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Papers by Audrey Horning
Springer eBooks, 2014
However, the allures of the place would be more than academic. In Catamarca he met Silvina Del Ca... more However, the allures of the place would be more than academic. In Catamarca he met Silvina Del Carmen Ahumada, then an archaeology student, married her, and stayed to share her life over 20 years ago. Together they had four children: Santiago, Ignacio, Francisco, and Valentina. A constant challenge for Alejandro is the critical analysis of the supposed theorems about nature and culture that underlie archaeological narratives. This has led him to have an interest in a number of fields, among them "domestication," "the social appropriation of natural resources," "the ethno-archaeology of shepherds," "the zooarchaeology of llamas and vicunas," "systems of settlement: oases and enclaves," "domesticity," the "uywan ˜a" (the Andean concept of nurture), "environmental politics in indigenous territories," and "territorial wangling." Alejandro Fabio Haber received his doctorate in Anthropological Sciences from the UBA in 1999, under the guidance of Dr. Jose ´Antonio Pe ´rez Golla ´n. His thesis was titled An Archaeology of the Oases of Puna: Domesticity, Interaction, and Identity in Antofalla in the First and Second Millennia BP. In it, he deconstructs the geographical image of the Puna of Atacama as a marginal landscape and incorporates it into the archaeological discourse. This signals the bond between Puna of Atacama landscape's narrative and the successive practices of appropriation of Puna territory by outsiders. This indicates the solidarity between the different scientific disciplines, in this case archaeology, and the colonial progress plan. Apart from this thesis, Alejandro conducted several research projects in the Comunidad Indı ´gena Colla Atacamen ˜a de Antofalla (the Atacama Colla Indigenous community of Antofalla). These projects have been embraced by the members of the community to the extent that some of them have been actively involved in research projects by Alejandro and his team. Significantly, they have even been involved as coauthors. The affection and wisdom of the locals from Antofalla has strongly guided Alejandro's academic interpretations. Undoubtedly, the Puna ancestral teachers have left their imprint on his work and his life. Perhaps it is this mutual friendship that warrants the classification of this biography under "Indigenous Archaeologies." With the Colombian anthropologist Cristo ´bal Gnecco, Alejandro has initiated several archaeological projects that move towards the decolonization of his own discipline and his own work. An example of this is founding the publication Arqueologı ´a Suramericana/Arqueologı ´a Sul-Americana ("South American Archaeology," in Spanish and Portuguese).
Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG)
Springer eBooks, 2014
Unity in Diversity?: A Synthetic Approach to 21st-Century Historical Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2019
Ethics, Positionality, and Pragmatism: Archaeological Approaches to Identity and the Role of Archaeological Practice in Conflict Transformation
The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2018
Becoming and Belonging in Ireland 1200-1600 AD: Essays on Identity and Cultural Practice
Cork University Press eBooks, 2018
Fears, Frontiers, and Third Spaces: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in the Early Modern British Atlantic
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2017
Towards a Cumulative Practice: Reflections on the Influence of Marley R. Brown III
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2015
Collaboration, collaborators, and conflict: ethics, engagement, and archaeological practice
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
Becoming and Belonging in Ireland AD 1200-1600
Archaeological considerations of "Appalachian" identity: community-based archaeology in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Routledge eBooks, Nov 12, 2012
Palmer, Marilyn
Springer eBooks, 2014
Becoming the ‘other’?: Exploring mimetic practice in the Ulster Plantation
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2013
Ireland: Medieval Identity, Settlement and Land Use
The Jamestown Archaeological Assessment: Archaeology in New Towne 1993-1995
Irish Historical Studies, May 1, 2011
In the field of Irish studies, there are numerous tomes on immigration but there is a lack of lit... more In the field of Irish studies, there are numerous tomes on immigration but there is a lack of literature exploring the value of archaeologically investigating the lives of Irish immigrants. The author Stephen Brighton readdresses this imbalance by bringing his direct experience as an historical archaeological researcher of the nineteenth-century poor in both rural Ireland and the urban north-east of the USA to bear in this informative and constructive book. This research follows on from a chapter, which the writer contributed to Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon (2006), 1 that focused on future research agendas applicable to archaeology and the 'Irish diaspora'. The study under review is partially based on material previously published in that book, but revised using an interdisciplinary comparative approach aimed at understanding the lives of Irish immigrants in the north-east of the USA by investigating patterns of cultural continuity and change within excavated assemblages from both countries. This approach is influenced by Kerby Miller's book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985), 2 which Brighton describes 'as the first to provide an in-depth transnational study of the Irish diaspora' (26). Brighton valiantly argues for the inclusion of the terms 'diaspora' and 'transnational' when discussing debates regarding Irish immigration. He makes the bold claim that 'theoretical advancement in the study of the Irish diaspora remains relatively undistinguished because scholars have not moved past the debate over the use of terms such as diaspora and migration' (31). The discourse within the study of Irish migration will continue but the arguments contained here are a valuable addition to these debates on the meanings and definitions employed in this area of research. Brighton compares artefacts from Ireland and the north-east USA in order to test material patterns over time and space. One site discussed incorporates two houses at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, in Ireland. Considering the documented eviction and subsequent assisted immigration of the former inhabitants to the USA in 1848, Brighton discusses the process of site abandonment in relation to these excavated houses, identified as north and south cabins. Using a comparison of artefacts like clay pipes with depictions of 'nationalist' symbols excavated at the rural townland of Ballykilcline and similar artefacts from the urban contexts of nineteenth-century Irish immigrant tenements in the Five Points area of Manhattan, New York City and Paterson, New Jersey, Brighton reveals evidence of material commonalities declining as the nineteenth century progressed. He thus argues that a fall off in such artefacts represents the incorporation of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans into mainstream American society. Within the historical and artefactual analysis there is a stress on undefined terms, such as colonialism, inequality, alienation, extreme poverty, radicalisation, racialisation,
Listening, Hearing, Choosing?
