The Seasonal and the Material

The Seasonal and the Material aims at three things. To test what new knowledge can be generated when we bring together scholars working in different regions and specialists in different periods through an overarching lens. To see what happens when scholars apply seasonality as this overarching lens to their ethnographic and archaeological material. And finally, to question perspectives on how we can best view human and non-human beings through the lens of temporality and seasonality. The contributions from different subfields of anthropology were originally presented at a session at VANDA: Vienna Anthropology Days 2022, organized by the editors in Vienna.

Table of contents

7-28
Introduction
     Sabina Cveček and Barbara Horejs

29-39
Against Monotony. An Argument for the Primacy of Seasonal Practices
     Franz Krause

41-52
The Symbolic and the Material Meaning of Seasonality among the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush (Pakistan)
     Augusto S. Cocopardo

53-74
Cowsheds without Cows. On the Ambivalent Afterlife of Common Property Formalization in the Austrian Alps
     Lisa Francesca Rail

75-88
Isniq as a Land of Transhumant Pastoralism. A Brief Anthropological Overview
     Çlirimtare Januzaj

89-99
Staying at one Place While Leading a Life Shaped through Seasonal Migration
     Wulf Frauen

101-111
Seasonal vs. Year-Round. Towards Differentiating Neolithic Lifeways in Western Iran
     Hojjat Darabi

113-126
Seasonality, Monumentality, and Resources at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe. Part 1: Seasonality of People and Monuments
     Laura Dietrich and Oliver Dietrich

127-139
Seasonality, Monumentality, and Resources at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe. Part 2: Göbekli Tepe understood as a Resource Culture
     Laura Dietrich and Oliver Dietrich

141-153
Ergonomics and Seasonality. The Case of Open-air Pottery Workshop (8th-5th centuries BCE)
     Raffaella Da Vella

155-170
Seasonality in South West Arabia’s Late Pre-Islamic Era. Elements and Criteria for Reassessing the Evidence
     Andre Gingrich

171-182
Seasons and Seasonality in the (Alaskan) Arctic. Human and More-than-human Cycles of Engagement
     Peter Schweitzer

183-202
The Vienna “Kulturkreislehre”. Significant Early Attempts to Combine Ethnology and Prehistory for Universal Historiography
     Peter Rohrbacher