Peter Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0823-0553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reconceptualizing the Archaeology of Southern India
This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India’s deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and textual records of the Deccan to disrupt its conventional archaeological periodizations, which have tended to reify and dehistoricize social and cultural differences. This book draws on over 20 years of original archaeological research from the southern …
Social distinctions during the south Indian Neolithic
Human burials have been recovered from a wide variety of intra- and extramural settlement contexts at Neolithic period sites (3000-1200 BC) in southern India, yet formal cemeteries remain virtually unknown from this period. Research at MARP-79 in the Raichur District of the south Indian state of Karnataka, near the type-site of Maski, documents a large Neolithic cemetery, now with the largest number of radiometrically dated burials of any archaeo…
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India
This paper considers the intersections of memorialization practices and politics throughout a period of emergent social differentiation during the Neolithic and Iron Age periods in the Deccan region of southern India. Rather than focus on how mortuary architecture and grave assemblages might correlate with the status, rank, or class of the deceased individuals-as has often been suggested-we place emphasis on how mortuary practices and the product…
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices
Genetic diagnosis of trisomy 21 in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
The Affect of Crafting
Reviewed by: The Affect of Crafting: Third Millennium BCE Copper Arrowheads from Ganeshwar, Rajasthan by Uzma Z. Rizvi Peter Johansen The Affect of Crafting: Third Millennium BCE Copper Arrowheads from Ganeshwar, Rajasthan. Uzma Z. Rizvi. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. 176 pp., 53 figures, 13 tables, extensive catalogue (black and white throughout). Paperback £32, ISBN 978-1-78969-003-3; E-publication £16, ISBN 978-1-78969-004-0. Uzma Rizvi’s book p…
On the cusp of social change
On the Matter of Resources and Techno-Politics
Water management and iron production were two socio-technical practices deeply entrained with the politics of emerging social distinctions in northern Karnataka during the South Indian Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). In this article, we approach resources by building a theoretical convergence between "resource materialities" and "techno-politics," which allows us to assess the historically specific constitution of certain materials as culturally valued …
Beyond culture history at Maski
Early ironworking in Iron Age South India
Iron production was integral to political and ritual practices during the South Indian Iron Age (ca. 1200–300 b.c.), yet the investigation of the social relations of metals production during this period has been overshadowed by studies of iron consumption, particularly of iron objects in megalithic mortuary contexts. Recent archaeological research in the Tungabhadra River Corridor, Karnataka, has revealed iron production debris within and between…
The politics of spatial renovation
In South India, during the Iron Age and Early Historic Period, the space and meaning of certain ritual places were occupied and renovated by particular social groups in order to strategically meditate transitional logics of value and power. In northern Karnataka, during the Iron Age (1200-300 BC), megalithic monuments were built on earlier Neolithic ritual places (ashmounds), or materials from these places were removed and incorporated into megal…
Early Buddhist Architecture in Context
Reviewed by: Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE) by Akira Shimada Peter Johansen Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 bce–300 ce). Akira Shimada. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 265pp. ISBN 978-9-004-23283-9. Akira Shimada’s book is a welcome and timely addition to the nearly two centuries of research on the Amaravati Mahastupa (great stupa), and a more recent but…
Site maintenance practices and settlement social organization in Iron Age Karnataka, India
Toward a Political Ecology in Early South India
The archaeology of southern India has long been dominated by cultural-historical paradigms, which have more recently become reliant on environmental stimuli to explain ''culture change.'' This interpretive framework has created a relatively fixed set of relationships between the environment and past human societies that oversimplifies issues of agency and causation in largely deterministic terms. At issue here is a lack of adequate treatment for …
Landscape, monumental architecture, and ritual
Recasting the Foundations
The archaeological record of South Asia's rich and diverse past has been largely dominated by interpretational frameworks, which have the construction of culture histories as their core, if not their end. Normative and conservative understandings of culture implicit in the culture-history paradigm have resulted in the construction of static archaeological cultures coterminous with ethnolinguistic communities, races or 'peoples' from material cult…
Professionalisation, Building Respectability, and the Birth of the Canadian Public Relations Society