Drawing from efforts to engage archaeology as an integral part of peace-building in post-Troubles... more Drawing from efforts to engage archaeology as an integral part of peace-building in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, the risks and the rewards of collaborative cross-community practice are addressed. Focus is on the ethical challenges of negotiating the politics of the present while staying true to the evidence of the past. Positioning archaeology as a means of bridging the divisions in post-conflict settings toward the creation of a stable, shared society requires an ability to not only listen, but also to hear and respect the strength of personal and community narratives, even when those narratives may be founded on fundamental misrepresentations of the past.
Shenandoah’s Secret History
Archaeology, 2001
Historical Archaeology, Sep 1, 2007
Archaeologies, Sep 21, 2019
Collaboration in contemporary archaeological parlance principally refers to active engagement wit... more Collaboration in contemporary archaeological parlance principally refers to active engagement with one or more selected groups of stakeholders and co-producers of knowledge. Yet to be a ''collaborator'' in conflict settings implies an allegiance, often deceitful, to one cause or another. When embedding archaeology in conflict transformation activities, being seen as a ''collaborator'', or partisan, can therefore actively work against the aims of peacebuilding. Drawing upon experience in conflict transformation within post-Troubles Northern Ireland, issues of ethics and positionality are considered, and an alternative terminology for embedding archaeology in peacebuilding activity is posited. Re ´sume ´: La collaboration dans le jargon arche ´ologique contemporain fait essentiellement re ´fe ´rence a `un engagement actif aupre `s d'un ou de plusieurs groupes de ´signe ´s de parties prenantes et de co-cre ´ateurs de savoirs. Cependant, e ˆtre un « collaborateur » dans une zone de conflit implique une alle ´geance, souvent trompeuse, envers une cause ou une autre. Lors de l'inte ´gration de l'arche ´ologie aux activite ´s de transformation d'un conflit, e ˆtre vu comme un « collaborateur » ou un partisan, est par conse ´quent susceptible de nuire activement aux objectifs des efforts de consolidation de la paix. S'inspirant d'une expe ´rience en matie `re de transformation de conflit en Irlande du Nord apre `s les troubles, des questions d'e ´thique et de positionnalite ´sont examine ´es et une terminologie alternative pour l'inte ´gration de l'arche ´ologie dans une activite ´de consolidation de la paix est propose ´e. Resumen: La colaboracio ´n en el lenguaje arqueolo ´gico contempora ´neo se refiere principalmente al compromiso activo con uno o ma ´s grupos seleccionados de partes interesadas y coproductores de conocimiento. Sin embargo, ser un ''colaborador'' en situaciones de conflicto implica una lealtad, a menudo engan ˜osa, a una causa u otra. Al incorporar la
Exerting influence? Responsibility and the public role of archaeology in divided societies
Archaeological Dialogues, Jun 1, 2013
Can, or should, archaeologists adopt the mantle of the public intellectual and bring archaeology ... more Can, or should, archaeologists adopt the mantle of the public intellectual and bring archaeology to bear on contemporary issues within divided societies? The line between the archaeologist and the citizen is never clear-cut. How do we balance the recognition that our knowledge and expertise allow us to exert influence with the necessity to act as responsible members of our own societies? I define a public intellectual as one who is not afraid to step outside professional circles and comfort zones and to engage, challenge and comment on issues of broad relevance in the present. Employing Northern Ireland as a case study, I argue that archaeologists have a responsibility to provide leadership and commentary regarding the fraught relationship between past and present.
