Introduction: Entangling Artisanal and Industrial Work in Archaeologies of Creativity
Author(s): Timothy Scarlett
Year: 2013
Summary
This paper begins with an overview of various scholarships of human creativity, with an eye toward archaeological discourses. The author then turns to a contrasting pair of nineteenth-century case studies: pottery manufacture in Utah and milling copper ore in Michigan. These two workplaces, both built and staffed by immigrants, were fundamentally attached to global flows and relations, despite their frontier settings. In one case, factory workers became artisans; while in the other, craftspeople worked through the rationalization of their craft. These contrasting studies allow the exploration of creativity at work in "worldbuilding" or "placemaking" and also reveals the entanglements that spoil our false dichotomies of labor.
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Introduction: Entangling Artisanal and Industrial Work in Archaeologies of Creativity. Timothy Scarlett. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428598)
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Keywords
General
Creativity
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Labor
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Work
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Nineteenth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 239