Benjamin W Porter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 385657 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin W Porter |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin W |
| SOBRENOME | Porter |
| ASSINATURA | PORTER B W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7530-6499 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
St. Thomas Aquinas and Final Causation in The Violent Bear it Away
Though it’s often said that St. Thomas Aquinas was important to Flannery O’Connor’s theology, few have noted his relevance to her craft approach. By joining Thomas’s action theory to his psychology, O’Connor developed notions of character and plot which are at their most mature in her final novel, The Violent Bear It Away. In it, O’Connor structured her characters by dramatizing Thomas’s doctrine of final causation, a metaphysical explanation of …
High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan
Archaeological plant remains are key data in the identification of the material consequences of imperial interventions in past local lifeways.In this paper, the spatial and stratigraphic analysis of plant remains preserved in a hypothesized kitchen context from the archaeological site of Dhiban, Jordan, is presented in detail.This context is dated to ca.A.D. 570-640 based on 16 AMS dates, a time when the Dhiban community was part of and located a…
Stable isotopes of archaeological and modern semi-terrestrial crabs (Potamon potamios) provide paleoecological insights into brachyuran ecology and human resource acquisition in late Holocene Jordan
Archaeological remains of brachyurans (e.g. crabs) are often overlooked as potential paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatical proxies in contrast to other marine and terrestrial invertebrates such as mollusks and landsnails. The potential for fine-scale regional paleoclimate reconstruction based upon these organisms' behavioral ecology has yet to be examined. We present novel isotopic analyses of the remains of a semiterrestrial freshwater crab (Po…
Voice in an asymmetric federation? The U.S. territories as intergovernmental actors
United States territories—home to more than 3.5 million Americans—are excluded from the safeguards of American federalism. Unlike states, they are subject to the plenary power of the U.S. Congress, lack core legal protections, and are denied meaningful political representation. As such, territories must find alternative approaches to exercising political voice in the American federal system. Yet territorial-federal relations have received virtual…
Repatriation in university museum collections
University-based anthropology museums are uniquely positioned to pursue nuanced decisions concerning the disposition of collections in their care, setting best practice for the field. The authors describe a three-staged approach to repatriations that they led during their concurrent service as head of cultural policy and repatriation (Jordan Jacobs) and director (Benjamin Porter) of the University of California, Berkeley's Phoebe A. Hearst Museum…
Assembling the Iron Age Levant
Teachers use of fear appeals prior to a high-stakes examination
Sharing Data is Hard!—But Worth It
I developed one of those finish-the-sentence chants to teach my young son to share with other kids. “Sharing is ...,” I say, raising my voice to prompt him, and he shouts “... good!” Of course, we all know that sharing is ... hard! But willingly or not, sharing is the new ethic for a new century, one that archaeologists, regardless of age, must adapt to for so many reasons described in Kansa and Whitcher Kansa's article. It is like preschool all …
The Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project
This article presents an overview of the Peter B. Cornwall collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Cornwall conducted an archaeological survey and excavation project in eastern Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in 1940 and 1941. At least twenty‐four burial features were excavated in Bahrain from five different tumuli fields, and surface survey and artefact collection took place on at least sixte…
Face to Face With the Past
Since 2008, the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project has analyzed the human skeletal remains and artifacts that Peter B. Cornwall excavated from Bahrain in the 1940s, now held in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. One mode of interpretation and dissemination pursued by the DBP team is forensic facial reconstruction. The subject of the first reconstruction is a twelve- to fifteen-year-old male who lived during the Early Dilmun period (ca. 2050–1800 b.c.e…
Feeding the Community
History and ethnicity have been the preferred frameworks for explaining how Levantine societies organized themselves during the early Iron Age. Consequently, opportunities are missed to understand how local economic and environmental factors structured social life. In this study, a collection of early Iron Age settlements from southwest central Jordan, the Dhiban and Karak Plateaus, is examined using a community perspective. Emphasis is placed on…
