Paul R Mullins
Biographic Data
| ID | 78021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul R Mullins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mullins |
| SIGNATURE | MULLINS P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0998-8196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Memory, Material Culture, and Experience of Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century Finland
Our article will consider the development of the material culture of resistance and nationalism in northern Finland in the early 20th century. Finland’s status as an autonomous grand duchy of Russia came into dispute in 1899 when Tsar Nicholas II issued the February Manifesto, asserting the Russian Empire’s right to govern Finland. This started the so-called period of Russification in Finland. One part of the population resorted to active and arm…
Place, Memory, and the Landscape of Finnish Civil War Reconciliation
An important dimension of the newly independent Finland national narrative was constructed with the deeper historical knowledge of the civil-war monuments erected after independence in 1917. Finnish historical memory struggled to accommodate its horrific 1918 civil war in the new national heritage. The state rejected public monuments to the civil war’s vanquished “Reds”––the lost, socialist side of the war––but survivors, allies, and families of …
Historical Archaeologies of Commodities
Archaeologists examining the past half-millennium focus much of their analysis on the ways disparate people consume mass-produced commodities in distinctive forms that variously reproduce, negotiate, resist, or ignore ideology and inequality. This chapter examines the archaeological scholarship on commodities, particularly the ways consumers are structurally situated by commodities, how commodities’ meanings are constructed and contested in every…
An Interview with Mark Leone
The Landscape of Black Placelessness
Empathy for the ‘Other’
This article examines a series of unsettling images from the Finnish Continuation War (1941–1944) and the memories of the war that these photographs construct for contemporary Finns. We argue that these images can be viewed through Alison Landsberg's (2004) notion of ‘prosthetic memory’, which underlines how visual media enable the acquisition of vivid memories of past events. The paper outlines how these long-ignored photographs narrate unexamin…
Revolting Things
Revolting Things: An Archaeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities examines a host of material things that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us. The book is a study of the contemporary world and its recent dark history that wrestles with how and why certain material things provoke strong and predominately negative feelings that are firmly rooted in contemporary political concerns. This book interrogates the phys…
Consumption, Archaeology of
Ideology and Materiality in Archaeological Theory
La importancia de los objetos inocuos
Quizás el desafío más audaz de Arqueología Histórica y la Importancia de los Objetos Materiales fue su definición ambiciosa de cultura material, que podría enfrentar una amplia variedad de preguntas sociales, pero los arqueólogos históricos continúan definiendo con prudencia a los datos arqueológicos, centrándose en los detalles prosaicos de la vida cotidiana y evitando bienes anómalos. Este artículo examina las implicancias de una arqueología hi…
Imagining Musical Place
Indianapolis, Indiana, once had a rich range of African American music and performance spaces in the city's segregated near-Westside, but postwar urban renewal, construction of a university campus, and interstate displacement erased almost all of those venues by the 1970s. In the early twenty-first century, the city and developers have championed new construction, and many of those projects celebrate jazz history as the heart of the near-Westside…
Public memory, National Heritage, and memorialization of the 1918 Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War in 1918 left the newly independent country (1917) scarred for decades. In this paper, we assess the difficult public memory, national narrative and memorialization of the war. We take as our starting point a public crowdsourcing organized by the State-broadcasting company about the material traces of conflicts in Finland. Themes raised by the public in the crowdsourcing are used as foundation to map heritage perspectives. Sp…
Using Campus Ethnography to Reveal Social Inequality
In 1944, 70 year-old Ira Johnson settled in a home at 311 Bright Street in Indianapolis
Anxiety in the Consumer Shell
Imagining Conformity
The Familiarity of the Medieval
Peer Comment
Peer comment on Online Resistance to Precarious Archaeological Labour by Sam Hardy
Archaeological Views of Southern Culture and Urban Life
Imagining Ruin Images
The Rhetoric of Things
Borderlands as spaces
Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectiviti…
Street mirrors, surveillance, and urban communities in early modern Finland
This article discusses street mirrors or 'gossip mirrors', in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban popu…
The Banality of Everyday Consumption
This article examines what defines contemporary urban materiality, focusing on the politics of banality and everyday life and examining how museums might collect quotidian material things. Rather than engage in guesswork about what future audiences will define as early 21st-century urban significance, the article argues for a curatorial focus on the apparently prosaic dimensions of urban materiality. Such a curatorial strategy will use commonplac…
Race and Class
African-American Heritage in a Multicultural Community An Archaeology of Race, Culture, and Consumption
The Archaeology of Consumption
A vast range of archaeological studies could be construed as studies of consumption, so it is perhaps surprising that relatively few archaeologists have defined their scholarly focus as consumption. This review examines how archaeology can produce a distinctive picture of consumption that remains largely unaddressed in the rich interdisciplinary consumer scholarship. Archaeological research provides concrete evidence of everyday materiality that …
Race and the genteel consumer
Excavating America's Metaphor
Representing colonizers
Racializing the commonplace landscape
In the 1960’s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominately African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the community is largely forgotten. This paper examines how ar…
Practicing Anthropology and the Politics of Engagement
In 2010, a rapidly growing body of public scholars continued to conduct engaged research that involved various forms of collaboration, advocacy, and activism. Practicing anthropologists are among the most powerful champions of engaged scholarship and are increasingly focused on tracing the concrete dimensions of public engagement. Practicing anthropologists in 2010 made a concerted effort to critically assess precisely what constitutes collaborat…
