Tous semblables, tous différents. Quelles méthodes pour appréhender le lien entre variabilité et fonction des couteaux ulu?
International audience "The ulu knife is a tool used from the Russian Far East to the east coast of Greenland by Inuit, Athabaskan and Dene women for activities like butchering, and skin cutting or processing. This knife is also found in Arctic and Subarctic archaeological contexts in the form...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-01876448v1 2023-05-15T13:22:17+02:00 Tous semblables, tous différents. Quelles méthodes pour appréhender le lien entre variabilité et fonction des couteaux ulu? Viot, Camille Archéologie des Amériques (ArchAm) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2015-09-30 https://hal.science/hal-01876448 https://doi.org/10.4000/nda.3125 fr fre HAL CCSD Maison des Sciences de l'Homme info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4000/nda.3125 hal-01876448 https://hal.science/hal-01876448 doi:10.4000/nda.3125 ISSN: 0242-7702 EISSN: 2425-1941 Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie https://hal.science/hal-01876448 Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie, 2015, 141, pp.50-55. ⟨10.4000/nda.3125⟩ ulu Greenland Ammassalik technical gestures Arctic Groenland geste technique Arctique [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2015 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.4000/nda.3125 2023-02-08T08:22:24Z International audience "The ulu knife is a tool used from the Russian Far East to the east coast of Greenland by Inuit, Athabaskan and Dene women for activities like butchering, and skin cutting or processing. This knife is also found in Arctic and Subarctic archaeological contexts in the form of blades, handles, intermediate pieces and miniatures. Archaeological excavations and ethnographic literature show significant variability of ulu knives, at the scale of the Arctic at large, and within the same society or the same cultural phase. Despite the importance of the ulu knife to arctic or subarctic societies and its recurrence in archaeological sites, it has not been the object of recent studies. Thus, several questions regarding the variability of ulu in Ammassalik on the eastern coast of Greenland, and its meaning from a functional point of view were addressed as part of a Master's thesis in Arctic archeology. The aim of the research was to determine whether, at the scale of a well-defined geographical, chronological and cultural framework, the structural and morphometric variability of ulu knives could be explained by a the diverse functions of the tool. To address the issue of ulu’s functional variability, a methodology was developed that included a systematic study of the intrinsic characteristics of knives and of the related technical gestures within the contexts of use of the tool in Ammassalik. This article provides a synthesis on the different stages of this methodology and emphasizes the importance of combining the study of the tool to that of body gestures to reach a functional perspective." (source éditeur) "Le couteau ulu est un outil utilisé de l’extrême Sibérie jusqu’à la côte est du Groenland par les femmes inuit et déné dans le cadre d’activités de boucherie, de découpe ou de transformation de peaux. Ce couteau est également présent en contexte archéologique arctique et subarctique sous la forme de lames, de manches, de pièces intermédiaires et de miniatures. Les fouilles archéologiques et ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ammassalik Arctic Arctique* Greenland Groenland inuit Subarctic subarctique* Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Arctic Greenland Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie 141 50 55 |
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International audience "The ulu knife is a tool used from the Russian Far East to the east coast of Greenland by Inuit, Athabaskan and Dene women for activities like butchering, and skin cutting or processing. This knife is also found in Arctic and Subarctic archaeological contexts in the form of blades, handles, intermediate pieces and miniatures. Archaeological excavations and ethnographic literature show significant variability of ulu knives, at the scale of the Arctic at large, and within the same society or the same cultural phase. Despite the importance of the ulu knife to arctic or subarctic societies and its recurrence in archaeological sites, it has not been the object of recent studies. Thus, several questions regarding the variability of ulu in Ammassalik on the eastern coast of Greenland, and its meaning from a functional point of view were addressed as part of a Master's thesis in Arctic archeology. The aim of the research was to determine whether, at the scale of a well-defined geographical, chronological and cultural framework, the structural and morphometric variability of ulu knives could be explained by a the diverse functions of the tool. To address the issue of ulu’s functional variability, a methodology was developed that included a systematic study of the intrinsic characteristics of knives and of the related technical gestures within the contexts of use of the tool in Ammassalik. This article provides a synthesis on the different stages of this methodology and emphasizes the importance of combining the study of the tool to that of body gestures to reach a functional perspective." (source éditeur) "Le couteau ulu est un outil utilisé de l’extrême Sibérie jusqu’à la côte est du Groenland par les femmes inuit et déné dans le cadre d’activités de boucherie, de découpe ou de transformation de peaux. Ce couteau est également présent en contexte archéologique arctique et subarctique sous la forme de lames, de manches, de pièces intermédiaires et de miniatures. Les fouilles archéologiques et ... |
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Tous semblables, tous différents. Quelles méthodes pour appréhender le lien entre variabilité et fonction des couteaux ulu? |
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