Christopher Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1502-4385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Early Kingdoms and States in South Asia
Comprising the modern nations of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, South Asia encompasses an area of some 4.5 million square kilometers. The region, a triangular shape that largely coincides with the Indian tectonic plate, is geographically defined to the north by the Himalayan, Karakorum, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges, as well as the expanses of the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Benga…
The social and intellectual life of Dr Jacques Boyd, Scottish Huguenot
This article explores the life of Jacques Boyd ( b . c.1686), a South Carolina-born Huguenot from a family of Bordeaux merchants of Scottish descent, during the period that he spent in Holland (c.1708–1716). Earlier research has described the lives and connections of some of the Boyd family when in South Carolina and Ireland, but Jacques Boyd himself has received very little attention – mainly due to the lack of evidence concerning his life post-…
Investigations within World Heritage Monument Zones of Kathmandu after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake
This paper presents the results of an extensive study carried out to better understand the causes of collapse of heritage structures within the UNESCO-listed World Heritage Monument Zones of the Kathmandu Valley during the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake. The investigation comprised a field reconnaissance survey, followed by geotechnical investigations (field and laboratory) with the aim of assessing and demonstrating the performance of five exemplar hist…
From village to state, and back again
Many have attempted to identify the causes of the abandonment of Sri Lanka’s first capital, Anuradhapura, but few have documented the characteristics of its de-urbanization. By mapping disruptions to established networks of resource procurement and production across its hinterland settlements, we present evidence that the city reverted to procuring and processing its own materials in its terminal phases, coming to resemble the footprint of a larg…
Plan of prehistoric stilt village in Maranhão Brazil may resemble the Pleiades
Archaeological surveys conducted in the Maranhão estuaries of Brazil, near the Atlantic coast, revealed the remnants of 21 prehistoric stilt villages constructed on piles of Tabebuia handroanthrus hardwood above three seasonal flood water estuaries. Radiocarbon dates of 27 samples from 11 of those sites yielded an Archaic Period of construction (6622 ± 119 calibrated years before present) followed much later by consecutive construction periods fr…
Guided by Experience
In 2010 and 2021, Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake and both times it left the nation in the grips of a humanitarian crisis. The U.S. military responded to both events with a large-scale, interorganizational relief effort to provide aid to the affected areas. Though the disaster in 2010 created unprecedented challenges, the U.S. Southern Command met those challenges and applied their lessons to its response to the 2021 earthquake 11 years …
Exploring Spatial Patterns of Virginia Tornadoes Using Kernel Density and Space-Time Cube Analysis (1960–2019)
This study evaluates the spatial-temporal patterns in Virginia tornadoes using the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center’s Severe Weather GIS (SVRGIS) database. In addition to descriptive statistics, the analysis employs Kernel Density Estimation for spatial pattern analysis and space-time cubes to visualize the spatiotemporal frequency of tornadoes and potential trends. Most of the 726 tornadoes between 1960–2019 occurred in Eastern V…
Low-Density Urbanism in Medieval Sri Lanka
A hinterland survey at Polonnaruva has revealed that a planned pluralistic landscape \ndeveloped during the latter part of the Early Medieval period (A.D. 600-1200). This \nrepresents a significant shift in settlement pattern from the organically derived model of \nBuddhist Temporalities found at the antecedent capital, Anuradhapura. In comparison, \nsettlements around Polonnaruva were larger, longer-lived and evenly distributed. This \ncoincided…
Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology
OBJECTIVES: Increased use of three-dimensional (3D) imaging data has led to a need for methods capable of capturing rich shape descriptions. Semi-landmarks have been demonstrated to increase shape information but placement in 3D can be time consuming, computationally expensive, or may introduce artifacts. This study implements and compares three strategies to more densely sample a 3D image surface. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three dense sampling stra…
Die »dienende« Rundfunkfreiheit im Zeitalter der sozialen Vernetzung
Die Rundfunkrechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts liegt, ungeachtet aller technologischen Fortschritte, wie ein Fels in der Brandung. Sie weicht von der klassischen Grundrechtsdogmatik erheblich ab. Christopher Davis zeigt, dass Rundfunk heute durch die sozialen Medien eine Tätigkeit für Jedermann geworden ist und rekonstruiert die »dienende« Rundfunkfreiheit in der klassischen Grundrechtsdogmatik. Die bislang als Ausgestaltung der Rundfun…
How Medical Schools Can Promote Community Collaboration Through Health Systems Science Education
Traditional focus areas of medical education are insufficient for preparing future clinicians to function well in the rapidly evolving US health care system. In response, many medical schools and residency programs are integrating into their curricula health systems science (HSS), which includes health care policy, public and population health, interprofessional collaboration, value-based care, health system improvement, and systems thinking. To …
