New Article Alert!
Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery
I am extremely excited to announce a new publication of mine, in the Hunter Gatherer Research Journal - "Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery"!
You can find the full article here: https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2024.33
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You can find the full article here: https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2024.33
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Research Project Background
The first "iteration" of this paper was actually my Honours thesis - "Mortuary Ritual and Social Differentiation at Con Co Ngua, Vietnam", which I submitted in November 2019 (a full five years ago, almost to the dot!). The original plan was to use the first half of 2020 to refine the thesis into a journal article, with the aim to publish by the end of the year. However, you know what they say about best laid plans!
(I instead used the first half of 2020 to help conceptualise and write the Determinants of Infant Representation article that I am also a co-author on.)
By the time we got around to looking at the paper again, it was 2021, and I was by then enrolled in my MA degree at UCF. I kept slowly working on it in the background, and I did present a podium on our research so far at the SAA Meeting in early 2022. It was part of a symposium on the Archaeology of Death and Identity in Forager Communities, and it was a great opportunity to see and hear what others were doing in the space.
My MA thesis (on Medieval European isotopes) then took precedence, so it wasn't until the second half of 2023 that I actually got to writing up the draft. In hindsight, I am glad that we didn't publish straight after my Honours year - I learned a lot during my MA, particularly in regard to personhood and identity theory, and I do think the final, published article is a whole lot stronger for it.
As always, please send me a message if you have any questions!
(I instead used the first half of 2020 to help conceptualise and write the Determinants of Infant Representation article that I am also a co-author on.)
By the time we got around to looking at the paper again, it was 2021, and I was by then enrolled in my MA degree at UCF. I kept slowly working on it in the background, and I did present a podium on our research so far at the SAA Meeting in early 2022. It was part of a symposium on the Archaeology of Death and Identity in Forager Communities, and it was a great opportunity to see and hear what others were doing in the space.
My MA thesis (on Medieval European isotopes) then took precedence, so it wasn't until the second half of 2023 that I actually got to writing up the draft. In hindsight, I am glad that we didn't publish straight after my Honours year - I learned a lot during my MA, particularly in regard to personhood and identity theory, and I do think the final, published article is a whole lot stronger for it.
As always, please send me a message if you have any questions!