Yannis Hamilakis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 88247 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yannis Hamilakis |
| PRENOMES | Yannis |
| SOBRENOME | Hamilakis |
| ASSINATURA | HAMILAKIS Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8392-9450 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1008 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Marie-Louise Winbladh. 2025. Archaeology as a weapon
Marie-Louise Winbladh. 2025. Archaeology as a weapon: long-lasting legacies of colonialism and nationalism in Israel, Palestine, Cyprus and Greece. Wilmington (DE): Vernon; 979-8-8819-0273-5 hardback £72.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair
The discussion on decolonisation is now happening everywhere, yet it should be remembered that this outcome is the result of decades-old struggles and that the prominence of this quest is owed to the broader social movements of the preceding century. Here, the author explores the implications for archaeology, suggesting a shift of emphasis from colonisation to coloniality. The principle that decolonisation should entail substantive material and s…
Archaeology in a Time of Violence
When we published Archaeology, Nation, and Race (ANR), just two years ago, it was in the hope that our dialogue would spawn further discussions in the archaeological community. We are therefore grateful to the editors of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies for taking us at our word and offering a platform for discussion and response, and to our interlocutors—Neil Silberman, Anne Duray, Louise Hitchcock, Ianir Mil…
Palestine is our working condition
What does it mean to teach and work in a corporate university with colonial roots, today? The on-going events in Palestine - what have been described by many specialists and international organizations as a genocidal campaign - have brought to the surface the historical undercurrents, the tensions and the contradictions of such an institution as a nested sensorial assemblage of actors, memories, affects and interests. Starting from the events tha…
Arqueología, neofascismo y supremacía blanca
En este artículo, en primer lugar, exploraré el uso de tropos discursivos e iconográficos de la antigüedad por parte de grupos neofascistas y supremacistas blancos, principalmente en Grecia, pero también en otros contextos occidentales. La militarización, las nociones de sacrificio en la guerra, las jerarquías racistas y orientalistas, y el culto al líder, marcan la pauta. Paradójicamente, la investigación arqueogenética moderna a veces es desple…
Archaeology, Nation, and Race
Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as a lucid and lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the volume compares modern Greece and modern Israel – two prototypical and influential cases – where archaeology sits at the very heart of the moder…
Archaeology, Nation and Race
Histories on the Edge
The Dawn of Everything, the fruit of a long-term dialogue between the anthropologist David Graeber—who, sadly, died shortly before this book came out—and the archaeologist David Wengrow, barely one year after its launch is already a publishing phenomenon: besides its commercial success and not only in the English-speaking world, I cannot recall another occasion in the recent and not so recent past when a book, written mostly for the general publi…
Histoires sur le seuil
A peine un an après sa sortie, Au commencement était... : une nouvelle histoire de l’humanité, fruit d’une conversation au long cours entre l’anthropologue David Graeber – qui, malheureusement, mourut peu de temps après la publication de cet ouvrage – et l’archéologue David Wengrow, est déjà un phénomène d’édition : outre son succès commercial, et pas uniquement dans le monde anglophone, je n’ai pas le souvenir d’une autre occasion dans le passé …
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle
If contemporary mass migration from the Global South to the Global North is one of the defining features of our moment, a complex development that can be seen as shaping a new nomadic age (Czaika and Haas 2015; Hamilakis 2018), then how can we approach and how can we understand the "refugee camp" as a key node and a primary material artifact of this phenomenon? Can we comprehend it at all, especially the ones among us who have not inhabited it? A…
An archaeologist of images
In the autumn of 2019, Brown University hosted a major exhibition by the world renowned Haitian, Miami-based artist Edouard Duval-Carrié (b. 1954), curated by Brown's Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies, specialist on Haitian history and art, Anthony Bogues. The title was 'The Art of Embedded Histories'. As the title of the exhibition indicates, and as even a cursory look at this work could show, Duval-Carrié's practice and output speak …
From Ontology to Ontogeny
Food as affirmative biopolitics at the border
Based on long term archaeological ethnography on the border island of Lesvos situated on Europe's margins, this article explores the regimes of eating and the role of food practices in the refugee camp/processing centre of Moria. Starting from the double liminality of eating and border-crossing, it outlines and juxtaposes two regimes of corporeal life. The first is the biopolitical arena of official food provision as produced by the border appara…
