R Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 41558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4614-0055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Do I look like a refugee? Challenging the passive victim narrative of refugeehood in Tongogara refugee settlement
This article examines refugee framing and agency in the context of protracted displacement in Zimbabwe, drawing on research conducted in Tongogara Refugee Settlement (TRS) in December 2024. Using Giddens’ structuration theory and Brun’s concept of active agency-in-waiting, it employs qualitative methods, including in-depth discussions and observations with 24 refugees. Findings show that refugees navigate restrictive policies by engaging in the i…
The Shang Economy
This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeological discovery and the increasing deployment of archaeological science means that there is a wealth of new information making a new synthesis both challenging and necessary. This synthesis was written from the perspective that the study of anci…
Pottery analysis at Guandimiao
Before the Western Zhou
Experimental Archaeological Study of Incised Marks on Animal Bones Produced by Iron Implements
In zooarchaeological research, animal bone fractures can result from various processes including slaughtering, dismemberment, marrow/grease extraction, craft processing, carnivore gnawing/trampling, sediment compression, bioturbation, and recovery bias. These fractures are further influenced by bone freshness/dryness and environmental temperature. The animal bones analysed in this study, excavated from Han dynasty tombs in the Xinxiang Plain New …
Qin Cao. 2022. Weapons in Late Shang (c.1250–1050 BCE) China
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Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi
Shimao and the Rise of States in China
The Shimao (石峁) site, located in northeastern Shaanxi Province, is the focus of some of the most exciting work being done in Chinese archaeology today. Since 2012, the site has been included several times in the list of the most important discoveries of Chinese archaeology and was even selected by the first Shanghai Archaeology Forum as one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries in the world. Because of its unique nature and the exemplary work …
Small-scale bone working in a complex economy
Mismatches of scale in the application of paleoclimatic research to Chinese archaeology
Issues surrounding the difficult task of correlating archaeological and climatic trajectories are directly impacting the study of human-environmental interaction in Ancient China. We have chosen to focus on the 4.2 ka BP event due to the widespread belief in recent Chinese archaeological publications that it brought about the collapse of Neolithic cultures in multiple regions of China. Following a literature review concerning the many issues surr…
Chinese Bronze Age Political Economies
To Eat or Not to Eat? Animals and Categorical Fluidity in Shang Society
In Shang scholarship, animals have frequently been understood in terms of religion. Animals are viewed as powerful totemic symbols of clans or fantastic vehicles connecting shamans to the spirit realm, or the central components of ritual sacrifice. Such discourses take modern Western ontological assumptions concerning human–animal and religious-secular distinctions for granted, however. Incorporating new textual and archaeological data, as well a…
Beyond meaning
Not only does the ontological turn not necessarily imply a turn away from semiotics but that rethought as systems of mediation, semiotics are both a necessary aspect of ontological analysis and necessarily reshaped by the endeavour. At the same time, if the 'decentering of the human' implied by a turn to things and to ontology has tended to 'reassemble the social' apolitically as well as symmetrically, at least in archaeology, this is not due to …
Subsistence and persistence
The Neolithic to Bronze Age transition (c. 5000-3500 BP) saw dramatic socio-economic developments in ancient China. Complex polities emerged in many regions, only to decline and collapse by the end of the period. In the Central Plains area, however, these centuries laid the foundations for China's first dynasties. This article presents zooarchaeological, palaeobotanical and isotopic research from key sites of the Central Plains spanning the perio…
Puppies for the Ancestors
Scott, Domestication and the End of History
In responding to Scott's Against the Grain , my goal is not to write a book review. I take it as unnecessary to point out all the details that Scott, a historical anthropologist of South East Asia, got wrong about ancient history and archaeology. Instead, I want to take seriously Scott's own hope that his book would be read as a provocation and, in doing so, work through some of its larger problems and its potential
Animal use in a Shang Village
Chinese Bronze Age zooarchaeological data sets have almost exclusively been derived from large, urban centres and often from elite contexts. The Anyang period (ca. 1250-1050 BCE) village site of Guandimiao fills an important lacuna as a small, non-elite, rural site. The large urban sites of the Chinese Bronze Age are thought to have been more centres of animal consumption than of stock rearing, and so, Guandimiao presents the first glimpse of a p…
The Guandimiao Bone Assemblage (and What it Says about the Shang Economy)
The Anyang period village of Guandimiao—the only nearly completely excavated village in China of its time—is crucially important for understanding nonurban, nonelites in North China at the end of the second millennium b.c.e. Guandimiao was a small village that specialized in ceramic production, which indicates a hitherto unsuspected degree of economic specialization and integration in the Shang countryside. One line of evidence supporting an argu…
Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State
Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China's first historical dynasty and as one of the world's primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeological, palaeographic and transmitted textual evidence for the Shang polity at Anyang (c.1250-1050 BCE). Roderick Campbell argues that violence was not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation in war and sacrifice.…
Guandimiao
PixStori
Animal, Human, God
Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun 258 12.3.The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display 259 12.4.Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works 262 FIGURES xiv 12.5.A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang 12.6.Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead 12.7.Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin 13.1.Locations disc…
Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age
China in the Early Bronze Age
Reviewed by: China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization by Robert L. Thorp Roderick Campbell China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. Robert L. Thorp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 320pp, 125 figs, 9 tables, 7 maps. ISBN: 978-0-8122-3910-2. Hardcover: $69.95. In his English-language overview of Shang 商 civilization incorporating up-to-date archaeological, art-historical, and transmitted textual and epigrap…
Marxism and Other Western Fallacies
Toward a Networks and Boundaries Approach to Early Complex Polities
The past 10 years have seen a reorientation of archaeological political theory from a focus on neoevolutionary classification and "state origins" to a focus on the operation of ancient polities. This trend, while promising, nonetheless frequently retains problematic habits of earlier approaches, including the tendency to slip into reductionist classificatory exercises. Furthermore, I argue that the naturalized experience of nation-states and the …
Winning Women's Votes? The Incremental Track to Equality
IN the incremental track to equality for women, small and gradual improvements to their position in politics, at work, and in their pay and benefits may lead, eventually, to parity between women and men. In this conceptualisation women are content to wait for equality through decades of gradual change until a new equilibrium between the sexes is achieved. The alternative fast track strategy uses affirmative action to jump-start the equality proce…
Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State
Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China's first historical dynasty and as one of the world's primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeological, palaeographic and transmitted textual evidence for the Shang polity at Anyang (c.1250-1050 BCE). Roderick Campbell argues that violence was not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation in war and sacrifice.…
Consumption, exchange and production at the Great Settlement Shang
Excavations at the Shang capital of Anyang have uncovered a massive bone-working industry. The animal bones, mainly those of cattle, pig and deer were provided as a spin-off from regular large-scale sacrifice, and made mainly into pins, awls and arrowheads. Although some of the pins were destined for the tombs of prominent women, a penetrating analysis shows that production greatly overran local consumption and the authors are able to raise the l…
Chinese Bronze Age Political Economies
Recent archaeometric research on 'the origins of Chinese civilisation
We are very pleased to present a summary account of the People's Republic of China's project on the Origins of Chinese Civilization. It has focused on Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites of the Central Plains - the cultural heartland of the first three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou. Particularly notable is the emphasis of methodology which was driven almost entirely by the archaeological sciences
Shimao and the Rise of States in China
The Shimao (石峁) site, located in northeastern Shaanxi Province, is the focus of some of the most exciting work being done in Chinese archaeology today. Since 2012, the site has been included several times in the list of the most important discoveries of Chinese archaeology and was even selected by the first Shanghai Archaeology Forum as one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries in the world. Because of its unique nature and the exemplary work …
Subsistence and persistence
The Neolithic to Bronze Age transition (c. 5000-3500 BP) saw dramatic socio-economic developments in ancient China. Complex polities emerged in many regions, only to decline and collapse by the end of the period. In the Central Plains area, however, these centuries laid the foundations for China's first dynasties. This article presents zooarchaeological, palaeobotanical and isotopic research from key sites of the Central Plains spanning the perio…
Small-scale bone working in a complex economy
Puppies for the Ancestors
Animal use in a Shang Village
Chinese Bronze Age zooarchaeological data sets have almost exclusively been derived from large, urban centres and often from elite contexts. The Anyang period (ca. 1250-1050 BCE) village site of Guandimiao fills an important lacuna as a small, non-elite, rural site. The large urban sites of the Chinese Bronze Age are thought to have been more centres of animal consumption than of stock rearing, and so, Guandimiao presents the first glimpse of a p…
Guandimiao
Assessment of neuropsychological trajectories in longitudinal population-based studies of children
This paper provides a strategy for the assessment of brain function in longitudinal cohort studies of children. The proposed strategy invokes both domain-specific and omnibus intelligence test approaches. In order to minimise testing burden and practice effects, the cohort is divided into four groups with one-quarter tested at 6-monthly intervals in the 0–2-year age range (at ages 6 months, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 years) and at annual intervals from age…
Scott, Domestication and the End of History
In responding to Scott's Against the Grain , my goal is not to write a book review. I take it as unnecessary to point out all the details that Scott, a historical anthropologist of South East Asia, got wrong about ancient history and archaeology. Instead, I want to take seriously Scott's own hope that his book would be read as a provocation and, in doing so, work through some of its larger problems and its potential
Weaving a new tapestry of research A Bibliography of Selected Readings on Feminist Research Methods
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem. Anthem for Eastertide
At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing
The Price of Vision
Marx and the End of Orientalism
Language of Revolt
Weaving a new tapestry of research A Bibliography of Selected Readings on Feminist Research Methods
Towards fault tolerant pervasive computing
Pervasive computing exists in the user's environment, the technology is sustainable if it is invisible to the user and does not intrude the user's consciousness. This requires that functioning of the multitude of devices in the environment be oblivious to the user. Therefore, the system has to be resilient to various kinds of faults and should be able to function despite faults. In addition, pervasive computing provides a platform for context-awa…
Winning Women's Votes? The Incremental Track to Equality