Drawing upon selected aspects of Macdonald's model of professionalisation (The Sociology of the Professions, London: Sage, 1995), this paper traces the emergence of public relations as an occupation in Canada in the years following World War II and, in particular, the role of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) in that process. A brief sketch of pre-war public relations history is provided; selected explanations for post-war growth are a…
Journalism Education in the United States and Canada
There are striking similarities between the US and Canadian systems of journalism education. These include: the pattern of historical development; curricular emphasis; relations with professional colleagues; and future challenges. However, the paper also traces significant differences, among which are: the relatively stronger role of government in Canada; that country's greater emphasis on non-university education; greater curricular differentiat…
Where's the Meaning and the Hope? Trends in Employee Publications
Journalists and Public Opinion Polls
Recently, the Ontario Legislature took a first step toward banning the publication of opinion poll results during provincial election campaigns. The legislative assembly gave all - party approval to a resolution proposed by Conservative MLA George Ashe, which stated
Toward a Political Ecology in Early South India
The archaeology of southern India has long been dominated by cultural-historical paradigms, which have more recently become reliant on environmental stimuli to explain ''culture change.'' This interpretive framework has created a relatively fixed set of relationships between the environment and past human societies that oversimplifies issues of agency and causation in largely deterministic terms. At issue here is a lack of adequate treatment for …
On the Matter of Resources and Techno-Politics
Water management and iron production were two socio-technical practices deeply entrained with the politics of emerging social distinctions in northern Karnataka during the South Indian Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). In this article, we approach resources by building a theoretical convergence between "resource materialities" and "techno-politics," which allows us to assess the historically specific constitution of certain materials as culturally valued …
Beyond culture history at Maski
Early ironworking in Iron Age South India
Iron production was integral to political and ritual practices during the South Indian Iron Age (ca. 1200–300 b.c.), yet the investigation of the social relations of metals production during this period has been overshadowed by studies of iron consumption, particularly of iron objects in megalithic mortuary contexts. Recent archaeological research in the Tungabhadra River Corridor, Karnataka, has revealed iron production debris within and between…
Recasting the Foundations
The archaeological record of South Asia's rich and diverse past has been largely dominated by interpretational frameworks, which have the construction of culture histories as their core, if not their end. Normative and conservative understandings of culture implicit in the culture-history paradigm have resulted in the construction of static archaeological cultures coterminous with ethnolinguistic communities, races or 'peoples' from material cult…
The politics of spatial renovation
In South India, during the Iron Age and Early Historic Period, the space and meaning of certain ritual places were occupied and renovated by particular social groups in order to strategically meditate transitional logics of value and power. In northern Karnataka, during the Iron Age (1200-300 BC), megalithic monuments were built on earlier Neolithic ritual places (ashmounds), or materials from these places were removed and incorporated into megal…
Journalism Education in the United States and Canada
There are striking similarities between the US and Canadian systems of journalism education. These include: the pattern of historical development; curricular emphasis; relations with professional colleagues; and future challenges. However, the paper also traces significant differences, among which are: the relatively stronger role of government in Canada; that country's greater emphasis on non-university education; greater curricular differentiat…
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India
This paper considers the intersections of memorialization practices and politics throughout a period of emergent social differentiation during the Neolithic and Iron Age periods in the Deccan region of southern India. Rather than focus on how mortuary architecture and grave assemblages might correlate with the status, rank, or class of the deceased individuals-as has often been suggested-we place emphasis on how mortuary practices and the product…
On the cusp of social change
Journalists and Public Opinion Polls
Recently, the Ontario Legislature took a first step toward banning the publication of opinion poll results during provincial election campaigns. The legislative assembly gave all - party approval to a resolution proposed by Conservative MLA George Ashe, which stated
Where's the Meaning and the Hope? Trends in Employee Publications
Professionalisation, Building Respectability, and the Birth of the Canadian Public Relations Society
Drawing upon selected aspects of Macdonald's model of professionalisation (The Sociology of the Professions, London: Sage, 1995), this paper traces the emergence of public relations as an occupation in Canada in the years following World War II and, in particular, the role of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) in that process. A brief sketch of pre-war public relations history is provided; selected explanations for post-war growth are a…
Journalism Education in the United States and Canada
