Michael Shanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 99416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Shanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Shanks |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7137-0138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 827 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Social Theory in Archaeology
Business Archaeology: Defining a New Foundational Discipline
Tribute to Mike Pearson Non omnis moriar (Not all of me will die)
Timely Things: From Argos to Mycenae and Beyond
Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the “Two New Sciences.”
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Craig Martin. Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
The cover of Craig Martin’s Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science hints at the surprises inside. A cross replaces the T and a Π stands for the N in the title, beneath which Aristotle’s effigy is set upside down. While the cover intrigues, this wide-ranging book proceeds to overturn favorite assumptions and generalizations about Aristotle in the early modern period. In European intellectual history, Aristo…
El oficio de la arqueología
La idea de la arqueología como arte desafía la separación entre razonamiento y ejecución, teoría y práctica, que hoy caracteriza a la disciplina. El Movimiento de Artes y Oficios de fines del siglo XIX estableció a la artesanía como una manifestación estética de oposición. Asentamos a la artesanía dentro de una crítica marxista del trabajo alienado y proponemos una práctica unificada de mano, corazón y mente. Los debates engendrados por la arqueo…
Archaeology and photography
Myth 1. That There Was No Scientific Activity between Greek Antiquity and the Scientific Revolution
Eloge: David C. Lindberg 1935–2015
Archaeology's Aesthetics
The Cambridge History of Science
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in the study of nature during the Middle Ages. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scho…
Schools and Universities in Medieval Latin Science
Archaeology in the Making: Conversations through a Discipline
1. Introduction Part I: The Archaeological Imagination 2. Binford 3. Schiffer 4. Watson 5. Renfrew 6. Wylie 7. Hodder Part II: The Workings of a Discipline 8. Adrian and Mary Praetzellis 9. Kristiansen 10. Cowgill 11. Schnapp 12. Alcock and Cherry Part III: Political Ecologies (Realpolitik) 13. Leone 14. Buchli and McGuire 15. Conkey 16. Tringham 17. Meskell 18. Rathje and Shanks 19. Archaeology: An ecology of practices
Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
The “science of old things,” archaeology is marked by its care, obligation, and loyalty to things, from ancient cities in the Mexican heartland and megalithic monuments in Britain to the perfume jars of the ancient Greek city-state and Leica cameras. This book seeks to understand the diverse practices that arise through this disciplinary commitment to things.
The legacy of climategate: Undermining or revitalizing climate science and policy
In mid‐November 2009, emails were removed without authorization from a University of East Anglia server and posted to the internet; within 24 h an international scandal was born—alleging fraud by leading climate scientists—which almost immediately became known as climategate. Multiple investigations concluded that no fraud or scientific misconduct had occurred. Despite the exonerations, however, the email controversy has had impacts, both negativ…
Archaeology 2.0? Review of Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration [Web Book]
The Cotsen Institute in Los Angeles has launched a new publishing initiative in 'Digital Archaeology'. Its first book, Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration, edited by Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Ethan Watrall, makes a grand claim, if only in its title, that archaeology has undergone, or is about to undergo, changes that bring about a completely new version or kind of archaeology. The analogy is with the W…
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the "scie…
Closing Keynote: Tradition and Innovation in Design - An archaeologist offers an anthropological view
Ethnography promises a deeper understanding of our relationship with things, with making and consuming, the distribution and exchange of goods, their eventual discard. Ethnography offers significant enhancement of human-centered design. Archaeology, Anthropology's time dimension, has developed a set of ethnographic practices of close documentation of the materiality (and indeed immateriality) of human experience, as well as an understanding of cu…
Myth 2. That the Medieval Christian Church Suppressed the Growth of Science
Engagement: Archaeological Design and Engineering
Setting up Copernicus? Astronomy and Natural Philosophy in Giambattista Capuano da Manfredonia's Expositio on the Sphere
In 1499, while Copernicus studies in Bologna, the commentary on Sacrobosco's Sphere by the Padua master Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia first appears in print. It will be revised and reprinted several times thereafter. Like Copernicus, Capuano has a high view of astronomy and mingles astronomical and physical considerations (flies moving on wheels, men on ships, impetus, comets, raptus). Also, Capuano offers a flawed argument against a two-fold …
S trategic A rts‐ B ased P eacebuilding
