E Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 40307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Southeast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9662-9118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pre-Domestication
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Walrus Ritual around Bering Strait
Nineteenth-century ethnohistoric sources describe rituals and beliefs related to the exploitation of walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on the islands of the Bering Sea and the coast of Chukotka. These small-scale rites practiced by St. Lawrence Islanders, Siberian Yupiget, and Chukchi were intended to thank walrus and ensure future hunting success. Rituals conducted by walrus boat captains also facilitated integration of walrus hunting crews and their f…
Response
Personhood and Agency in Eskimo Interactions with the Other-than-Human
Archaeology of Animal Burials
Humans, Birds and Burial Practices at Ipiutak, Alaska
Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence from the coast of western Alaska and St. Lawrence Island indicate that human inhabitants over the past 1500–2000 years incorporated birds into their diets, cosmologies, material culture, and daily activities. Following a brief discussion of the archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence for human–bird relations, this article explores the evidence for birds as both an economic and cosmological resource at t…
Tropical limestone forest resilience and late Pleistocene foraging during MIS-2 in the Tràng An massif, Vietnam
The Archaeology of Ancestors
This chapter provides an overview of archaeological approaches to ancestor veneration in the past. Two major works (by Patricia McAnany and Mary Helms) moved the study of ancestors beyond the processual insights of Arthur Saxe and Lynne Goldstein and laid the conceptual foundations for more nuanced and ethnographically informed work of the twenty-first century. The chapter reviews the ways in which archaeologists have identified and studied ancie…
The Archaeology of Ancestors
Ancestor veneration is a common practice cross-culturally, and since the 1990s archaeologists have started to explore ancestor veneration in the past. The usual explanation for ancient ancestors is that people in past societies used them and their material correlates (architecture, iconography, tombs, and cemeteries) to validate their rights to land and resources. Yet ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts of ancestor veneration around the world…
Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche
Archaeologists have generally avoided the issue of emotion in archaeological interpretation, with the result that even death and burial remain emotionless landscapes in the past. In this chapter, I take the perspective that emotions, whilst built upon a biological foundation, are historically and culturally contingent phenomena experienced through the senses and the embodied self. Imbued with sentiment, funerary ritual, and material culture—those…
Archaeology and Animal Persons
The discipline of archaeology has long engaged with animals in a utilitarian mode, constructing animals as objects to be hunted, manipulated, domesticated, and consumed. Only recently, in tandem with the rising interest in animals in the humanities and the development of interdisciplinary animal studies research, has archaeology begun to systematically engage with animals as subjects. This article describes some of the ways in which archaeologist…
The Nonempirical Past
Erica Hill Erica Hill, Department of Social Science, University of Alaska Southeast 11120 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, AK 99801; erica.hill{at}uas.alaska.edu
Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy. Variorum Collected Studies Series
Animals as Agents
In this article, I discuss the ways in which animals act as ontological subjects — as other-than-human persons and as agents in myth and ritual. First I outline how humans conceive of and behave with animals and their remains in indigenous cosmologies using ethnographic and ethnohistoric examples from the Arctic, Subarctic and Amazonia. I then explore the archaeological evidence for indigenous ontologies along the coasts of Chukotka and Alaska, a…
Schmidt, W.
Schmidt, Wilhelm: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Ein Lehrbuch für das germanistische Studium. Erarbeitet unter der Leitung von Helmut Langner und Norbert Richard Wolf. 9., verbesserte Auflage. Stuttgart, S. Hirzel Verlag, 2004, gr.-8°, 410 S., 6 Falttafeln in einer Tasche. Brosch. 24€.
