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IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.3.303-326
James Flexner, B. Muir, S. Bedford, F. Valentin, Denise Elena, David Samoria
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引用次数: 3
Publications received: April to June 2020 收稿日期:2020年4月至6月
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-06-29 DOI: 10.15286/JPS.129.2.242
H. MacDonald
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引用次数: 0
The past before us: a brief history of Tongan kava 我们面前的过去:汤加卡瓦的简史
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.2.171-192
Arcia Tecun, Robert Reeves, M. Wolfgramm
This article examines deep and contemporary history through analysis of the Tongan kava origin story, a kava chant, the rise of the kalapu 'kava club' in the twentieth century and the growing expansion of contemporary kava. It is argued that a key function of past and present kava practices is a ritual liminality of noa 'neutralisation of protective restrictions' that results from mediating mana 'potency, honour' and tapu 'protective restrictions, set apart'. This is supported through ethnohistorical literature, song lyrics and ethnographic data. While the expressions, purpose, material and uses of kava evolve and change throughout time and space, from the titular ceremonies to the social rituals, they are connected through contextually specific mediations that establish noa. The kava origin story indicates a performance of mediations between ancient power relations, while the kava chant describes material culture alongside the establishment of the ritualised chiefly kava ceremony. Kalapu and the expanding contemporary kava practices today maintain connections to past practices while adapting to current circumstances such as global Tongan mobility and cultural diversity.
本文通过分析汤加卡瓦的起源故事、卡瓦颂歌、卡拉普“卡瓦俱乐部”在20世纪的兴起以及当代卡瓦的不断扩大,来审视深刻而当代的历史。有人认为,过去和现在的卡瓦实践的一个关键功能是noa“保护性限制的中和”的仪式限制,这是通过调解mana“效力,荣誉”和tapu“保护性限制,分离”而产生的。这得到了民族历史文献、歌词和民族志数据的支持。虽然卡瓦的表达方式、目的、材料和用途随着时间和空间的变化而演变和变化,从名义上的仪式到社会仪式,它们通过建立noa的特定背景调解联系在一起。卡瓦起源故事表明了古代权力关系之间的调解表现,而卡瓦圣歌描述了物质文化以及主要是卡瓦仪式的建立。今天,卡拉普和不断扩大的当代卡瓦实践保持着与过去实践的联系,同时适应汤加人的全球流动性和文化多样性等当前环境。
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引用次数: 10
Variation and process: the history, current practice and future potential of mortuary archaeology in Aotearoa New Zealand 变化与过程:新西兰奥特罗阿太平间考古的历史、现状和未来潜力
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.2.125-170
Beatrice Hudson
Mortuary archaeology in New Zealand is a tapu 'sacred, prohibited' subject due to the special place that koiwi tangata 'human skeletal remains' hold in Maori culture. Recognition of Maori rights over ancestral remains led to a near cessation of published studies in recent decades. But koiwi tangata are frequently uncovered accidentally by development or erosion and, in collaboration with Maori, recorded prior to reburial. The resulting pool of unpublished data presents an opportunity to advance our currently stagnant archaeological understanding of the burial practices of past Maori communities, particularly given that some sites are demonstrating a higher level of complexity of burial process than has hitherto been discussed archaeologically. Although still a highly charged subject, there exist a number of examples of Maori groups voicing support for respectful, collaborative study of burials. As time and tide continue to expose koiwi, it is time for appraisal of the archaeological literature on this subject. This paper reviews the history and current practice of mortuary archaeology in New Zealand, highlighting how current bioarchaeological perspectives offer valuable potential. In particular, the concept of the burial rite as an ongoing process, the various stages of which can result in different forms of burial, and the application of the principles of field anthropology (anthropologie de terrain) to identify stages of mortuary activity offer new frameworks for exploring the variety evident in Maori burial and the social and conceptual insight this can offer.
