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Joanna Bruck
Researcher at University College Dublin
Publications - 64
Citations - 1933
Joanna Bruck is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bronze Age & Settlement (litigation). The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 64 publications receiving 1796 citations. Previous affiliations of Joanna Bruck include University of Bristol.
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Ritual and rationality: some problems of interpretation in European archaeology
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that many other societies do not distinguish ritual from secular action and that what anthropologists identify as ritual is generally considered practical and effective action by its practitioners.
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Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory
TL;DR: A review of this challenging body of research can be found in this paper, outlining its problems and potentials and setting it within its broader disciplinary context, including the contribution of phenomenology to postprocessual debates surrounding concepts of the self, the individual, embodiment and emotion.
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Material metaphors: The relational construction of identity in Early Bronze Age burials in Ireland and Britain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Early Bronze Age self was constructed by the individual, and that the individual was not defined by an ideology of the individual in the early Bronze Age.
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Fragmentation, personhood and the social construction of technology in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain.
TL;DR: In this paper, a range of practices involving the deliberate fragmentation of human bodies and objects in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain are examined, focusing on evidence from settlements and mortuary sites, and it is suggested that metaphorical links were drawn between people and things, and productive processes such as potting and metallurgy provided potent metaphors for the construction of the human self.
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Houses, lifecycles and deposition on Middle Bronze Age settlements in southern England.
TL;DR: This paper explored how the lifecycle of Middle Bronze Age settlements were intimately related at both a practical and metaphorical level to the lifecycles of their inhabitants, and found that the life cycle of a settlement was not only related to that of its occupants in practical terms, but also a symbolic representation of the other.