Sacrificing
The Moche of Peru (AD 100-800) practiced two forms of bodily transformation: human sacrifice and dismemberment. The sacrificial process converted the body into a sacred object and imbued it with meaning. The second transformation - dismemberment - partitioned the cathected body into ritually efficacious body parts suitable for use as offerings to the supernatural. In contrast to classic perspectives on sacrifice, which focus on the act of immolat…
The Embodied Sacrifice
The interest in the study of the body that is emerging in European archaeologies has not yet penetrated Americanist approaches to prehistoric iconography. Nevertheless, American materials provide an excellent data base with which to work. This article employs the complex human representational imagery of the Moche (Peruvian North Coast, c.AD 100–800) to explore how the body was situated within the context of ritual sacrifice. Employing both the F…
The Contextual Analysis of Animal Interments and Ritual Practice in Southwestern North America
Animal burials are often encountered in excavations in southwestern North America. This paper identifies and contextually analyzes bird and mammal remains recovered from interment contexts in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. These data are presented in tabular form, followed by a contextual evaluation of patterns of interment. Three forms of interment are identified: 1) ceremonial trash, 2) dedicatory offerings, and 3) simple i…
Lineage interests and nonreproductive strategies
Gender-informed archaeology
Death as a rite of passage
The application of van Gennep's Rites of Passage structure to iconography and mortuary contexts in the Late Moche period of Peru offers an original means of exploring prehistoric concepts of death
Thimbles and thimble rings from the circum-Caribbean region, 1500–1800
Shakespeare and contemporary music
Archaeology and Animal Persons
The discipline of archaeology has long engaged with animals in a utilitarian mode, constructing animals as objects to be hunted, manipulated, domesticated, and consumed. Only recently, in tandem with the rising interest in animals in the humanities and the development of interdisciplinary animal studies research, has archaeology begun to systematically engage with animals as subjects. This article describes some of the ways in which archaeologist…
Animals as Agents
In this article, I discuss the ways in which animals act as ontological subjects — as other-than-human persons and as agents in myth and ritual. First I outline how humans conceive of and behave with animals and their remains in indigenous cosmologies using ethnographic and ethnohistoric examples from the Arctic, Subarctic and Amazonia. I then explore the archaeological evidence for indigenous ontologies along the coasts of Chukotka and Alaska, a…
The Contextual Analysis of Animal Interments and Ritual Practice in Southwestern North America
Animal burials are often encountered in excavations in southwestern North America. This paper identifies and contextually analyzes bird and mammal remains recovered from interment contexts in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. These data are presented in tabular form, followed by a contextual evaluation of patterns of interment. Three forms of interment are identified: 1) ceremonial trash, 2) dedicatory offerings, and 3) simple i…
Gender-informed archaeology
Sacrificing
The Moche of Peru (AD 100-800) practiced two forms of bodily transformation: human sacrifice and dismemberment. The sacrificial process converted the body into a sacred object and imbued it with meaning. The second transformation - dismemberment - partitioned the cathected body into ritually efficacious body parts suitable for use as offerings to the supernatural. In contrast to classic perspectives on sacrifice, which focus on the act of immolat…
The Embodied Sacrifice
The interest in the study of the body that is emerging in European archaeologies has not yet penetrated Americanist approaches to prehistoric iconography. Nevertheless, American materials provide an excellent data base with which to work. This article employs the complex human representational imagery of the Moche (Peruvian North Coast, c.AD 100–800) to explore how the body was situated within the context of ritual sacrifice. Employing both the F…
The Archaeology of Ancestors
Ancestor veneration is a common practice cross-culturally, and since the 1990s archaeologists have started to explore ancestor veneration in the past. The usual explanation for ancient ancestors is that people in past societies used them and their material correlates (architecture, iconography, tombs, and cemeteries) to validate their rights to land and resources. Yet ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts of ancestor veneration around the world…
The Nonempirical Past
Erica Hill Erica Hill, Department of Social Science, University of Alaska Southeast 11120 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, AK 99801; erica.hill{at}uas.alaska.edu
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Walrus Ritual around Bering Strait
Nineteenth-century ethnohistoric sources describe rituals and beliefs related to the exploitation of walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on the islands of the Bering Sea and the coast of Chukotka. These small-scale rites practiced by St. Lawrence Islanders, Siberian Yupiget, and Chukchi were intended to thank walrus and ensure future hunting success. Rituals conducted by walrus boat captains also facilitated integration of walrus hunting crews and their f…
Humans, Birds and Burial Practices at Ipiutak, Alaska
Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence from the coast of western Alaska and St. Lawrence Island indicate that human inhabitants over the past 1500–2000 years incorporated birds into their diets, cosmologies, material culture, and daily activities. Following a brief discussion of the archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence for human–bird relations, this article explores the evidence for birds as both an economic and cosmological resource at t…
Death as a rite of passage
The application of van Gennep's Rites of Passage structure to iconography and mortuary contexts in the Late Moche period of Peru offers an original means of exploring prehistoric concepts of death
Lineage interests and nonreproductive strategies
Thimbles and thimble rings from the circum-Caribbean region, 1500–1800
Shakespeare and contemporary music
Thimbles and thimble rings from the circum-Caribbean region, 1500–1800
Gender-informed archaeology
Death as a rite of passage
The application of van Gennep's Rites of Passage structure to iconography and mortuary contexts in the Late Moche period of Peru offers an original means of exploring prehistoric concepts of death
Lineage interests and nonreproductive strategies
The Embodied Sacrifice
The interest in the study of the body that is emerging in European archaeologies has not yet penetrated Americanist approaches to prehistoric iconography. Nevertheless, American materials provide an excellent data base with which to work. This article employs the complex human representational imagery of the Moche (Peruvian North Coast, c.AD 100–800) to explore how the body was situated within the context of ritual sacrifice. Employing both the F…
The Contextual Analysis of Animal Interments and Ritual Practice in Southwestern North America
Animal burials are often encountered in excavations in southwestern North America. This paper identifies and contextually analyzes bird and mammal remains recovered from interment contexts in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. These data are presented in tabular form, followed by a contextual evaluation of patterns of interment. Three forms of interment are identified: 1) ceremonial trash, 2) dedicatory offerings, and 3) simple i…
Sacrificing
The Moche of Peru (AD 100-800) practiced two forms of bodily transformation: human sacrifice and dismemberment. The sacrificial process converted the body into a sacred object and imbued it with meaning. The second transformation - dismemberment - partitioned the cathected body into ritually efficacious body parts suitable for use as offerings to the supernatural. In contrast to classic perspectives on sacrifice, which focus on the act of immolat…
Schmidt, W.
