Copper-alloy Belts at Hasanlu, Iran
A Case Study in Hybridization and Heteroglossia in Material Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6043933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan Cifarelli (0000-0002-2054-5118, Manhattanville College, corresponding author), Manuel Castelluccia (0000-0002-2401-0890, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies), Roberto Dan (0000-0001-7597-9792, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 539-563 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774318000264 |
| OpenAlex | W2808438271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
The pitfalls of studying material outcomes of cultural contact as ‘hybrids’ have been well mapped, from essentialism to the echoes of eugenics. In archaeological research, attention to ‘hybrid’ products of cultural contact through assiduous tracing of ‘foreign’ elements to their points of origin has often yielded dubious claims regarding the nature of the interaction. For objects excavated in the Period IVb (1050–800bc) level at Hasanlu, this approach has led to assertions of ‘Assyrianization’, proclaiming the site the examplepar excellenceof the response to Assyrian cultural hegemony in the periphery. Through exploration of armoured sheet-metal belts found at Hasanlu, an artefact type introduced from the South Caucasus region and then produced locally, this paper considers the interpretive utility of the concept of ‘hybridization’—the transformative processes by which disparate visual elements, materials and ideas about the world react to and perturb each in a particular environment. We argue that through these processes, relocated exogenous objects and their endogenous counterparts communicate using multiple, even divergent, voices. This very multivocality, orheteroglossia, is instrumental in forging new social relationships and meanings
Aesthetics · Art · Constellation · Covert · Essentialism · Hegemony · Heteroglossia · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
The Dialogic Imagination
The black Atlantic
The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale near Van
The Body as Material Culture
One World Is Not Enough
Animals in the Art of Ancient Iran
Urartian Material Culture As State Assemblage
The Excavation of Hasanlu
Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
Colonial desire
The “Artisan's House” of Hasanlu Tepe, Iran
Constructing the Chronology and Historical Implications of Hasanlu IV
Basking in reflected glory
Marlik
Emblems of Identity and Prestige
Hasanlu V
The Urartian Cemetery at Igdyr
Colonial Desire
The Political Machine
The Hasanlu (Iran) Gold Bowl in context
The Archaeology of Death
Masculinities and Militarization at Hasanlu, Iran
The Catalogue of Ivories from Hasanlu, Iran
Pure hybridism
Rings of life
A requiem for hybridity? The problem with Frankensteins, purées, and mules
Seeing hybridity in the anthropology museum
Human-thing entanglement
The limits of cultural hybridity
Entangled
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |