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Meskell, Lynn; Preucel, Robert W.

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“…There are psychological associations with familiar objects, which become part of a sense of identity. Objects do not offer identity to individuals, but the interactions via material culture that connect people and groups solidify relationships and associated identities of sameness or difference (Hodder 2012: 38, 89, 210;Meskell and Preucel 2007).…”

Section: Introduction: Theoretical Approaches To the Use Of Ceramics mentioning

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Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Sarjeant¹

2014

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terra australis 42Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. Dewey Number: 666.09597 List of volumes in Terra AustralisCopyright of the text remains with the authors, 2014. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher.Cover image courtesy of C. Sarjeant.Back cover map: Hollandia Nova. Thevenot 1663 by courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Reprinted with permission of the National Library of Australia. The excavations at An Sơn were funded by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council. My own research was funded by the Australian Postgraduate Award.The analysis of the ceramic fabrics was conducted with SEM-EDX at the Electron Microscopy Unit at The Australian National University, with guidance from Frank Brink. I would also like to thank Glenn Summerhayes for teaching me the benefits and methods of SEM and the electron microprobe.There are a number of people I would like to recognise for their support over the past few years. Charles Higham has always offered advice and provided useful information over the years, even after departing the University of Otago after my Master's. Nigel Chang initially invited me to Ban Non Wat eight years ago, and allowed me to visit again to review the more recent neolithic discoveries in 2009. Fiorella Rispoli and Roberto Ciarla shared their knowledge of the neolithic in central Vietnam, and Fiorella's wealth of knowledge on ceramics has always been a reference for me. Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung opened up the ceramic collections at the University of Hanoi to me in 2009, which offered some valuable comparative ideas for this monograph. Louise Cort and Joyce White organised a workshop on Southeast Asian ceramics in Washington, DC and Philadelphia in 2010; an event from which I gained much inspiration and I feel privileged to have been a part of it. I would also like to acknowledge those individuals from afar who were interested in my research -it helped to keep the inspiration going, so thanks to Andreas Reinecke, Nishimura Masanari, and those I met at conferences over these past few years.Closer to home, I would like to thank Anna Willis for her knowledge about mortuary ritual at An Sơn. I am also grateful for the new insights into southern Vietnamese archaeology after working alongside Philip Piper at Rạch Núi. Thanks to Judith Cameron who was so supp...

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Section: Introduction: Theoretical Approaches To the Use Of Ceramics mentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Sarjeant¹

2014

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“…It has been a tenet of both pre-Columbian and historical archaeology that group memberships, including ethnicity, will be signaled in the material record (Brubaker and Cooper, 2000;Jones, 1987;Meskell and Preucel, 2004;Sackett, 1977;Schuyler, 1980;Upton, 1996;Weissner, 1983;Wobst, 1977). Some scholars have examined foodways, details of architecture, settlement structure, and ceramics and other objects used in households as markers of elective or self-defined ethnic categories.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Identity is both self-expressed and assigned, involving a sense of difference from others as well as an internal coherence (Meskell and Preucel, 2004). Goods can be used in both modes, by choice and by limiting or denying access to certain resources.…”

Section: Ethnic Identity and Its Recognitionmentioning

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Colonialism, Material Culture, and Identity in the Rio Grande and Hudson River Valleys

Rothschild

2006

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…By analyzing repeated and innovative actions in mortuary customs, we emphasize contexts of practices and their interactions in the analyses, which can lead to understanding the social relationships between people and communities and how individuals and collectives were distinguished through their social relations (Meskell and Preucel 2004). The limited sample sizes prevent us from deeply examining different practices employed for age-at-death, sex, or other particular identity intersections.…”

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Transformation by Fire: Changes in Funerary Customs from the Early Agricultural to Early Preclassic Period among Prehispanic Populations of Southern Arizona

Cerezo-Román

Watson

2019

Am. Antiq.

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We examine the changes in funerary rituals from the Early Agricultural period (2100 BC–AD 50) to the Early Preclassic period (AD 475–750) and how these changes concurrently reflect changes in social relationships between the dead, their families, and the community. The predominant mortuary ritual in the Early Agricultural period was inhumation, possibly emphasizing a variety of identity intersections of the dead and the mourners in the treatment of the body while creating collective memories and remembrances through shared ways of commemorating the dead. An innovation in funerary practices in the form of secondary cremation appeared in the Early Agricultural period and was slowly but broadly adopted, representing new social dynamics within the society. Thereafter, secondary cremation became the main funeral custom. During the Early Preclassic period, the variation in body position and the type and quantity of objects found with individuals decreased. It is possible that the vehicle for displaying different identity intersections changed and was not placed in the body, per se, as much as in previous periods. However, the transformation characteristics of these funeral rituals and the increase in community investment could have fostered the building or reinforcing of stronger social ties that highlighted a “collective identity.”

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Cited by 19 publications

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Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Colonialism, Material Culture, and Identity in the Rio Grande and Hudson River Valleys

Transformation by Fire: Changes in Funerary Customs from the Early Agricultural to Early Preclassic Period among Prehispanic Populations of Southern Arizona

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