Peter Gathercole
Biographic Data
| ID | 117553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Gathercole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Gathercole |
| SIGNATURE | GATHERCOLE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ida Darwin hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Life at the Institute of Archaeology, 1952-54
y years at the Institute were split into four often strongly contrasting parts. Primarily, there were the terms at St John's Lodge, the quietly decaying Regency mansion that fitted so appropriately, in its atmos phere, with the evidence of bomb damage still evident elsewhere in London. Sec ondly, there was the home life my wife Falmai and I had in our one room in Hackney, made exciting and consistently demanding following the birth of our son Jon…
Hau, Mauri and Utu
Gordon Childe
Thirty years after Childe's death we reviewed his persisting relevance (Gathercole 1987). Twenty-two more years have since passed, and we are pleased to see that his achievements have been reviewed again - in a special monograph (Saville 2009). Here Peter Gathercole admires the continuing modernity and ethical strength of his mentor's ideas, seasoning his reflections with some personal memories. Readers are invited to send us their own memories a…
A Childe Bibliography
This hand-list is devoted to the published writings of Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957). It was compiled for two reasons: the limitations of earlier lists of his works, and the changing needs of scholars studying Childe and the disciplines to which he contributed. The earliest and then most complete list of Childe’s writings was produced by Isobel Smith for the Childe festschrift published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 21(1956): 295…
Childe, Marxism, and Knowledge
Childe withdrew from revolutionary politics after his post-university years in Australia in favour of a career in prehistoric archaeology in Britain. Though remaining a Marxist, his application of Marxist principles to prehistory developed only slowly as his interpretations became more sophisticated. He became increasingly interested in knowledge about prehistory from studying results of the interactions between material remains and their interpr…
BM Department of Ethnography
Anthropology and the British Museum
Pacific Islands
Nauru, Republic of
Pacific Islands
Life at the Institute of Archaeology, 1952-54
Pacific Islands
Progress on Polynesia
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Values, knowlege and ownership
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Childe among the Penguins
Gordon Childe ( 1892-1957), often considered the most distinguished European prehistorian of his time, had a previous career as political activist and New South Wales civil servant. As recent work has demonstrated (Gathercole et al. 1995), this career provided some richly varied experiences of the vagaries of politics, including the knife-thrusts that can enliven those of the university world. In 1927, however, as he told his friend, Palme Dutt, …
Creating Pacific histories
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A.B.Piddington
Historically nuanced
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The Politics of the Past
The Restitution of Heritage
The Politics of the Past
Part 1 The heritage of ethnocentricity: the western world view in archaeological atlases, Chris Scarre public presentations and private concerns - archaeology in the pages of National Geographic, Joan Gero and Dolores Root American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past, Michael L.Blakey Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape, Robert Paynter the W.E.B.DuBois boyhood homesite - a case study in the politics of historical a…
Whakairo
This is the first analysis of Maori carving styles by tribal area ever written. Simmons draws on the work of Kendall and an important new source to provide a coherent analysis of style and symbolism in Maori carving. The first part of the book discusses the mythological context and symbolism in Maori art, and the second is a painstaking analysis of the older serpentine and more recent square styles by tribes following the main lines of intertriba…
Childe after 30 years
Thirty years after his death, on 19 October 1957, V. Gordon Childe's ideas seem full of life. Peter Gathercole has watched the Childe literature grow - with three biographical studies, any number of articles and a major conference in Mexico last year (its proceedings will be reviewed in the next number) - and has contributed to it himself. ANTIQUITY invited him to make the points that seem most pertinent about Childe today
Disappearing World
L'inventaire des collections ethnographiques dans le débat sur le retour de biens culturels
Rock Art of South-East Cape York
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
The Archaeology of the Palau Islands
Patterns in prehistory
This paper analyses in detail the argument presented by Childe towards the end of his book, The Prehistory of European Society (1958). It discusses why he thought the argument so important and gives some consideration to the implications of his approach for a more general assessment of his work
Pacific Market-Places
The Last Decade in New Zealand Archaeology
In the two articles referred to above, Dr Roger Duff, the Director of the Canterbury Museum, reviewed the evidence then available for the origins and character of the first human settlement of New Zedand. Using the evidence of both oral tradition and archaeology, he saw the first settlers as Polynesians, coming from a tropical 'Hawaiki' to the north-east (identified as the Society group) and possessing a material culture similar to that typical o…
Hau, Mauri and Utu
A Childe Bibliography
This hand-list is devoted to the published writings of Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957). It was compiled for two reasons: the limitations of earlier lists of his works, and the changing needs of scholars studying Childe and the disciplines to which he contributed. The earliest and then most complete list of Childe’s writings was produced by Isobel Smith for the Childe festschrift published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 21(1956): 295…
Childe among the Penguins
Gordon Childe ( 1892-1957), often considered the most distinguished European prehistorian of his time, had a previous career as political activist and New South Wales civil servant. As recent work has demonstrated (Gathercole et al. 1995), this career provided some richly varied experiences of the vagaries of politics, including the knife-thrusts that can enliven those of the university world. In 1927, however, as he told his friend, Palme Dutt, …
Childe after 30 years