Digital Sensoriality
The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade. This discourse, however, has largely shaped the way that figurines are depicted in archaeological iterations and publications, and it is this corpus of images that has in turn shaped further thinking and dis…
Planet of camps
In his 2017 masterful filmHappy End, the European auteur Michael Haneke returns to some of his favourite themes by portraying the life of a contemporary dysfunctional, white bourgeoisie family in Calais, France, struggling to deal with the skeletons in their cupboard. They are also mostly oblivious to the thousands of migrants from the Global South attempting to negotiate yet another borderland and cross into Britain. In the final scene, a group …
A conversation with Alain Schnapp
On 13 November 2017, Yannis Hamilakis, Felipe Rojas, and several other archaeologists at Brown University engaged in a conversation with Alain Schnapp about his life and career. Hamilakis and Rojas were interested in learning about how Schnapp's early academic and political interests intersected with the history of Classics and classical archaeology in France, Europe and elsewhere in the world, and also about the origins and current aims of Schna…
The New Nomadic Age
It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocu…
The Neolithic tell as a multi-species monument
Decolonial archaeology as social justice
And now what? This anxious question torments many of us in the current socio-political moment: that of Trumpism and Brexit; of resurgent xenophobia and racism expressed through election results and policies around Europe; and of the return of fascism and Nazism. It is this moment that has prompted González-Ruibal et al. (above) to call for a new, politicised archaeology. In so doing, they urge archaeologists to abandon the soothing liberal but in…
The forum that could not wait for a year to happen #OccupyArchaeology
Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration
Sensorial Assemblages
Archaeologists are familiar with the concept of assemblage, but in more recent years they have started problematizing it in interesting and innovative ways, beyond its common connotations of aggregation. Sociologists such as Manuel DeLanda and political philosophers such as Jane Bennett have been key influences in this move. These authors had adapted and modified the assemblage thinking of Deleuze and Guattari. In this article, an assemblage of s…
Archaeology and Assemblage
Assemblage is a concept common to a number of academic disciplines, most notably archaeology and art, but also geology and palaeontology. Archaeology can claim a special link to the term assemblage, though novel approaches to the concept of assemblage have recently been adopted from the fields of philosophy and political theory. These approaches, bracketed under the term 'new materialism', are discussed here. The introduction to this collection o…
Archaeology and Capitalism
The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an abstract archaeological record but about living ind…
Thinking Through the Body
List of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. Introduction: Thinking Through the Body Y. Hamilakis, et al. Part 1: Bodies, Selves and Individuals. Introduction S. Tarlow. 1. Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body J. Thomas. 2. Body Parts: personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic C. Fowler. 3. Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe J. Bazelmans. 4. The aesthetic corpse in nineteen…
Sensorial Assemblages
Archaeologists are familiar with the concept of assemblage, but in more recent years they have started problematizing it in interesting and innovative ways, beyond its common connotations of aggregation. Sociologists such as Manuel DeLanda and political philosophers such as Jane Bennett have been key influences in this move. These authors had adapted and modified the assemblage thinking of Deleuze and Guattari. In this article, an assemblage of s…
Archaeological Ethnography
Archaeology and anthropology, despite their commonalities, have had a rather asymmetrical relationship, and the periodic attempts at closer collaboration resulted in mutual frustration. As both disciplines have recently undergone significant changes, however, with anthropology embracing more fully materiality and historicity, and archaeology engaging in contemporary research, often involving ethnography, the time is ripe for a new rapprochement. …
What is Archaeological Ethnography
In this introductory essay to this volume, we chart and survey an emerging field, that of archaeological ethnography. We show its links and associations with both disciplinary and social-political trends in archaeology and in social anthropology in the last decades, and discuss some of the key recent work that has been carried out under this rubric. We argue that archaeological ethnography needs to be defined broadly, as a trans-disciplinary and …
Archaeology and Assemblage
