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Barbara Bender
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Barbara Bender is an anthropologist and archaeologist. She is currently Emeritus Professor of Heritage Anthropology at University College London.[1]

Career[edit]

Bender studied for a PhD on the Neolithic of Northern France at the Institute of Archaeology, London.[2] From 1967-68 she was assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago.[3] In 1972 Bender was a Lecturer in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of London University.[3] Her first monograph Farming in Prehistory, published in 1975, was described as a 'painstaking compilation' of archaeological evidence on the development of agriculture.[4]

Later she moved to the Department of Anthropology, UCL, being one of several material-culture focused anthropologists within the department in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside Daniel Miller and John Gledhill.[5] Bender's later work utilised a phenomenological approach to landscape, collaborating with Sue Hamilton and Christopher Tilley. In the late 1990s, Bender, Hamilton and Tilley developed a landscape research project, with the support of UCL students, that focused on the Bronze Age settlement and stone circle at Leskernick on Bodmin Moor.[6][7] Bender's study of Stonehenge is considered a seminal work in considering archaeological sites as historically dynamic, with numerous stakeholders.[8]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Bender, B. and Phillips, P. 1972. The early farmers of France. Antiquity 46(182): 97-105.
  • Bender, B. 1975. Farming in Prehistory - from Hunter-Gatherer to Food Producer. London: John Baker.
  • Goodall, V.M. and Bender, B. 1975. The Quest for Man. London: Phaidon.
  • Bender, B. 1978. Gatherer‐hunter to farmer: A social perspective. World Archaeology 10(2): 204-222.
  • Bender, B. 1985. Emergent tribal formations in the American Midcontinent. American Antiquity 50 (1): 52-62.
  • Bender, B. 1986. The Archaeology of Brittany, Normandy, and the Channel Islands. London: Faber and Faber.
  • Gledhill, J., Bender, B., and Larsen, M.T. 1988. State and Society: the Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization. London: Unwin Hyman.
  • Bender, B. 1989. towards a theory of social evolution - on State systems and ideological shells. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M.J. and Tilley, C.Y. Domination and Resistance. London: Unwin Hyman.
  • Bender, B. 1992. Theorising Landscapes, and the Prehistoric Landscapes of Stonehenge. Man, 27(4), new series, 735-755. doi:10.2307/2804172
  • Bender, B. and Edmonds, M. 1992. Stonehenge: whose past? What past? Tourism Management 13(4): 355-357.
  • Bender, B. 1993 (ed.) Landscape: Politics and Perspectives. Oxford: Berg.
  • Bender, B, Hamilton, S., and Tilley, C. 1997. Leskernick: Stone worlds, alternative narratives, nested landscapes. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63: 147-178.
  • Bender, B. 1998. Stonehenge: Making Space. Oxford: Berg.
  • Hamilton, S., Tilley, C. and Bender, B. 1999. Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: excavating Leskernick. Archaeology International 3: 13–17.
  • Bender, B. 2000. ‘Investigating Landscape and Identity in the Neolithic’, in A. Ritchie (ed.) Neolithic Orkney in its European Context, pp. 223–230. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs.
  • Bender, B. 2001. Landscapes on-the-move. Journal of Social Anthropology 1(1): 75-89.
  • Bender, B. and Winer, M. (eds) 2001. Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place. Oxford: Berg.
  • Bender, B. 2002. Time and landscape. Current Anthropology 43: S103-S112.
  • Tilley, C., Hamilton, S., Bender, B. 2003. Art and re-presentation of the past. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6(1): 35-62.
  • Hamilton, S., Harrison, S., and Bender, B. 2008. "Conflicting Imaginations: Archaeology, Anthropology and Geomorphology on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor, Southwest Britain." Geoforum 39 (2): 602-15.
  • Bender, B., Hamilton, S., and Tilley, C. 2016. Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology. London: Routledge.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Prof Barbara Bender". Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  2. ^ Bender, B (2002). "Time and Landscape". Current Anthropology. 43: S103–S112. doi:10.1086/339561. S2CID 142703033.
  3. ^ a b Bender, Barbara; Phillips, Patricia (1972). "The early farmers of France". Antiquity. 46 (182): 97–105. doi:10.1017/s0003598x00053333. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 162609426.
  4. ^ Higgs, E. S. (1976). "Barbara Bender: Farming in prehistory. London: John Baker, 1975. 255 pp., 5 pls., 36 figs. £5.50". Antiquity. 50 (198): 164–165. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00071015. ISSN 1745-1744. S2CID 161380843.
  5. ^ Basu, P. (2013). "Material culture: ancestries and trajectories in material culture studies". In Carrier, J.G.; Gewertz, D.B. (eds.). The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 370–390.
  6. ^ Hamilton, S., Tilley, C. and Bender, B. 1999. Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: excavating Leskernick. Archaeology International 3: 13–17.
  7. ^ Bender, B, Hamilton, S., and Tilley, C. 1997. Leskernick: Stone worlds, alternative narratives, nested landscapes. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63: 147-178.
  8. ^ Angelo, Dante (2014), "Public Archaeology, The Move Towards", Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 6181–6188, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1015, ISBN 978-1-4419-0426-3

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