Schmidt, Wilhelm: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache. Ein Lehrbuch für das germanistische Studium. Erarbeitet unter der Leitung von Helmut Langner und Norbert Richard Wolf. 9., verbesserte Auflage. Stuttgart, S. Hirzel Verlag, 2004, gr.-8°, 410 S., 6 Falttafeln in einer Tasche. Brosch. 24€.
Trade and Industry in Early Modern Italy. Variorum Collected Studies Series
Animals as Agents
In this article, I discuss the ways in which animals act as ontological subjects — as other-than-human persons and as agents in myth and ritual. First I outline how humans conceive of and behave with animals and their remains in indigenous cosmologies using ethnographic and ethnohistoric examples from the Arctic, Subarctic and Amazonia. I then explore the archaeological evidence for indigenous ontologies along the coasts of Chukotka and Alaska, a…
The Nonempirical Past
Erica Hill Erica Hill, Department of Social Science, University of Alaska Southeast 11120 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, AK 99801; erica.hill{at}uas.alaska.edu
Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche
Archaeologists have generally avoided the issue of emotion in archaeological interpretation, with the result that even death and burial remain emotionless landscapes in the past. In this chapter, I take the perspective that emotions, whilst built upon a biological foundation, are historically and culturally contingent phenomena experienced through the senses and the embodied self. Imbued with sentiment, funerary ritual, and material culture—those…
Archaeology and Animal Persons
The discipline of archaeology has long engaged with animals in a utilitarian mode, constructing animals as objects to be hunted, manipulated, domesticated, and consumed. Only recently, in tandem with the rising interest in animals in the humanities and the development of interdisciplinary animal studies research, has archaeology begun to systematically engage with animals as subjects. This article describes some of the ways in which archaeologist…
The Archaeology of Ancestors
This chapter provides an overview of archaeological approaches to ancestor veneration in the past. Two major works (by Patricia McAnany and Mary Helms) moved the study of ancestors beyond the processual insights of Arthur Saxe and Lynne Goldstein and laid the conceptual foundations for more nuanced and ethnographically informed work of the twenty-first century. The chapter reviews the ways in which archaeologists have identified and studied ancie…
The Archaeology of Ancestors
Ancestor veneration is a common practice cross-culturally, and since the 1990s archaeologists have started to explore ancestor veneration in the past. The usual explanation for ancient ancestors is that people in past societies used them and their material correlates (architecture, iconography, tombs, and cemeteries) to validate their rights to land and resources. Yet ethnographic and ethnohistoric accounts of ancestor veneration around the world…
Tropical limestone forest resilience and late Pleistocene foraging during MIS-2 in the Tràng An massif, Vietnam
Response
Personhood and Agency in Eskimo Interactions with the Other-than-Human
Archaeology of Animal Burials
Humans, Birds and Burial Practices at Ipiutak, Alaska
Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence from the coast of western Alaska and St. Lawrence Island indicate that human inhabitants over the past 1500–2000 years incorporated birds into their diets, cosmologies, material culture, and daily activities. Following a brief discussion of the archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence for human–bird relations, this article explores the evidence for birds as both an economic and cosmological resource at t…
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Walrus Ritual around Bering Strait
Nineteenth-century ethnohistoric sources describe rituals and beliefs related to the exploitation of walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on the islands of the Bering Sea and the coast of Chukotka. These small-scale rites practiced by St. Lawrence Islanders, Siberian Yupiget, and Chukchi were intended to thank walrus and ensure future hunting success. Rituals conducted by walrus boat captains also facilitated integration of walrus hunting crews and their f…
Pre-Domestication
Archaeology (15 works) · History (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works)