Assemblage is a concept common to a number of academic disciplines, most notably archaeology and art, but also geology and palaeontology. Archaeology can claim a special link to the term assemblage, though novel approaches to the concept of assemblage have recently been adopted from the fields of philosophy and political theory. These approaches, bracketed under the term 'new materialism', are discussed here. The introduction to this collection o…
Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society
The Great Powers - starting with ancient Imperial Rome and running up to the present - have valued Classical Greek culture as embodying the founding spirit of their own, our own western world. So where does the modern state of Greece stand? It is, more than most nations, encouraged or required to share what might be its particular heritage with a wider world
Food technologies/technologies of the body
This paper argues that conventional archaeological approaches to food need a new and sophisticated theoretical framework which acknowledges that food is culturally defined and acquires immense significance in all societies because it involves the human body. It is (through consumption) an act of incorporation involving senses, feelings and emotions. Away from the nutritionist paradigm and the subsistence discourse, this study re‐examines the issu…
Archaeology and Capitalism
The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an abstract archaeological record but about living ind…
Stories from exile
The group of artefacts known as Parthenon (or 'Elgin') Marbles has attracted enormous attention from scholars and the public, mainly because of its involvement in the politics of restitution of cultural heritage. The prime concern of this article is not the issue of restitution itself (although inevitably the issue is discussed to some extent), but the fascinating cultural life of this group of artefacts, from their initial production in the fift…
A manifesto for a social zooarchaeology. Swans and other beings in the Mesolithic
Recent, non-anthropocentric explorations of the interaction between human and non-human animals have resulted in many groundbreaking studies. In this 'animal turn', zooarchaeology, which deals with and has access to the material traces of animals that existed alongside humans over the last 2.5 million years, could occupy a privileged and influential position. Despite some encouraging efforts, however, zooarchaeology's ability to contribute to the…
Archaeology and the politics of pedagogy
It is argued here that pedagogy, rather than being a passive process of delivery, is part of the field of cultural politics, a contested domain, a public sphere where knowledges, views and perceptions on the past and the present are debated and contested, or valorized, reproduced and legitimized. Recent archaeological theory has neglected the field of pedagogy, which, as a result, has been largely colonized by the instrumentalist discourse, in it…
La trahison des archeologues? Archaeological Practice as Intellectual Activity in Postmodernity
This paper discusses the role of archaeologists within the field of cultural production and examines archaeological practice within its broader social and political setting. It advocates the need to view archaeologists as intellectuals who deal with representation, rather than as stewards of the archaeological 'record'. It concludes that since, as many archaeologists now realize, there is no archaeological record as such, only fragmented material…
Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration
The “War on Terror” and the Military–Archaeology Complex
Decolonial archaeologies
A dialogue is always a good thing; and the dialogue on the origins, the problems, the current state and the potential future of ethnoarchaeology as a relic or as a still viable intellectual endeavo
Through the looking glass
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Iraq, stewardship and ‘the record’
(2003). Iraq, stewardship and ‘the record’: An ethical crisis for archaeology. Public Archaeology: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 104-111
Pigs for the Gods
The archaeology of animal sacrifice has attracted considerable attention, although discussions on the meanings and social effects of the practice in different contexts are rather under‐developed. In the Aegean, classical antiquity has provided abundant literary, zooarchaeological and iconographic evidence (and has inspired some excellent studies) but it has also overshadowed discussion on sacrifice in other periods. Until recently, it was assumed…
Postcards from the Edge of Time
In this photo-essay we present and discuss an experiment with digital photography as part of our archaeological ethnography within the Kalaureia Research Programme, on the island of Poros, Greece. We contextualize this attempt by reviewing, briefly but critically, the collateral development of photography and modernist archaeology, and the links between photography and anthropology, especially with regard to the field of visual anthropology. Our …
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle
If contemporary mass migration from the Global South to the Global North is one of the defining features of our moment, a complex development that can be seen as shaping a new nomadic age (Czaika and Haas 2015; Hamilakis 2018), then how can we approach and how can we understand the "refugee camp" as a key node and a primary material artifact of this phenomenon? Can we comprehend it at all, especially the ones among us who have not inhabited it? A…
