Pour une histoire de l’Inde médiévale face aux variations du climat

Casile, Anne

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“…Societal and cultural histories have been disconnected from other environmental dynamics as if they had nothing to do with the ways that political powers developed, empires were built, and political, religious and institutional landscapes were shaped (cf. Morrison 2018), as if sociopolitical and other vulnerabilities to environmental constraints and catastrophes (which must have taken place in the past too) did not exist (Casile 2017). It is precisely this disconnect that has influenced decades of scholarly practice.…”

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Back to basics: returning to the evidence and mapping knowledge in south Asian archaeology

Hawkes

Casile

2020

asian archaeol

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In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building blocks of archaeological enquiry: the evidence. Reacting to a widely held perception that archaeology now understands various commonalities of human experience, we suggest that such concepts and the inevitable oscillation towards "big picture" approaches that stems from them are problematic. They engender a type of scholarship that does not always engage fully with the evidentiary bases of interpretation and that risks assuming a great deal about large parts of the world that have not been studied in as much detail as others. We explore this by looking at the South Asian context, where archaeologists are forced to contend with a number of constraints, chief among which is a relative absence of archaeological evidence. Focusing on one particular sub-region, we piece together exactly what evidence exists and consider what can (and cannot) be said from it. On one level this serves as a useful comparator for those working in other parts of the world who may not appreciate the evidentiary constraints that exist elsewhere. Yet beyond this and simple questions of analogy, we suggest that detailed consideration of an area such as the one presented here forces us to return to even more fundamental questions relating to when archaeological research becomes "interesting", "ground-breaking", and "new"; and who decides this.

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Back to basics: returning to the evidence and mapping knowledge in south Asian archaeology

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Casile

2020

asian archaeol

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Climatic Variation and Society in Medieval South Asia: Unexplored Threads of History and Archaeology of Mandu

Casile

2021

The Medieval History Journal

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Instabilities of the monsoon climate system, along with alternating periods of severe dryness and wetness, are known to have punctuated and disrupted the lives of peoples and institutions across Asia during medieval times. As far as India is concerned, the topic has attracted little attention from historians and archaeologists. Did climatic variations play a determining role in societal changes in medieval times? The aim of this article is not to answer, but to raise and refine this question by calling for new interdisciplinary initiatives which would enrich our reading and understanding of the past and contribute different threads to the narratives of medieval history and archaeology. While doing so, it highlights two lingering ‘lacks’ underlying the well-established historiography: the lack of attention to nature, and thus to climate; and the lack of archaeology. Attention is then focused on recent advances in palaeoclimatology and in research linking climate and society, in which India is yet to find a substantial place. Finally, the article outlines prospects and openings for the study of the medieval past as it relates to the climate-water-society nexus, by presenting an ongoing project called MANDU exploring histories and archaeologies of the land-waterscapes of Mandu in Central India.

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Pour une histoire de l’Inde médiévale face aux variations du climat

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

Back to basics: returning to the evidence and mapping knowledge in south Asian archaeology

Back to basics: returning to the evidence and mapping knowledge in south Asian archaeology

Climatic Variation and Society in Medieval South Asia: Unexplored Threads of History and Archaeology of Mandu

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