Thirty years after his death, on 19 October 1957, V. Gordon Childe's ideas seem full of life. Peter Gathercole has watched the Childe literature grow - with three biographical studies, any number of articles and a major conference in Mexico last year (its proceedings will be reviewed in the next number) - and has contributed to it himself. ANTIQUITY invited him to make the points that seem most pertinent about Childe today
Gordon Childe
In 1957 John Mulvaney remarked that Childe was probably the most prolific and the most translated Australian author. Now, post mortem, he must be the one currently attracting the most intense discussion. These three books, taken together, enable us to see Childe rather more completely, both as an individual scholar and as an academic in the general context of his time. To some extent it is possible to 'round him off', and to answer certain questi…
Whakairo
This is the first analysis of Maori carving styles by tribal area ever written. Simmons draws on the work of Kendall and an important new source to provide a coherent analysis of style and symbolism in Maori carving. The first part of the book discusses the mythological context and symbolism in Maori art, and the second is a painstaking analysis of the older serpentine and more recent square styles by tribes following the main lines of intertriba…
The need for ethnographic inventories
The need for ethnographic inventories." Museum International, 36(1), p. 37 1 Born at Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk, England, in 1929. Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1958–68. Lecturer in ethnology, University of Oxford, 1968–70. Curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1970–81. At present Dean of Darwin College, Cambridge. Has a long‐standing research interest in …
Hawaii
Archeology
The Last Decade in New Zealand Archaeology
In the two articles referred to above, Dr Roger Duff, the Director of the Canterbury Museum, reviewed the evidence then available for the origins and character of the first human settlement of New Zedand. Using the evidence of both oral tradition and archaeology, he saw the first settlers as Polynesians, coming from a tropical 'Hawaiki' to the north-east (identified as the Society group) and possessing a material culture similar to that typical o…
The Last Decade in New Zealand Archaeology. Part II
Clearly this is a major problem in New Zealand culture history. One of the present writers has recently outlined the problem and assembled the archaeological materials available for its solution, using excavated evidence for the Moa-hunters and, in the absence of dependable archaeological data, inferring the Maori culture traits relevant to the comparison from a variety of sources, mainly descriptions, drawings and collections made by Europeans i…
The Archaeology of the Palau Islands
Archeology
Pacific Market-Places
Archaeology in Western Samoa I
Patterns in prehistory
This paper analyses in detail the argument presented by Childe towards the end of his book, The Prehistory of European Society (1958). It discusses why he thought the argument so important and gives some consideration to the implications of his approach for a more general assessment of his work
Hawaii
Aboriginal Man and Environment in Australia
Man came to Australia well before the end of the Pleistocene epoch - the so-called Ice Age. To understand his history, then, both early and later, calls for an understanding of climate and environment, and the changes that have taken place in them. Early man in Australia was a stone-using huntergatherer, and the traditional Aboriginal economy and society have persisted into modern times, so a wealth of ethnographic information is available to hel…
Rock Art of South-East Cape York
Childe the 'Outsider
The Pacific Islanders
The Maoris of New Zealand
Maori Origins and Migrations
This is a brief but fascinating study of European theories about where the Maori people came from, how they reached New Zealand and how they lived when they arrived. Some of these theories now seem bizarre but others hardened into myths that became accepted truths. This is an illuminating, sometimes amusing, account of the making of myths
Gordon Childe
In 1957 John Mulvaney remarked that Childe was probably the most prolific and the most translated Australian author. Now, post mortem, he must be the one currently attracting the most intense discussion. These three books, taken together, enable us to see Childe rather more completely, both as an individual scholar and as an academic in the general context of his time. To some extent it is possible to 'round him off', and to answer certain questi…
Les inventaires ethnographiques
The need for ethnographic inventories
The need for ethnographic inventories." Museum International, 36(1), p. 37 1 Born at Tilney St Lawrence, Norfolk, England, in 1929. Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1958–68. Lecturer in ethnology, University of Oxford, 1968–70. Curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1970–81. At present Dean of Darwin College, Cambridge. Has a long‐standing research interest in …
Art and Artists of Oceania
L'inventaire des collections ethnographiques dans le débat sur le retour de biens culturels
The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages
Childe after 30 years
Thirty years after his death, on 19 October 1957, V. Gordon Childe's ideas seem full of life. Peter Gathercole has watched the Childe literature grow - with three biographical studies, any number of articles and a major conference in Mexico last year (its proceedings will be reviewed in the next number) - and has contributed to it himself. ANTIQUITY invited him to make the points that seem most pertinent about Childe today
Disappearing World
The Politics of the Past
Part 1 The heritage of ethnocentricity: the western world view in archaeological atlases, Chris Scarre public presentations and private concerns - archaeology in the pages of National Geographic, Joan Gero and Dolores Root American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past, Michael L.Blakey Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape, Robert Paynter the W.E.B.DuBois boyhood homesite - a case study in the politics of historical a…
Whakairo
This is the first analysis of Maori carving styles by tribal area ever written. Simmons draws on the work of Kendall and an important new source to provide a coherent analysis of style and symbolism in Maori carving. The first part of the book discusses the mythological context and symbolism in Maori art, and the second is a painstaking analysis of the older serpentine and more recent square styles by tribes following the main lines of intertriba…
The Restitution of Heritage
History (23 works) · Geography (18 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works)