IN the incremental track to equality for women, small and gradual improvements to their position in politics, at work, and in their pay and benefits may lead, eventually, to parity between women and men. In this conceptualisation women are content to wait for equality through decades of gradual change until a new equilibrium between the sexes is achieved. The alternative fast track strategy uses affirmative action to jump-start the equality proce…
Assessment of neuropsychological trajectories in longitudinal population-based studies of children
This paper provides a strategy for the assessment of brain function in longitudinal cohort studies of children. The proposed strategy invokes both domain-specific and omnibus intelligence test approaches. In order to minimise testing burden and practice effects, the cohort is divided into four groups with one-quarter tested at 6-monthly intervals in the 0–2-year age range (at ages 6 months, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 years) and at annual intervals from age…
Recent archaeometric research on 'the origins of Chinese civilisation
We are very pleased to present a summary account of the People's Republic of China's project on the Origins of Chinese Civilization. It has focused on Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites of the Central Plains - the cultural heartland of the first three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou. Particularly notable is the emphasis of methodology which was driven almost entirely by the archaeological sciences
Toward a Networks and Boundaries Approach to Early Complex Polities
The past 10 years have seen a reorientation of archaeological political theory from a focus on neoevolutionary classification and "state origins" to a focus on the operation of ancient polities. This trend, while promising, nonetheless frequently retains problematic habits of earlier approaches, including the tendency to slip into reductionist classificatory exercises. Furthermore, I argue that the naturalized experience of nation-states and the …
'Wags', 'Wives' and 'Mothers' … But what about Women Politicians
Journal Article 'Wags', 'Wives' and 'Mothers' ... But what about Women Politicians? Get access Rosie Campbell, Rosie Campbell University of London, Birkbeck, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sarah Childs Sarah Childs University of Bristol, Bristol, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 63, Issue…
P24 A cluster-randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a hand washing intervention in reducing infection-related absence in primary schools
Objective To conduct a qualitative process evaluation within a cluster-randomised trial of an educational resource intervention to promote hand washing in primary schools and thus reduce absenteeism by reducing the transmission of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. Design Focus groups with pupils including drawings of hand washing facilities, semi-structured interviews with teachers, direct observation of intervention delivery and hand …
Consumption, exchange and production at the Great Settlement Shang
Excavations at the Shang capital of Anyang have uncovered a massive bone-working industry. The animal bones, mainly those of cattle, pig and deer were provided as a spin-off from regular large-scale sacrifice, and made mainly into pins, awls and arrowheads. Although some of the pins were destined for the tombs of prominent women, a penetrating analysis shows that production greatly overran local consumption and the authors are able to raise the l…
The effects on student health of interventions modifying the school environment
Animal, Human, God
Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun 258 12.3.The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display 259 12.4.Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works 262 FIGURES xiv 12.5.A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang 12.6.Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead 12.7.Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin 13.1.Locations disc…
Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age
China in the Early Bronze Age
Reviewed by: China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization by Robert L. Thorp Roderick Campbell China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. Robert L. Thorp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 320pp, 125 figs, 9 tables, 7 maps. ISBN: 978-0-8122-3910-2. Hardcover: $69.95. In his English-language overview of Shang 商 civilization incorporating up-to-date archaeological, art-historical, and transmitted textual and epigrap…
PixStori
The Guandimiao Bone Assemblage (and What it Says about the Shang Economy)
The Anyang period village of Guandimiao—the only nearly completely excavated village in China of its time—is crucially important for understanding nonurban, nonelites in North China at the end of the second millennium b.c.e. Guandimiao was a small village that specialized in ceramic production, which indicates a hitherto unsuspected degree of economic specialization and integration in the Shang countryside. One line of evidence supporting an argu…
Violence, Kinship and the Early Chinese State
Situated between myth and history, the Shang has been hailed both as China's first historical dynasty and as one of the world's primary civilizations. This book is an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeological, palaeographic and transmitted textual evidence for the Shang polity at Anyang (c.1250-1050 BCE). Roderick Campbell argues that violence was not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation in war and sacrifice.…
Guandimiao
Puppies for the Ancestors
Scott, Domestication and the End of History
In responding to Scott's Against the Grain , my goal is not to write a book review. I take it as unnecessary to point out all the details that Scott, a historical anthropologist of South East Asia, got wrong about ancient history and archaeology. Instead, I want to take seriously Scott's own hope that his book would be read as a provocation and, in doing so, work through some of its larger problems and its potential
Animal use in a Shang Village
Chinese Bronze Age zooarchaeological data sets have almost exclusively been derived from large, urban centres and often from elite contexts. The Anyang period (ca. 1250-1050 BCE) village site of Guandimiao fills an important lacuna as a small, non-elite, rural site. The large urban sites of the Chinese Bronze Age are thought to have been more centres of animal consumption than of stock rearing, and so, Guandimiao presents the first glimpse of a p…
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