Jim Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 684888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1464-2317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building Character
Reviewed by: Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting by Amy Cook Jim Williams BUILDING CHARACTER: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CASTING. By Amy Cook. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 198. In theatre, the ultimate dilemma for any director at the beginning of the creative process is the casting. How is it possible to determine which actor is "right" for a role, as opposed to why another actor is "wrong"? Are there theatrical s…
Models, Mathematics and Deleuze's Philosophy
Some approaches to traditional Māori knowledge
In this essay I review two books of rather different focus, but with a common thread that is oral tradition: age-old tales passed orally down the generations to maintain the histories and used to educate the young. The focus of the Metge book is traditional methods of education, while McRae’s focus is on the stories themselves
Re-evaluating the Monitoring of the Shardlow Log Boat
Following the discovery of a Bronze Age log boat in Shardlow Quarry, Derbyshire in 2003, a scheme was devised to preserve this boat in situ. This included a monitoring programme to ensure that reducing conditions were maintained. This solution was agreed by the mineral planning authority Derbyshire County Council, with input and advice from English Heritage.Monitoring lasted ten years, during which time gravel deposits surrounding the boat were e…
Hydrogeological Modelling of Water-Level Changes in an Area of Archaeological Significance
Concern exists regarding the long-term viability of the internationally important archaeological remains of the Flag Fen site near Peterborough. This paper describes a hydrogeological numerical groundwater model which has been used to understand the groundwater situation with regard to the archaeology, including drainage impacts, and also to explore future scenarios. Observed and modelled groundwater levels have been interpreted using three zones…
"Seafood "gardens
This article reviews seafood gardening by Ngāi Tahu, including seeding, habitat enhancement, species improvement and marine storage. It is argued that a regime of management practises certainly justifies the term "gardening" as has been argued for similar practises elsewhere (in particular, the American Pacific coast
Analog Circuit Design
Puaka and Matariki
Recent years have seen the emergence of regular activities, each June in New Zealand, to coincide with what is usually referred to as "The Māori New Year", generally known as "Matariki". However, within my tribal area, as well as in a number of others, the term "Puaka" was used instead. The article examines these differing tribal traditions and proposes a possible explanation for the two schools of thought
Juxtaposed Narratives of the Battle of Crowheart Butte
As history is usually recorded by the victors, it is instructive to have an opportunity to contrast a perspective from the vanquished. However, when both parties are from colonized minorities, and there is also a colonizer's view, the opportunity exists for the almost unique comparison of one etic and two emic accounts. The battle of Crowheart Butte, Wyoming, in 1866, provides such an opportunity, illustrating how each group maintains its own his…
Thirty Years of Monitoring in England — What Have We Learnt
Over the last thirty years, over sixty separate episodes of monitoring waterlogged archaeological sites have been carried out in England. This paper lists these projects, summarizes basic information about them, and reviews what we have learnt over these last thirty years. Recommendations are given to help improve future monitoring projects. In particular, it is suggested that more work is needed on assessing the state of preservation of a site b…
An Early Upper Palaeolithic Open-air Station and Mid-Devensian Hyaena Den at Grange Farm, Glaston, Rutland, UK
Archaeological work preceding a housing development revealed mid-Devensian (MIS 3) deposits preserved in a geological fault, a graben feature, on an interfluve plateau. Rare evidence for Early Upper Palaeolithic open-air occupation was characterised by a scant lithic signature of the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ) leaf-point techno-complex of the North European plain. The lithics included a complete leaf-point, another broken example wi…
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work (review)
Reviewed by: Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work Jim Williams Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work. By Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento. Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2009; pp. 194. $95.00 cloth. Since the last half of the twentieth century, intercultural performance has maintained an often tenuous and unstable reputation as a theatrical phenomenon, confronting and shifting identit…
Hey Girl! (review)
Reviewed by: Hey Girl! Jim Williams Hey Girl! By Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. Directed by Romeo Castellucci. Walker Art Center, McGuire Theater, Minneapolis. 15 February 2008. Following a performance of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Hey Girl! a patron exiting the theatre volunteered out loud: “I liked what I saw. I’m just not sure what it is that I saw.” What is seen in Hey Girl!is visual rhetoric that suggests aspects of femini…
How to be Bicameral
This article argues that the concept of bicameralism is central to William Connolly's pluralism. The concept is analysed in terms of its roots in political bicameralism, in the bicameral mind and in organic bicameralism in order to show its richness and its capacity to provide positive answers to a series of standard criticisms of pluralism. Two more persistent critical problems are presented in the problem of evil (can we afford to be open to ot…
Archaeological Science and Industrial Archaeology
(2005). Archaeological Science and Industrial Archaeology: Manufacturing, Landscape and Social Context. Industrial Archaeology Review: Vol. 27, Understanding the Workplace: A Research Framework for Industrial Archaeology in Britain, pp. 33-40
Child on the Wing
Analog Circuit Design
Analog Circuit Design
An Early Upper Palaeolithic Open-air Station and Mid-Devensian Hyaena Den at Grange Farm, Glaston, Rutland, UK
Archaeological work preceding a housing development revealed mid-Devensian (MIS 3) deposits preserved in a geological fault, a graben feature, on an interfluve plateau. Rare evidence for Early Upper Palaeolithic open-air occupation was characterised by a scant lithic signature of the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ) leaf-point techno-complex of the North European plain. The lithics included a complete leaf-point, another broken example wi…
Puaka and Matariki
Recent years have seen the emergence of regular activities, each June in New Zealand, to coincide with what is usually referred to as "The Māori New Year", generally known as "Matariki". However, within my tribal area, as well as in a number of others, the term "Puaka" was used instead. The article examines these differing tribal traditions and proposes a possible explanation for the two schools of thought
