Should the Marginal be Classified?

Herva, Vesa-Pekka; Ikäheimo, Janne

doi:10.1111/j.0065-001x.2004.00011.x

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“…The geographical and ecological marginality of past societies and regions received more attention in the wake of landscape archaeology [39,40]. A recent study [37] provides a comprehensive overview on the problematic definitions of marginality but proposes overly rigid scales for measuring the marginality of regions or habitats in the four main fields of social, ecological, economic, and spatial marginality.…”

Section: Marginality-a Concept To Be Differentiatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Un-Central’ Landscapes of NE-Africa and W-Asia—Landscape Archaeology as a Tool for Socio-Economic History in Arid Landscapes

Rieger

2018

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Arid regions in the Old World Dry Belt are assumed to be marginal regions, not only in ecological terms, but also economically and socially. Such views in geography, archaeology, and sociology are—despite the real limits of living in arid landscapes—partly influenced by derivates of Central Place Theory as developed for European medieval city-based economies. For other historical time periods and regions, this narrative inhibited socio-economic research with data-based and non-biased approaches. This paper aims, in two arid Graeco-Roman landscapes, to show how far approaches from landscape archaeology and social network analysis combined with the “small world phenomenon” can help to overcome a dichotomic view on core places and their areas, and understand settlement patterns and economic practices in a nuanced way. With Hauran in Southern Syria and Marmarica in NW-Egypt, I revise the concept of marginality, and look for qualitatively and spatially defined relationships between settlements, for both resource management and social organization. This ‘un-central’ perspective on arid landscapes provides insights on how arid regions functioned economically and socially due to a particular spatial concept and connection with their (scarce) resources, mainly water.

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Section: Marginality-a Concept To Be Differentiatedmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Un-Central’ Landscapes of NE-Africa and W-Asia—Landscape Archaeology as a Tool for Socio-Economic History in Arid Landscapes

Rieger

2018

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“…We can see this in the way that archaeologists seek to draw direct links between objects or monuments and social groups (or identities), the way we classify things, privileging sameness, driven by an illusory objectivity. Archaeologists are increasingly problematizing this element of practice (see e. g. Fowler 2017; Herva et al 2004;Jervis 2019, 83-91;Van Oyen 2013) and Braidotti's (1994; alternative, a non-linear and nomadic philosophy, which is concerned with difference, provides a valuable tool. For medieval archaeology, this philosophy requires us to question our ideas of the Middle Ages, to challenge the extent to which the period can be characterized as a singularity and develop new approaches to revealing multiplicity and complexity.…”

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Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England

Jervis¹

2022

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The relationship between handmilling, undertaken in domestic contexts, and mechanized mills in medieval Kent is used to challenge linear approaches to economic progress in the Middle Ages. Inspired by posthuman perspectives which emphasize messiness, non-linearity and multiplicity, medieval economic development is re-imagined as a patchwork of intensive material processes. In so doing, an approach is developed which works towards dissolving problematic binaries between gendered labour, domestic and economic spheres and the Middle Ages and modernity.

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Should the Marginal be Classified?

Cited by 2 publications

References 4 publications

‘Un-Central’ Landscapes of NE-Africa and W-Asia—Landscape Archaeology as a Tool for Socio-Economic History in Arid Landscapes

‘Un-Central’ Landscapes of NE-Africa and W-Asia—Landscape Archaeology as a Tool for Socio-Economic History in Arid Landscapes

Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England

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