Domesticating Barbie
Archaeologies of Race and Urban Poverty
Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage
(2002). Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. Ethics, Place & Environment: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 288-290
Public memory, National Heritage, and memorialization of the 1918 Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War in 1918 left the newly independent country (1917) scarred for decades. In this paper, we assess the difficult public memory, national narrative and memorialization of the war. We take as our starting point a public crowdsourcing organized by the State-broadcasting company about the material traces of conflicts in Finland. Themes raised by the public in the crowdsourcing are used as foundation to map heritage perspectives. Sp…
Memory of Barracks
Some 220,000 German soldiers were stationed and fought in northern Finland during World War II. These troops required huge amounts of supplies that were provided by supply encampments in several locations, including the towns of Oulu and Tornio. In this paper the authors consider how the memory of these German-built sites has shaped post-war urban heritage. They review and challenge the authorized history of the post-war urbanization of the north…
Borderlands as spaces
Cultural anthropologists and historians have successfully adopted a borderlands perspective to investigate interaction, power, and identity between emerging or expanding state societies. This article develops an archaeological approach to such interstitial landscapes. It conceptualizes borderlands as spaces where people engage the material world under very specific geopolitical circumstances and create very specific materialities and subjectiviti…
British Ceramics on the Northern European Periphery
Race and Affluence
Revolting Things
Revolting Things: An Archaeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities examines a host of material things that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us. The book is a study of the contemporary world and its recent dark history that wrestles with how and why certain material things provoke strong and predominately negative feelings that are firmly rooted in contemporary political concerns. This book interrogates the phys…
Imagining Conformity
Beneath the Ivory Tower
The politics of an archaeology of global captivity
In 1922 Carter Woodson lay a brief but nevertheless sweeping foundation for a history of captivity that reached into the earliest recesses of the classical world. Invoking the classical paragons of democracy, Woodson argued (1922, 15) that slavery was once the normal condition of the majority of the inhabitants of the world. In many countries slaves outnumbered freemen three to one. Greece and Rome, the most civilized of the ancient nations in wh…
African-American Heritage in a Multicultural Community An Archaeology of Race, Culture, and Consumption
Consuming Lines of Difference
The strange and unusual”
Place, Memory, and the Landscape of Finnish Civil War Reconciliation
An important dimension of the newly independent Finland national narrative was constructed with the deeper historical knowledge of the civil-war monuments erected after independence in 1917. Finnish historical memory struggled to accommodate its horrific 1918 civil war in the new national heritage. The state rejected public monuments to the civil war’s vanquished “Reds”––the lost, socialist side of the war––but survivors, allies, and families of …
Anxiety in the Consumer Shell
The Rhetoric of Things
Street mirrors, surveillance, and urban communities in early modern Finland
This article discusses street mirrors or 'gossip mirrors', in terms of urban social relations and surveillance. Street mirrors were introduced to coastal towns in Sweden and Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries and may still be found in well-preserved towns with historic wooden centres. The authors argue that the introduction of monitoring and spying devices, such as street mirrors, occurred in the 18th century due to increased urban popu…
Changing Visions of the Past
Can an African-American historical archaeology be an alternative voice
Partiendo de una visión de la arqueológica histórica como una forma alternativa de construcción de pasados de grupos subalternos, este artículo propone situar dentro de la misma una línea de estudios de arqueología histórica afro-americana. Es a partir de este tipo de estudios críticos que la disciplina contribuye a la construcción de una sociedad más plural y democrática
“A Bold and Gorgeous Front”
Domesticating Barbie
Race and the genteel consumer
Social Construction of the Past
Annapolis Pasts
Representing colonizers
I, Too, Am America
Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage
(2002). Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. Ethics, Place & Environment: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 288-290
Race and Affluence
Historical Archaeologies of Global Capitalism and Colonization
The Historical Archaeology of Buenos Aires:. City at the End of the World. Daniel Schavelzon. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 187 pp.Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador. Ross W. Jamieson. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. 244 pp.Historical Archaeology in Wachovia: Excavating Eighteenth- Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery. Stanley South. New York: Kluwer Academic/P…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Racializing the commonplace landscape
In the 1960’s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominately African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the community is largely forgotten. This paper examines how ar…
Ideology, Power, and Capitalism
Sampling Many Pots
The Archaeology of Class in Urban America . Stephen A. Mrozowski
Marketing in a Multicultural Neighborhood
The strange and unusual”
The Politics of a Global Archaeology of Race and the Color Line
Revisiting Living in Cities
Excavating America's Metaphor
The politics of an archaeology of global captivity
In 1922 Carter Woodson lay a brief but nevertheless sweeping foundation for a history of captivity that reached into the earliest recesses of the classical world. Invoking the classical paragons of democracy, Woodson argued (1922, 15) that slavery was once the normal condition of the majority of the inhabitants of the world. In many countries slaves outnumbered freemen three to one. Greece and Rome, the most civilized of the ancient nations in wh…
Consuming Individuality
Consuming Lines of Difference
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