Questioning Islands, Islanders and Insularity in the Mediterranean Longue Durée: Some views from the island of Gavdos (Crete, Greece)

K. Kopaka
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Τhe geological history of the island topoi started in the interior of the primordial sea of our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, an immensely long time before the appearance of humans. Evidence of hominid-“islanders”, and, consequently, their age-old sea crossings, is today being traced deeper and deeper in Palaeolithic stratigraphies. Written forms of the concept of islands exist in early scripts and, with consistency, later in Homer, in ancient literature and in other accounts. Research on islands was established in the 19th and early 20th centuries in major works by authors such as Darwin and Malinowski. But, despite such initial or “proto” activity, how much has our modern synthesis of knowledge and interdisciplinary understanding of islands and islanders – and their territories and seas, identities and behaviours – progressed? What makes us keep wondering about natural and human-made material and symbolic islandscapes, and their potential similarities and distinctions from non-insular worlds? Following on from previous reflections about the work of the University of Crete’s Island Interdisciplinary Workshop that mainly derive from our archaeological and interdisciplinary study of the island of Gavdos, off the southwestern shore of Crete, I shall try to suggest a relevant methodological framework by summarising a number of insular issues in a diachronic Aegean and Mediterranean perspective.
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质疑地中海的岛屿、岛民和岛屿:从加多斯岛(希腊克里特岛)看
Τhe topoi岛的地质历史始于数亿年前地球原始海洋的内部,比人类出现的时间要长得多。古人类“岛民”的证据,以及由此而来的古人类穿越海洋的证据,今天正在旧石器时代地层学中被越来越深入地追踪。岛屿概念的书面形式存在于早期的手稿中,并与后来的荷马、古代文学和其他记载相一致。在19世纪和20世纪初,达尔文和马林诺夫斯基等作家的主要著作中建立了对岛屿的研究。但是,尽管有这些最初的或“原型”活动,我们对岛屿和岛民及其领土和海洋、身份和行为的知识和跨学科理解的现代综合有多大进展?是什么让我们一直对自然和人造材料以及象征性岛屿景观感到好奇,以及它们与非岛屿世界的潜在相似性和区别?我们对克里特岛西南海岸外的加夫多斯岛进行了考古和跨学科研究,在对克里特岛大学岛屿跨学科讲习班的工作进行了先前的思考之后,我将试图提出一个相关的方法框架,从爱琴海和地中海的历时角度总结一些岛屿问题。
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期刊介绍: Shima publishes: Theoretical and/or comparative studies of island, marine, lacustrine or riverine cultures Case studies of island, marine, lacustrine or riverine cultures Accounts of collaborative research and development projects in island, marine, lacustrine or riverine locations Analyses of "island-like" insular spaces (such as peninsular "almost islands," enclaves, exclaves and micronations) Analyses of fictional representations of islands, "islandness," oceanic, lacustrine and riverine issues In-depth "feature" reviews of publications, media texts, exhibitions, events etc. concerning the above Photo and Video Essays on any aspects of the above
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