Kevin Kay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3991349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Kay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kay |
| SIGNATURE | KAY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0679-3796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Broken bodies in Domestic Spaces
A major challenge for the understanding of violence in the past is that our main source of evidence comes from cemeteries, but a significant proportion of the victims of violence are not buried in cemeteries. Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia (c. 500 BCE –1050 CE ) is infamous for its emerging warrior ideology and hegemony of violence. Yet, somewhat counter-intuitively, trauma rates have typically been found to be relatively low in cemetery populat…
From kinship systems to kinwork and oddkin
Mapping Collaborations
The Baby in the Brick
This article reconsiders the association, common globally and ubiquitous in Neolithic Turkey, between dead bodies and domestic architecture. Residential burial has conventionally been handled in a representational framework. Buildings’ physical and meaningful aspects are analytically separated, so that they can act as ‘containers of meaning’ in funerary contexts and as concrete technologies in others. Here, a provocative dataset challenges this s…
Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia
Posthuman feminism grows out of interdisciplinary discourse exploring relational metaphysics. It is set apart from other approaches in the broader ontological turn by its central ethical claim: by actively forming kinship or alliances among human and non-humans, we can overcome major challenges of today's world and create a better future. Archaeologists and anthropologists are well situated to investigate this claim, as we already work with world…
No gentry but grave-makers
Archaeologists have adopted the Gini coefficient to evaluate unequal accumulations of material, supporting narratives modelled on modern inequality discourse. Proxies are defined for wealth and the household, to render 21st century-style economic tensions perceptible in the past. This ‘property paradigm’ treats material culture as a generic rather than substantive factor in unequal pasts. We question this framing while suggesting that the Gini co…
Dynamic Houses and Communities at Çatalhöyük
Houses are rich resources for understanding prehistoric social structure. However, conventional working methods often handle houses as stable entities that reflect the nature of households and other social units. Social groups may be inadvertently rendered static in the process. A biographical understanding, in which the on-going transformation of built space is part of different kinds of human collaboration, allows us to explore the dynamic qual…
Dynamic Houses and Communities at Çatalhöyük
Houses are rich resources for understanding prehistoric social structure. However, conventional working methods often handle houses as stable entities that reflect the nature of households and other social units. Social groups may be inadvertently rendered static in the process. A biographical understanding, in which the on-going transformation of built space is part of different kinds of human collaboration, allows us to explore the dynamic qual…
Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia
Posthuman feminism grows out of interdisciplinary discourse exploring relational metaphysics. It is set apart from other approaches in the broader ontological turn by its central ethical claim: by actively forming kinship or alliances among human and non-humans, we can overcome major challenges of today's world and create a better future. Archaeologists and anthropologists are well situated to investigate this claim, as we already work with world…
The Baby in the Brick
This article reconsiders the association, common globally and ubiquitous in Neolithic Turkey, between dead bodies and domestic architecture. Residential burial has conventionally been handled in a representational framework. Buildings’ physical and meaningful aspects are analytically separated, so that they can act as ‘containers of meaning’ in funerary contexts and as concrete technologies in others. Here, a provocative dataset challenges this s…
No gentry but grave-makers
Archaeologists have adopted the Gini coefficient to evaluate unequal accumulations of material, supporting narratives modelled on modern inequality discourse. Proxies are defined for wealth and the household, to render 21st century-style economic tensions perceptible in the past. This ‘property paradigm’ treats material culture as a generic rather than substantive factor in unequal pasts. We question this framing while suggesting that the Gini co…
Dynamic Houses and Communities at Çatalhöyük
Houses are rich resources for understanding prehistoric social structure. However, conventional working methods often handle houses as stable entities that reflect the nature of households and other social units. Social groups may be inadvertently rendered static in the process. A biographical understanding, in which the on-going transformation of built space is part of different kinds of human collaboration, allows us to explore the dynamic qual…
Reflections on Posthuman Ethics. Grievability and the More-than-human Worlds of Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia
Posthuman feminism grows out of interdisciplinary discourse exploring relational metaphysics. It is set apart from other approaches in the broader ontological turn by its central ethical claim: by actively forming kinship or alliances among human and non-humans, we can overcome major challenges of today's world and create a better future. Archaeologists and anthropologists are well situated to investigate this claim, as we already work with world…
No gentry but grave-makers
Archaeologists have adopted the Gini coefficient to evaluate unequal accumulations of material, supporting narratives modelled on modern inequality discourse. Proxies are defined for wealth and the household, to render 21st century-style economic tensions perceptible in the past. This ‘property paradigm’ treats material culture as a generic rather than substantive factor in unequal pasts. We question this framing while suggesting that the Gini co…
The Baby in the Brick
This article reconsiders the association, common globally and ubiquitous in Neolithic Turkey, between dead bodies and domestic architecture. Residential burial has conventionally been handled in a representational framework. Buildings’ physical and meaningful aspects are analytically separated, so that they can act as ‘containers of meaning’ in funerary contexts and as concrete technologies in others. Here, a provocative dataset challenges this s…
Mapping Collaborations
From kinship systems to kinwork and oddkin
Broken bodies in Domestic Spaces
A major challenge for the understanding of violence in the past is that our main source of evidence comes from cemeteries, but a significant proportion of the victims of violence are not buried in cemeteries. Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia (c. 500 BCE –1050 CE ) is infamous for its emerging warrior ideology and hegemony of violence. Yet, somewhat counter-intuitively, trauma rates have typically been found to be relatively low in cemetery populat…
Archaeology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)