Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice

About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Harry Allen is an associate professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland. His teaching and research range from the history and archaeology of northern Australia and New Zealand to heritage conservation. He has extensive experience in public and applied archaeology as a trustee of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. He is editor of Australia: William Blandowski’s Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia (2010) and, with Caroline Phillips, Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century (2010). Lise Bender Jørgensen is professor of archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is an internationally regarded expert in prehistoric textiles. A Danish national, she studied archaeology at the University of Copenhagen. Before moving to Norway, she taught archaeology at University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and in recent years she has held a professorship in textile science at the University of Borås in Sweden, teaching philosophy of science and research methodology to students of handloom weaving, textile and fashion design, and textile engineering. She has excavated in Scandinavia and Egypt and traveled widely in Europe, recording archaeological textiles in almost 100 museums. She is the author of two monographs on Scandinavian and Northern European textiles from the beginnings up to 1000 AD. A founding member of the North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles, she has organized several conferences on archaeological textiles and edited the proceedings. She has directed and participated in research projects on Roman textiles from Egypt and wool sails for Viking ships and is currently engaged in a project on creativity in craft production in Bronze Age Europe. Kathlyn M. Cooney is assistant professor of Egyptian art and Architecture at UCLA in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. 263 264 About the Contributors She earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern studies from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. She has also taught at Stanford University (2003–2006) and Howard University (2000) and headed the Villa Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute from 2006 to 2008. In 2005, she was cocurator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. A native of Houston, she received her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period (2007) and is working on a number of projects related to gender issues in ancient Egypt, coffin theft and reuse, and funerary behaviors during socioeconomic crisis. John L. Creese received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2011. His doctoral work involved a comprehensive study of the spatial development of Iroquoian longhouses and settlements during a critical period of initial village formation in eastern North America. This research explored how architectural arrangements influenced the development of social power in contexts of household alliance building. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. His project, titled, “The Corporeal Politics of Belonging: An Archaeology of Power and Personhood in the Eastern Woodlands,” investigates relationships between embodied practices—including aspects of gesture and motor performance in craft production—and the social construction of personhood in late precontact and early contact Iroquoian societies. Eleni Hasaki is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Classics at the University of Arizona. Her publications focus on the craft technologies of Classical antiquity, the spatial organization of workshops, craft apprenticeship , and representations of craftspeople in material culture. In addition to archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Hasaki is the director of an ethnoarchaeological project in Tunisia and of an experimental pyrotechnological project in Tucson, Arizona. Her book, The Penteskouphia Pinakes and Potters at Work at Ancient Corinth, is being published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Harald Bentz Høgseth is an associate professor in technical building, protection , and restoration at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Technology, South-Trøndelag University College, Norway, developing and establishing a new interdisciplinary educational program incorporating building protection, architecture, and archaeology. He started his career as a skilled carpenter (1984–2004), was the director of the Lofotr Viking Museum in Lofoten, Norway, from 2001 to 2002, and used this About the Contributors 265 carpenter’s experience in his studies of archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...