Decolonial archaeology as social justice
And now what? This anxious question torments many of us in the current socio-political moment: that of Trumpism and Brexit; of resurgent xenophobia and racism expressed through election results and policies around Europe; and of the return of fascism and Nazism. It is this moment that has prompted González-Ruibal et al. (above) to call for a new, politicised archaeology. In so doing, they urge archaeologists to abandon the soothing liberal but in…
Archaeology and the Logic of Capital
A multi-species archaeology
These are interesting times for the exploration of the relationships between humans and other animals. The 'animal turn' is in full swing in a number of disciplines; anthropologists have started talking of the emergence of a multi-species ethnography (Kirksey and Helmreich 2010); and even archaeologists have, somehow hesitantly, started contributing to wider discussions within animal studies (e.g. see the recent - 2013 - special issue of the jour…
Sacralising the Past
The paper discusses the religious undertones classical Greek heritage is vested with in Greece. Drawing on the argument that nationalism and religion need to be seen as similar cultural systems, we show that classical antiquities have become powerful emotive icons for performances of national memory in the process ot imagining thetoposof the Hellenic nation. This process is open to all social actors and not simply to State bureaucrats and intelle…
Whose world and whose archaeology? The colonial present and the return of the political
Archaeology and the Politics of Identity in Cyprus
Wine, Oil and the Dialectics of Power in Bronze Age Crete
‘Mediterranean polyculture’(the systematic exploitation of olives and vines in addition to cereals from the beginning of the Bronze Age) has been considered as one of the main factors which led to the development of palatial institutions in Bronze Age Crete and mainland Greece. This paper reviews all the available, direct archaeological evidence for olive and vine exploitation and oil and wine production and use from Bronze Age Crete (microbotani…
A footnote on the archaeology of power
The zooarchaeological remains from a Mycenaean chamber tomb (LH II B–IIIc early) at Apatheia, Galatas, NE Peloponnese, are analysed and discussed. The bones offer evidence for mortuary dining ritual and for the ritual deposition of dog skeletons. The latter practice in Mycenaean burials is discussed and, contrary to previous interpretation, is connected to the social and ideological role of hunting in Mycenaean society
Through the looking glass
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Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society
The Great Powers - starting with ancient Imperial Rome and running up to the present - have valued Classical Greek culture as embodying the founding spirit of their own, our own western world. So where does the modern state of Greece stand? It is, more than most nations, encouraged or required to share what might be its particular heritage with a wider world
Film reviews
The sphakia survey The Sphakia Survey. Producer: Educational Technology Resources Centre, University of Oxford; Directors: Lucia Nixon and Simon Price; Camera: Charles Beesley; Editing: Lucia Nixon, Simon Price and Charles Beesley. 1995. 50 minutes, color. Distributed by the Educational Technology Resources Centre, 37–41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, U.K. Tel: (01865) 270530; fax: 270527; sale: Umatic (state format) £35; VHS £35 (NTSC), £25 …
Peopling the landscape
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Archaeology and the Politics of Identity in Cyprus
Sacred pasts, profane performances
We would like to thank all commentators for their engaging responses and their useful and constructive remarks. Their commentaries offer us a second chance to clarify some of the issues which, in the interest of brevity and due to the broad nature of our analysis, we were not able to develop in the paper. At the same time they point to some of the methodological, ethical, and political problems that this kind of analysis faces. Our article was de…
La trahison des archeologues? Archaeological Practice as Intellectual Activity in Postmodernity
This paper discusses the role of archaeologists within the field of cultural production and examines archaeological practice within its broader social and political setting. It advocates the need to view archaeologists as intellectuals who deal with representation, rather than as stewards of the archaeological 'record'. It concludes that since, as many archaeologists now realize, there is no archaeological record as such, only fragmented material…
From Gramsci's Cell to 'Guerillas' in Catalhoyuk
Food technologies/technologies of the body
This paper argues that conventional archaeological approaches to food need a new and sophisticated theoretical framework which acknowledges that food is culturally defined and acquires immense significance in all societies because it involves the human body. It is (through consumption) an act of incorporation involving senses, feelings and emotions. Away from the nutritionist paradigm and the subsistence discourse, this study re‐examines the issu…
