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- Baumanova, Monika
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Pillar Tombs and the City : Creating a Sense of Shared Identity in Swahili Urban Space
- 2018
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In: Archaeologies. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1555-8622 .- 1935-3987. ; 14:3, s. 377-411
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper reviews published research on Swahili pillar tombs, as a specific type of tombs built of stone, by summarising records on almost fifty sites on the east coast of Africa. Dated to the 13th–16th centuries AD, the pillar tombs represented a core component of Swahili urban space. By considering their spatial setting, characteristics and comparative case studies from Africa and the Indian Ocean world, the paper reconsiders how pillar tombs might have functioned as a type of material infrastructure for creating social ties and notions of shared identity in a society that has never formally united.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius
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The Cunning Means of Domination
- 2008
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In: Archaeologies. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1555-8622 .- 1935-3987. ; 4:1, s. 190-200
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This discussion started on the WAC listserv when I objected on 8 April 2007 to a short message sent by Claire Smith on the previous day. She had been announcing that her colleague “Heather Burke and [are] putting together a list of important non-Anglo archaeologists” and was asking whether “anyone has any recommendations” for that list and, if so, whether they would email her off list. I objected strongly. This paper explains why. In doing so I am describing the degree of complexity language use has acquired in the contemporary world with old linguistic maps quickly become obsolete. To insist that English is simply the lingua franca of academic discourse is to ignore that complexity. The wide use of English as an academic lingua franca means in practice that there are very strong asymmetries not only in individual archaeologists’ abilities to express themselves competently and confidently in that language but also in what is considered appropriate or possible to express. For a language is not simply a random code with which anything might be said to anybody. Language, and the conventions that govern how a given language is to be applied, influences to a large extent even what is a sensible thing to say in a given context. Language use in archaeology is not about translating the same archaeology into different languages but about translating between different archaeologies and associated cultural practices including languages. The only sensible way forward is for WAC to promote among its members the learning of more languages—which is something the vast majority of “non-Anglo” archaeologists already knows and accepts as a fact of life. We do not need lists of “non-Anglo” archaeologists that are considered worth reading about in English, but more archaeologists being able to appreciate the work of colleagues in its original language. In conclusion I urge exclusively Anglophone archaeologists to please stop finding excuses for learning foreign languages.
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- Kristiansen, Kristian, 1948
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Comments to Alice Kehoe discussion article
- 2010
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In: Archaeologies. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1555-8622 .- 1935-3987. ; 6:2, s. 219-221
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Discusses why long-term connections are not recognized in American archaeology.
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- Papoli-Yazdi, Leila, 1978-
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Confessions of a Green Notebook : Reading Unpublished Documents About the Oppression of Iranian Archaeology Professors During the 1980s
- 2023
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In: Archaeologies. - : Springer. - 1555-8622 .- 1935-3987. ; 19:2, s. 222-248
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A couple of months after the 1979 revolution of Iran, the universities were occupied by the Islamists who oppressed dissident academics drastically. Two years after the revolution, the headquarter of the Cultural Revolution was established, and universities were shuttered to be purified from any other ideology except Islamism. Due to the heavy censorship of the regime, very little is known about the documents and process of oppression during and after the occupation of the universities. In 2010, the author gained access to a 'green notebook' found in a trashcan at the University of Tehran, which contains informal minutes of several meetings held by the Islamic Association of Students (IAS). As a direct practice of oppression, IAS had the mission to report the behaviors of the professors working in the department of archaeology to authorities. In this article, the author elucidates the process of oppression of archaeology professors through reading documents of the 'green notebook.'
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- Holtorf, Cornelius
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One World Archaeology Today.
- 2006
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In: Archaeologies. - 1555-8622. ; 2:2, s. 83-87
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A commentary about the meaning of "One World Archaeology" today and the future of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC).
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