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Edward Schortman

Kenyon College, Anthropology, Department Member

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Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia

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Università di Bologna

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Papers by Edward Schortman

Knowledge curiosity and the common good

Based on my 40 years working in higher education, I consider how different understandings of know... more Based on my 40 years working in higher education, I consider how different understandings of knowledge relate to conflicting views of higher education’s role in promoting the personal and common good. The questions politicians and pundits are raising about the value of college degrees enhances the topic’s salience. Unfortunately, the responses of college leaders seem more intent on mollifying critics than on re-thinking for whom and why we educate. In this paper, I urge us all to think through how we answer those questions.

PSB OP 319 Excavation Report

PSB OP 187 Exavation Report

PVN Op 410 Excavation Report

PVN Op 418 Excavation Report

PSB-Op 156 and 157-Ceramic Analyses

PVC-CAT-053-CL-013-001-MTE

PVN Op 262 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 108 Ceramic Analyses Sheets

PVN Op 268 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 183 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 264 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 319, 321, 322 Ceramic Analyses

PSB Op 31 Excavation Report

PSB OP 34 Excavation Report

PSB OP 150 Excavation Report

PVN Op 411 Excavation Report

PVN Op 625 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 455 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 463 Ceramic Analyses

Knowledge curiosity and the common good

Based on my 40 years working in higher education, I consider how different understandings of know... more Based on my 40 years working in higher education, I consider how different understandings of knowledge relate to conflicting views of higher education’s role in promoting the personal and common good. The questions politicians and pundits are raising about the value of college degrees enhances the topic’s salience. Unfortunately, the responses of college leaders seem more intent on mollifying critics than on re-thinking for whom and why we educate. In this paper, I urge us all to think through how we answer those questions.

PSB OP 319 Excavation Report

PSB OP 187 Exavation Report

PVN Op 410 Excavation Report

PVN Op 418 Excavation Report

PSB-Op 156 and 157-Ceramic Analyses

PVC-CAT-053-CL-013-001-MTE

PVN Op 262 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 108 Ceramic Analyses Sheets

PVN Op 268 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 183 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 264 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 319, 321, 322 Ceramic Analyses

PSB Op 31 Excavation Report

PSB OP 34 Excavation Report

PSB OP 150 Excavation Report

PVN Op 411 Excavation Report

PVN Op 625 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 455 Ceramic Analyses

PVN Op 463 Ceramic Analyses

Life at the Review: Margins of the State: Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds

American Anthropologist, 2023

This volume challenges the centrality of states in accounts of the human past. Using diverse pers... more This volume challenges the centrality of states in accounts of the human past. Using diverse perspectives and data sets, the book's contributors propose that social complexity is not synonymous with the hierarchical structures of ancient states. The authors thus echo calls from numerous quarters, including anarchist archaeology, to explore the different ways agents operating in diverse environments under varying circumstances created complex sociopolitical systems that defy easy categorization in neoevolutionary schemes. The collection's chapters specifically attend to how those living on state peripheries created varied forms of complexity as they creatively dealt with the threats and opportunities posed by their larger neighbors. Ultimately, they make the point that social forms of all scales are constituted through their members' interactions, many of which operate with a fine disregard for borders. Developments in states and their peripheries, thus, must be understood in their relations to each other.