The arts offer peacebuilders unique tools for transforming intractable interpersonal, intercommunal, national, and global conflicts—tools that are not currently prevalent or available within the peacebuilding field. The task for peacebuilding practitioners is to find strategic ways of incorporating the arts into the work of peacebuilding and to create a space where people in conflict can express themselves, heal themselves, and reconcile themselv…
All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei
Andrea Battistini, Gilberto De Angelis, and Giuseppe Olmi, eds. All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007. 480 pp. + 21 b/w pls. index. append. illus. €35. ISBN: 978–88–15–11986–5. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the "scie…
Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice
Symmetrical archaeology
Symmetry is an epistemological and ethical principle developed in the social study of scientific practice. This essay connects a symmetrical archaeology to major trends in the discipline since the 1960s and to key components of archaeological practice – relational ontologies, mixtures of past and present, people and things, biology and culture, individual and society. Symmetrical archaeology is a culmination of effort in archaeology to undercut t…
Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value …
The Craft of Archaeology
The idea of archaeology as craft challenges the separation of reasoning and execution that characterizes the field today. The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century established craftwork as an aesthetic of opposition. We establish craft in a Marxian critique of alienated labor, and we propose a unified practice of hand, heart, and mind for archaeology. The debates engendered by postprocessual archaeology have firmly situated arch…
Archaeology into the 1990s
The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline
Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their interests and aims.Michael Shanks's enlivening wor…
Three Rooms: Archaeology and Performance
This article interweaves the archaeology of three rooms from very different historical contexts - the Greek city of Corinth, nineteenth-century Wales and contemporary London. One aim is to raise questions of how archaeologists construct narratives around the remains of the past and to confront alternative ways of dealing with archaeological empirics. Another aim is to connect archaeology as a discipline with a much broader archaeological theme at…
Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline
Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their interests and aims. Michael Shanks's enlivening wo…
Archaeology in the Making: Conversations through a Discipline
1. Introduction Part I: The Archaeological Imagination 2. Binford 3. Schiffer 4. Watson 5. Renfrew 6. Wylie 7. Hodder Part II: The Workings of a Discipline 8. Adrian and Mary Praetzellis 9. Kristiansen 10. Cowgill 11. Schnapp 12. Alcock and Cherry Part III: Political Ecologies (Realpolitik) 13. Leone 14. Buchli and McGuire 15. Conkey 16. Tringham 17. Meskell 18. Rathje and Shanks 19. Archaeology: An ecology of practices
S trategic A rts‐ B ased P eacebuilding
The arts offer peacebuilders unique tools for transforming intractable interpersonal, intercommunal, national, and global conflicts—tools that are not currently prevalent or available within the peacebuilding field. The task for peacebuilding practitioners is to find strategic ways of incorporating the arts into the work of peacebuilding and to create a space where people in conflict can express themselves, heal themselves, and reconcile themselv…
Art and an Archaeology of Embodiment: Some Aspects of Archaic Greece
This article seeks to gain an understanding of distinctive changes in certain artefacts produced in Corinth in the late eighth and seventh centuries BC. The focus is the development of figurative imagery on miniature ceramic vessels (many of them perfume jars) which travelled from Corinth particularly to sanctuaries and cemeteries in the wider Greek world. Connections, conceptual and material, are traced through the manufacture and iconography of…
Archaeological Method
Questions rather than answers: Reply to comments on archaeology into the 1990s
The legacy of climategate: Undermining or revitalizing climate science and policy
In mid‐November 2009, emails were removed without authorization from a University of East Anglia server and posted to the internet; within 24 h an international scandal was born—alleging fraud by leading climate scientists—which almost immediately became known as climategate. Multiple investigations concluded that no fraud or scientific misconduct had occurred. Despite the exonerations, however, the email controversy has had impacts, both negativ…
"There Was no such Thing as the 'Newtonian Revolution,' and the French Initiated it." Eighteenth-century Mechanics in France before Maupertuis
Two linked arguments are offered in this paper. The first half argues that I.B. Cohen's notion of the "Newtonian Revolution" in mechanics needs to be revised in light of the recent historical work of Michel Blay, Henk Bos, and Niccolò Guicciardini. It further suggests a new way of thinking about the history of French mathematical mechanics in the decades around 1700 that follows as a consequence of these historical revisions. The second half of t…
Archaeology 2.0? Review of Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration [Web Book]
