Carla M Sinopoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 90130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla M Sinopoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinopoli |
| SIGNATURE | SINOPOLI C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1895-3112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 382 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Paddayya, K: Revitalizing Indian Archaeology - Further Theoretical Essay
Anthropos , Seite 695 - 696
The Cambridge World History
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal…
New Research on an Old Collection: Studies of the Philippine Expedition (“Guthe”) Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
This article introduces recent studies on an important collection of Southeast Asian archaeological materials curated by the Asian Division of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. The Philippine Expedition or Guthe Collection derives from archaeological research conducted at more than 500 sites in the southern and central Philippines in the early part of the last century—from 1922 to 1925. The collection consists of some 13,000 obje…
From the Associate Editor for Archaeology
Characterizing the Stoneware "Dragon Jars" in the Guthe Collection: Chemical, Decorative, and Formal Patterning
This paper presents a multifaceted study of a collection of stoneware ceramic vessels in the Guthe Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. These vessels, recovered in the Philippines but manufactured in multiple production sites across East and Southeast Asia, provide insights into premodern economic interactions and maritime trade. Our study of this collection drew on multiple approaches to identify coherent groupings o…
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective . Gregory L. Possehl
Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory
Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, C. 1350-1650
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650
The study of specialized craft production has a long tradition in archaeological research. Through analyses of material remains and the contexts of their production and use, archaeologists can examine the organization of craft production and the economic and political status of craft producers. This study, which was originally published in 2003, combines archaeological and historical evidence from the author's twenty years of fieldwork at the imp…
Channabasappa Soodayya Patil 1951-2001
Channabasappa Soodayya Patil 1951–2001 Carla M. Sinopoli and Kathleen D. Morrison Dr. Channabasappa Soodayya (C. S.) Patil, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Karnataka, India, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack in October 2001. Dr. Patil was a gifted scholar of epigraphy, architectural history, and archaeology who, in 20 books and more than 100 articles, made important contributions …
In the Beginning Was the Word: Excavating the Relations Between History and Archaeology in South Asia
The study of the historic past, through material evidence and texts, was an integral component of colonial practice in India, and remains a highly visible governmental and public focus in contemporary South Asia. In this paper, we present an historic overview of the development of knowledge and research on ancient India, beginning with the formation of the Asiatic Society in 1784 and proceeding to the creation of the Archaeological Survey of Indi…
Empires
From the Lion Throne: Political and Social Dynamics of the Vijayanagara Empire
The fourteenth- through seventeenth-century A.D. Vijayanagara empire of south India spanned a vast area and incorporated diverse ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic and political groups. Beyond the imperial bounds, Vijayanagara was also part of complex subcontinental political and cultural nexus, with cooperative and antagonistic relations with neighboring states and empires. In this paper, I examine both scales of these relations: the local respon…
Identity and Social Action among South Indian Craft Producers of the Vijayanagara Period
Economic, political, demographic, territorial, and social changes in fourteenth through seventeenth century southern India contributed to an expansion in the production and exchange of a range of craft goods. Producers of these goods responded to and benefited from changing conditions in a variety of ways. In this paper I consider archaeological and inscriptional evidence for craft production from the Vijayanagara period, with a focus on how chan…
The Archaeology of Empires: A View from South Asia
Archaeological and historic analyses of early empires has received considerable attention in recent years. This article examines major issues and challenges in the archaeology of empires and illustrates some of these with examples from the Vijayanagara empire of southern India. Four main challenges are identified: the vast scale of early empires, the broad internal variability that characterizes all archaic empires, the diverse and abundant sourc…
Dimensions of Imperial Control: The Vijayanagara Capital
The city of Vijayanagara was the capital of a vast south Indian empire from the 14th through 16th century A.D. The authors use historic, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence to examine Vijayanagara control at the imperial capital. They argue that imperial control should best be viewed as multidimensional and variable in emphases and success over time and space. They focus on three dimensions of Vijayanagara control: ideology, militarism, and t…
Sri Lankan Prehistory Revealed
Book reviewed in this article: The Prehistory of Sri Lanka: An Ecological Perspective . S. U. Deraniyagala. Memoir Volume 8, Parts 1 and 2. Sri Lanka: Department of Archaeological Survey, 1992. 813 pp
The Archaeology of Empires
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard
Economic diversity and integration in a pre-colonial Indian empire
Empires contain a multiplicity of productive systems and strategies which may be differentially integrated with each other and the center. This paper examines six aspects of agricultural and craft production in the south Indian empire of Vijayanagara (c. AD 1340–1700). Agricultural production in the diverse ecological zones of the empire was integrated primarily through Hindu temples, and trade and craft production through temples and taxation. T…
Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics
The Organization of Craft Production at Vijayanagara, South India
This article examines the production of two classes of goods, textiles and ceramics, in the medieval South Indian empire of Vijayanagara. A general model for the organization of specialized craft production is presented in which productive organization is linked to political/administrative regulation of product manufacture, distribution, and use. Three modes of productive organization are defined: administered production, centralized production, …
