Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
While Antarctica has received uneven attention in global historical archaeology, it is a vital region for understanding the modern world on a global scale. This symposium aims to examine, for the first time at this conference, myriad approaches to the significance of materiality in Antarctica. In this session we explore two central questions: how do human-things relations in Antarctica contribute to our understanding of the ways humans have explored/transformed/exploited distant/remote/uninhabited places from the nineteenth century to the present? and what do these ways of being in Antarctica say about large-scale processes such as modernity, colonialism, and capitalism? This symposium brings together scholars working on any aspect of human-thing relations in Antarctica. It aims to showcase some of the many approaches to Antarctic studies that have emerged in recent years, including but not limited to terrestrial and maritime archaeology, heritage studies, museum studies, archives studies, history of technology, and environmental history.
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South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
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Archaeology: Antarctica and Outer Space (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mythos of Antarctica and Outer Space is imbued with an aura of adventure and association with iconic figures of exploration and science that have influenced public discourses and political decisions. Beyond these tropes in the public domain are hard geospatial-geopolitical considerations, complex logistics,...
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Heroic Networks: Museum Objects and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Popular interest in figures like Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton can mean that museum collections relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration (broadly categorised as the late 19th – early 20th century) risk representing explorers as working alone to achieve heroic feats. In reality,...
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Inhabiting and being Inhabited by Antarctica, Feedback from the Antarctic Field (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the framework of the interdisciplinary program HABIT-ANT? (inhabiting Antarctica and being inhabited) a research axis aims to mobilize the tools of contemporary archaeology to approach the relationships to Antarctica developed on and off site. In this perspective, processes and phenomena related to habitation...
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Less Heroic, More Human: Archeology Of Nineteenth-century Whalers And Sealers In The South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Multiple documents demonstrate the strong impact of human activities since at least the first decades of the 19th century in waters near the South Shetland Islands. These activities generated a specific material culture directly linked to fishing, hunting, and survival strategies that are still preserved. In...
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"Time is the substance I am made of". Human Impermanence and Architectural Objects in Contemporary Antarctica (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The prevailing image of Antarctica as a natural and pristine territory has been reinforced by the Treaty System policies on environmental protection toward the minimization of human impact. In this framework, humans have been perceived as transient visitors and 'things' as removable objects. This presentation...
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"Well-Found Ship, Full Equipment, and High Hopes": Material Culture Studies and the Outfitting of Historic Antarctic Expeditions (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Human experiences of Antarctica have often been mediated through scientific expeditions, which can operate only with a full complement of equipment. The importance of some of this equipment, such as scientific instruments, is readily apparent. Yet what can we learn from examining more mundane gear that is no...
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A Woman's Touch: The Absent Presence in Antarctica (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The historic sites on the Antarctic Peninsula cared for by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust offer a series of snapshots of the British scientific history in Antarctica between 1944 -1993. On the face of it, these histories appear straightforward; their narratives emerging from the rich assemblages of artefacts...