Measuring Local Diversity in Early Iron Age Animal Economies
We use faunal evidence from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, an agropastoral settlement located in west-central Jordan, to examine early Iron Age subsistence regimes. Analysis of faunal evidence reveals a low-intensity, nonspecialized animal economy dependent on both domesticated and wild species, including freshwater crabs. The subsistence economy of the settlement, we argue, was structured so as to take maximum advantage of its location overlookin…
Feeding the Community
History and ethnicity have been the preferred frameworks for explaining how Levantine societies organized themselves during the early Iron Age. Consequently, opportunities are missed to understand how local economic and environmental factors structured social life. In this study, a collection of early Iron Age settlements from southwest central Jordan, the Dhiban and Karak Plateaus, is examined using a community perspective. Emphasis is placed on…
Archaeotourism and the Crux of Development
Keywords: commentary, tourism, archaeology, development, ethics, sustainability, sustainable development, Southern Africa, Botswana, Tsodilo Hills
Ancient Jordan from the Air. David Kennedy and Robert Bewley
Protecting Çatalhöyük
Ends of British Imperialism. The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization
I wonder if any other historian could have issued a ‘collected essays’ as substantial and important as this? Roger Louis is well known, of course, as the pre-eminent diplomatic historian of British imperialism of our age. His books on the colonial aftermath of the First World War, Anglo-American relations concerning the British Empire during the Second World War, the British presence in the Middle East after that war, and the old imperialist Leo …
Reading Moabite Pigments with Laser Ablation ICP-MS
Heritage Tourism, Conflict, and the Public Interest
This introduction places the issue’s key themes of heritage, tourism, conflict, and the public interest in focus and illustrates their intersection in a brief case study from modern Jordan. Following this, the four ensuing articles are discussed with an emphasis on their contributions to the issue’s themes. Heritage and heritage tourism are long familiar terms to the journal’s readership and our goal is not to recapitulate what others have descri…
Authority, Polity, and Tenuous Elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)
The strategies political elites implement to garner political authority and legitimacy in emergent polities are scrutinized in a case study from Iron Age Edom, located in modern southern Jordan and the south‐east corner of the State of Israel. Edom provides a productive context in which to conduct this investigation as local elites managed a fractious polity consisting of unstable segmentary identities, while at the same time, remaining loyal to …
National Association of Student Anthropologists
Friends' Gallery Exhibit" and Harold Green for his "Food Aid Management Constituency Study."The Presidential Perspectives session presentations stimulated active discussion and a broad range
Empire
1University of Newcastle upon Tyne Empire: The History of the British Empire TrevorLloyd LondonHambledon 2001245£25
Heritage Tourism, Conflict, and the Public Interest
This introduction places the issue’s key themes of heritage, tourism, conflict, and the public interest in focus and illustrates their intersection in a brief case study from modern Jordan. Following this, the four ensuing articles are discussed with an emphasis on their contributions to the issue’s themes. Heritage and heritage tourism are long familiar terms to the journal’s readership and our goal is not to recapitulate what others have descri…
Assembling the Iron Age Levant
Feeding the Community
History and ethnicity have been the preferred frameworks for explaining how Levantine societies organized themselves during the early Iron Age. Consequently, opportunities are missed to understand how local economic and environmental factors structured social life. In this study, a collection of early Iron Age settlements from southwest central Jordan, the Dhiban and Karak Plateaus, is examined using a community perspective. Emphasis is placed on…
Teachers use of fear appeals prior to a high-stakes examination
The Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project
This article presents an overview of the Peter B. Cornwall collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Cornwall conducted an archaeological survey and excavation project in eastern Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in 1940 and 1941. At least twenty‐four burial features were excavated in Bahrain from five different tumuli fields, and surface survey and artefact collection took place on at least sixte…
Repatriation in university museum collections
