Sean Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3144-5796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Computer Vision Survey of the Northern San Juan
As computer vision becomes more popular in archaeology, it is imperative to develop best practices that balance the interpretive and analytically critical tendencies of manual survey with the systemization and efficiency promised by machine learning. Using a case study from the northern US Southwest, we demonstrate an iterative image classification approach that reflects the methodological processes that play out in field research and preserves t…
Entrepreneurial capitalism
Drawing on ethnographic research in Houston, Texas, I explore how and why notions of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship are mobilised to orient interlocutors in US hydrocarbon finance ethically. I show how contemporary notions of the entrepreneur circulate within the US oil and gas industry in ways that dovetail with the romanticised figure of the independent oil men, on which the industry was founded. The entrepreneur, I argue, is a powerful …
Understanding Fortress‐Cities
From the 5th through 14th century, fortress‐cities dominated the landscape along the South Caucasus, including the Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, northern Iran and eastern Turkey. Drawing upon an airborne LiDAR survey of Samshvildé, Republic of Georgia, this study offers new insights into the organization, construction and long‐term development of medieval fortress‐cities in the South Caucasus. Results from the LiDAR survey reveal a se…
Linking Paleoclimate, Survey, and Farming Data at the Local Scale
To understand human-climate dynamics in the past, archaeologists must reconstruct how social practices and climate conditions interacted at local scales. In this study, a stochastic approach that integrates regional paleoclimate models with survey and experimental farming data is used to refine maize farming estimates at Far View Community, a large, long-lived ancestral Pueblo community in present-day southwestern Colorado. Results from the model…
Carbonous Concealment
Drawing on ethnographic field research that I conducted in Houston, Texas since late 2018, I explore subterranean storage arrangements utilised by the US hydrocarbon industry. I argue that storage is vital not only to its pluri‐temporal strategies but to the outward projection of good governance. Natural gas, I show, has evolved from excess nuisance, to liability, to potential asset turned commodity in ways that parallel unfolding understandings …
Ancestral Pueblo Water Management
From cost to conductance
Lidar-Derived Road Profiles
Despite considerable developments in the archaeological application of lidar for detecting roads, less attention has been given to studying road morphology using lidar. As a result, archaeologists are well equipped to locate but not thoroughly study roads via lidar data. Here, a method that visualizes and statistically compares road profiles using elevation values extracted from lidar-derived digital elevation models is presented and illustrated …
The tools of war
The military invasion of Ukraine has destroyed and damaged extensive built cultural heritage, including churches, museums and monuments. Based on site visits conducted since the invasion, we outline damage to the eleventh-century sites of Boldyni Hory, Chernihiv, and the church, citadel and graveyard at Oster, Chernihiv Oblast
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis
Carbon capital
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 715146
Risk and responsibility
Drawing on ethnographic research in Houston, Texas, I explore how private equity financiers in the US hydrocarbon industry are empowered to define and take financial risks on our collective behalf. The US shale revolution could not have unfolded without the financial risk-taking activities of private equity financiers who channeled billions of dollars into US unconventional exploration and production ("fracking"). These financiers are motivated n…
A Methodological Framework for Free and Open-Source UAV-Based Archaeological Research
Full-coverage pedestrian survey to record cultural features on unexplored archaeological landscapes is costly in terms of time, money, and personnel. Over the past two decades, researchers have implemented remote sensing and landscape data collection techniques using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to combat some of these burdens, but the initial cost of equipment, software, and processing power has hindered the ubiquitous implementation of UAV t…
Toxicity travels in a changing climate
Uncanny District Six
This chapter describes an excavation of photographic and oral remains obscured within the author's family archive by racism and overshadowed by the iconic District Six story. District Six originated in the 1830s and many early residents were emancipated indigenous KhoiSan and slaves from Asia and Africa, who gradually adopted the label ‘coloured’ and, by the late nineteenth century, ‘coloured identity had crystallized’. In 1995 a temporary exhibi…
A Least Cost Analysis
During the ninth through twelfth centuries A.D., Ancestral Pueblo people constructed long, straight roads that interconnected the Chaco regional system across the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. The intent and use of these features has eluded archaeological consensus, although recent research has reiterated the occurrence of long distance timber importation to Chaco Canyon. To enhance our interpretation of these features we offer a lar…
Hidden Histories of Gordonia, land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
No abstract available
The utility of UAVs for archaeological surface survey
Examining the influence of intellectuals on commodity speculation
The financialization of food and the 2008-2011 food price spikes
The treatment of recent global food price volatility in the neoclassical academic literature is problematic in its limited conceptual and empirical scope. This study presents new empirical data and analysis linking financial speculation by index swap dealers ('index funds') with US and global food price volatility. Marxian circuits of capital are used to illustrate the connection between index funds and food consumers. The findings show that fina…
Surviving Dictatorship
Memory and History
Memory studies emerged as a distinct field of intellectual enquiry in the 1970s, and since 1990 there has been a memory boom across academic disciplines and national boundaries; postconflict schola...