Early Seafarers of the Comoro Islands: The Dembeni Phase of the IXth-Xth Centuries AD
Although previous volumes of Azania have carried articles and notes on Madagascar and Mozambique as well as allusions to the Comoro Islands (as in Derek Nurse's study of Swahili linguistic history in XVIII), this is the first article specifically on the Archipelago. Being concerned with the earliest recognised human settlements on the Comores, which show similarities to the earliest levels at Kilwa, Manda and Shanga on the African coast with thei…
The Archaeology of Empires
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Organization of Craft Production at Vijayanagara, South India
This article examines the production of two classes of goods, textiles and ceramics, in the medieval South Indian empire of Vijayanagara. A general model for the organization of specialized craft production is presented in which productive organization is linked to political/administrative regulation of product manufacture, distribution, and use. Three modes of productive organization are defined: administered production, centralized production, …
Early Seafarers of the Comoro Islands: The Dembeni Phase of the IXth-Xth Centuries AD
Although previous volumes of Azania have carried articles and notes on Madagascar and Mozambique as well as allusions to the Comoro Islands (as in Derek Nurse's study of Swahili linguistic history in XVIII), this is the first article specifically on the Archipelago. Being concerned with the earliest recognised human settlements on the Comores, which show similarities to the earliest levels at Kilwa, Manda and Shanga on the African coast with thei…
Dimensions of Imperial Control: The Vijayanagara Capital
The city of Vijayanagara was the capital of a vast south Indian empire from the 14th through 16th century A.D. The authors use historic, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence to examine Vijayanagara control at the imperial capital. They argue that imperial control should best be viewed as multidimensional and variable in emphases and success over time and space. They focus on three dimensions of Vijayanagara control: ideology, militarism, and t…
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650
The study of specialized craft production has a long tradition in archaeological research. Through analyses of material remains and the contexts of their production and use, archaeologists can examine the organization of craft production and the economic and political status of craft producers. This study, which was originally published in 2003, combines archaeological and historical evidence from the author's twenty years of fieldwork at the imp…
In the Beginning Was the Word: Excavating the Relations Between History and Archaeology in South Asia
The study of the historic past, through material evidence and texts, was an integral component of colonial practice in India, and remains a highly visible governmental and public focus in contemporary South Asia. In this paper, we present an historic overview of the development of knowledge and research on ancient India, beginning with the formation of the Asiatic Society in 1784 and proceeding to the creation of the Archaeological Survey of Indi…
Economic diversity and integration in a pre-colonial Indian empire
Empires contain a multiplicity of productive systems and strategies which may be differentially integrated with each other and the center. This paper examines six aspects of agricultural and craft production in the south Indian empire of Vijayanagara (c. AD 1340–1700). Agricultural production in the diverse ecological zones of the empire was integrated primarily through Hindu temples, and trade and craft production through temples and taxation. T…
Characterizing the Stoneware "Dragon Jars" in the Guthe Collection: Chemical, Decorative, and Formal Patterning
This paper presents a multifaceted study of a collection of stoneware ceramic vessels in the Guthe Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. These vessels, recovered in the Philippines but manufactured in multiple production sites across East and Southeast Asia, provide insights into premodern economic interactions and maritime trade. Our study of this collection drew on multiple approaches to identify coherent groupings o…
From the Lion Throne: Political and Social Dynamics of the Vijayanagara Empire
The fourteenth- through seventeenth-century A.D. Vijayanagara empire of south India spanned a vast area and incorporated diverse ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic and political groups. Beyond the imperial bounds, Vijayanagara was also part of complex subcontinental political and cultural nexus, with cooperative and antagonistic relations with neighboring states and empires. In this paper, I examine both scales of these relations: the local respon…
Identity and Social Action among South Indian Craft Producers of the Vijayanagara Period
Economic, political, demographic, territorial, and social changes in fourteenth through seventeenth century southern India contributed to an expansion in the production and exchange of a range of craft goods. Producers of these goods responded to and benefited from changing conditions in a variety of ways. In this paper I consider archaeological and inscriptional evidence for craft production from the Vijayanagara period, with a focus on how chan…
The Archaeology of Empires: A View from South Asia
Archaeological and historic analyses of early empires has received considerable attention in recent years. This article examines major issues and challenges in the archaeology of empires and illustrates some of these with examples from the Vijayanagara empire of southern India. Four main challenges are identified: the vast scale of early empires, the broad internal variability that characterizes all archaic empires, the diverse and abundant sourc…
Early Seafarers of the Comoro Islands: The Dembeni Phase of the IXth-Xth Centuries AD
Although previous volumes of Azania have carried articles and notes on Madagascar and Mozambique as well as allusions to the Comoro Islands (as in Derek Nurse's study of Swahili linguistic history in XVIII), this is the first article specifically on the Archipelago. Being concerned with the earliest recognised human settlements on the Comores, which show similarities to the earliest levels at Kilwa, Manda and Shanga on the African coast with thei…
The Organization of Craft Production at Vijayanagara, South India