Springer eBooks, 2014
However, the allures of the place would be more than academic. In Catamarca he met Silvina Del Ca... more However, the allures of the place would be more than academic. In Catamarca he met Silvina Del Carmen Ahumada, then an archaeology student, married her, and stayed to share her life over 20 years ago. Together they had four children: Santiago, Ignacio, Francisco, and Valentina. A constant challenge for Alejandro is the critical analysis of the supposed theorems about nature and culture that underlie archaeological narratives. This has led him to have an interest in a number of fields, among them "domestication," "the social appropriation of natural resources," "the ethno-archaeology of shepherds," "the zooarchaeology of llamas and vicunas," "systems of settlement: oases and enclaves," "domesticity," the "uywan ˜a" (the Andean concept of nurture), "environmental politics in indigenous territories," and "territorial wangling." Alejandro Fabio Haber received his doctorate in Anthropological Sciences from the UBA in 1999, under the guidance of Dr. Jose ´Antonio Pe ´rez Golla ´n. His thesis was titled An Archaeology of the Oases of Puna: Domesticity, Interaction, and Identity in Antofalla in the First and Second Millennia BP. In it, he deconstructs the geographical image of the Puna of Atacama as a marginal landscape and incorporates it into the archaeological discourse. This signals the bond between Puna of Atacama landscape's narrative and the successive practices of appropriation of Puna territory by outsiders. This indicates the solidarity between the different scientific disciplines, in this case archaeology, and the colonial progress plan. Apart from this thesis, Alejandro conducted several research projects in the Comunidad Indı ´gena Colla Atacamen ˜a de Antofalla (the Atacama Colla Indigenous community of Antofalla). These projects have been embraced by the members of the community to the extent that some of them have been actively involved in research projects by Alejandro and his team. Significantly, they have even been involved as coauthors. The affection and wisdom of the locals from Antofalla has strongly guided Alejandro's academic interpretations. Undoubtedly, the Puna ancestral teachers have left their imprint on his work and his life. Perhaps it is this mutual friendship that warrants the classification of this biography under "Indigenous Archaeologies." With the Colombian anthropologist Cristo ´bal Gnecco, Alejandro has initiated several archaeological projects that move towards the decolonization of his own discipline and his own work. An example of this is founding the publication Arqueologı ´a Suramericana/Arqueologı ´a Sul-Americana ("South American Archaeology," in Spanish and Portuguese).
Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG)
Springer eBooks, 2014
Unity in Diversity?: A Synthetic Approach to 21st-Century Historical Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2019
Ethics, Positionality, and Pragmatism: Archaeological Approaches to Identity and the Role of Archaeological Practice in Conflict Transformation
The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2018
Becoming and Belonging in Ireland 1200-1600 AD: Essays on Identity and Cultural Practice
Cork University Press eBooks, 2018
Fears, Frontiers, and Third Spaces: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in the Early Modern British Atlantic
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2017
Towards a Cumulative Practice: Reflections on the Influence of Marley R. Brown III
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2015
Collaboration, collaborators, and conflict: ethics, engagement, and archaeological practice
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2017
Becoming and Belonging in Ireland AD 1200-1600
Archaeological considerations of "Appalachian" identity: community-based archaeology in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Routledge eBooks, Nov 12, 2012
Palmer, Marilyn
Springer eBooks, 2014
Becoming the ‘other’?: Exploring mimetic practice in the Ulster Plantation
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2013
Ireland: Medieval Identity, Settlement and Land Use
The Jamestown Archaeological Assessment: Archaeology in New Towne 1993-1995
Irish Historical Studies, May 1, 2011
In the field of Irish studies, there are numerous tomes on immigration but there is a lack of lit... more In the field of Irish studies, there are numerous tomes on immigration but there is a lack of literature exploring the value of archaeologically investigating the lives of Irish immigrants. The author Stephen Brighton readdresses this imbalance by bringing his direct experience as an historical archaeological researcher of the nineteenth-century poor in both rural Ireland and the urban north-east of the USA to bear in this informative and constructive book. This research follows on from a chapter, which the writer contributed to Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon (2006), 1 that focused on future research agendas applicable to archaeology and the 'Irish diaspora'. The study under review is partially based on material previously published in that book, but revised using an interdisciplinary comparative approach aimed at understanding the lives of Irish immigrants in the north-east of the USA by investigating patterns of cultural continuity and change within excavated assemblages from both countries. This approach is influenced by Kerby Miller's book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985), 2 which Brighton describes 'as the first to provide an in-depth transnational study of the Irish diaspora' (26). Brighton valiantly argues for the inclusion of the terms 'diaspora' and 'transnational' when discussing debates regarding Irish immigration. He makes the bold claim that 'theoretical advancement in the study of the Irish diaspora remains relatively undistinguished because scholars have not moved past the debate over the use of terms such as diaspora and migration' (31). The discourse within the study of Irish migration will continue but the arguments contained here are a valuable addition to these debates on the meanings and definitions employed in this area of research. Brighton compares artefacts from Ireland and the north-east USA in order to test material patterns over time and space. One site discussed incorporates two houses at Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, in Ireland. Considering the documented eviction and subsequent assisted immigration of the former inhabitants to the USA in 1848, Brighton discusses the process of site abandonment in relation to these excavated houses, identified as north and south cabins. Using a comparison of artefacts like clay pipes with depictions of 'nationalist' symbols excavated at the rural townland of Ballykilcline and similar artefacts from the urban contexts of nineteenth-century Irish immigrant tenements in the Five Points area of Manhattan, New York City and Paterson, New Jersey, Brighton reveals evidence of material commonalities declining as the nineteenth century progressed. He thus argues that a fall off in such artefacts represents the incorporation of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans into mainstream American society. Within the historical and artefactual analysis there is a stress on undefined terms, such as colonialism, inequality, alienation, extreme poverty, radicalisation, racialisation,
Listening, Hearing, Choosing?
