Colonial constructs: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean

Dommelen, Peter van

doi:10.1080/00438243.1997.9980350

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“…In the first project that fully addresses these problems, the ongoing 'Riu Mannu' survey work in the west central zone has demonstrated a surprising density of modest Punic period settlements in the countryside. Interestingly, the surveyors have noted a dichotomy between the coastal area, where the majority of the nuraghi remained abandoned, and the interior, where reuse of nuraghi was common (van Dommelen 1997). This supports the notion that the lifestyles of the less Punicized interior populations made them disposed to use these places, while the practices of the coastal peoples had shifted their attentions elsewhere.…”

Section: The Punic Nuraghe: a Beleaguered Survivalmentioning

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Sardinia's nuraghi: Four millennia of becoming

Blake

1998

World Archaeology

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the social impact of the enduring presence of the nuraghi, Sardinia's monumental Bronze Age towers. From later prehistory through the modern era, the towers have featured prominently in both the social and environmental landscapes of the island. Their enduring importance has been attributed to cultural conservatism or functionalist motivations. Instead this paper considers the sustained social impact of the nuraghi as an ongoing and disjointed process of identity formation, shifting the focus away from the tower's origins and on to the ongoing repercussions of their presence. While the premise of this paper is a pragmatist-inspired epistemology, its theme is what Edward Soja (1985) has called 'the spatiality of social life', the complex interplay between space and society, and the manner in which conceptions of each are constituted by the other.

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Section: The Punic Nuraghe: a Beleaguered Survivalmentioning

confidence: 81%

Sardinia's nuraghi: Four millennia of becoming

Blake

1998

World Archaeology

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“…LA ARQUEOLOGÍA FENICIO-PÚNICA COMO ARQUEOLOGÍA COLONIAL La Arqueología nació y creció en un contexto político e intelectual conformado por los imperialismos de las naciones industrializadas, a su vez profundamente influidos por las representaciones de los colonialismos griego y romano (Mattingly 1996;Van Dommelen 1997;id. 2006;Dietler 2005).…”

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Cartago: usos de suelo en la ciudad fenicia y púnica

Ortega¹

2010

Arch. esp. arqueol.

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“…Archaeological studies of the chaîne opéra-toire in ancient technologies have shown that every step of a construction sequence involves a complicated exchange of input and output from individual actors, larger social structures, materials, and local setting (van der Leeuw 1993;Lemonnier 1986;Dietler and Herbich 1998;Malafouris 2008). The choices in material and technique are bound to contingent social and environmental milieux and to the everyday (Dieder and Herbich 1998;Frampton 1995: 24-27).…”

Section: The Social Lives Of Buildingsmentioning

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Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium BC Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)

Kearns

2011

JMA

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Recent studies of past built environments have shown that archaeologists can investigate successfully the role of buildings in constructions of identity and the production of society. Yet despite this attention to social life, ancient architectural forms are often still viewed as blueprints of ethnic style. Postcolonial arguments for hybridization, while contesting culture-historical labels, can still associate built forms with essentialized signatures. The ongoing interactions of social actors and materials within the built environment, and the resulting negotiations of boundaries and claims to distinction, require more consideration. In this study, I argue that an approach to hybridizing built forms actively, one that avoids issues related to ethnicity and instead, emphasizes the social lives of buildings and the chaine opératoire of construction, offers a framework for investigating these dynamics over time, within contesting sociopolitical apparatuses. I use a case study from a debated imperial context in the eastern Mediterranean-the fifth-century BC monumental complex at Vouni, on Cyprus-to examine the built environment as implicated in the production of social boundaries and the reorganization of power relations.

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Colonial constructs: Colonialism and archaeology in the Mediterranean

Cited by 148 publications

References 9 publications

Sardinia's nuraghi: Four millennia of becoming

Sardinia's nuraghi: Four millennia of becoming

Cartago: usos de suelo en la ciudad fenicia y púnica

Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium BC Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)

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