"Seafood "gardens
This article reviews seafood gardening by Ngāi Tahu, including seeding, habitat enhancement, species improvement and marine storage. It is argued that a regime of management practises certainly justifies the term "gardening" as has been argued for similar practises elsewhere (in particular, the American Pacific coast
How to be Bicameral
This article argues that the concept of bicameralism is central to William Connolly's pluralism. The concept is analysed in terms of its roots in political bicameralism, in the bicameral mind and in organic bicameralism in order to show its richness and its capacity to provide positive answers to a series of standard criticisms of pluralism. Two more persistent critical problems are presented in the problem of evil (can we afford to be open to ot…
Analog Circuit Design
Analog Circuit Design
Child on the Wing
Archaeological Science and Industrial Archaeology
(2005). Archaeological Science and Industrial Archaeology: Manufacturing, Landscape and Social Context. Industrial Archaeology Review: Vol. 27, Understanding the Workplace: A Research Framework for Industrial Archaeology in Britain, pp. 33-40
How to be Bicameral
This article argues that the concept of bicameralism is central to William Connolly's pluralism. The concept is analysed in terms of its roots in political bicameralism, in the bicameral mind and in organic bicameralism in order to show its richness and its capacity to provide positive answers to a series of standard criticisms of pluralism. Two more persistent critical problems are presented in the problem of evil (can we afford to be open to ot…
Hey Girl! (review)
Reviewed by: Hey Girl! Jim Williams Hey Girl! By Romeo Castellucci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. Directed by Romeo Castellucci. Walker Art Center, McGuire Theater, Minneapolis. 15 February 2008. Following a performance of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio’s Hey Girl! a patron exiting the theatre volunteered out loud: “I liked what I saw. I’m just not sure what it is that I saw.” What is seen in Hey Girl!is visual rhetoric that suggests aspects of femini…
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work (review)
Reviewed by: Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work Jim Williams Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work. By Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento. Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2009; pp. 194. $95.00 cloth. Since the last half of the twentieth century, intercultural performance has maintained an often tenuous and unstable reputation as a theatrical phenomenon, confronting and shifting identit…
Thirty Years of Monitoring in England — What Have We Learnt
Over the last thirty years, over sixty separate episodes of monitoring waterlogged archaeological sites have been carried out in England. This paper lists these projects, summarizes basic information about them, and reviews what we have learnt over these last thirty years. Recommendations are given to help improve future monitoring projects. In particular, it is suggested that more work is needed on assessing the state of preservation of a site b…
An Early Upper Palaeolithic Open-air Station and Mid-Devensian Hyaena Den at Grange Farm, Glaston, Rutland, UK
Archaeological work preceding a housing development revealed mid-Devensian (MIS 3) deposits preserved in a geological fault, a graben feature, on an interfluve plateau. Rare evidence for Early Upper Palaeolithic open-air occupation was characterised by a scant lithic signature of the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ) leaf-point techno-complex of the North European plain. The lithics included a complete leaf-point, another broken example wi…
Analog Circuit Design
Puaka and Matariki
Recent years have seen the emergence of regular activities, each June in New Zealand, to coincide with what is usually referred to as "The Māori New Year", generally known as "Matariki". However, within my tribal area, as well as in a number of others, the term "Puaka" was used instead. The article examines these differing tribal traditions and proposes a possible explanation for the two schools of thought
Juxtaposed Narratives of the Battle of Crowheart Butte
As history is usually recorded by the victors, it is instructive to have an opportunity to contrast a perspective from the vanquished. However, when both parties are from colonized minorities, and there is also a colonizer's view, the opportunity exists for the almost unique comparison of one etic and two emic accounts. The battle of Crowheart Butte, Wyoming, in 1866, provides such an opportunity, illustrating how each group maintains its own his…
Re-evaluating the Monitoring of the Shardlow Log Boat
Following the discovery of a Bronze Age log boat in Shardlow Quarry, Derbyshire in 2003, a scheme was devised to preserve this boat in situ. This included a monitoring programme to ensure that reducing conditions were maintained. This solution was agreed by the mineral planning authority Derbyshire County Council, with input and advice from English Heritage.Monitoring lasted ten years, during which time gravel deposits surrounding the boat were e…
Hydrogeological Modelling of Water-Level Changes in an Area of Archaeological Significance
Concern exists regarding the long-term viability of the internationally important archaeological remains of the Flag Fen site near Peterborough. This paper describes a hydrogeological numerical groundwater model which has been used to understand the groundwater situation with regard to the archaeology, including drainage impacts, and also to explore future scenarios. Observed and modelled groundwater levels have been interpreted using three zones…
"Seafood "gardens
This article reviews seafood gardening by Ngāi Tahu, including seeding, habitat enhancement, species improvement and marine storage. It is argued that a regime of management practises certainly justifies the term "gardening" as has been argued for similar practises elsewhere (in particular, the American Pacific coast
Models, Mathematics and Deleuze's Philosophy
Some approaches to traditional Māori knowledge
In this essay I review two books of rather different focus, but with a common thread that is oral tradition: age-old tales passed orally down the generations to maintain the histories and used to educate the young. The focus of the Metge book is traditional methods of education, while McRae’s focus is on the stories themselves
Building Character
Reviewed by: Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting by Amy Cook Jim Williams BUILDING CHARACTER: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CASTING. By Amy Cook. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 198. In theatre, the ultimate dilemma for any director at the beginning of the creative process is the casting. How is it possible to determine which actor is "right" for a role, as opposed to why another actor is "wrong"? Are there theatrical s…
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