This article examines the production of two classes of goods, textiles and ceramics, in the medieval South Indian empire of Vijayanagara. A general model for the organization of specialized craft production is presented in which productive organization is linked to political/administrative regulation of product manufacture, distribution, and use. Three modes of productive organization are defined: administered production, centralized production, …
Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics
Economic diversity and integration in a pre-colonial Indian empire
Empires contain a multiplicity of productive systems and strategies which may be differentially integrated with each other and the center. This paper examines six aspects of agricultural and craft production in the south Indian empire of Vijayanagara (c. AD 1340–1700). Agricultural production in the diverse ecological zones of the empire was integrated primarily through Hindu temples, and trade and craft production through temples and taxation. T…
The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard
Sri Lankan Prehistory Revealed
Book reviewed in this article: The Prehistory of Sri Lanka: An Ecological Perspective . S. U. Deraniyagala. Memoir Volume 8, Parts 1 and 2. Sri Lanka: Department of Archaeological Survey, 1992. 813 pp
The Archaeology of Empires
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Archaeology of Empires: A View from South Asia
Archaeological and historic analyses of early empires has received considerable attention in recent years. This article examines major issues and challenges in the archaeology of empires and illustrates some of these with examples from the Vijayanagara empire of southern India. Four main challenges are identified: the vast scale of early empires, the broad internal variability that characterizes all archaic empires, the diverse and abundant sourc…
Dimensions of Imperial Control: The Vijayanagara Capital
The city of Vijayanagara was the capital of a vast south Indian empire from the 14th through 16th century A.D. The authors use historic, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence to examine Vijayanagara control at the imperial capital. They argue that imperial control should best be viewed as multidimensional and variable in emphases and success over time and space. They focus on three dimensions of Vijayanagara control: ideology, militarism, and t…
Identity and Social Action among South Indian Craft Producers of the Vijayanagara Period
Economic, political, demographic, territorial, and social changes in fourteenth through seventeenth century southern India contributed to an expansion in the production and exchange of a range of craft goods. Producers of these goods responded to and benefited from changing conditions in a variety of ways. In this paper I consider archaeological and inscriptional evidence for craft production from the Vijayanagara period, with a focus on how chan…
From the Lion Throne: Political and Social Dynamics of the Vijayanagara Empire
The fourteenth- through seventeenth-century A.D. Vijayanagara empire of south India spanned a vast area and incorporated diverse ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic and political groups. Beyond the imperial bounds, Vijayanagara was also part of complex subcontinental political and cultural nexus, with cooperative and antagonistic relations with neighboring states and empires. In this paper, I examine both scales of these relations: the local respon…
Empires
In the Beginning Was the Word: Excavating the Relations Between History and Archaeology in South Asia
The study of the historic past, through material evidence and texts, was an integral component of colonial practice in India, and remains a highly visible governmental and public focus in contemporary South Asia. In this paper, we present an historic overview of the development of knowledge and research on ancient India, beginning with the formation of the Asiatic Society in 1784 and proceeding to the creation of the Archaeological Survey of Indi…
Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory
Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, C. 1350-1650
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650
The study of specialized craft production has a long tradition in archaeological research. Through analyses of material remains and the contexts of their production and use, archaeologists can examine the organization of craft production and the economic and political status of craft producers. This study, which was originally published in 2003, combines archaeological and historical evidence from the author's twenty years of fieldwork at the imp…
Channabasappa Soodayya Patil 1951-2001
Channabasappa Soodayya Patil 1951–2001 Carla M. Sinopoli and Kathleen D. Morrison Dr. Channabasappa Soodayya (C. S.) Patil, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Karnataka, India, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack in October 2001. Dr. Patil was a gifted scholar of epigraphy, architectural history, and archaeology who, in 20 books and more than 100 articles, made important contributions …
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective . Gregory L. Possehl
Characterizing the Stoneware "Dragon Jars" in the Guthe Collection: Chemical, Decorative, and Formal Patterning
This paper presents a multifaceted study of a collection of stoneware ceramic vessels in the Guthe Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. These vessels, recovered in the Philippines but manufactured in multiple production sites across East and Southeast Asia, provide insights into premodern economic interactions and maritime trade. Our study of this collection drew on multiple approaches to identify coherent groupings o…
From the Associate Editor for Archaeology
New Research on an Old Collection: Studies of the Philippine Expedition (“Guthe”) Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
This article introduces recent studies on an important collection of Southeast Asian archaeological materials curated by the Asian Division of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. The Philippine Expedition or Guthe Collection derives from archaeological research conducted at more than 500 sites in the southern and central Philippines in the early part of the last century—from 1922 to 1925. The collection consists of some 13,000 obje…
The Cambridge World History
From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformation, from the appearance of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of cities in Asia and the Mediterranean world, Africa, and the Americas. Through case studies and comparative accounts of key cities across the world, leading scholars chart the ways in which these cities grew as nodal…
Paddayya, K: Revitalizing Indian Archaeology - Further Theoretical Essay
Anthropos , Seite 695 - 696
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