Inhabiting and being Inhabited by Antarctica, Feedback from the Antarctic Field

Summary

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 are analyzed through artefact and all technical modalities used in the field. Specific savoir-faire oscilate between abundance and austerity, accumulation and minimalism. Instrument, work of art, waste or relic, technical equipment seem to be omnipresent and are required everywhere for implementation of missions. They involve different professions. Those coexist and collaborate in work and daily life accomplishments. Trajectories of practices and works can induce a status shift. It provides insights on in situ and ex situ community based social constitution. This paper through observations conducted during scientific missions in Adelie land, traverses and DômeC, aims to study the relationships to these places, both fantasised and experienced.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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