University-based anthropology museums are uniquely positioned to pursue nuanced decisions concerning the disposition of collections in their care, setting best practice for the field. The authors describe a three-staged approach to repatriations that they led during their concurrent service as head of cultural policy and repatriation (Jordan Jacobs) and director (Benjamin Porter) of the University of California, Berkeley's Phoebe A. Hearst Museum…
Sharing Data is Hard!—But Worth It
I developed one of those finish-the-sentence chants to teach my young son to share with other kids. “Sharing is ...,” I say, raising my voice to prompt him, and he shouts “... good!” Of course, we all know that sharing is ... hard! But willingly or not, sharing is the new ethic for a new century, one that archaeologists, regardless of age, must adapt to for so many reasons described in Kansa and Whitcher Kansa's article. It is like preschool all …
Face to Face With the Past
Since 2008, the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project has analyzed the human skeletal remains and artifacts that Peter B. Cornwall excavated from Bahrain in the 1940s, now held in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. One mode of interpretation and dissemination pursued by the DBP team is forensic facial reconstruction. The subject of the first reconstruction is a twelve- to fifteen-year-old male who lived during the Early Dilmun period (ca. 2050–1800 b.c.e…
Archaeotourism and the Crux of Development
Keywords: commentary, tourism, archaeology, development, ethics, sustainability, sustainable development, Southern Africa, Botswana, Tsodilo Hills
Authority, Polity, and Tenuous Elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)
The strategies political elites implement to garner political authority and legitimacy in emergent polities are scrutinized in a case study from Iron Age Edom, located in modern southern Jordan and the south‐east corner of the State of Israel. Edom provides a productive context in which to conduct this investigation as local elites managed a fractious polity consisting of unstable segmentary identities, while at the same time, remaining loyal to …
Reading Moabite Pigments with Laser Ablation ICP-MS
Empire
1University of Newcastle upon Tyne Empire: The History of the British Empire TrevorLloyd LondonHambledon 2001245£25
Empire
1University of Newcastle upon Tyne Empire: The History of the British Empire TrevorLloyd LondonHambledon 2001245£25
Authority, Polity, and Tenuous Elites in Iron Age Edom (Jordan)
The strategies political elites implement to garner political authority and legitimacy in emergent polities are scrutinized in a case study from Iron Age Edom, located in modern southern Jordan and the south‐east corner of the State of Israel. Edom provides a productive context in which to conduct this investigation as local elites managed a fractious polity consisting of unstable segmentary identities, while at the same time, remaining loyal to …
National Association of Student Anthropologists
Friends' Gallery Exhibit" and Harold Green for his "Food Aid Management Constituency Study."The Presidential Perspectives session presentations stimulated active discussion and a broad range
Heritage Tourism, Conflict, and the Public Interest
This introduction places the issue’s key themes of heritage, tourism, conflict, and the public interest in focus and illustrates their intersection in a brief case study from modern Jordan. Following this, the four ensuing articles are discussed with an emphasis on their contributions to the issue’s themes. Heritage and heritage tourism are long familiar terms to the journal’s readership and our goal is not to recapitulate what others have descri…
Ends of British Imperialism. The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization
I wonder if any other historian could have issued a ‘collected essays’ as substantial and important as this? Roger Louis is well known, of course, as the pre-eminent diplomatic historian of British imperialism of our age. His books on the colonial aftermath of the First World War, Anglo-American relations concerning the British Empire during the Second World War, the British presence in the Middle East after that war, and the old imperialist Leo …
Reading Moabite Pigments with Laser Ablation ICP-MS
Archaeotourism and the Crux of Development
Keywords: commentary, tourism, archaeology, development, ethics, sustainability, sustainable development, Southern Africa, Botswana, Tsodilo Hills
Ancient Jordan from the Air. David Kennedy and Robert Bewley
Protecting Çatalhöyük
Feeding the Community
History and ethnicity have been the preferred frameworks for explaining how Levantine societies organized themselves during the early Iron Age. Consequently, opportunities are missed to understand how local economic and environmental factors structured social life. In this study, a collection of early Iron Age settlements from southwest central Jordan, the Dhiban and Karak Plateaus, is examined using a community perspective. Emphasis is placed on…
Measuring Local Diversity in Early Iron Age Animal Economies
