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 Labor Work

Geographic Keywords
North America 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