Material and Intellectual Consequences of Esteem for Cycladic Figures

Gill, David; Chippindale, Christopher

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“…prehistoric studies). The areas of archaeology that have demonstrated a specific interest in visual expression, such as studies of the Greek Classical world, present a tendency to project back contemporary artistic aesthetics, values and judgements onto past societies (Gill & Chippindale 1993). The trend is to create a framework for artistic study that demonstrates relationships between the image and its social meanings (Layton 1991).…”

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Visualizing Archaeologies: a Manifesto

Cochrane

Russell

2007

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QuestionsIs archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and archaeological representation? These initial thoughts form the basis for our archaeological explorations. Within current archaeological discourse, there are a growing number of requests for expressions, which illuminate and expose the interpretive and artistic qualities of presentation and narration. Yet few scholars actively utilize expressive practice to explore these philosophical issues. As such, we feel that it is an opportune time to intervene in visual and textual discourse by issuing a manifesto for our project. We call for a development of a critically reflexive practice of visual archaeological expressionism, which seeks to contest traditional modes of thought and action.We declare the importance and the need to express theoretical concepts in a format which is not constrained by linguistic context. We will express theory which is often written and turn to the visual as a means of promoting a visual literacy of archaeological theories, methodologies and narratives. This simultaneously acts as an invitation for practitioners who feel constrained themselves by this discourse in archaeological theory to seek to transcend linguistic cultural barriers by embracing the visual.Such endeavours have far-reaching ramifications for the tension between non-academic (public) and academic (expert) discourses (if indeed it is possible or appropriate to make these separations). Actions will pose further questions; for instance, can we ask what the implications for value and meaning are in archaeological presentations? Will archaeological science be deemed less 'hard' by its inclusion in abstract and unquantifiable visual expressions? How will this affect the linguistic authorities of archaeological discourse? We feel that the consequences of not undertaking such critical ventures are greater than those of undertaking them. If archaeologists fail to intervene reflexively in discourses of visual literacy, then this threatens meaning and value in archaeological research and risks the loss of the social and visual relevance of archaeological expression.These concerns and contemplations are the stimuli for this manifesto. Reflexive acknowledgementWe accept that this manifesto is by no means an assertion of a universal 'state of affairs'. The views and ideas expressed in this text are the contextualized expressions of our own individual and shared experiences as Western academics and artistic practitioners. In particular we choose to acknowledge our childhood experiences in Richmond, Virginia and Cornwall, England. We studied and currently work in Dublin, Ireland and Cardiff, Wales and understand our thought as a product of Western European and Anglo-American intellectual and social discourses. lnfluencesIn the spirit of our project, this manifesto will be an exercise in free thought and expression. Therefore at times we choose to abandon traditional standards of citation and referencing, Cochrane StructureFollowing Wal...

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Visualizing Archaeologies: a Manifesto

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2007

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“…A more refined study of historical changes in antiquities collections' sources (tied to legislative changes as well as geopolitical conditions, and properly acknowledging the violence between 1955 and 1959) would require a systematic survey of the Cypriot antiquities market. The study adapts foundational work on the sources and consequences of the trade in Greek antiquities, which studied collection (and auction) catalogues (Chippindale and Gill 2000;Gill and Chippindale 1993;Nørskov 2002: 256-270), and crossreferences the catalogue data with demographic data and historical information. Thereby, it enables an exploration of the community-level functioning of the illicit antiquities trade in Cyprus, and of the relationship between the trade and the conflict.…”

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Using Open-Source Data to Identify Participation in the Illicit Antiquities Trade: A Case Study on the Cypriot Civil War

Hardy

2014

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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The illicit trade in antiquities from conflict zones is clandestine and politicised and it very likely involves violent, organised criminals, including paramilitaries and terrorists; so reliable, detailed information is extraordinarily difficult to access. Nonetheless, open-source data may provide clues to the structure of the market. This article reviews the development of the Cypriot antiquities trade until the outbreak of the civil war in 1963, through the cultural heritage crisis that accompanied that conflict until the coup and invasion of 1974. Then, adapting an established method for studying the scale of a small, undisturbed illicit market, it gauges communities' participation in looting during the civil war in Cyprus. It does so by analysing the find-spot and acquisition date information in collections of antiquities recovered before and during conflict, and cross-referencing them with demographic and historical information in order to identify the communities from which the looters probably came. It uses this crude categorical method in order to assess ethnically-based narratives of looting and trading in illicit antiquities. The evidence suggests that: before the conflict, there was no correlation between community and looting; during the civil war, due to economic and geopolitical factors, members of Turkish Cypriot communities were disproportionately involved in looting; at the same time, members of Greek Cypriot communities were far more involved in looting than has previously been recognised; Greek Cypriot archaeologists have misinterpreted the structure of the trade and consequently contributed to communalist policies and nationalist histories; and the antiquities policy of the Republic of Cyprus was one of the significant causes of the developments in the trade.

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“…Although I refer to these here as the 'archaeological' contribution to the debate, the authors referenced in fact include art-interested journalists, art historians and humanities scholars as well as a core of actively writing archaeologists. 'Archaeological' contributions have developed from the early consciousness-raising interventions to include statistical analyses of collections and auction catalogues (Gill and Chippindale 1993;Chippindale and Gill 2000), ethnographic studies of local looting (Roosevelt and Luke 2006;Ruiz 2001;Atwood 2004), activist research centres (especially the erstwhile IARC based at Cambridge University), and more recently market-oriented analyses (Kersel 2006).…”

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“…This line of argument was ultimately taken up by archaeologists (Gill and Chippindale 1993). Anthropologists have also drawn attention to the sometimes poor socio-economic circumstances of the people actually carrying out the looting and theft, and the disadvantaged position they occupy at the bottom of the global trading chain (Matsuda 1998;Hollowell 2006).…”

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Illicit deals in cultural objects as crimes of the powerful

Mackenzie

2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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Illicit deals in cultural objects as crimes of the powerful ABSTRACTResearch with dealers at the market end of the global chain of supply of cultural objects leads to the suggestion that the analytical framework associated with the concept of 'crimes of the powerful' can be useful in helping us to understand the role of dealers in driving the market, and in focussing our attention on the difficulties of engaging with the illicit trade through a conventional criminal justice approach. This paper explores the nature of the power that is associated with high-level antiquities dealers, and considers its regulatory implications.

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Material and Intellectual Consequences of Esteem for Cycladic Figures

Cited by 154 publications

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Visualizing Archaeologies: a Manifesto

Visualizing Archaeologies: a Manifesto

Using Open-Source Data to Identify Participation in the Illicit Antiquities Trade: A Case Study on the Cypriot Civil War

Illicit deals in cultural objects as crimes of the powerful

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