Gordon Bronitsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 102596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Bronitsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Bronitsky |
| SIGNATURE | BRONITSKY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Doing Anthropology – Full Tilt, Full‐Time
In this chapter, the author, Gordon Bronitsky is an independent practitioner who works as a promoter of indigenous performers. He explores how he decided to do this type of work; how his anthropology background helped him; what he needed to know (and didn't know when he started); some of the highlights of his work; and where he is going from here. He concludes the chapter with a discussion of the things that make his work interesting and exciting…
Creating Spaces Where Things Happen
I am a business anthropologist as well as the founder and President of Bronitsky and Associates. For the last 15 years, we have worked with Indigenous people around the world in the performing arts and festival development. In this short article I recount where I began, how I got here, and where I am going at the intersections of anthropology, business, Indigenous performers, and the performing arts
American Indians, World Markets
Somewhat to my surprise, I've become a social and applied anthropologist. Certainly, I received a firm grounding in the hallowed fourfield approach both as an undergraduate and a graduate student, but I always supposed that the "lesser three fields" would merely serve as adjuncts to my career as an academic archeologist, useful mainly for teaching yet another generation of undergraduates the importance of eating mongongo nuts among the Bushmen. I…
Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq
What Counts as Success
Mirror and Metaphor
Ceramics and Temper
Feathers is critical of the selection of materials and the use of commercial clay in our earlier research. The use of shell temper from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the properties of this material were considered useful regardless of the specific clay source. Furthermore, Feathers’s comments indicate the need for further discussion and understanding of the role of simulated use testing of archaeological materials
Navajo National Monument
Recycling
The Use of Materials Science Techniques in the Study of Pottery Construction and Use
Compressive Testing of Ceramics
Recent research has begun to evaluate the utility of selected analytical approaches from the discipline of materials science in the characterization of ceramics for the archaeological study of social and economic change. Characterization describes those features of composition and structure of a material that are important for the preparation of a product, the study of its properties, or its ultimate use. Comparative analyses of compressive stren…
Experiments in Ceramic Technology
Prehistoric potters used a wide variety of materials as temper, or filler. Although temper selection has often been assumed to be the result of purely cultural factors, recent research indicates temper had technological functions as well. Impact and thermal-shock resistance data of a range of kinds, grades, and amounts of temper are presented. Test results indicate that the use of finely-ground tempers in general and burned shell temper in partic…
Baptists and Boundaries
Paleoclimates in Southeastern Arizona
Southeastern Arizona is crucial to our understanding of human development. The area has more buried Clovis sites than any area of comparable size in the United States, a well-defined Archaic sequence, and early agricultural developments. An understanding of development in this region requires careful consideration and evaluation of available climatic evidence. This paper reviews the conflicting Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic data to prese…
Specialized Production in the Southwest
The Pueblo IV period in the northern Rio Grande valley of New Mexico (AD 1200–1540) was one of increasing climatic and demographic variability. Analysis of certain chipped stone tools from Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (LA-12) has provided an understanding of some of the means prehistoric populations in the region employed to cope with this variability, focusing on changes in productive strategy. A theoretical model of resource restriction is presente…
Ecological Models in Economic Prehistory
Ethnography by Archaeologists
The Southwest and the Plains
The ecological concept of niche is used to provide a better understanding of prehistoric interactions between the Plains and the Puebloan Southwest. A diachronic model is presented based on concepts of energy flow and regional microvariation in net energy input. At a general level, such use of ecological models and principles enables changes in human systems to be seen as an example of a general increase in ecosystem complexity. The application o…
Events in the Archaeological Context and Archaeological Explanation [with Comments and Replies]
Many archaeologists have expressed dissatisfaction with the degree of explanatory power provided by the "new archaeology." It is the author's contention that this failure of explanation is due to a continued emphasis on the modal character of archaeological data. The variation in a cultural system's activity structure has not been perceived as influencing the archaeological context. A heuristic device is suggested to help archaeologists conceptua…
Amateur Certification in Archaeology
Amateur and professional archeologists alike have called again and again for more public education, particularly as destruction of archeological sites has accelerated. Several programs focusing on education through certification programs are reviewed. Problems of amateur participation, relevance to the community and university, and publication are discussed. It is concluded that a well-planned program of amateur education and certification can be…
Technological Innovation and Population Pressure
Following the lead of recent studies linking demographic change with technological innovation, research was conducted in the Rio Grande region of New Mexico to determine if such change had occurred there, and its extent in terms of three technological areas--agricultural innovation, foodwaste management, and time structuring of major economic activities. Evidence from the site of Arroyo Hondo suggests that significant technological change accompa…
Experiments in Ceramic Technology
Prehistoric potters used a wide variety of materials as temper, or filler. Although temper selection has often been assumed to be the result of purely cultural factors, recent research indicates temper had technological functions as well. Impact and thermal-shock resistance data of a range of kinds, grades, and amounts of temper are presented. Test results indicate that the use of finely-ground tempers in general and burned shell temper in partic…
Events in the Archaeological Context and Archaeological Explanation [with Comments and Replies]
Many archaeologists have expressed dissatisfaction with the degree of explanatory power provided by the "new archaeology." It is the author's contention that this failure of explanation is due to a continued emphasis on the modal character of archaeological data. The variation in a cultural system's activity structure has not been perceived as influencing the archaeological context. A heuristic device is suggested to help archaeologists conceptua…
Compressive Testing of Ceramics
