John L Creese
Biographic Data
| ID | 139052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John L Creese |
| GIVEN NAMES | John L |
| FAMILY NAME | Creese |
| SIGNATURE | CREESE J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Dakota State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lines of becoming
Art as Kinship: Signs of Life in the Eastern Woodlands
Can archaeology make sense of art ‘after interpretation’? Post-human scholarship suggests that conventional approaches to art, guided by Cartesian ontology, fail to account for the deeper kinship between things and thoughts. But the growing disillusionment with representation leaves art and the semiotic questions it raises in limbo. Can we recover an adequate social theory of art, semiosis and the subject in a post-humanist world? I submit that w…
Making Pipes and Social Persons at the Keffer Site: A Life History Approach
Extending the rafters: The Iroquoian Longhouse as a Sociotechnical System
A better understanding of the role of domestic dwellings in shaping past social relations is needed. Here, Northern Iroquoian longhouses are studied as sociotechnical systems, following Pfaffenberger (1992). This approach allows us to appreciate how social relations were generated and contested in the very activities of building and living in houses. I examine a sample of pre-Columbian longhouses from southern Ontario, Canada. Variation in aspect…
Prolonger la charpente: La maison-longue iroquoienne en tant que système sociotechnique
Nous avons besoin d’une meilleure compréhension du rôle des habitats domestiques dans la formation des relations sociales du passé. Ici, les maisons-longues iroquoiennes du Nord sont étudiées en tant que système sociotechnique, au sens de Pfaffenberger (1992). Cette approche permet d’apprécier comment les relations sociales étaient générées et contestées lors des activités de construction et d’occupation des maisons. J’examine un échantillon de m…
Village Layout and Social Experience: A Comparative Study from the Northeast Woodlands
This paper examines the spatial configuration of two early fourteenth-century Woodland villages—one composed of longhouses (Nodwell) and one a ring-shaped arrangement of oval huts (Fort Hill). The contrasting spatial layouts of these sites are explored from the perspective of social interaction stress in early villages. Visibility Graph Analysis, a technique for analyzing the relational order of visual fields, is used to measure the properties of…
The Domestication of Personhood: A View from the Northern Iroquoian Longhouse
This article examines how personhood was shaped in the routine dispositional relations of longhouse life among the Iroquoian societies of eastern North America. Drawing on scholarship that situates the emergence of culturally-specific modes of personhood within relational networks of people and things, I present evidence that over seven centuries, a deep resonance developed between the ‘polyvalence’ of Iroquoian domestic spaces and a broadly ‘fra…
Algonquian rock art and the landscape of power
This article explores how a relational ontology of landscape provides important insights into the contexts and meanings of Northern Algonquian rock art of the Canadian Shield region. I propose that rock art emerged within and cemented a potent moral landscape that was experienced in terms of reciprocal relations between human and 'other-than-human' persons. Rather than counterposing dualities of natural and supernatural, this landscape was predic…
Algonquian rock art and the landscape of power
This article explores how a relational ontology of landscape provides important insights into the contexts and meanings of Northern Algonquian rock art of the Canadian Shield region. I propose that rock art emerged within and cemented a potent moral landscape that was experienced in terms of reciprocal relations between human and 'other-than-human' persons. Rather than counterposing dualities of natural and supernatural, this landscape was predic…
Art as Kinship: Signs of Life in the Eastern Woodlands
Can archaeology make sense of art ‘after interpretation’? Post-human scholarship suggests that conventional approaches to art, guided by Cartesian ontology, fail to account for the deeper kinship between things and thoughts. But the growing disillusionment with representation leaves art and the semiotic questions it raises in limbo. Can we recover an adequate social theory of art, semiosis and the subject in a post-humanist world? I submit that w…
The Domestication of Personhood: A View from the Northern Iroquoian Longhouse
This article examines how personhood was shaped in the routine dispositional relations of longhouse life among the Iroquoian societies of eastern North America. Drawing on scholarship that situates the emergence of culturally-specific modes of personhood within relational networks of people and things, I present evidence that over seven centuries, a deep resonance developed between the ‘polyvalence’ of Iroquoian domestic spaces and a broadly ‘fra…
Village Layout and Social Experience: A Comparative Study from the Northeast Woodlands
This paper examines the spatial configuration of two early fourteenth-century Woodland villages—one composed of longhouses (Nodwell) and one a ring-shaped arrangement of oval huts (Fort Hill). The contrasting spatial layouts of these sites are explored from the perspective of social interaction stress in early villages. Visibility Graph Analysis, a technique for analyzing the relational order of visual fields, is used to measure the properties of…
Algonquian rock art and the landscape of power
This article explores how a relational ontology of landscape provides important insights into the contexts and meanings of Northern Algonquian rock art of the Canadian Shield region. I propose that rock art emerged within and cemented a potent moral landscape that was experienced in terms of reciprocal relations between human and 'other-than-human' persons. Rather than counterposing dualities of natural and supernatural, this landscape was predic…
The Domestication of Personhood: A View from the Northern Iroquoian Longhouse
This article examines how personhood was shaped in the routine dispositional relations of longhouse life among the Iroquoian societies of eastern North America. Drawing on scholarship that situates the emergence of culturally-specific modes of personhood within relational networks of people and things, I present evidence that over seven centuries, a deep resonance developed between the ‘polyvalence’ of Iroquoian domestic spaces and a broadly ‘fra…
Village Layout and Social Experience: A Comparative Study from the Northeast Woodlands
This paper examines the spatial configuration of two early fourteenth-century Woodland villages—one composed of longhouses (Nodwell) and one a ring-shaped arrangement of oval huts (Fort Hill). The contrasting spatial layouts of these sites are explored from the perspective of social interaction stress in early villages. Visibility Graph Analysis, a technique for analyzing the relational order of visual fields, is used to measure the properties of…
Making Pipes and Social Persons at the Keffer Site: A Life History Approach
Extending the rafters: The Iroquoian Longhouse as a Sociotechnical System
A better understanding of the role of domestic dwellings in shaping past social relations is needed. Here, Northern Iroquoian longhouses are studied as sociotechnical systems, following Pfaffenberger (1992). This approach allows us to appreciate how social relations were generated and contested in the very activities of building and living in houses. I examine a sample of pre-Columbian longhouses from southern Ontario, Canada. Variation in aspect…
Prolonger la charpente: La maison-longue iroquoienne en tant que système sociotechnique
Nous avons besoin d’une meilleure compréhension du rôle des habitats domestiques dans la formation des relations sociales du passé. Ici, les maisons-longues iroquoiennes du Nord sont étudiées en tant que système sociotechnique, au sens de Pfaffenberger (1992). Cette approche permet d’apprécier comment les relations sociales étaient générées et contestées lors des activités de construction et d’occupation des maisons. J’examine un échantillon de m…
Art as Kinship: Signs of Life in the Eastern Woodlands
Can archaeology make sense of art ‘after interpretation’? Post-human scholarship suggests that conventional approaches to art, guided by Cartesian ontology, fail to account for the deeper kinship between things and thoughts. But the growing disillusionment with representation leaves art and the semiotic questions it raises in limbo. Can we recover an adequate social theory of art, semiosis and the subject in a post-humanist world? I submit that w…
Lines of becoming
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)