The antiquity of Jaffna Fort
Pilgrimage and procession
South Asia is home to many of the world’s major religions, and over a century of archaeological enquiry has documented the sites associated with these traditions. Although textual scholarship, augmented by art historical and architectural studies of durable remains, has dominated interpretations, recent archaeological studies have begun to redress this balance by contextualizing monuments within their landscapes and engaging with the varied roles…
Archaeology and cosmopolitanism in early historic and medieval Sri Lanka
Whilst the Early Historic and Medieval periods of Sri Lanka are often presented as a golden age of Sinhalese and Buddhist achievement, there is also substantial evidence for a multiplicity of communities residing within the island during that time.This is unsurprising, given the island's location on trade routes spanning the Indian Ocean, linking its communities with East Africa, the Middle East, South-east Asia and China.The physical evidence of…
Paleoindian Solar and Stellar Pictographic Trail in the Monte Alegre Hills of Brazil
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology
Race and Historical Memory on the Silver Screen
The film 12 Years a Slave, adapted from Solomon Northrup’s historical memoir, caused quite the stir at this year’s Academy Awards. The movie won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, an
Rock Carvings in Hong Kong by William Meacham (review)
Reviewed by: Rock Carvings in Hong Kong by William Meacham Christopher Davis Rock Carvings in Hong Kong. William Meacham. Hong Kong: Meacham Publications, 2009. 168pp. ISBN 978-9-881-73242-2. Very little is known internationally about the rock art traditions of Southeast Asia, and even less about the rock art specific to the coastal shores of Hong Kong. The majority of the rock art sites discussed by Meacham are located on the islands of Hong Kon…
The earliest Buddhist shrine
Key locations identified with the lives of important religious founders have often been extensively remodelled in later periods, entraining the destruction of many of the earlier remains. Recent UNESCO-sponsored work at the major Buddhist centre of Lumbini in Nepal has sought to overcome these limitations, providing direct archaeological evidence of the nature of an early Buddhist shrine and a secure chronology. The excavations revealed a sequenc…
Contextualising the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva ‘Culture’
Terracotta figurines and artefacts discovered throughout Sri Lanka, especially in the North Central Province, have been traditionally assigned to the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva culture. Not a single stratigraphic excavation has been conducted at any site where a terracotta assemblage has been recovered, leading to a variety of divergent opinions as to the date of such artefacts. In addition, the corpus is often presumed to represent ‘folk art’ spontan…
What Is Life Worth? A Rough Guide to Valuation
In this speculative article, the aim is to elaborate a definition of life that is not biological, and a valuation of it that is not commodified. This is undertaken by the development of an understanding of death as a process which is embedded in the life of a community. The idea is that we can best understand what life is worth by first understanding what death means
Response to Goonatilake
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Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Reforms And Performance of the Medical Systems in the Transition States of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
The States of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe inherited acute health problems and introduced numerous reforms in their health sectors in the 1990s. In the initial years of transition most countries experienced increases in morbidity and mortality that were caused by deterioration in health conditions (demographic, consumption, social, environmental) and deficiencies in medical systems. The latter were the result of malfunctioning econo…
Death in Abeyance
This is a comprehensive survey, in both its theory and its practice, of the Tabwa who live on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo (fomerly Zaire). The following topics are covered: concepts of the body and of illness, illness categories and approaches to diagnosis, divination and the meaning of illness in the life-histories of individuals and lineage groups. Moving to a broader perspective, it embraces therapi…
Exchanging the African
Research Article| January 01 1999 Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroads of the Diaspora Christopher Davis Christopher Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-1/2-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Davis; Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroad…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
The earliest Buddhist shrine
Key locations identified with the lives of important religious founders have often been extensively remodelled in later periods, entraining the destruction of many of the earlier remains. Recent UNESCO-sponsored work at the major Buddhist centre of Lumbini in Nepal has sought to overcome these limitations, providing direct archaeological evidence of the nature of an early Buddhist shrine and a secure chronology. The excavations revealed a sequenc…
What Is Life Worth? A Rough Guide to Valuation
In this speculative article, the aim is to elaborate a definition of life that is not biological, and a valuation of it that is not commodified. This is undertaken by the development of an understanding of death as a process which is embedded in the life of a community. The idea is that we can best understand what life is worth by first understanding what death means
