{"title":"Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society","authors":"Min Li","doi":"10.1086/726314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726314","url":null,"abstract":". The bottom line in academic debates is intellectual honesty. By promoting false dichotomies and misrepresenting other scholars ’ work, the paper by Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi (2022) tarnishes the reputation of Current Anthropology as a leading journal for the discipline. First, the authors exaggerated the pseudointellectual in fl uence on Chinese archaeology. Citing Shen Changyun ’ s work as primary evidence, the paper argues that the Chinese archaeological research on Shimao is compromised by an uncritical entanglement with myth and historiography. As a historian of later periods, Shen does not have any credentials in archaeology and has frequently acknowledged that few Chinese archaeologists embraced his claims about Shimao ’ s mythical associations. Reviewers familiar with the fi eld would have certainly pointed out that Shen ’ s pseudointellectual claims had very little impact on Chinese archaeology. The authors ’ choice to promote this false narrative undermines the trust developed between the Chinese and international archaeological community through decades of collaboration.","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"466 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45495043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comment on Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi 2022","authors":"Elizabeth Childs-Johnson","doi":"10.1086/726648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726648","url":null,"abstract":"Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi (2022) have produced an analysis of the late Neolithic, early historic site at Shimao, Shaanxi, which they could have enriched had they availed themselves of scholarship found in many publications over many years, including work by me. The attempt of Jaffe and colleagues to discuss the site of Shimao and the rise of states honors their approach and chastises others. And yes, I agree with the overall premise that regional cultures are influenced by centralized ones, and vice versa. When I asked the two primary excavators at Shimao, Sun Zhouyong and Shao Jing (while at a conference in China three years ago), if I could publish some of their material goods, they hesitated, stating that they needed to finish excavating the structural foundations so that they could reconstruct a picture of the site’s lay-","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"470 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45344034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yitzchak Y. Jaffe, Rod Campbell, Gideon Shelach-Lavi
{"title":"Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi","authors":"Yitzchak Y. Jaffe, Rod Campbell, Gideon Shelach-Lavi","doi":"10.1086/726354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726354","url":null,"abstract":"Disagreements and disputes are the essence of academic discourse and are the engine of research progress. We are glad that our paper is getting attention and welcome comments on it, even those that utterly reject our views and ideas. However, we believe that there are norms of professional conduct in academic debate. Personal attacks fall outside those norms. Speculations of personal motive and baseless slinging of accu-sations of gender (Li Min) or other more amorphous biases (Liu and Chen; Dai) are things one expects to fi nd in social media fl ame wars and not in a respectable academic journal.","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"472 - 473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43286355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Lash, M. Chesson, E. Alonzi, I. Kuijt, Terry O'Hagan, John Ó Néill, Tommy Burke
{"title":"Sensational Ensembles","authors":"R. Lash, M. Chesson, E. Alonzi, I. Kuijt, Terry O'Hagan, John Ó Néill, Tommy Burke","doi":"10.1086/726446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726446","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on posthumanist and sensory archaeology, this paper explores ensemble practices as an alternative to Eurocentric conceptions of ritual as a heuristic of cross-cultural comparison. We identify ensemble practices as the gathering of assemblages that create meaning for participants through their comingling with evocative juxtapositions of bodies, objects, comestibles, built spaces, landscapes, and environmental forces. The sensorial intensity and allusive capacity of these ensembles heighten human perceptions of relationality, providing opportunities to reflect on relationships to other beings, materials, and forces. To illustrate the utility of this approach, we examine historic, ethnographic, folkloric, and archaeological evidence for open-air food and drink consumption—picnicking—in historic and contemporary Ireland (ca. AD 1650–present). Analysis of ceramic and glass finds associated with annual celebrations of Saint Leo’s Day on Inishark Island indicates how food, drink, and household wares featured in ensemble practices that fostered memorable and commemorative experiences of shared heritage, devotion, and commensality. This study highlights how human practices create meaning through sensorially rich and evocative ensembles that often eschew traditional dichotomies associated with ritual.","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"380 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48922966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Avoid the Trick?","authors":"J. Pellini, Bernarda Marconetto, L. Gheco","doi":"10.1086/726586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726586","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the surveys of the walls and ceilings of Theban tomb 123 (TT123), located on the West Bank of Luxor (Egypt). On the basis of the identification of material evidence of the different episodes of occupation and transformation of this place since its initial construction, which took place between 1479 and 1425 BC as the tomb of the scribe Amenemhet, until today, we reflect on the difficulties and consequences of the traditional approaches of conservation and restoration in Egypt. We argue that such places are subject to constant changes according to the uses and the agents they summoned all throughout their complex history. TT123 is not only a pharaoh’s tomb that deteriorated as a result of the passing of time but also far more than that. This paper seeks to explore the tension between more traditional approaches to conservation and restoration in Egypt and a more inclusive approach that recognizes the tomb’s passage through time.","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"410 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41930018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance","authors":"Deniz Yonucu","doi":"10.1086/725667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725667","url":null,"abstract":"This article tackles the conditions of the possibility of fearlessness and the radical refusal to be docile and complicit despite the likelihood of heavy punishments. Drawing on the experiences of the racialized Kurdish and Turkish Alevi residents of a working-class space in Istanbul that is constantly under the watchful eye of undercover police agents, I propose that despite its privileged position in law enforcement in Turkey and in other authoritarian contexts, the panoptic gaze of the undercover police does not always manage to push resistance off the stage into Scottian forms of covert resistance. To understand how certain individuals and populations continue to act out against punitive security states despite the potentially grave consequences, I suggest that we take into consideration the invigorating power of the martyred dead and hauntings. While anthropological studies on hauntings mainly focus on histories of violence and injustice, the history of the oppressed is marked not only by oppression but also by resistance. Only by taking into account what I call “inspirational hauntings” of past resistance and rebellious and defiant subjects along with hauntings of oppression can we understand how the questions related to ethics and justice that are raised by hauntings are translated into active, undisguised, subaltern resistance.","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"359 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44298756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa","authors":"E. Loftus, S. Pfeiffer","doi":"10.1086/725106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725106","url":null,"abstract":"Radiocarbon dates (3500–900 BP) from human skeletons (N=146) of late Holocene foragers from the Southwestern Cape coast are calibrated, incorporating estimates of the proportion of diet from marine sources using mixed calibration curves. As with Later Stone Age foragers throughout southern Africa, most were single burials without garb or objects. Cultural change may accompany the regional arrival of pastoralism, here benchmarked to a date for sheep bone at 2310–1890 cal BP (Spoegrivier). Forager population features that vary temporally include shifts in dietary protein sources, deaths from interpersonal violence, and the creation of cemeteries. Summed probability and kernel density methods indicate marked fluctuations in the frequency of burials through time, with a peak at ca. 1800 cal BP and a subsequent trough at ca. 1250 cal BP. This differs from the pattern of dates from occupational sites (N=149 from 49 sites). The δ13C values confirm a trend from marine to more mixed diets in more recent times. Perimortem trauma from interpersonal violence and the creation of cemeteries occur at or soon after the introduction of pastoralism to the region. In this era in which new people and ideas disrupted an ancient lifeway, novel burial clusters and cemeteries may mark attempts to control territory through direct ties with ancestors.","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"454 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49229804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life (Khayyat's A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon)","authors":"Diana Pardo Pedraza","doi":"10.1086/725036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725036","url":null,"abstract":"Current Anthropology, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 352-353, June 2023. <br/>","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"56 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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