The Palace of Vouni in Cyprus

Muller, Valentin

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“…Some rebuttals to Gjerstad's explanations have retained ethnic designations but have focused more on the Mesopotamian-ness of the later stages (Müller 1932;Maier 1989). Others (Maier 1985: 36-37;Reyes 1994: 92-94;Given 1998: 18) have criticized the attribution of the building's different phases to actual political events.…”

Section: Case Study: the Architectural Complex At Vouni Cyprusmentioning

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

Kearns

2011

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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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Section: Case Study: the Architectural Complex At Vouni Cyprusmentioning

confidence: 96%

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

Kearns

2011

JMA

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The Palace of Vouni in Cyprus

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

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

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