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The cultural biography of objects
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The cultural biography of objects
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Series:
World Archaeology
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Volume:
31 (2)
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Journal
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Editor:
Stephen J Shennan
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Issue Editor:
Yvonne Marshall
Chris Gosden
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Routledge Journals
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1999
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0043-8243
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07 Nov 2005
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The cultural biography of objects
Chris Gosden
Yvonne Marshall
169 - 178
introduction to special issue; the authors use the metaphor of biography as a means of understanding the way in which human and object histories inform each other
Non-portable stone artefacts and contexts of meaning: the tale of Grey Wether (www.museums.ncl.ac.uk/Ave...
Mark Gillings
Joshua Pollard
179 - 193
the authors contend that it is often not the case that the cultural biography of static objects is more prescribed than that of portable artefacts. This argument is demonstrated with an account of the social lives of the stones making up the megalithic settings at Avebury, Wiltshire
The world(s) of the cross
John Moreland
194 - 213
it is claimed that in order to understand fully the meaning of early medieval crosses it is necessary to appreciate their liturgical, apotropaic and liminal roles. Using the cross at Bradbourne, Derbyshire, as an example, the author argues that the medieval parishioners, the iconoclasts of the Reformation, the eighteenth-century antiquarian Hayman Rooke and the nineteenth-century archaeologist and cleric Bishop G F Browne each contextually constructed their own monument
Making sense of the past in the present: a sensory analysis of carved stone balls
Gavin MacGregor
258 - 271
the paper studies a particular type of carved stone ball in order to highlight several issues pertaining to the interpretation of material culture in general. The need to consider the sensory perception of artefacts is suggested as a means to a deeper interpretation of their biography. The paper also raises the possibility that the biography of artefacts may also include a number of resurrections relating to their movement between different ages or systems of understanding. The paper discusses the continued re-contextualization of carved stone balls in contemporary Scotland in order to demonstrate the importance of recognizing the continued role of artefacts in maintaining particular views of the world
