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Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns

Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL BOOK REVIEW Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, edited by Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2019, iv and 283 pp., Illus. 89, £38.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9781789251609 This impressive book interprets crafting and the agency of craftworkers and their relation- ship to society and networks within and between Viking-Age towns in light of the (critical) mass of single-site studies generated since modern excavation and sampling strategies were introduced. As per the editors’ research interests, this volume interrogates levels and importance of links in communication and technology transfer between urban craftworkers, albeit with the understanding that networks cannot explain entirely developments within urban crafting communities rooted in local socio-economic contexts. They favour actor/social network theory as their interpretative framework, reflecting an historiographical zeitgeist for craft, trade and urbanization where the network is king/queen. Here, we are more interested in processes (production, communication) than an object’s function, as befits current interest in agency and chaîne opératoire. The book promises and achieves a focus shift from function and typology towards the artefact being viewed as part of multiple complementary and competing processes influen - cing individuals and guild/collective actor(s). It encourages researchers to use single http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archaeological Journal Taylor & Francis

Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns

Horne, Tom
Archaeological Journal , Volume OnlineFirst: 2 – Mar 2, 2023
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Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL BOOK REVIEW Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, edited by Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2019, iv and 283 pp., Illus. 89, £38.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9781789251609 This impressive book interprets crafting and the agency of craftworkers and their relation- ship to society and networks within and between Viking-Age towns in light of the (critical) mass of single-site studies generated since modern excavation and sampling...
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© 2023 Tom Horne
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10.1080/00665983.2023.2178175
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL BOOK REVIEW Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, edited by Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2019, iv and 283 pp., Illus. 89, £38.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9781789251609 This impressive book interprets crafting and the agency of craftworkers and their relation- ship to society and networks within and between Viking-Age towns in light of the (critical) mass of single-site studies generated since modern excavation and sampling strategies were introduced. As per the editors’ research interests, this volume interrogates levels and importance of links in communication and technology transfer between urban craftworkers, albeit with the understanding that networks cannot explain entirely developments within urban crafting communities rooted in local socio-economic contexts. They favour actor/social network theory as their interpretative framework, reflecting an historiographical zeitgeist for craft, trade and urbanization where the network is king/queen. Here, we are more interested in processes (production, communication) than an object’s function, as befits current interest in agency and chaîne opératoire. The book promises and achieves a focus shift from function and typology towards the artefact being viewed as part of multiple complementary and competing processes influen - cing individuals and guild/collective actor(s). It encourages researchers to use single

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