Patrick Carmichael
Biographic Data
| ID | 334656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Carmichael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Carmichael |
| SIGNATURE | CARMICHAEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Royal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2053-7115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Proto-Nasca Iconography
Nasca Pottery Production
Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting aesthetic qualities, the actual production of Nasca pottery is little explored. In recent years the principal contributions have come from characterization studies of paste and mineral paints, along with fresh perspectives on the social context. This article reviews the work…
Stages, periods, epochs, and phases in Paracas and Nasca chronology
Chronology on the south coast of Peru is adrift. Researchers have a choice of using developmental stages or historical periods. Increasingly, fuzzy thinking has led to the publication of chronologies employing both stages and periods in the same chart. Authors seem unaware that stages and periods are fundamentally different ways of organizing the past, underpinned by different sets of assumptions which ask different questions. The current work is…
Nasca origins and Paracas progenitors
The origins and endings of Nasca culture lie with the appearance, florescence, and termination of Nasca religion (south-coastal Peru, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 600). Elaborate, polychrome iconography on ceramic vessels reveals a pantheon of supernatural creatures representing the materialized ideology of Nasca worldview. This article takes an iconographic approach to examine the origins of Nasca religion by tracing the central …
Proto-Nasca art and antaras
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography. As a contribution to archaeology and art history, this article re-invigorates the approach by demonstrating methods an…
Coastal but not littoral
We examine the contribution of marine resources to the Nasca dietary economy (Early Intermediate Period, circa 100 B.C.–A.D. 600, Peruvian south coast) through ceramic iconography, settlement patterns, maritime subsistence technology, fish and shell remains, and stable isotope analysis. Each data set has limitations but, when combined, a consistent pattern emerges. Although the rich marine biomass of the Peru Current offers potential for huge foo…
Secret codes
There is a long tradition in education of examination of the hidden curriculum, those elements which are implicit or tacit to the formal goals of education. This article draws upon that tradition to open up for investigation the hidden curriculum and assumptions about students and knowledge that are embedded in the coding undertaken to facilitate learning through information technologies, and emerging ‘semantic technologies’ in particular. Drawin…
Cultures of Inquiry in Technology Enhanced Learning and Beyond
Interdisciplinary working is often understood as involving individuals or teams from different disciplines to engage with common problems, but this has proved to be an enduring challenge. An alternative framing of interdisciplinary working is Hall's ‘culture of inquiry’, in which it is conceptualised as narrative creation in an environment of formative critique. This paper explores the relevance and applicability of this idea to educational resea…
Tribes, Territories and Threshold Concepts
The idea of transformative and troublesome ‘threshold concepts’ has been popular and influential in higher education. This article reports how teachers with different disciplinary affiliations responded to the ‘concept of thresholds’ in the course of a cross‐disciplinary research project. It describes how the idea was territorialised and enacted through established materialising discourses in different disciplinary settings and enacted through pe…
Research Capacity Building in Education
Accounts of how research capacity in education can be developed often make reference to electronic networks and online resources. This paper presents a theoretically driven analysis of the role of one such resource, an online archive of educational research studies that includes not only digitised collections of original documents but also videos of contextual interviews with the original researchers, linked and presented using emerging ‘semantic…
The Internet, Information Architecture and Community Memory
This article reviews current technological developments, particularly Peer-to-Peer technologies and Distributed Data Systems, and their value to community memory projects, particularly those concerned with the preservation of the cultural, literary and administrative data of cultures which have suffered genocide or are at risk of genocide. It draws attention to the comparatively good representation online of genocide denial groups and changes in …
Teachers’ networks in and out of school
A ‘mapping task’ was used to explore the networks available to head teachers, school coordinators and local authority staff. Beginning from an ego‐centred perspective on networks, we illustrate a number of key analytic categories, including brokerage, formality, and strength and weakness of links with reference to a single UK primary school. We describe how teachers differentiate between the strength of network links and their value, which is cha…
Open Source as appropriate technology for global education
Nasca Pottery Construction
Unusual Artifact From the Northern Plains Periphery
"Unusual Artifact From the Northern Plains Periphery." Plains Anthropologist, 27(98), pp. 327–328
Coastal but not littoral
We examine the contribution of marine resources to the Nasca dietary economy (Early Intermediate Period, circa 100 B.C.–A.D. 600, Peruvian south coast) through ceramic iconography, settlement patterns, maritime subsistence technology, fish and shell remains, and stable isotope analysis. Each data set has limitations but, when combined, a consistent pattern emerges. Although the rich marine biomass of the Peru Current offers potential for huge foo…
Stages, periods, epochs, and phases in Paracas and Nasca chronology
Chronology on the south coast of Peru is adrift. Researchers have a choice of using developmental stages or historical periods. Increasingly, fuzzy thinking has led to the publication of chronologies employing both stages and periods in the same chart. Authors seem unaware that stages and periods are fundamentally different ways of organizing the past, underpinned by different sets of assumptions which ask different questions. The current work is…
Nasca Pottery Construction
Nasca origins and Paracas progenitors
The origins and endings of Nasca culture lie with the appearance, florescence, and termination of Nasca religion (south-coastal Peru, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 600). Elaborate, polychrome iconography on ceramic vessels reveals a pantheon of supernatural creatures representing the materialized ideology of Nasca worldview. This article takes an iconographic approach to examine the origins of Nasca religion by tracing the central …
Proto-Nasca art and antaras