Drawing from efforts to engage archaeology as an integral part of peace-building in post-Troubles... more Drawing from efforts to engage archaeology as an integral part of peace-building in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, the risks and the rewards of collaborative cross-community practice are addressed. Focus is on the ethical challenges of negotiating the politics of the present while staying true to the evidence of the past. Positioning archaeology as a means of bridging the divisions in post-conflict settings toward the creation of a stable, shared society requires an ability to not only listen, but also to hear and respect the strength of personal and community narratives, even when those narratives may be founded on fundamental misrepresentations of the past.
Shenandoah’s Secret History
Archaeology, 2001
Historical Archaeology, Sep 1, 2007
Archaeologies, Sep 21, 2019
Collaboration in contemporary archaeological parlance principally refers to active engagement wit... more Collaboration in contemporary archaeological parlance principally refers to active engagement with one or more selected groups of stakeholders and co-producers of knowledge. Yet to be a ''collaborator'' in conflict settings implies an allegiance, often deceitful, to one cause or another. When embedding archaeology in conflict transformation activities, being seen as a ''collaborator'', or partisan, can therefore actively work against the aims of peacebuilding. Drawing upon experience in conflict transformation within post-Troubles Northern Ireland, issues of ethics and positionality are considered, and an alternative terminology for embedding archaeology in peacebuilding activity is posited. Re ´sume ´: La collaboration dans le jargon arche ´ologique contemporain fait essentiellement re ´fe ´rence a `un engagement actif aupre `s d'un ou de plusieurs groupes de ´signe ´s de parties prenantes et de co-cre ´ateurs de savoirs. Cependant, e ˆtre un « collaborateur » dans une zone de conflit implique une alle ´geance, souvent trompeuse, envers une cause ou une autre. Lors de l'inte ´gration de l'arche ´ologie aux activite ´s de transformation d'un conflit, e ˆtre vu comme un « collaborateur » ou un partisan, est par conse ´quent susceptible de nuire activement aux objectifs des efforts de consolidation de la paix. S'inspirant d'une expe ´rience en matie `re de transformation de conflit en Irlande du Nord apre `s les troubles, des questions d'e ´thique et de positionnalite ´sont examine ´es et une terminologie alternative pour l'inte ´gration de l'arche ´ologie dans une activite ´de consolidation de la paix est propose ´e. Resumen: La colaboracio ´n en el lenguaje arqueolo ´gico contempora ´neo se refiere principalmente al compromiso activo con uno o ma ´s grupos seleccionados de partes interesadas y coproductores de conocimiento. Sin embargo, ser un ''colaborador'' en situaciones de conflicto implica una lealtad, a menudo engan ˜osa, a una causa u otra. Al incorporar la
Exerting influence? Responsibility and the public role of archaeology in divided societies
Archaeological Dialogues, Jun 1, 2013
Can, or should, archaeologists adopt the mantle of the public intellectual and bring archaeology ... more Can, or should, archaeologists adopt the mantle of the public intellectual and bring archaeology to bear on contemporary issues within divided societies? The line between the archaeologist and the citizen is never clear-cut. How do we balance the recognition that our knowledge and expertise allow us to exert influence with the necessity to act as responsible members of our own societies? I define a public intellectual as one who is not afraid to step outside professional circles and comfort zones and to engage, challenge and comment on issues of broad relevance in the present. Employing Northern Ireland as a case study, I argue that archaeologists have a responsibility to provide leadership and commentary regarding the fraught relationship between past and present.