149 search results for “crafting” in the Public website
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Crafting Lifestyles
A biographical approach to material cultural interactions between Caribbean communities and Europeans across the historical divide (AD 1000-1800)
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Crafting networks in early farming societies
Tracing the residues of Neolithic activities through the study of stone artefacts
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Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World
Material Crossovers
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Cross-craft interaction in the cross-cultural context of the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean
In tracing intra-site, local and regional craft networks in Late Bronze Age Tiryns (Greece) the project aimed to understand technological changes, (dis)continuities and social practices from the Late Palatial until the Post Palatial periods in Mycenaean Greece.
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‘Teaching is a craft, not engineering’
Brandon Zicha (Leiden University College The Hague) had always been critical of the teaching system at universities. But it was only when he passed the Senior Teaching Qualification at the end of last year that he was able to explain exactly what was wrong with it.
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craft
The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwined in ways we did not comprehend before” argues Maikel Kuijpers, archaeologist and the producer of the documentary. “This will have consequences for the…
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'Small brewers show how craft principles could reshape the economy – but they’re under threat'
In order for the economy to become sustainable, a shift in how we think about production is required. Archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catalin Popa, together with international business expert Jochem Kroezen, wrote an article on the principles of a different sort of production: craft production. They…
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The Ra's al-jinz project (Oman)
The Ra’s al-jinz project tackles economic diversification and social complexity in non-urban societies, from the perspective of Eastern Arabia, by exploring the Early Bronze Age settlement of Ra’s al-jinz RJ-3.
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Plant fiber processing in the past
Basketry, cordage and textiles made of plant fibers or bark are rarely preserved in the archaeological record. By means of experimental archaeology and microwear analysis, we obtain indirect evidence about this important craft.
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ancient technology, crafts and materials
Inaugural Lecture
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Charlemagne's Workshops
An Investigation into the role of copper-alloy craft production in the early medieval economy of northwest Europe.
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Martina Revello Lami
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maikel Kuijpers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Teeth Tell Tales
A multi-disciplinary approach to past lifestyles and cultural practices
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Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology
A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean
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Reading the Dental record
A dental anthropological approach to foodways, health and disease, and crafting in the pre-Columbian Caribbean.
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Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World
This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period.
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An archaeology of skill
Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe
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Technologies and social agency of painted plaster in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age
This project explored the role of material culture, in casu painted plaster and its technologies, in expressing dynamic social identities and in forging complex interwoven human relationships in the context of the Middle to Late Bronze Age of the Aegean and East Mediterranean.
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Economies of Destruction
The emergence of metalwork deposition during the Bronze Age in Northwest Europe, c. 2300-1500 BC
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Gli artigiani e la città
Over the last decades, the systematic investigation of urban settlements in Central-Tyrrhenian Italy led to the discovery of a growing number of contexts revealing both direct and indirect evidence of artisanal workshops. Such research commitment has yielded a vast amount of new data that greatly contribute…
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Master Class on The Art and Craft of Ethnographic Comparison
Lecture
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Managing a sustainable career in the contemporary world of work: Personal choices and contextual challenges
On 9 June 2020, Maral Darouei defended her thesis 'Managing a sustainable career in the contemporary world of work: Personal choices and contextual challenges'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. J.I. van der Rest.
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Making and creating with ages-old knowledge
The ability to create objects and structures with our hands has been essential to human development. This ability is something modern society is at risk of losing. Leiden archaeologists gather knowledge about ancient processes of ‘making and creating’ over the centuries, knowledge that helps our current…
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The pottery workshops in Fustat
Dr Kim Duistermaat (NVIC) en Niels Groot (TU Delft)
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How materials work: Materials agency and crafting practices in a Melanesian society
Lecture
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Unique mosaic floor discovered in Israel
A marvelous mosaic synagogue floor has been discovered at the Israeli excavation site of Horvat Kur. The timeworn stones of the mosaic clearly form the name ‘El’azar’. Leiden University researcher Jürgen Zangenberg and a group of Leiden students played a role in the excavation. ‘El’azar was likely an…
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Thinking through the guitar: the sound-cell-texture chain
The present study aims to establish and develop guidelines for effective use of the classical guitar’s scoring potential.
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Thinking through the guitar : the sound-cell-texture chain
Although the guitar has been part of the classical music tradition for centuries, writing for the guitar remains a formidable challenge for many composers. Where orchestral instruments have a long history of scoring guides that help composers develop their craft, the number of studies dedicated to guitar…
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The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900
The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law.
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Regionalism and Modern Europe : Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day
Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present.
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The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition
How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?
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The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
Vol. V, Sections 1-2
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Formalism, Realism and Conservatism in Russian Law
On 18 December 2019, Mikhail Antonov defended his thesis 'Formalism, Realism and Conservatism in Russian Law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. W.B. Simons.
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Out and about!
There's a whole lot to discover and experience in nature. But children who grow up in the city are seeing less and less greenery. During the Out and About! days junior school pupils will be going on a green expedition in their neighbourhood.
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Memorable Arts: The Mnemonics of Painting and Calligraphy in Late Imperial China
Ms. Monica Klasing Chen defended her thesis on 16 December 2020
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Of Wine and Ovines: Livelihood and Diversity at the foot of the Pyrenees
Lecture
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Texts, Voices and Tapes. Mediating Poetry on the Swahili Muslim Coast in the 21st Century
In the Special Issue of Matatu: “Power to the People?” Patronage, Intervention and Transformation in African Performative Artspaper, Annachiara Raia seeks to investigate the manifold relationships between traditional and contemporary, oral and written Swahili poetry, in the utendi and mashairi forms…
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Visual Ethnography
Visual ethnographic research into development-projects or practices of embodiment
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
The Case of the Painted Plaster
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A Literary History of Reconciliation. Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness
From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, A Literary History of Reconciliation is the first study to examine representations of interpersonal reconciliation in work of literature across a long-term period, from the early seventeenth century to the present day, focusing on how these representations…
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Island Networks
The focus of this programme is the inter-community social relationships and transformations of island networks in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide.
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The Economy of Pompeii
This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.
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In the hands of a few: Disaster recovery committee networks
This study examines recovery planning committees across Japan's Tohoku region.
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Reconstructing Object Biographies
We live in a world of things and people in the past must have been as closely entangled with their material surroundings as we are now. In the Laboratory for Artefact Studies Van Gijn takes a close look at the biographies of objects: what kind of raw material an object is made off and what is its provenience,…
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Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
The goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people’s interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.
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Basis songwriting - an online course | English spoken
Arts and leisure , Arts and leisure
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Artisans versus nobility?
Multiple identities of elites and ‘commoners’ viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean
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Abstract patterns and representations: the re-cognition of geometric ornament
On May 17th, Arthur Crucq succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Arthur on this great result.