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography. As a contribution to archaeology and art history, this article re-invigorates the approach by demonstrating methods an…
Teachers’ networks in and out of school
A ‘mapping task’ was used to explore the networks available to head teachers, school coordinators and local authority staff. Beginning from an ego‐centred perspective on networks, we illustrate a number of key analytic categories, including brokerage, formality, and strength and weakness of links with reference to a single UK primary school. We describe how teachers differentiate between the strength of network links and their value, which is cha…
Nasca Pottery Production
Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting aesthetic qualities, the actual production of Nasca pottery is little explored. In recent years the principal contributions have come from characterization studies of paste and mineral paints, along with fresh perspectives on the social context. This article reviews the work…
Tribes, Territories and Threshold Concepts
The idea of transformative and troublesome ‘threshold concepts’ has been popular and influential in higher education. This article reports how teachers with different disciplinary affiliations responded to the ‘concept of thresholds’ in the course of a cross‐disciplinary research project. It describes how the idea was territorialised and enacted through established materialising discourses in different disciplinary settings and enacted through pe…
Secret codes
There is a long tradition in education of examination of the hidden curriculum, those elements which are implicit or tacit to the formal goals of education. This article draws upon that tradition to open up for investigation the hidden curriculum and assumptions about students and knowledge that are embedded in the coding undertaken to facilitate learning through information technologies, and emerging ‘semantic technologies’ in particular. Drawin…
Unusual Artifact From the Northern Plains Periphery
"Unusual Artifact From the Northern Plains Periphery." Plains Anthropologist, 27(98), pp. 327–328
Nasca Pottery Construction
Open Source as appropriate technology for global education
The Internet, Information Architecture and Community Memory
This article reviews current technological developments, particularly Peer-to-Peer technologies and Distributed Data Systems, and their value to community memory projects, particularly those concerned with the preservation of the cultural, literary and administrative data of cultures which have suffered genocide or are at risk of genocide. It draws attention to the comparatively good representation online of genocide denial groups and changes in …
Teachers’ networks in and out of school
A ‘mapping task’ was used to explore the networks available to head teachers, school coordinators and local authority staff. Beginning from an ego‐centred perspective on networks, we illustrate a number of key analytic categories, including brokerage, formality, and strength and weakness of links with reference to a single UK primary school. We describe how teachers differentiate between the strength of network links and their value, which is cha…
Cultures of Inquiry in Technology Enhanced Learning and Beyond
Interdisciplinary working is often understood as involving individuals or teams from different disciplines to engage with common problems, but this has proved to be an enduring challenge. An alternative framing of interdisciplinary working is Hall's ‘culture of inquiry’, in which it is conceptualised as narrative creation in an environment of formative critique. This paper explores the relevance and applicability of this idea to educational resea…
Tribes, Territories and Threshold Concepts
The idea of transformative and troublesome ‘threshold concepts’ has been popular and influential in higher education. This article reports how teachers with different disciplinary affiliations responded to the ‘concept of thresholds’ in the course of a cross‐disciplinary research project. It describes how the idea was territorialised and enacted through established materialising discourses in different disciplinary settings and enacted through pe…
Research Capacity Building in Education
Accounts of how research capacity in education can be developed often make reference to electronic networks and online resources. This paper presents a theoretically driven analysis of the role of one such resource, an online archive of educational research studies that includes not only digitised collections of original documents but also videos of contextual interviews with the original researchers, linked and presented using emerging ‘semantic…
Secret codes
There is a long tradition in education of examination of the hidden curriculum, those elements which are implicit or tacit to the formal goals of education. This article draws upon that tradition to open up for investigation the hidden curriculum and assumptions about students and knowledge that are embedded in the coding undertaken to facilitate learning through information technologies, and emerging ‘semantic technologies’ in particular. Drawin…
Coastal but not littoral
We examine the contribution of marine resources to the Nasca dietary economy (Early Intermediate Period, circa 100 B.C.–A.D. 600, Peruvian south coast) through ceramic iconography, settlement patterns, maritime subsistence technology, fish and shell remains, and stable isotope analysis. Each data set has limitations but, when combined, a consistent pattern emerges. Although the rich marine biomass of the Peru Current offers potential for huge foo…
Proto-Nasca art and antaras
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography. As a contribution to archaeology and art history, this article re-invigorates the approach by demonstrating methods an…
Nasca origins and Paracas progenitors
The origins and endings of Nasca culture lie with the appearance, florescence, and termination of Nasca religion (south-coastal Peru, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 600). Elaborate, polychrome iconography on ceramic vessels reveals a pantheon of supernatural creatures representing the materialized ideology of Nasca worldview. This article takes an iconographic approach to examine the origins of Nasca religion by tracing the central …
Stages, periods, epochs, and phases in Paracas and Nasca chronology
Chronology on the south coast of Peru is adrift. Researchers have a choice of using developmental stages or historical periods. Increasingly, fuzzy thinking has led to the publication of chronologies employing both stages and periods in the same chart. Authors seem unaware that stages and periods are fundamentally different ways of organizing the past, underpinned by different sets of assumptions which ask different questions. The current work is…
Nasca Pottery Production
Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting aesthetic qualities, the actual production of Nasca pottery is little explored. In recent years the principal contributions have come from characterization studies of paste and mineral paints, along with fresh perspectives on the social context. This article reviews the work…
Proto-Nasca Iconography
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