Pilgrimage and procession
South Asia is home to many of the world’s major religions, and over a century of archaeological enquiry has documented the sites associated with these traditions. Although textual scholarship, augmented by art historical and architectural studies of durable remains, has dominated interpretations, recent archaeological studies have begun to redress this balance by contextualizing monuments within their landscapes and engaging with the varied roles…
Reforms And Performance of the Medical Systems in the Transition States of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
The States of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe inherited acute health problems and introduced numerous reforms in their health sectors in the 1990s. In the initial years of transition most countries experienced increases in morbidity and mortality that were caused by deterioration in health conditions (demographic, consumption, social, environmental) and deficiencies in medical systems. The latter were the result of malfunctioning econo…
Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology
OBJECTIVES: Increased use of three-dimensional (3D) imaging data has led to a need for methods capable of capturing rich shape descriptions. Semi-landmarks have been demonstrated to increase shape information but placement in 3D can be time consuming, computationally expensive, or may introduce artifacts. This study implements and compares three strategies to more densely sample a 3D image surface. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three dense sampling stra…
Contextualising the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva ‘Culture’
Terracotta figurines and artefacts discovered throughout Sri Lanka, especially in the North Central Province, have been traditionally assigned to the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva culture. Not a single stratigraphic excavation has been conducted at any site where a terracotta assemblage has been recovered, leading to a variety of divergent opinions as to the date of such artefacts. In addition, the corpus is often presumed to represent ‘folk art’ spontan…
Exchanging the African
Research Article| January 01 1999 Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroads of the Diaspora Christopher Davis Christopher Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-1/2-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Davis; Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroad…
Economic problems of the Soviet health service
Elegy, Suburbia North
Rising Infant Mortality in the U.S.S.R. in the 1970s
Economic problems of the Soviet health service
Private Territory
Models of Disequilibrium and Shortage in Centrally Planned Economies
Journal Article Models of Disequilibrium and Shortage in Centrally Planned Economies Get access Models of Disequilibrium and Shortage in Centrally Planned Economies. Edited by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS and WOJCIECH CHAREMZA. (London and New York: Chapman and Hall, 1989. Pp. xv + 501. ISBN 0 412 28420 0.) Colin Lawson Colin Lawson University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, …
Exchanging the African
Research Article| January 01 1999 Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroads of the Diaspora Christopher Davis Christopher Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-1/2-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Davis; Exchanging the African: Meetings at a Crossroad…
Death in Abeyance
This is a comprehensive survey, in both its theory and its practice, of the Tabwa who live on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo (fomerly Zaire). The following topics are covered: concepts of the body and of illness, illness categories and approaches to diagnosis, divination and the meaning of illness in the life-histories of individuals and lineage groups. Moving to a broader perspective, it embraces therapi…
Reforms And Performance of the Medical Systems in the Transition States of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
The States of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe inherited acute health problems and introduced numerous reforms in their health sectors in the 1990s. In the initial years of transition most countries experienced increases in morbidity and mortality that were caused by deterioration in health conditions (demographic, consumption, social, environmental) and deficiencies in medical systems. The latter were the result of malfunctioning econo…
Expressives and Identity Conditions
April 01 2009 Expressives and Identity Conditions Christopher Potts, Christopher Potts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Ash Asudeh, Ash Asudeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Seth Cable, Seth Cable Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Yurie Hara, Yurie Hara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric McCready, Eric McCrea…
Response to Goonatilake
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
Contextualising the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva ‘Culture’
Terracotta figurines and artefacts discovered throughout Sri Lanka, especially in the North Central Province, have been traditionally assigned to the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva culture. Not a single stratigraphic excavation has been conducted at any site where a terracotta assemblage has been recovered, leading to a variety of divergent opinions as to the date of such artefacts. In addition, the corpus is often presumed to represent ‘folk art’ spontan…
What Is Life Worth? A Rough Guide to Valuation