Recent research has begun to evaluate the utility of selected analytical approaches from the discipline of materials science in the characterization of ceramics for the archaeological study of social and economic change. Characterization describes those features of composition and structure of a material that are important for the preparation of a product, the study of its properties, or its ultimate use. Comparative analyses of compressive stren…
Ceramics and Temper
Feathers is critical of the selection of materials and the use of commercial clay in our earlier research. The use of shell temper from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the properties of this material were considered useful regardless of the specific clay source. Furthermore, Feathers’s comments indicate the need for further discussion and understanding of the role of simulated use testing of archaeological materials
Mirror and Metaphor
Ecological Models in Economic Prehistory
Technological Innovation and Population Pressure
Following the lead of recent studies linking demographic change with technological innovation, research was conducted in the Rio Grande region of New Mexico to determine if such change had occurred there, and its extent in terms of three technological areas--agricultural innovation, foodwaste management, and time structuring of major economic activities. Evidence from the site of Arroyo Hondo suggests that significant technological change accompa…
Technological Innovation and Population Pressure
Following the lead of recent studies linking demographic change with technological innovation, research was conducted in the Rio Grande region of New Mexico to determine if such change had occurred there, and its extent in terms of three technological areas--agricultural innovation, foodwaste management, and time structuring of major economic activities. Evidence from the site of Arroyo Hondo suggests that significant technological change accompa…
Amateur Certification in Archaeology
Amateur and professional archeologists alike have called again and again for more public education, particularly as destruction of archeological sites has accelerated. Several programs focusing on education through certification programs are reviewed. Problems of amateur participation, relevance to the community and university, and publication are discussed. It is concluded that a well-planned program of amateur education and certification can be…
The Southwest and the Plains
The ecological concept of niche is used to provide a better understanding of prehistoric interactions between the Plains and the Puebloan Southwest. A diachronic model is presented based on concepts of energy flow and regional microvariation in net energy input. At a general level, such use of ecological models and principles enables changes in human systems to be seen as an example of a general increase in ecosystem complexity. The application o…
Events in the Archaeological Context and Archaeological Explanation [with Comments and Replies]
Many archaeologists have expressed dissatisfaction with the degree of explanatory power provided by the "new archaeology." It is the author's contention that this failure of explanation is due to a continued emphasis on the modal character of archaeological data. The variation in a cultural system's activity structure has not been perceived as influencing the archaeological context. A heuristic device is suggested to help archaeologists conceptua…
Ethnography by Archaeologists
Baptists and Boundaries
Paleoclimates in Southeastern Arizona
Southeastern Arizona is crucial to our understanding of human development. The area has more buried Clovis sites than any area of comparable size in the United States, a well-defined Archaic sequence, and early agricultural developments. An understanding of development in this region requires careful consideration and evaluation of available climatic evidence. This paper reviews the conflicting Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic data to prese…
Specialized Production in the Southwest
The Pueblo IV period in the northern Rio Grande valley of New Mexico (AD 1200–1540) was one of increasing climatic and demographic variability. Analysis of certain chipped stone tools from Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (LA-12) has provided an understanding of some of the means prehistoric populations in the region employed to cope with this variability, focusing on changes in productive strategy. A theoretical model of resource restriction is presente…
Ecological Models in Economic Prehistory
The Use of Materials Science Techniques in the Study of Pottery Construction and Use
Compressive Testing of Ceramics
Recent research has begun to evaluate the utility of selected analytical approaches from the discipline of materials science in the characterization of ceramics for the archaeological study of social and economic change. Characterization describes those features of composition and structure of a material that are important for the preparation of a product, the study of its properties, or its ultimate use. Comparative analyses of compressive stren…
Experiments in Ceramic Technology
Prehistoric potters used a wide variety of materials as temper, or filler. Although temper selection has often been assumed to be the result of purely cultural factors, recent research indicates temper had technological functions as well. Impact and thermal-shock resistance data of a range of kinds, grades, and amounts of temper are presented. Test results indicate that the use of finely-ground tempers in general and burned shell temper in partic…
Navajo National Monument
Recycling
Ceramics and Temper
Feathers is critical of the selection of materials and the use of commercial clay in our earlier research. The use of shell temper from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the properties of this material were considered useful regardless of the specific clay source. Furthermore, Feathers’s comments indicate the need for further discussion and understanding of the role of simulated use testing of archaeological materials
Mirror and Metaphor
What Counts as Success
Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq
American Indians, World Markets
Somewhat to my surprise, I've become a social and applied anthropologist. Certainly, I received a firm grounding in the hallowed fourfield approach both as an undergraduate and a graduate student, but I always supposed that the "lesser three fields" would merely serve as adjuncts to my career as an academic archeologist, useful mainly for teaching yet another generation of undergraduates the importance of eating mongongo nuts among the Bushmen. I…
Creating Spaces Where Things Happen
I am a business anthropologist as well as the founder and President of Bronitsky and Associates. For the last 15 years, we have worked with Indigenous people around the world in the performing arts and festival development. In this short article I recount where I began, how I got here, and where I am going at the intersections of anthropology, business, Indigenous performers, and the performing arts
Doing Anthropology – Full Tilt, Full‐Time
In this chapter, the author, Gordon Bronitsky is an independent practitioner who works as a promoter of indigenous performers. He explores how he decided to do this type of work; how his anthropology background helped him; what he needed to know (and didn't know when he started); some of the highlights of his work; and where he is going from here. He concludes the chapter with a discussion of the things that make his work interesting and exciting…
Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Prehistory (5 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Building materials and conservation (4 works)