{"title":"In Search of an American Dream","authors":"Rachel Howard","doi":"10.1086/727009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727009","url":null,"abstract":"Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print. <br/>","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"20 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166964","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":"Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology","authors":"Li Liu, Xingcan Chen","doi":"10.1086/726447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726447","url":null,"abstract":"In their article, Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi (2022) allege that Chinese archaeological research and interpretations of the Shimao site mainly serve to reinforce linear histories purporting to explain the rise of dynastic China in the Central Plains. This article is full of factual errors, misleading interpretations, and distortions of people’s arguments. As the corresponding author (Li Liu) for a major research paper on Shimao (Sun et al. 2018) and coauthors of six publications cited numerous times but not invited to provide comments for this article, we are obligated to respond here, although with a restricted word limit. The authors classify research into two types, based on tendentiously selected publications. The first type associates Shimao with legendary figures like the Yellow Emperor. Actually, this approach does not represent mainstream archaeological research on Shimao. Most of the references cited in their article are not written by archaeologists. Shen Changyun’s (whose name is spelled three different ways by the authors: Chen Changgyun, Shen Changyun, and Shen Chengyun) speculative connection between the Yellow Emperor and Shimao was already rejected by the Shimao excavators eight years ago (Sun and Shao 2015). The second type of research, also considered faulty, is said to promote a unilinear evolutionary view of Chinese civilization. Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi applied this allegation freely, without providing a definition of this concept as used in China. In fact, since the 1980s, most Chinese archaeologists have supported a multilinear evolutionary model, as discussed in many influential publications, some with reference to Shimao (Dai 2020; Gao 2013). These works were completely ignored by the authors. Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi state that “arguments about the military expansion of Erlitou (Liu 2004:232–234) are based on some very rudimentary similarities in the pottery found in different regions” (99). In the three pages cited from Liu (2004), the words “pottery similarities” do not appear. Rather, issues related to settlement patterns and distribution of various material","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"464 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45894363","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":"Refusing Rohingya","authors":"Elliott Prasse-Freeman","doi":"10.1086/726125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726125","url":null,"abstract":"Members of the Rohingya ethnos must navigate the Myanmar state’s “blunt biopolitics”—a mode of regulation that neither protects nor intensively knows, but rather uses violence to govern, the populations rather than individuals it takes as its object. As classic resistance is ineffective against the excessive sovereign force activated in blunt biopolitics, Rohingya communities across Asia enact strategies of refusal—what this article theorizes as methods for navigating regimes of biopolitical governmentality. As Rohingya refuse literal erasure to persist as a population, that Rohingya identity has become an amorphous object as members manuever between rejection of and assent to their symbolic effacement. They reformulate the ethnic category’s contours, both consciously/directly (in response to changing dynamics that their refusal has generated) and indirectly: not only as they enter and exit the ethnos, mimicking spatial peregrinations amid mass expulsion, but also in terms of disjunctive affiliations in which people simultaneously inhabit positions of identification with and refusal of “Rohingya.” Refusal hence opens up a consideration of the collective refusing subject that acknowledges that it is simultaneously hypostatized (qua collective actor) while also malleable (qua its ever-mutating constituents and self-conceptions).","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"432 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42776667","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":"Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?","authors":"Xiangming Dai","doi":"10.1086/726448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726448","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from discussion on discoveries at the Shimao site and related studiesofthem, “ Shimao and the Rise of StatesinChina ” (Jaffe, Campbell","PeriodicalId":48343,"journal":{"name":"Current Anthropology","volume":"64 1","pages":"468 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43371440","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":"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}
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