Stories from exile
The group of artefacts known as Parthenon (or 'Elgin') Marbles has attracted enormous attention from scholars and the public, mainly because of its involvement in the politics of restitution of cultural heritage. The prime concern of this article is not the issue of restitution itself (although inevitably the issue is discussed to some extent), but the fascinating cultural life of this group of artefacts, from their initial production in the fift…
Sacralising the Past
The paper discusses the religious undertones classical Greek heritage is vested with in Greece. Drawing on the argument that nationalism and religion need to be seen as similar cultural systems, we show that classical antiquities have become powerful emotive icons for performances of national memory in the process ot imagining thetoposof the Hellenic nation. This process is open to all social actors and not simply to State bureaucrats and intelle…
No laughing matter
This article discusses the deployment of antiquity in Greek political cartoons covering the period from 1974 to the present. It argues that in order to function cartoons must rely on preconceptions and widespread popular beliefs; they thus can be seen as an important source for the investigation of popular stereotypes of antiquity. Moreover they engage actively in the construction of visual memory through the visualization of abstract notions. Gr…
No laughing matter
This article discusses the deployment of antiquity in Greek political cartoons covering the period from 1974 to the present. It argues that in order to function cartoons must rely on preconceptions and widespread popular beliefs; they thus can be seen as an important source for the investigation of popular stereotypes of antiquity. Moreover they engage actively in the construction of visual memory through the visualization of abstract notions. Gr…
Cyberspace/Cyberpast/ Cybernation
This paper looks at representations of antiquity in cyberspace and discusses their meaning and position in global discourses on nationalism and identities. After a critical review of some recent discussions of globalization and the informational society, it adopts the concepts of ethnoscapes, mediascapes and ideoscapes in examining the deployments of representations from antiquity in the web pages constructed by the Greek state, private organizat…
Cyberspace/cyberpast/cybernation
This paper looks at representations of antiquity in cyberspace and discusses their meaning and position in global discourses on nationalism and identities. After a critical review of some recent discussions of globalization and the informational society, it adopts the concepts of ethnoscapes, mediascapes and ideoscapes in examining the deployments of representations from antiquity in the web pages constructed by the Greek state, private organizat…
Archaeology in Greek higher education
The teaching of archaeology in higher education in Greece cannot be viewed in isolation from the broader realms of antiquity, archaeology and the past in modern Greek society and the context of Greek higher education. A growing body of literature has shown that archaeological antiquities have contributed substantially to the generation and perpetuation of a genealogical national myth upon which the modern nation- state of Greece was founded (e.g.…
Nineteenth-century Photography in Greece
"Nineteenth-century Photography in Greece: Select Bibliography." History of Photography, 25(1), pp. 44–45
Monumental Visions
(2001). Monumental Visions: Bonfils, Classical Antiquity and Nineteenth-Century Athenian Society. History of Photography: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 5-12
Antiquities Underground
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Iraq, stewardship and ‘the record’
(2003). Iraq, stewardship and ‘the record’: An ethical crisis for archaeology. Public Archaeology: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 104-111
Pigs for the Gods
The archaeology of animal sacrifice has attracted considerable attention, although discussions on the meanings and social effects of the practice in different contexts are rather under‐developed. In the Aegean, classical antiquity has provided abundant literary, zooarchaeological and iconographic evidence (and has inspired some excellent studies) but it has also overshadowed discussion on sacrifice in other periods. Until recently, it was assumed…
Archaeology and the politics of pedagogy
It is argued here that pedagogy, rather than being a passive process of delivery, is part of the field of cultural politics, a contested domain, a public sphere where knowledges, views and perceptions on the past and the present are debated and contested, or valorized, reproduced and legitimized. Recent archaeological theory has neglected the field of pedagogy, which, as a result, has been largely colonized by the instrumentalist discourse, in it…
Whose world and whose archaeology? The colonial present and the return of the political
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