John Carman
Biographic Data
| ID | 341475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Carman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Carman |
| SIGNATURE | CARMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9288-6237 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Paradoxes That Create the Space for Treating Archaeological Heritage as a Target in War
This article aims to put considerations of threats of damage and destruction to cultural heritage in periods of conflict into a wider context, looking at the nature of war itself as a cultural form. Taking a long-term perspective derived from other work on conflict archaeology, it will start from the premise that a concern for the fate of ‘things’ (however ancient) is a particular pathology of modernity and it is this pathology that creates the c…
Alternative Futures for European Archaeologists
The Valletta Convention limits the right to excavate to those professionally qualified, which prevents amateurs from opportunities to undertake invasive research. This potentially contradicts the terms of other Conventions – especially the Faro Convention – which specifically grants citizens’ rights of access to culture. This poses a question for archaeologists: do we insist on our status as professionals as the only acceptable excavators? or do …
Heritage under Law: Reexamining Heritage as an Object for Control
Once while presenting a model of heritage denying the application of notions of property and ownership (Carman 2005), it was asked how such a model would be put into legislation. The fact that the question could be asked—when the argument presented specifically challenged the idea of heritage as being ‘governed by legislation’ (Cleere 1989, 10)—emphasises the extent to which heritage is considered and treated as a child of law: we take it so much…
Darwin, Here We Come! Looking Forward to WAC-10
News, Appeals and Worries
Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare
Gathering in the Heart of Prague for WAC-9 amid Conflict and Pandemic
WAC Virtual Inter-Congress Archaeology on the Global Stage
Global Congresses and Global Crises
Cultural Heritage and Communities
Legislation in Archaeology: Overview and Introduction
Battlefield Archaeology
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
WAC-9 Further Deferred… But Something to Keep US Going
Challenges: Arrivals, Departures, Destruction, Debate
Richard M. S. Taylor (1903-1992)
Links: Going Beyond Cultural Property
Taking as its start-point a radical intervention in the field of archaeology and heritage—one that laid down a direct challenge to the unspoken discourse of property relations inherent in our management of cultural resources—this article considers how much has changed since that intervention. In particular, the article considers developments in the manner of legal regulation of archaeological heritage, the adoption of ideas from economics, and re…
Archaeology on the Global Stage
As readers will know, our host organisation the World Archaeological Congress has a global reach and represents us to other global organisations. Key areas for WAC's concern are of course the treatment of archaeological remains and engagements with communities, especially Indigenous communities. Most recently, WAC has engaged with the World Bank in commenting on the latter's policy on development as it affects archaeological resources and engagem…
A Response to Responses to ‘“Herding Cats”: Building Archaeological Communities’
A Response to Responses to ‘“Herding Cats”: Building Archaeological Communities’." Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, 5(1), pp. 64–65
Challenges and Response
The Euronews television channel includes an item each day called ''No Comment'' which is a
World Heritage News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Crumbling Unesco and Aggregating Archaeology
Herding Cats: Building Archaeological Communities
Periodically archaeologists turn their gaze inwards towards their own field, to consider it as a craft activity or as a community of interest in its own right. The phrase 'archaeological community' is one widely used but rarely defined, and there is always a tendency towards the division of archaeology into a variety of distinct specialisms: yet one of the major aspects of academic life is in the construction of communities of shared interests. H…
A Companion to Heritage Studies
Looking Back and Forward
This slightly delayed issue of Archaeologies at once looks back to 2016 and forward to 2017. In looking back, we reflect on WAC8 in Kyoto to which we looked forward in our August 2016 issue. In looking forward, we wish all our readers and colleagues, and WAC itself, a very happy and (albeit belated) prosperous New Year. Many of the issues arising in 2016 remain to affect us in the coming months, and we are sure new ones will arise— some positive …
Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
Educating for Sustainability in Archaeology
‘Sustainability’ is a concept that suffuses the present. Policy initiatives require ‘sustainability’ as one of the criteria by which projects are judged. In recognition of their role as interpreters and custodians of the past, archaeologists are one of the many groups contributing to the creation of ‘a sustainable historic environment’ and ‘sustainable communities’. Accordingly, sustainability is a concept that we perhaps need to incorporate into…
Is archaeological valuation an accounting matter
How can a value be put on the past? This article promotes discussion of how archaeologists and museum curators are being forced into providing valuations for their 'resource' and collections, and conforming to accounting practices
Herding Cats: Building Archaeological Communities
Periodically archaeologists turn their gaze inwards towards their own field, to consider it as a craft activity or as a community of interest in its own right. The phrase 'archaeological community' is one widely used but rarely defined, and there is always a tendency towards the division of archaeology into a variety of distinct specialisms: yet one of the major aspects of academic life is in the construction of communities of shared interests. H…
Archaeologies of Conflict
Introduction Archaeology and Conflict Studies Prehistoric Conflict Historic Battlefields Modern Conflict The Potential for Conflict Archaeology Conclusions Bibliography Index
Battlefields as cultural resources
The category of 'historic battlefield' is a relatively new one in archaeology. As a place of activity in the past, a battlefield is most often considered to be a 'historic place', rather than an 'archaeological site', although the attention of archaeologists over the past few decades has done much to indicate the archaeological potential and significance of such places. As a site of attention by heritage agencies in the present, battlefields are …
