Style and the Design of a Perfume Jar from an Archaic Greek City State

Shanks, Michael

doi:10.1179/096576693800731190

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“…Salmon 1976) or hermeneutic (e.g. Shanks 1993). From the starting point of their curiosity about a given object or object type, student researchers then conducted background research, mined the Project Archive for contextual data, and developed intra- and inter-site comparative studies that have built increasingly rich interpretations of the artefacts.…”

Section: Curation Processes As Research Activitiesmentioning

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Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections

Voss¹

2012

Arch. Dial.

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As archaeologists grapple with the international curation crisis, new attention is being given to the problem of ‘orphaned’ archaeological collections and collections that are underanalysed and underreported. The common rationale for curating such collections is to restore research potential, but such efforts are met with frustration because of the difficulties of re-establishing provenance and quantitative control for artefacts long separated from their original archaeological context. Moreover, most archaeologists view curation as a process that manages, rather than investigates, archaeological collections. To the contrary, this article argues that accessioning, inventory, cataloguing, rehousing and conservation are not simply precursors to research, but rather meaningful generative encounters between scholars and objects. Examples from the curation of the Market Street Chinatown archaeological collection illustrate how the process of curation can generate innovative research undertakings. Because archaeological research on this collection cannot proceed in a typical way, the research developed through the curation process departs from archaeological conventions to bring new perspectives on the social history of the Overseas Chinese diaspora.

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Section: Curation Processes As Research Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections

Voss¹

2012

Arch. Dial.

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“…Ora a adoção da linha contextualista da Arqueologia não se deu à toa, ela se justifica pela própria natureza da documen tação, e o acesso tido, propondo-se estratégias interessantes de interpretação a partir da orga nização de um acervo num grupo relativamente coeso (os vasos áticos e seus grafismos), o que permite uma seriação e comunicação interna, mesmo que as informações específicas estejam perdidas. É a própria tarefa que Michael Shanks (1996; opera na análise dos vasos protocoríntios (por meio das modificações iconográ ficas), integrando-os num universo maior que o da própria cerâmica, alçando esferas como a política e a cultura.…”

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Grafismos Gregos - Escrita e Figuração na Cerámica Ática do Período Arcaico (do Século VII-VI a.C.)

Francisco¹

2008

Rev. Mus. Arqueol. Etnol. Supl.

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Agradeço, inicialmente, ao CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), pelo apoio referente ao custeio de bolsa de estudo durante dois anos. Aos funcionários do MAE-USP (Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo), pela disposição e viabilização de atividades acadêmicas essenciais das quais tomei parte ao longo desta pesquisa; bem como aos professores da instituição (e outras unidades da Universidade de São Paulo) com quem tive algum contato que se converte, sempre, em contribuição preciosa. Agradeço, ainda, à Escola Francesa de Atenas (École Française d 'Athènes), pela disponibilização de sua estrutura favorecendo, em grande medida, pesquisas arqueológicas das quais participei nos anos de 2004 e 2006.

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“…The correct approach should start by acknowledging that the brooch in question is what is left of the past and not a secondary manifestation of something more primary, or material, or real. 84 The fact that several dress accessories associated with emblemic styles have been found primarily in burial assemblages is an indication of the public display of such styles, as burial in the early Middle Ages was an important 'beyond-the-household' arena of social competition between groups. 85 The praxis of ethnicity resulted in multiple transient realizations of ethnic difference in public displays of group identity and aspirations.…”

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Some remarks on ethnicity in medieval archaeology

Curta

2007

Early Medieval Europe

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Some remarks on ethnicity in medieval archaeology F  C  Recent critiques of the culture-historical approach to ethnicity have denounced the idea that archaeological cultures are 'actors' on the historical stage, playing the role that known individuals or groups have in documentary history. But the critique has gone as far as to claim that, because archaeologists supposedly have no access to the meaning of cultural traditions, medieval ethnicity cannot be studied by archeological means. Ethnicity should be banned from all discussions, if medieval archaeology is to make any progress in the future. The paper examines the theoretical malaise at the root of this scepticism verging on nihilism. The understanding of the archaeological record not as an imprint, but as a text allows for much learning about meaning in the past. Symbols, style and power are the key concepts that currently guide anthropological research on ethnicity as a 'social construction of primordiality'. As several archaeological examples show, medieval ethnicity was a form of social mobilization used in order to reach certain political goals. Ethnic identity was built upon some preexisting cultural identity, in a prototypic manner. Eine ethnische Einheit, ein Volk oder ein Stamm, mit dem man in Mitteleuropa ohne weiteres Kulturen oder kulturellen Gruppen identifizieren pflegt, ist aber kein gar so homogenes und gleichbleibendes Gebilde, wie man es in Anlehnung an der romantischen Volksbegriffs Herders annehmen zu können glaubt, sondern eine ungemein vielschichtige Gesellungsform, die nicht so sehr durch die Bande des Blutes, als vielmehr durch das Moment politischer Herrschaft zusammengehalten wird. 1

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Style and the Design of a Perfume Jar from an Archaic Greek City State

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections

Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections

Grafismos Gregos - Escrita e Figuração na Cerámica Ática do Período Arcaico (do Século VII-VI a.C.)

Some remarks on ethnicity in medieval archaeology

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