Places

Preucel, Robert W.; Meskell, Lynn

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“…I see the design, construction and use of these contexts as acts of placemaking. This implies a distinction between space and place, something now widely accepted across the social sciences (Feld and Basso 1996;Low and Lawrence-Zúñiga 2003;Preucel and Meskell 2004;Tuan 1977). While space generally refers to the static, physical setting in which everything occurs, place is the dynamic, socially-constructed and meaningful context of human action and experience.…”

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Investigating monumental social space in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: an integrative approach

Fisher¹

2014

Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces

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The Late Bronze Age on Cyprus (c. 1650-1100 BCE) saw the appearance of monumental buildings that came to play an important role in changing patterns of social interaction and reproduction. Although these buildings often shared similarities in overall plan and the use of common design elements, I argue that the process of placemaking resulted in considerable variation in both their spatial configuration and the design of contexts for particular social interactions. Through its design and use in daily practice and social occasions, each monumental building developed its own biography and sense of place, ensuring that the experiences of its occupants and visitors were, in many ways, unique. I investigate this through a comparative study of two court-centred buildings, Building X from Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios and Building II from Alassa-Paliotaverna. I apply an integrative approach that acknowledges the agency of both builder and building, combining access analysis with an examination of how built environments encode and nonverbally communicate meanings to those who used them.

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Section: An Integrative Approachmentioning

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Investigating monumental social space in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: an integrative approach

Fisher¹

2014

Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces

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“…They viewed the household as a category that connects social identity with a locale. They also emphasize that cultural memory necessarily oscillates between the physicality of monuments, things, and representations, as well as immaterial practices that locate subjects within a new time–space understanding that fuses the past, present, and future (Preucel & Meskell 2007). Similarly, Giddens (1984), Gosden (2001), Schama (1995), Tilley (1994) and others link historical memory to the social and cultural construction of space.…”

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The Cultural Construction of Space and Migration in Paiwan, Taiwan

Chen

2019

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The establishment and use of space is a culturally constructed dimension of the human experience that is figurative, metaphorical, and analogical in nature. Such phenomena are mapped and encoded in people's spatial and cultural cognition and they are constituted and reconstituted during moments of migration onto new lands. In this paper it is argued that analysing the spatial dimensions that are enacted by a social group during its migration offers scholars a means to ascertain the metaphorical meaning of the lives of its members. Examining such processes also enables archaeologists to identify and interpret the nature of cultural continuity during such movements. The paper presents the results of examining the nature of cultural continuity in the configurations and patterns of ancient house structures and settlements that were established and then abandoned by the Kaushi, a Paiwan group in southern Taiwan, as they migrated and colonized and created a new cultural landscape.

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“…Border territories on the margins of civilizations that advance cultural uniformity and iconography, as Preucel and Meskell (2004: 220-1) point out, can be regions of considerable ambiguity and intersection. In the border territories of Olmec civilization, Wilk (2004: 86, 94) has tried to tackle contradictions in the material culture that on the one hand can show cultural uniformity, and on the other, difference to dominant Olmec styles.…”

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Miners and mistresses

Bloxam

2006

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Expeditions to procure gemstones from mines in Egypt’s marginal territories during the Middle Kingdom (c. 2055-1650 BC) are generally perceived as representing centralized, bureaucratized and hierarchical missions to essentially monopolized resources. Traditional ‘top-down’ approaches to the social context of mining in this period assume the pivotal role of the state in controlling such endeavours through large-scale centrally organized expeditions, as deduced from the epigraphic record. This article advances a ‘bottom-up’ approach to gemstone mining in the Middle Kingdom by the deployment of cross-cultural and cross-level theories in social archaeology to microlevel production data at three key mining sites in Egypt’s marginal territories. Strategies of engagement and negotiation at local levels to get access to a local labour force and the source, rather than monopolization and state controlled procurement, are forwarded as significant aspects of Middle Kingdom gemstone mining outside the Nile Valley. Feminine imagery at gemstone mines may have constituted a ritual and symbolic device to foster solidarity and cohesion among a local labour force in Egypt’s marginal zones.

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Places

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Investigating monumental social space in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: an integrative approach

Investigating monumental social space in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: an integrative approach

The Cultural Construction of Space and Migration in Paiwan, Taiwan

Miners and mistresses

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