Thinking through “Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms”: Historical Archaeology in Senegal and the Material Contours of the African Atlantic

Richard, F.

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“…The evidence from Harlaa, be it glass, burials, faunal remains, inscriptions, architecture, technology or ceramics, confirms the emergence of cosmopolitanism through a translation of cultural difference. As Richard (2013: 44) has described for Senegambia in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, such translation occurs through regular economic, social, and interpersonal encounters with people who were culturally foreign; the habitual adoption and circulation of far-away goods and distant ideas; and the development of new cultural forms and material practices in the realm of architecture, foodways, and religion. …”

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Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern Ethiopia

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“…This should be seen as multidirectional in that Maya traders could have been traveling west as easily as Gulf Coast and Central Mexican merchants were journeying east. Likewise, movements of families, diplomats, and traders between the Southern and Northern Lowlands were also in play (Boot 2005; Rice and Rice 2004). There is some evidence at Ucanal for contacts with the wider world, including a small frequency of ceramic types common to northern Yucatan.…”

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“…Explorations of ancient cosmopolitanism are less about articulating a moral philosophy or a Western elite ideal for universal individual rights (Appiah 2007; Wallace Brown and Held 2010) than an examination of the ways in which social groups accommodated, depended on, conflicted with, and creatively incorporated peoples and influences across polity, ethnic, and cultural boundaries (Cobb 2019; Halperin 2017a; Kaur 2011; Richard 2013). These entanglements ultimately created new senses of identity and belonging.…”

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Ucanal Stela 29 and the Cosmopolitanism of Terminal Classic Maya Stone Monuments

Halperin

Martin

2020

Latin Am. antiq.

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The Terminal Classic period (ca. AD 800–1000) in the Southern Maya Lowlands witnessed a precipitous decline in the erection of carved stone monuments, a decline that corresponds to shifts in political ideologies and the disappearance of many prominent royal dynasties. Although Southern Lowland sites are often considered peripheral to the events and innovations occurring elsewhere in Mesoamerica during this time, a recently discovered stela, Stela 29, at the site of Ucanal in Peten, Guatemala, underscores the active role of the site in broader political movements in the ninth century. Our iconographic, textual, and stylistic analysis of this stela, in concert with other Terminal Classic monuments from the site, reveals a vernacular cosmopolitan aesthetic whereby local Classic Maya styles were infused with images and elements that referenced connections with peoples from northern Yucatan, the Gulf Coast, and Central Mexico.

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“…Current studies in hybrid material forms also emphasize the agency on both sides of the colonial encounter (Card ). Hybridity as a term for cultural mixture emerges out of a postcolonial critique as it also considers the indigenous “agency of subalterns” (Liebmann :41) and is preferred over the more familiar term syncretism , particularly in colonial contexts (Richard ).…”

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Anthropological Archaeology in 2013: The Search for Truth(s)

Harrison‐Buck

2014

American Anthropologist

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In 2013, we see a clear continuation of certain themes noted in previous reviews, including economy, mobility, human-environment interactions, social complexity, identity, and power. There is a greater emphasis on comparative approaches but also a general move away from reductionist, macrosystemic models in anthropological archaeology, with studies emphasizing diversity, multiple pathways or trajectories, and variability in local responses.The fallout of the so-called "postmodernist turn" continues to prompt lively debate, with methodological rigor being emphasized as well as the critical cross-examination of our Western modes of inquiry, with some scholars considering the possibility of multiple truths in their theoretical interpretations of the past. [anthropological archaeology, science, modernist-postmodernist divide, methodological and theoretical diversity, trends, year in review]RESUMEN En el 2013, vemos una clara continuación de ciertos temas destacados en previas revisiones, incluyendo economía, movilidad, interacciones humano-ambientales, complejidad social, identidad, y poder. Hay un mayorénfasis en aproximaciones comparativas, pero también un distanciamiento general de modelos reduccionistas, macrosistémicos en arqueología antropológica, con estudios enfatizando diversidad, múltiples caminos y trayectorias, y variabilidad en respuestas locales. Las consecuencias negativas del así llamado "giro postmodernista" continúan provocando un animado debate, enfatizando el rigor metodológico, así como la interrogación crítica de nuestros modos occidentales de investigación, con algunos investigadores considerando la posibilidad de múltiples verdades en sus interpretaciones teóricas del pasado. [arqueología antropológica, ciencia, división modernista-postmodernista, diversidad metodológica y teórica, tendencias, año en revisión]

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Thinking through “Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms”: Historical Archaeology in Senegal and the Material Contours of the African Atlantic

Cited by 21 publications

References 56 publications

Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern Ethiopia

Material cosmopolitanism: the entrepot of Harlaa as an Islamic gateway to eastern Ethiopia

Ucanal Stela 29 and the Cosmopolitanism of Terminal Classic Maya Stone Monuments

Anthropological Archaeology in 2013: The Search for Truth(s)

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