Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Mannat Johal
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This essay examines the relationship between artefact variability and social difference through an analysis of ceramic vessels recovered from the vicinity of a shared well used during the 12th–14th centuries CE at Maski (South India). Defined by minor yet perceptible differences in their appearance and morphology, ceramic vessels that were used and discarded in this space were more variable than contemporary assemblages excavated elsewhere at Maski, and in the region. Rather than attribute the particularities of this assemblage to the production process and its organization alone, I suggest that the distinctiveness of these containers was expedient for navigating the communal, yet fraught, space of the well. I consider historical and epigraphical material alongside the ceramic dataset at hand to propose that variability may not express or embody social difference, but be used to enact it.
制造差异:南印度一口井的人工制品和政治差异
本文通过对12 - 14世纪在Maski(南印度)共用一口井附近发现的陶瓷器皿的分析,考察了人工制品的可变性与社会差异之间的关系。在这个空间中使用和丢弃的陶瓷容器在外观和形态上有着细微但可察觉的差异,与Maski其他地方和该地区出土的当代组合相比,它们的变化更大。与其将这种组合的特殊性单独归因于生产过程及其组织,我认为这些容器的独特性是为了方便在井的公共空间中航行。我考虑了历史和铭文材料以及手头的陶瓷数据集,提出变异性可能不会表达或体现社会差异,而是用来制定它。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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