The Cotsen Institute in Los Angeles has launched a new publishing initiative in 'Digital Archaeology'. Its first book, Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration, edited by Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Ethan Watrall, makes a grand claim, if only in its title, that archaeology has undergone, or is about to undergo, changes that bring about a completely new version or kind of archaeology. The analogy is with the W…
How Shall We Practice History? the Case of Mario Biagioli's Galileo, Courtier
Social Theory and Archaeology
Archaeology's Aesthetics
Engagement: Archaeological Design and Engineering
Setting up Copernicus? Astronomy and Natural Philosophy in Giambattista Capuano da Manfredonia's Expositio on the Sphere
In 1499, while Copernicus studies in Bologna, the commentary on Sacrobosco's Sphere by the Padua master Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia first appears in print. It will be revised and reprinted several times thereafter. Like Copernicus, Capuano has a high view of astronomy and mingles astronomical and physical considerations (flies moving on wheels, men on ships, impetus, comets, raptus). Also, Capuano offers a flawed argument against a two-fold …
Understanding political Islam in Somalia
Know Thyself
Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought
Politics and the Trade Unionist
Labour Philosophy and the Current Position
What Future for Neddy
European Social Policy, Today and Tomorrow
The need for a grass roots social contract: Lessons in industrial relations from the EEC
Ideology, symbolic power and ritual communication: A reinterpretation of Neolithic mortuary practices
The first part of this chapter attempts to arrive at an adequate notion and definition of ideology. An alternative to the viewpoint of Althusser concerning the nature of ideology is discussed, and the close relationship between ideological and symbolic form emphasised. Material symbols, especially those involved in ritual such as burial of the dead, may play an active part in the misrepresentation or concealment of real social relations. The trea…
Science: Its History and Development among the World's Cultures. Colin Ronan
Nicolaus Cusanus und die Entstehung der exakten Wissenschaften. Fritz Nagel
Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature: A Study of His "De causis mirabilium" with Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary . Bert Hansen
A Female University Student in Late Medieval Kraków
Social Theory and Archaeology
Questions rather than answers: Reply to comments on archaeology into the 1990s
Cometary Theory in Fifteenth-Century Europe . Jane L. Jervis
Archaeology into the 1990s
Social Theory and Archaeology
Archaeological theory and method have recently become the subject of vigorous debate centred on the growing realization that archaeological theory is social theory and as such can be looked at by means of a wide variety of sociological frameworks, such as structuralism and post-structuralism, Marxism and critical theory. In this analysis, Shanks and Tilley argue against the functionalism and positivism which result from an inadequate assimilation…
Re-Constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice
Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice
Style and the Design of a Perfume Jar from an Archaic Greek City State
The rise of the Greek city state and political community; art histories of the evolution of archaic and classical Greek style: against a backdrop of such grand narratives is considered the design of a perfume jar belonging to the style known as proto-Korinthian. Lines of thought and connection are drawn which reach into pottery production and pictorial imagery (of a studied sample of some 1930 pots), pointing beyond through the whole economic lif…
A ruined past: Experience and reality
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Art and an Archaeology of Embodiment: Some Aspects of Archaic Greece
This article seeks to gain an understanding of distinctive changes in certain artefacts produced in Corinth in the late eighth and seventh centuries BC. The focus is the development of figurative imagery on miniature ceramic vessels (many of them perfume jars) which travelled from Corinth particularly to sanctuaries and cemeteries in the wider Greek world. Connections, conceptual and material, are traced through the manufacture and iconography of…
Archaeological Method
How Shall We Practice History? the Case of Mario Biagioli's Galileo, Courtier
Lire dans le ciel: La bibliotheque de Simon de Phares, astrologue du XVe siecle. Jean-Patrice Boudet
The Craft of Archaeology
The idea of archaeology as craft challenges the separation of reasoning and execution that characterizes the field today. The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century established craftwork as an aesthetic of opposition. We establish craft in a Marxian critique of alienated labor, and we propose a unified practice of hand, heart, and mind for archaeology. The debates engendered by postprocessual archaeology have firmly situated arch…
Academic Consulting In Fifteenth-Century Vienna: The Case Of Astrology
This chapter discusses the involvement of university masters in astrological practice near Vienna that will complicate the picture further. It traces an intriguing pattern of change in the background of the astrological practitioners who worked near the Habsburg court, a perceptible shift from medical astrologers in the early fifteenth century, through mathematical astronomers/astrologers from the 1430s to the 1460s. The chapter also traces the f…
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