We use faunal evidence from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, an agropastoral settlement located in west-central Jordan, to examine early Iron Age subsistence regimes. Analysis of faunal evidence reveals a low-intensity, nonspecialized animal economy dependent on both domesticated and wild species, including freshwater crabs. The subsistence economy of the settlement, we argue, was structured so as to take maximum advantage of its location overlookin…
Feeding the Community
History and ethnicity have been the preferred frameworks for explaining how Levantine societies organized themselves during the early Iron Age. Consequently, opportunities are missed to understand how local economic and environmental factors structured social life. In this study, a collection of early Iron Age settlements from southwest central Jordan, the Dhiban and Karak Plateaus, is examined using a community perspective. Emphasis is placed on…
The Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project
This article presents an overview of the Peter B. Cornwall collection in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Cornwall conducted an archaeological survey and excavation project in eastern Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in 1940 and 1941. At least twenty‐four burial features were excavated in Bahrain from five different tumuli fields, and surface survey and artefact collection took place on at least sixte…
Face to Face With the Past
Since 2008, the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project has analyzed the human skeletal remains and artifacts that Peter B. Cornwall excavated from Bahrain in the 1940s, now held in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. One mode of interpretation and dissemination pursued by the DBP team is forensic facial reconstruction. The subject of the first reconstruction is a twelve- to fifteen-year-old male who lived during the Early Dilmun period (ca. 2050–1800 b.c.e…
Sharing Data is Hard!—But Worth It
I developed one of those finish-the-sentence chants to teach my young son to share with other kids. “Sharing is ...,” I say, raising my voice to prompt him, and he shouts “... good!” Of course, we all know that sharing is ... hard! But willingly or not, sharing is the new ethic for a new century, one that archaeologists, regardless of age, must adapt to for so many reasons described in Kansa and Whitcher Kansa's article. It is like preschool all …
Assembling the Iron Age Levant
Teachers use of fear appeals prior to a high-stakes examination
Repatriation in university museum collections
University-based anthropology museums are uniquely positioned to pursue nuanced decisions concerning the disposition of collections in their care, setting best practice for the field. The authors describe a three-staged approach to repatriations that they led during their concurrent service as head of cultural policy and repatriation (Jordan Jacobs) and director (Benjamin Porter) of the University of California, Berkeley's Phoebe A. Hearst Museum…
Voice in an asymmetric federation? The U.S. territories as intergovernmental actors
United States territories—home to more than 3.5 million Americans—are excluded from the safeguards of American federalism. Unlike states, they are subject to the plenary power of the U.S. Congress, lack core legal protections, and are denied meaningful political representation. As such, territories must find alternative approaches to exercising political voice in the American federal system. Yet territorial-federal relations have received virtual…
Stable isotopes of archaeological and modern semi-terrestrial crabs (Potamon potamios) provide paleoecological insights into brachyuran ecology and human resource acquisition in late Holocene Jordan
Archaeological remains of brachyurans (e.g. crabs) are often overlooked as potential paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatical proxies in contrast to other marine and terrestrial invertebrates such as mollusks and landsnails. The potential for fine-scale regional paleoclimate reconstruction based upon these organisms' behavioral ecology has yet to be examined. We present novel isotopic analyses of the remains of a semiterrestrial freshwater crab (Po…
St. Thomas Aquinas and Final Causation in The Violent Bear it Away
Though it’s often said that St. Thomas Aquinas was important to Flannery O’Connor’s theology, few have noted his relevance to her craft approach. By joining Thomas’s action theory to his psychology, O’Connor developed notions of character and plot which are at their most mature in her final novel, The Violent Bear It Away. In it, O’Connor structured her characters by dramatizing Thomas’s doctrine of final causation, a metaphysical explanation of …
High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan
Archaeological plant remains are key data in the identification of the material consequences of imperial interventions in past local lifeways.In this paper, the spatial and stratigraphic analysis of plant remains preserved in a hypothesized kitchen context from the archaeological site of Dhiban, Jordan, is presented in detail.This context is dated to ca.A.D. 570-640 based on 16 AMS dates, a time when the Dhiban community was part of and located a…
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