Playing with things: the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland
This book addresses the nature of play and its relationships with the world, as well as the relationships between people and objects. It begins with an account of ethnographic fieldwork among chess and card players in Edinburgh and Orkney and moves on to consider the findings in the light of archaeo...
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Zusammenfassung: | This book addresses the nature of play and its relationships with the world, as well as the relationships between people and objects. It begins with an account of ethnographic fieldwork among chess and card players in Edinburgh and Orkney and moves on to consider the findings in the light of archaeological sources. The work carried out amongst chess and card players led towards a more cognitive appreciation of these activities: how can the relationships between player and pieces be understood? It is suggested here that they are an example of 'active externalism', where cognition is not contained within the person but distributed in the immediate environment. The consideration of the role of gaming pieces leads towards an examination of the ways in which the manipulation of objects during play brings new and unexpected discoveries to the participants. The discussion addresses this theme in terms of bricolage and considers the placement of things singly and in sets. The archaeological review focusses for the most part on the first millennium AD in Atlantic Scotland. The nature of the evidence, and of our expectations of where play should be found, is examined critically. This study represents a reappraisal of the relationship between play - an activity which is most often understood in terms of something 'set apart' - and everyday life; it leads towards the conclusion that play is not in fact so separate as is often assumed |
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Acknowledgements..................................................................-v
Chapter 1 Introduction............................................................1
A heuristic study.............................................................1
This study....................................................................2
The Study Area................................................................3
The archaeology of play....................................................5
What is Play?.................................................................5
Archaeology and Play...........................................................8
Themes and Results of this study......................................... ....9
Bricolage..................................................................11
Placement..................................................................11
Extended Cognition.........................................................12
Agency and Play..,..................................................... 13
Awkward Objects............................................................13
Play and the world.........................................................14
Chapter 2 Playing Chess...........................................................15
Introduction..................................................................15
The rules of Chess.........................................................16
Some Chess Background.........................................................16
Chess and Cognition........................................................17
Chess and Memory..............................................................18
Memory in Action..............................................................21
Thinking with things........................................................ 24
Accounting for the Opponent................................................25
Materiality...................................................................27
Agency and Chess...........................................................27
Action by Proxy............................................................29
Performing Chess......................................................... 30
Chapter 3 Playing Euchre..........................................................32
Introduction .................................................................32
Euchre in its Context......................................................32
Rules as Paths.............................................................34
Risk..................................................................... 34
Playing Euchre................................................................35
The History and Rules of Euchre............................................36
Scoring at Euchre........................................................ 37
Playing Euchre on Westray................................................... 37
The place of Euchre in Westray.............................................40
The Players...................................................................40
How to win at Euchre..........................................................41
Following the Cards........................................................42
Westray: A brief Introduction.................................................43
Location.....................................................................43
Economy................................................................. ...44
The Church ............................................................ 45
Risk Management..................................................................45
Farming on Westray...............................................................46
Rules for Farming.......................................................... 47
Selling Animals..............................................................47
Farming regulations........................................................ 48
Farming with animals....................................................... 49
Success and Failure/Bigger and Smaller on Westray................................50
Back to the Euchre: Following not Leading........................................52
Cognition, Cards and Cows.................................................... 53
Following Rules, Taking Directions...............................................55
Chapter 4 Counters..................................................................59
Introduction.....................................................................59
Sets........................................................................... 61
Bricolage...................................................................... 62
Art Bricolage............................................................ 66
Found Objects................................................................67
Shetland Counters................................................................68
Chapter 5 Dice......................................................................74
Introduction.....................................................................74
Following Dice...............................................................75
Play and Ritual.......................................................... 76
Ritual and play................................................................ 76
Parallelopiped Dice..............................................................78
Dating, Context, Condition..................................................... 80
Dating.......................................................................80
Context......................................................................81
Condition....................................................................82
Numbers........................................................................ 82
How the Dice Were Used.......................................................83
Rolling, throwing, placing................................................... 84
Atlantic Scotland during the Late Iron Age.......................................85
Brochs.......................................................................86
Wheelhouses................................................................ 88
Souterrains................................................................ 90
Broch, Wheelhouse, Souterrain....................................................90
Changing Architecture............................................................91
Changing Economies...............................................................92
Changing Artefacts............................................................. 92
Some Reasons for Change........................................................ 93
Discussion.......................................................................94
Parallelopiped dice in their wider context...................................94
Parallelopiped dice in their local context...................................96
Dice, Play, Ritual............................................................. 96
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Chapter 6 Tail...................................................................99
Literary Sources.............................................*...............100
Tafl in Atlantic Scotland....................................................101
From Notation to Action by Proxy.............................................103
The archaeology of Tafl .....................................................107
Learning to play at Inchmarnock..........................................107
Playing Tafl with Brochs.................................................110
Buried Tafl..............................................................112
Chapter 7 Awkward Objects.......................................................117
Awkward Objects..............................................................118
Awkward Type 1: Found Objects................................................120
Awkward Type 2: Surface Treatment: Painted Pebbles and Shetland Discs........123
Painted Pebbles..........................................................123
Shetland Discs...........................................................126
Awkward Type 3: The Wrong Context.......................................... 128
Finally: some very awkward objects...........................................130
Chapter 8 Final Discussion......................................................132
Chess and Euchre.............................................................132
Archaeology and Play....................................................... 134
Revisiting Huizinga..........................................................136
Playing with things..........................................................140
References......................................................................142
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