une introduction au renouveau de la taxonomie

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Mauz²

2013

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Le texte montre comment la taxonomie, aussi appelée systématique, à travers les différentes approches et techniques utilisées (dont le barcoding) pour l'exploration et la documentation de nouvelles espèces, s'engage dans une lutte pour survivre dans un contexte moins influencé par les mêmes limites de la biodiversité à étudier que par l'organisation même de la discipline, comme l'absence de spécialistes pour certains taxons et les restrictions géopolitiques et de propriété intellectuelle (comme c'est le cas dans les expéditions dans les pays du Sud). Les autrices montrent la nécessité d'inclure des chercheurs de disciplines telles que les sciences sociales dans les études sur la biodiversité afin de transformer et d'ouvrir des champs de recherche, grâce aux résultats obtenus dans les différentes expéditions naturalistes. Le texte détaille les problèmes venant des difficultés à établir des relations de confiance entre les systématiciens et les chercheurs en sciences sociales. Ces difficultés de l’échange d'informations et de techniques menacent la tentative de sortir la taxonomie du contexte universitaire et de donner à la discipline le renouveau tant attendu.

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“…Numerous amateurs have long been among these partners. They make it possible to compensate, at least partially, for the weakness of academic recruitment and contribute to the discipline's dynamism (Kohler, 1991(Kohler, , 2006Charvolin, 2009;Charvolin, Micoud and Nyhart, 2007;Lawrence and Turnhout, 2010;Faugère, 2012).…”

Section: The Dossier: Disciplining Systematicsmentioning

confidence: 99%