Legacies of War in Creating a Common European Identity
Recent fieldwork, carried out as part of the Bloody Meadows Project on historic battlefields, has revealed the diversity of approaches to memorialising places of conflict in the European past. The different ways in which such places are marked and remembered has something to tell us about how we may construct a new sense of European identity. It thus provides the basis for the emergence of a sense of 'European-ness' that is not a copy of national…
A Companion to Heritage Studies
Looking Back and Forward
This slightly delayed issue of Archaeologies at once looks back to 2016 and forward to 2017. In looking back, we reflect on WAC8 in Kyoto to which we looked forward in our August 2016 issue. In looking forward, we wish all our readers and colleagues, and WAC itself, a very happy and (albeit belated) prosperous New Year. Many of the issues arising in 2016 remain to affect us in the coming months, and we are sure new ones will arise— some positive …
Stories We Tell: Myths at the Heart of ‘Community Archaeology’
Theorising a Realm of Practice: Introducing Archaeological Heritage Management as a Research Field
The paper introduces the field of archaeological heritage management, and the four papers on this subject here presented. Comparisons are made with Cultural Resource Management, Cultural Heritage Management and Archaeological Heritage Management. The research discussed here examines the management of archaeology in practical situations, including those involving indigeneity, to develop a body of theory that will help to illuminate such practice i…
History of Religion
Journal Article HISTORY OF RELIGION Get access Hinduism. By R. C. ZAEHNER. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. 272 pages (in English edition). $1.70. JOHN B. CARMAN JOHN B. CARMAN Harvard Divinity School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, January 1964, Pages 90–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXII.1.90 Published: 01 January 1964
The Theology of Rāmānuja: An Essay in Interreligious Understanding
The Theology of Ramanuja: An Essay in Interreligious Understanding
Christian Faith in a Religiously Plural World
Purity and Auspiciousness in Indian Society
Tamil Bhakti in Translation
Philosophy and Religion: Essays in Interpretation
Confronting the Past: Unfree Labour as a Historical Phenomenon and a Modern Problem, Cambridge, 28-30 March 1994
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Majesty and Meekness: A Comparative Study of Contrast and Harmony in the Concept of God
John Pugh-SMITH & John Samuels. Archaeology in low. xlii+378 pages, 3 figures. 1996. London: Sweet & Maxwell; 0-421-503-408 hardback £55
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Is archaeological valuation an accounting matter
How can a value be put on the past? This article promotes discussion of how archaeologists and museum curators are being forced into providing valuations for their 'resource' and collections, and conforming to accounting practices
Theorising a Realm of Practice: Introducing Archaeological Heritage Management as a Research Field
The paper introduces the field of archaeological heritage management, and the four papers on this subject here presented. Comparisons are made with Cultural Resource Management, Cultural Heritage Management and Archaeological Heritage Management. The research discussed here examines the management of archaeology in practical situations, including those involving indigeneity, to develop a body of theory that will help to illuminate such practice i…
Rules of engagement
A two-day conference, Fields of Conflict: progress and prospect in battlefield archaeology, held at the University of Glasgow, 15-16 April 2000, began by considering techniques of research and the interpretation of events and moved to consideration of site management and preservation
Ancient Warfare: Archaeological Perspectives
The origins of war and ethnic violence, Jonathan Haas biosocial and bioarchaeological aspects of conflict and warfare, Don Brothwell beyond the Western way of war - ancient battlefields in comparative perspective, John Carman stone age warfare, Slavomil Vencl war and peace in prehistoric Eastern Europe, P.M. Dolukhanov neolithic enclosures in Greek Macedonia - violent and non-violent aspects of territorial demarcation, Dimkitra Kokkinidou and Mar…
Legacies of War in Creating a Common European Identity
Recent fieldwork, carried out as part of the Bloody Meadows Project on historic battlefields, has revealed the diversity of approaches to memorialising places of conflict in the European past. The different ways in which such places are marked and remembered has something to tell us about how we may construct a new sense of European identity. It thus provides the basis for the emergence of a sense of 'European-ness' that is not a copy of national…
Managing Archaeology
Battlefields as cultural resources
The category of 'historic battlefield' is a relatively new one in archaeology. As a place of activity in the past, a battlefield is most often considered to be a 'historic place', rather than an 'archaeological site', although the attention of archaeologists over the past few decades has done much to indicate the archaeological potential and significance of such places. As a site of attention by heritage agencies in the present, battlefields are …
Mark Patton. Science, politics and business in the work of Sir John Lubbock: A man of universal mind. xiv+270 pages, 11 illustrations. 2007. Aldershot: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-5321-9 hardback £55
Mark Patton. Science, politics and business in the work of Sir John Lubbock: a man of universal mind. xiv+270 pages, 11 illustrations. 2007. Aldershot: Ashgate; 978-0-7546-5321-9 hardback £55. - Volume 82 Issue 318
Heritage Studies
Stories We Tell: Myths at the Heart of ‘Community Archaeology’
The Oxford handbook of public archaeology
This volume aims to evaluate the range of research strategies and methods used in archaeological heritage and museum studies critically explore the history of archaeological resource management, and question the fundamental principles and practices through which the archaeological past is understood and used today
My Historic Environment
Archaeologies of Conflict
Introduction Archaeology and Conflict Studies Prehistoric Conflict Historic Battlefields Modern Conflict The Potential for Conflict Archaeology Conclusions Bibliography Index
Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
Battlefield Archaeology
History (34 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Political science (21 works) · History (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (15 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works)