In this speculative article, the aim is to elaborate a definition of life that is not biological, and a valuation of it that is not commodified. This is undertaken by the development of an understanding of death as a process which is embedded in the life of a community. The idea is that we can best understand what life is worth by first understanding what death means
Rock Carvings in Hong Kong by William Meacham (review)
Reviewed by: Rock Carvings in Hong Kong by William Meacham Christopher Davis Rock Carvings in Hong Kong. William Meacham. Hong Kong: Meacham Publications, 2009. 168pp. ISBN 978-9-881-73242-2. Very little is known internationally about the rock art traditions of Southeast Asia, and even less about the rock art specific to the coastal shores of Hong Kong. The majority of the rock art sites discussed by Meacham are located on the islands of Hong Kon…
The earliest Buddhist shrine
Key locations identified with the lives of important religious founders have often been extensively remodelled in later periods, entraining the destruction of many of the earlier remains. Recent UNESCO-sponsored work at the major Buddhist centre of Lumbini in Nepal has sought to overcome these limitations, providing direct archaeological evidence of the nature of an early Buddhist shrine and a secure chronology. The excavations revealed a sequenc…
Race and Historical Memory on the Silver Screen
The film 12 Years a Slave, adapted from Solomon Northrup’s historical memoir, caused quite the stir at this year’s Academy Awards. The movie won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, an
Archaeology and cosmopolitanism in early historic and medieval Sri Lanka
Whilst the Early Historic and Medieval periods of Sri Lanka are often presented as a golden age of Sinhalese and Buddhist achievement, there is also substantial evidence for a multiplicity of communities residing within the island during that time.This is unsurprising, given the island's location on trade routes spanning the Indian Ocean, linking its communities with East Africa, the Middle East, South-east Asia and China.The physical evidence of…
Paleoindian Solar and Stellar Pictographic Trail in the Monte Alegre Hills of Brazil
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology
Pilgrimage and procession
South Asia is home to many of the world’s major religions, and over a century of archaeological enquiry has documented the sites associated with these traditions. Although textual scholarship, augmented by art historical and architectural studies of durable remains, has dominated interpretations, recent archaeological studies have begun to redress this balance by contextualizing monuments within their landscapes and engaging with the varied roles…
Die »dienende« Rundfunkfreiheit im Zeitalter der sozialen Vernetzung
Die Rundfunkrechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts liegt, ungeachtet aller technologischen Fortschritte, wie ein Fels in der Brandung. Sie weicht von der klassischen Grundrechtsdogmatik erheblich ab. Christopher Davis zeigt, dass Rundfunk heute durch die sozialen Medien eine Tätigkeit für Jedermann geworden ist und rekonstruiert die »dienende« Rundfunkfreiheit in der klassischen Grundrechtsdogmatik. Die bislang als Ausgestaltung der Rundfun…
How Medical Schools Can Promote Community Collaboration Through Health Systems Science Education
Traditional focus areas of medical education are insufficient for preparing future clinicians to function well in the rapidly evolving US health care system. In response, many medical schools and residency programs are integrating into their curricula health systems science (HSS), which includes health care policy, public and population health, interprofessional collaboration, value-based care, health system improvement, and systems thinking. To …
The antiquity of Jaffna Fort
Exploring Spatial Patterns of Virginia Tornadoes Using Kernel Density and Space-Time Cube Analysis (1960–2019)
This study evaluates the spatial-temporal patterns in Virginia tornadoes using the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center’s Severe Weather GIS (SVRGIS) database. In addition to descriptive statistics, the analysis employs Kernel Density Estimation for spatial pattern analysis and space-time cubes to visualize the spatiotemporal frequency of tornadoes and potential trends. Most of the 726 tornadoes between 1960–2019 occurred in Eastern V…
Low-Density Urbanism in Medieval Sri Lanka
A hinterland survey at Polonnaruva has revealed that a planned pluralistic landscape \ndeveloped during the latter part of the Early Medieval period (A.D. 600-1200). This \nrepresents a significant shift in settlement pattern from the organically derived model of \nBuddhist Temporalities found at the antecedent capital, Anuradhapura. In comparison, \nsettlements around Polonnaruva were larger, longer-lived and evenly distributed. This \ncoincided…
Comparing semi‐landmarking approaches for analyzing three‐dimensional cranial morphology
OBJECTIVES: Increased use of three-dimensional (3D) imaging data has led to a need for methods capable of capturing rich shape descriptions. Semi-landmarks have been demonstrated to increase shape information but placement in 3D can be time consuming, computationally expensive, or may introduce artifacts. This study implements and compares three strategies to more densely sample a 3D image surface. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three dense sampling stra…
Guided by Experience
In 2010 and 2021, Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake and both times it left the nation in the grips of a humanitarian crisis. The U.S. military responded to both events with a large-scale, interorganizational relief effort to provide aid to the affected areas. Though the disaster in 2010 created unprecedented challenges, the U.S. Southern Command met those challenges and applied their lessons to its response to the 2021 earthquake 11 years …
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