Public Forgetting
"Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again." The Oral History Review, 41(1), pp. 159–160
Loose Bits of Shrapnel
This article traces the paradoxical effects of my father's World War II stories and a series of published photographs on my brother and me. It is a self-reflexive essay that also engages the Holocaust historiography on intergenerational legacies of the Holocaust and critiques the "transmitted trauma" concept. Instead, a vocabulary of gendered absence, anxiety, and disappointment is presented, and postmemories that were co-constructed in father-so…
Disappointed Remains
The apartheid regime in South Africa and the fight against the same, followed by the reconciliation is the crux of this article. The first democratic elections held on April 27, 1994, were surprisingly free of violence. Then, in one of its first pieces of legislation, the new democratic parliament passed the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act of 1995, which created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. At the outset, the South …
The Western Cape Oral History Project
2001). The Western Cape Oral History Project: The 1990s. African Studies: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 5-23
Carbon capital
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 715146
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis
Risk and responsibility
Drawing on ethnographic research in Houston, Texas, I explore how private equity financiers in the US hydrocarbon industry are empowered to define and take financial risks on our collective behalf. The US shale revolution could not have unfolded without the financial risk-taking activities of private equity financiers who channeled billions of dollars into US unconventional exploration and production ("fracking"). These financiers are motivated n…
The financialization of food and the 2008-2011 food price spikes
The treatment of recent global food price volatility in the neoclassical academic literature is problematic in its limited conceptual and empirical scope. This study presents new empirical data and analysis linking financial speculation by index swap dealers ('index funds') with US and global food price volatility. Marxian circuits of capital are used to illustrate the connection between index funds and food consumers. The findings show that fina…
Loose Bits of Shrapnel
This article traces the paradoxical effects of my father's World War II stories and a series of published photographs on my brother and me. It is a self-reflexive essay that also engages the Holocaust historiography on intergenerational legacies of the Holocaust and critiques the "transmitted trauma" concept. Instead, a vocabulary of gendered absence, anxiety, and disappointment is presented, and postmemories that were co-constructed in father-so…
Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory
Turning up the Volume
This article sketches an overview of South African oral history since the 1970s and argues that while oral history projects have grown rapidly since 2000, insufficient attention has been given to international debates about memory, myth and subjectivity. It then explores the conception of oral history being constructed by ‘dialogues about memory’, and how this furthers our understanding of narrative, agency and identity formation. This conception…
Carbonous Concealment
Drawing on ethnographic field research that I conducted in Houston, Texas since late 2018, I explore subterranean storage arrangements utilised by the US hydrocarbon industry. I argue that storage is vital not only to its pluri‐temporal strategies but to the outward projection of good governance. Natural gas, I show, has evolved from excess nuisance, to liability, to potential asset turned commodity in ways that parallel unfolding understandings …
Ancestral Pueblo Water Management
The tools of war
The military invasion of Ukraine has destroyed and damaged extensive built cultural heritage, including churches, museums and monuments. Based on site visits conducted since the invasion, we outline damage to the eleventh-century sites of Boldyni Hory, Chernihiv, and the church, citadel and graveyard at Oster, Chernihiv Oblast
Introduction
At its dialogic centre, oral history research methodology involves interactions between an interviewer eliciting and listening to a narrator framing and performing their memories through spoken words, sentences and stories. But oral history per se, as this South African Historical Journal collection will demonstrate, is much more than interface between interviewer and interviewee. This is because oral history is constructed through dialogues abou…
Devotion, Discontent, and the Henrician Reformation
The relationship between popular religious attitudes and the English Reformation has long been the subject of a fierce historical debate. The older “Whig-Protestant” view, championed most notably by A. G. Dickens, draws on evidence for clerical corruption and the spread of Lollardy to show that large numbers of English people were dissatisfied with the state of Catholicism, eager for religious change, and on the whole receptive to Protestant idea…
From the ‘Peaceful Past’ to the ‘Violent Present’
People do not face the present as an isolated and empty space, sandwiched between the past and future. Rather, ‘the present’ is ‘itself historical: a complex series of interlocking histories whose interactions have to be reconstructed, not assumed’.2 ‘All present awareness’ as Lowenthal puts it, is grounded in past perceptions and acts’,3 or as Tonkin states, ‘All understandings of the past affect the present. Literate or illiterate, we are our m…
The Western Cape Oral History Project
2001). The Western Cape Oral History Project: The 1990s. African Studies: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 5-23
Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory
Devotion, Discontent, and the Henrician Reformation
The relationship between popular religious attitudes and the English Reformation has long been the subject of a fierce historical debate. The older “Whig-Protestant” view, championed most notably by A. G. Dickens, draws on evidence for clerical corruption and the spread of Lollardy to show that large numbers of English people were dissatisfied with the state of Catholicism, eager for religious change, and on the whole receptive to Protestant idea…
Discerning Spirits
A Pernicious Sort of Woman
Introduction
At its dialogic centre, oral history research methodology involves interactions between an interviewer eliciting and listening to a narrator framing and performing their memories through spoken words, sentences and stories. But oral history per se, as this South African Historical Journal collection will demonstrate, is much more than interface between interviewer and interviewee. This is because oral history is constructed through dialogues abou…
Turning up the Volume
This article sketches an overview of South African oral history since the 1970s and argues that while oral history projects have grown rapidly since 2000, insufficient attention has been given to international debates about memory, myth and subjectivity. It then explores the conception of oral history being constructed by ‘dialogues about memory’, and how this furthers our understanding of narrative, agency and identity formation. This conception…
Disappointed Remains
The apartheid regime in South Africa and the fight against the same, followed by the reconciliation is the crux of this article. The first democratic elections held on April 27, 1994, were surprisingly free of violence. Then, in one of its first pieces of legislation, the new democratic parliament passed the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act of 1995, which created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. At the outset, the South …
Oral history, community, and displacement
PART I: OPENINGS Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town PARTII: COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES UNDER APARTHEID Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory: Life Stories from Windermere Fragile Identities: Memory, Emotion, and Coloured Residents of Windermere From the 'Peaceful Past' to the 'Violent Present': Memory, Myth and Identity in Guguletu Disappointed Men: Masculine Myths and Hybrid Identities …
Oral History, Community, and Displacement
This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case
Court of Remorse
Public Forgetting
"Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again." The Oral History Review, 41(1), pp. 159–160
Loose Bits of Shrapnel
This article traces the paradoxical effects of my father's World War II stories and a series of published photographs on my brother and me. It is a self-reflexive essay that also engages the Holocaust historiography on intergenerational legacies of the Holocaust and critiques the "transmitted trauma" concept. Instead, a vocabulary of gendered absence, anxiety, and disappointment is presented, and postmemories that were co-constructed in father-so…
Surviving Dictatorship
Memory and History
Memory studies emerged as a distinct field of intellectual enquiry in the 1970s, and since 1990 there has been a memory boom across academic disciplines and national boundaries; postconflict schola...
The financialization of food and the 2008-2011 food price spikes
The treatment of recent global food price volatility in the neoclassical academic literature is problematic in its limited conceptual and empirical scope. This study presents new empirical data and analysis linking financial speculation by index swap dealers ('index funds') with US and global food price volatility. Marxian circuits of capital are used to illustrate the connection between index funds and food consumers. The findings show that fina…
The utility of UAVs for archaeological surface survey
Examining the influence of intellectuals on commodity speculation
Hidden Histories of Gordonia, land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
No abstract available
Uncanny District Six
This chapter describes an excavation of photographic and oral remains obscured within the author's family archive by racism and overshadowed by the iconic District Six story. District Six originated in the 1830s and many early residents were emancipated indigenous KhoiSan and slaves from Asia and Africa, who gradually adopted the label ‘coloured’ and, by the late nineteenth century, ‘coloured identity had crystallized’. In 1995 a temporary exhibi…
A Least Cost Analysis
During the ninth through twelfth centuries A.D., Ancestral Pueblo people constructed long, straight roads that interconnected the Chaco regional system across the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. The intent and use of these features has eluded archaeological consensus, although recent research has reiterated the occurrence of long distance timber importation to Chaco Canyon. To enhance our interpretation of these features we offer a lar…
Toxicity travels in a changing climate
A Methodological Framework for Free and Open-Source UAV-Based Archaeological Research
Full-coverage pedestrian survey to record cultural features on unexplored archaeological landscapes is costly in terms of time, money, and personnel. Over the past two decades, researchers have implemented remote sensing and landscape data collection techniques using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to combat some of these burdens, but the initial cost of equipment, software, and processing power has hindered the ubiquitous implementation of UAV t…
The Importance of Energetics in Archaeological Least Cost Analysis
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