There are striking similarities between the US and Canadian systems of journalism education. These include: the pattern of historical development; curricular emphasis; relations with professional colleagues; and future challenges. However, the paper also traces significant differences, among which are: the relatively stronger role of government in Canada; that country's greater emphasis on non-university education; greater curricular differentiat…
Recasting the Foundations
The archaeological record of South Asia's rich and diverse past has been largely dominated by interpretational frameworks, which have the construction of culture histories as their core, if not their end. Normative and conservative understandings of culture implicit in the culture-history paradigm have resulted in the construction of static archaeological cultures coterminous with ethnolinguistic communities, races or 'peoples' from material cult…
Landscape, monumental architecture, and ritual
Toward a Political Ecology in Early South India
The archaeology of southern India has long been dominated by cultural-historical paradigms, which have more recently become reliant on environmental stimuli to explain ''culture change.'' This interpretive framework has created a relatively fixed set of relationships between the environment and past human societies that oversimplifies issues of agency and causation in largely deterministic terms. At issue here is a lack of adequate treatment for …
Site maintenance practices and settlement social organization in Iron Age Karnataka, India
Early Buddhist Architecture in Context
Reviewed by: Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE) by Akira Shimada Peter Johansen Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 bce–300 ce). Akira Shimada. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 265pp. ISBN 978-9-004-23283-9. Akira Shimada’s book is a welcome and timely addition to the nearly two centuries of research on the Amaravati Mahastupa (great stupa), and a more recent but…
Early ironworking in Iron Age South India
Iron production was integral to political and ritual practices during the South Indian Iron Age (ca. 1200–300 b.c.), yet the investigation of the social relations of metals production during this period has been overshadowed by studies of iron consumption, particularly of iron objects in megalithic mortuary contexts. Recent archaeological research in the Tungabhadra River Corridor, Karnataka, has revealed iron production debris within and between…
The politics of spatial renovation
In South India, during the Iron Age and Early Historic Period, the space and meaning of certain ritual places were occupied and renovated by particular social groups in order to strategically meditate transitional logics of value and power. In northern Karnataka, during the Iron Age (1200-300 BC), megalithic monuments were built on earlier Neolithic ritual places (ashmounds), or materials from these places were removed and incorporated into megal…
Beyond culture history at Maski
On the Matter of Resources and Techno-Politics
Water management and iron production were two socio-technical practices deeply entrained with the politics of emerging social distinctions in northern Karnataka during the South Indian Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). In this article, we approach resources by building a theoretical convergence between "resource materialities" and "techno-politics," which allows us to assess the historically specific constitution of certain materials as culturally valued …
On the cusp of social change
Genetic diagnosis of trisomy 21 in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
The Affect of Crafting
Reviewed by: The Affect of Crafting: Third Millennium BCE Copper Arrowheads from Ganeshwar, Rajasthan by Uzma Z. Rizvi Peter Johansen The Affect of Crafting: Third Millennium BCE Copper Arrowheads from Ganeshwar, Rajasthan. Uzma Z. Rizvi. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. 176 pp., 53 figures, 13 tables, extensive catalogue (black and white throughout). Paperback £32, ISBN 978-1-78969-003-3; E-publication £16, ISBN 978-1-78969-004-0. Uzma Rizvi’s book p…
Ritual, settlement and land-use practices
Social distinctions during the south Indian Neolithic
Human burials have been recovered from a wide variety of intra- and extramural settlement contexts at Neolithic period sites (3000-1200 BC) in southern India, yet formal cemeteries remain virtually unknown from this period. Research at MARP-79 in the Raichur District of the south Indian state of Karnataka, near the type-site of Maski, documents a large Neolithic cemetery, now with the largest number of radiometrically dated burials of any archaeo…
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India
This paper considers the intersections of memorialization practices and politics throughout a period of emergent social differentiation during the Neolithic and Iron Age periods in the Deccan region of southern India. Rather than focus on how mortuary architecture and grave assemblages might correlate with the status, rank, or class of the deceased individuals-as has often been suggested-we place emphasis on how mortuary practices and the product…
Reconceptualizing the Archaeology of Southern India
This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India’s deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and textual records of the Deccan to disrupt its conventional archaeological periodizations, which have tended to reify and dehistoricize social and cultural differences. This book draws on over 20 years of original archaeological research from the southern …
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