由于koiwi tangata“人类骨骼遗骸”在毛利人文化中的特殊地位,新西兰的太平间考古是一门“神圣的,被禁止的”学科。承认毛利人对祖先遗骸的权利导致近几十年来发表的研究几乎停止。但koiwi tangata经常因发展或侵蚀而被偶然发现,并与毛利人合作,在重新埋葬之前进行记录。由此产生的未发表的数据提供了一个机会,可以推动我们目前对过去毛利人社区埋葬习俗的停滞不前的考古学理解,特别是考虑到一些遗址显示出埋葬过程的复杂性比迄今为止考古学上讨论的要高。虽然这仍然是一个高度敏感的问题,但有一些毛利人团体表示支持对埋葬进行尊重和合作研究的例子。随着时间和潮流的不断曝光,是时候对这一主题的考古文献进行评估了。本文回顾了新西兰太平间考古学的历史和当前实践,突出了当前生物考古学的观点如何提供有价值的潜力。特别是,丧葬仪式的概念是一个持续的过程,其不同阶段可能导致不同形式的埋葬,以及野外人类学(人类学地形)原则的应用,以确定殡葬活动的阶段,为探索毛利人埋葬中明显的多样性以及由此提供的社会和概念洞察力提供了新的框架。
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引用次数: 3
Foreign objects in colonial-era Hawaiian sites: change and continuity in nineteenth-century Nu‘alolo Kai, Kaua‘i Island 殖民时期夏威夷遗址中的外国物品:19世纪考艾岛努阿洛洛Kai的变化和连续性
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.2.193-236
S. Moore
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引用次数: 2
The archaeology of Māori settlement and pā on Pōnui Island, Inner Hauraki Gulf, AD 1400–1800 内豪拉基湾Pōnui岛上Māori定居点和pā考古,公元1400-1800年
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.1.29-58
G. Irwin
This paper describes previously unreported archaeological work on Ponui Island, New Zealand. Coastal sites date from the end of the fourteenth century AD, and one, S11/20, has evidence for surface structures, cooking, and tool manufacture and use. The harvesting of marine resources and horticulture were involved from the beginning. Earthwork defenses were built at 23 sites between AD 1500 and 1800. At least six of these fortified sites (pa) were later refortified and some were residential. In this study two sites were excavated at Motunau Bay: one was S11/20, an Archaic site previously excavated in the 1950s, and the other was S11/21, a fortified site. Radiocarbon dates are reported from five further undefended coastal sites and from the earthwork defences of 19 pa, which reveal chronological and spatial trends in their construction. On Ponui the archaeological signature of the fifteenth century was what New Zealand archaeologists typically call early or Archaic, but in the sixteenth century it became Classic. The transition in the settlement evidence appears abrupt; however, the tempo of change more likely varied in material culture and the economy, and possible changes in land tenure and social organisation are suggested.
这篇论文描述了以前未报道过的在新西兰波努伊岛的考古工作。沿海遗址可以追溯到公元14世纪末,其中一个,S11/20,有地表结构、烹饪和工具制造和使用的证据。从一开始就涉及到海洋资源的收获和园艺。在公元1500年到1800年之间,在23个地点建造了土方防御工事。这些设防地点(pa)中至少有6个后来重新设防,其中一些是住宅区。在本研究中,在Motunau湾挖掘了两个遗址:一个是S11/20,一个早在20世纪50年代挖掘的古老遗址,另一个是S11/21,一个防御遗址。从另外五个未设防的沿海遗址和19 pa的土方防御工事中报告了放射性碳年代,揭示了其建设的时间和空间趋势。在波努伊岛上,15世纪的考古标志是新西兰考古学家通常所说的早期或古代,但在16世纪,它变成了古典。聚落证据的转变显得突兀;然而,变化的速度更有可能在物质文化和经济方面有所不同,并建议在土地所有权和社会组织方面可能发生变化。
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引用次数: 4
Panpipes and clubs: early images of Tanna Islanders 排箫和棍棒:塔纳岛民的早期形象
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.1.7-28
L. Lindstrom
William Hodges, James Cook's artist on his second voyage, produced notably popular and influential drawings and paintings. These included several illustrations of Tanna Islanders (Vanuatu) that shaped European visions of the island from the 1770s through the 1830s, after which they were supplanted by Christian missionary depictions. Influenced by neoclassicist artistic convention, Hodges's engravings, which subsequently were much copied, commonly paired panpipes with clubs in islander hands. A chain of early engravings that feature panpipes and clubs reveals an initial heroic vision of natural island dignity, as both these accessories evoked European classical ideals. Although subsequent Christian and social evolutionary views later disavowed noble savage tropes, these persist in contemporary touristic appreciation of island musical talent and tradition.
威廉·霍奇斯,詹姆斯·库克第二次航行的艺术家,创作了非常受欢迎和有影响力的素描和油画。其中包括几幅关于塔纳岛民(瓦努阿图)的插图,从18世纪70年代到19世纪30年代,这些插图塑造了欧洲人对瓦努阿图的看法,之后它们被基督教传教士的描绘所取代。受新古典主义艺术惯例的影响,霍奇斯的版画后来被大量复制,通常是岛民手中的排箫和棍棒配对。一系列早期雕刻以排箫和棍棒为特色,揭示了自然岛屿尊严的最初英雄愿景,因为这两种配件都唤起了欧洲古典理想。尽管后来的基督教和社会进化观点后来否认了高贵野蛮的比喻,但这些仍然存在于当代旅游对岛屿音乐人才和传统的欣赏中。
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引用次数: 0
Publications received: September 2019 to March 2020 收稿日期:2019年9月至2020年3月
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI: 10.15286/JPS.129.1.118
H. MacDonald
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A large trolling lure shank from Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, New Zealand 来自新西兰阿瓦胡大水星岛的大型拖鱼诱饵小腿
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.1.85-112
Furey Louise, Rebecca Phillipps, J. Emmitt, Andrew McAlister, S. Holdaway
Large stone trolling lure shanks, greater than 100 mm, are rare and stylistically associated with the early period of Maori occupation of Aotearoa New Zealand. The triangular-sectioned shank is distinctive and reminiscent of Polynesian forms. The 2016 find during excavations at T10/360 at Waitapu in Coralie Bay, Ahuahu Great Mercury Island, is the first to be recovered in an archaeological context and only the third large shank attributed to the North Island. Moreover, the shank is the largest complete example known. Radiocarbon dates from contexts in direct association with the shank indicate deposition in the early 15th century, slightly later than other sites such as Wairau Bar and Shag River Mouth where similar shanks have been found. A comparative analysis of the attributes of all 28 shanks in New Zealand museum collections indicates no regional patterns are evident. We review the context in which the Ahuahu shank was found, and its importance, along with the other items recovered, for the interpretation of the Waitapu occupation. We also consider the various reported interpretations of large trolling shanks and, based on Polynesian examples where symbolism and function are discussed, suggest large shanks were not used directly in fishing but had a fishing-related role.
