Levantine Entanglements - Cultural Productions, Long-Term Changes and Globalizations in the Eastern Mediterranean - Terje Stordalen
Panel A: Places and Ideologies
Levantine Entanglements - Cultural Productions, Long-Term Changes and Globalizations in the Eastern Mediterranean - Terje Stordalen
Øystein S. LaBianca [+]
Andrews University
Øystein S. LaBianca (PhD Brandeis 1987) is a senior research professor of anthropology at Andrews University and associate director of its Institute of Archaeology. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of over 20 books on Jordanian archaeology, including the 14-volume Hesban Final Publication Series. LaBianca is a founding co-director of the Madaba Plains Project, excavating at Tall Ḥisbān, Tall al-ʿUmayri, and Tall Jalūl, and senior director of the Hesban Cultural Heritage Project, a community archaeology initiative focused on engaging the local community in the care, protection, and presentation of this important site. He has served on the boards of the American Society of Overseas Research and the American Center of Research. LaBianca has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and Bergen universities and has received grants from National Geographic, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of State, and the Research Council of Norway.
Description
Panel A illustrates three different disciplinary approaches to studying cultural production and change over time where the focus of investigation is a particular geographical location or place, in this case Tall Hisban in Jordan and Palmyra in Syria. In so doing, the panel offers examples of possible ways that many of the theoretical constructs introduced in Part I can be adopted as a means to interpreting archaeological and historical data of particular places.