大于100毫米的大型石钓鱼饵柄是罕见的,在风格上与毛利人占领新西兰奥特罗阿的早期有关。三角形的刀柄是独特的,让人想起波利尼西亚的形式。2016年,在Ahuahu大水星岛Coralie湾怀塔普T10/360的挖掘中发现的这一发现,是在考古背景下发现的第一个大小腿,也是北岛发现的第三个大小腿。此外,柄是已知的最大的完整例子。与该柄直接相关的环境的放射性碳测年表明,该柄沉积于15世纪早期,比发现类似柄的其他地点(如Wairau Bar和Shag River Mouth)稍晚。对新西兰博物馆收藏的所有28条小腿的属性进行比较分析表明,没有明显的区域模式。我们回顾了发现阿瓦胡柄的背景,以及它与其他被发现的物品对于解释怀塔普占领的重要性。我们还考虑了各种报道中对大型拖柄的解释,并基于波利尼西亚的例子,讨论了象征和功能,表明大型拖柄并没有直接用于捕鱼,而是具有与捕鱼相关的作用。
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引用次数: 3
The curious idea that Māori once counted by elevens, and the insights it still holds for cross-cultural numerical research Māori曾经以11为单位计数的奇怪想法,以及它仍然为跨文化数字研究提供的见解
IF 0.6 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.15286/jps.129.1.59-84
Karenleigh A. Overmann
ABSTRACT: The idea the New Zealand Māori once counted by elevens has been viewed as a cultural misunderstanding originating with a mid-nineteenth-century dictionary of their language. Yet this “remarkable singularity” had an earlier, Continental origin, the details of which have been lost over a century of transmission in the literature. The affair is traced to a pair of scientific explorers, René-Primevère Lesson and Jules Poret de Blosseville, as reconstructed through their publications on the 1822–1825 circumnavigational voyage of the Coquille, a French corvette. Possible explanations for the affair are briefly examined, including whether it might have been a prank by the Polynesians or a misunderstanding or hoax on the part of the Europeans. Reasons why the idea of counting by elevens remains topical are discussed. First, its very oddity has obscured the counting method actually used— setting aside every tenth item as a tally. This “ephemeral abacus” is examined for its physical and mental efficiencies and its potential to explain aspects of numerical structure and vocabulary (e.g., Mangarevan binary counting; the Hawaiian number word for twenty, iwakalua), matters suggesting material forms have a critical if underappreciated role in realising concepts like exponential value. Second, it provides insight into why it can be difficult to appreciate highly elaborated but unwritten numbers like those found throughout Polynesia. Finally, the affair illuminates the difficulty of categorising number systems that use multiple units as the basis of enumeration, like Polynesian pair-counting; potential solutions are offered.
摘要:新西兰Māori曾经以11为单位计数的说法被认为是一种文化上的误解,这种误解源于一本19世纪中期的新西兰语词典。然而,这个“非凡的奇点”有一个更早的大陆起源,其细节已经在一个世纪的文献传播中丢失了。这件事可以追溯到两位科学探险家ren - primevires Lesson和Jules Poret de bloseville,这是通过他们关于1822-1825年法国轻巡洋船Coquille号环游世界航行的出版物重建的。对这一事件的可能解释进行了简要的研究,包括它是否可能是波利尼西亚人的恶作剧,还是欧洲人的误解或恶作剧。讨论了为什么按11数的想法仍然是热门话题的原因。首先,它的奇怪之处在于它掩盖了实际使用的计数方法——每隔10个项目计算一次。这种“短暂的算盘”被检查其物理和精神效率及其解释数字结构和词汇方面的潜力(例如,Mangarevan二进制计数;(夏威夷语中表示20的数字,iwakalua),表明物质形式的问题在实现指数值等概念方面具有关键的作用,但被低估了。其次,它揭示了为什么很难理解像在波利尼西亚发现的那些高度精细但不成文的数字。最后,这件事说明了对使用多个单位作为枚举基础的数字系统进行分类的困难,比如波利尼西亚的成对计数;提供了潜在的解决方案。
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