Daniel Lord Smail’s research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

... Su propuesta historiográfica interpela a los historiadores y las historiadoras para que se desprendan de la camisa de fuerza que les impide salirse del marco de la historia, entendida ésta como el tiempo en el que las primeras sociedades desarrollan alfabetos y dejan, por tanto, testimonios escritos. Smail y Shryockson en su libro Deep History: The Architecture of the Past and Present, defienden una historia que se adentra en el Paleolítico y el Neolítico para explorar configuraciones específicas que operan en determinados momentos históricos (Shryock y Smail, 2011). En esta misma línea de temporalización vertical hay que situar en el exitoso trabajo de David Graeber y David Wengrow titulado El Amanecer de todo. ...

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Más Allá del Imaginario Temporal de la Historia Cultural: El Pasado Educativo en el Antropoceno

... Indeed, the temporal ambivalence of storage is fundamental to how storage 'acts' on our material things. Shryock and Smail (2018) describe the interplay between container and contained as mutually transformative, with Greenland (2018, p. 49) noting 'What comes out of the box is a different sort of thing than what entered the box.' What emerges may have changed in character -' . . . ...

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Ambivalent storage, multi-scalar generosity, and challenges of/for everyday consumption

... Fiona Greenland (2018) importantly reminds us that shipping containers perform different roles in different locations, sometimes opening up relationships and sometimes closing off circulation (2018,17). In addition to being an 'engine of history' (Shryock and Smail 2018) the container moves and mediates between the concrete and the abstract in the here and now. Turning our gaze to the port shows how containers are not only concrete and troublesome 'things', but also abstracted units of value that 'speak' to the larger systems in which they operate. ...

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The shipping container

... Consequently, Chakrabarty argues for an interweaving of the history of capital and the history of species. Following Daniel Lord Smail (2008), Chakrabarty (2009, p. 213) sees thinking in terms of species and all forms of species history as closely linked to the quest for deep history: ...

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"Simply" talking about the Anthropocene?: Pluritemporality, multiscalar history, and history education

... Of course, there is the study of neurohistory, or 'deep history', as formulated by Daniel Lord Smail, who traces the interplay between a changing human environment and the human body by utilizing neuroscientific, evolutionary and epigenetic hypotheses. 16 As he states in his 2014 article, the approach of neurohistory begins with the principle that the human brain is relatively plastic and therefore continuously open to developmental and cultural influences. This does not mean that we should treat the brain as a blank slate. ...

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What, if Anything, Can the History of Emotions Learn from the Neurosciences?

... The latter example allows to make a strong case for the perception of painted caves as places in which time has been suspended and through which visitors are able to travel back in time when entering them. This understanding points to a complex conceptualisation of the temporality of the present, which can be linked to the heterogenous temporal understanding of modernity (Smail and Shryock 2013) and the dialectics between synchronicity and coevalness (Fabian 1983) in the historical and ethnographic evaluation of human difference. These preliminary considerations point to the complexities of the conceptualisation of time in the context of deep time archaeological evidence and the transformation of the latter into heritage. ...

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Replicated Temporality. Time, Originality, and Rock Art Replicas

... Adding complexity to an already complex conundrum, deep ecology (Naess, 1973) has long warned us that to appropriately address environmental issues we need to dispose of our anthropocentric biases and adopt a holistic, eco-centric point of view. For what concerns history, this arguably requires disposing of any human-centred metanarrative and concept of progress, to reunite the Anthropos to the "deep history" or "deep time" (Gould 1987;Smail, 2008) of geological and natural time (Chakrabarty, 2009;. Indeed, if we want to improve our appreciation of human geological agency and impact on nature, as encapsulated by the geological definition of Anthropocene, we can hardly avoid adopting natural history's long durée as our privileged perspective. ...

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Beyond Neoliberal Presentism: An Eco-Temporality for the Anthropocene

... Kao deo antisocijalnog ponašanja, inat se vidi kao evolutivna odlika, koja ima mesto u ljudskom društvenom ponašanju makar utoliko da pokaže nečije nezadovoljstvo razvojem određene situacije po ma koju cenu, odnosno štetu koju taj neko može imati, ali i u smislu toga da je oduzimanje nekom dobiti dovoljno zadovoljstvo za onog drugog, koji takođe ne dobija ništa. Inat se u tom smislu smatra i kognitivnim instruktivnim sredstvom, pošto se na osnovu iskustava sa situacijama iz kojih nije izvučena nikakva korist može učiti ponašanju koje korisno za pojedinca i grupu, ali u osnovi, u evolutivnom smislu, odgovara takvom ponašanju koje ne donosi korist u savremenom ljudskom društvu, poput hordarenja, recimo (Forber and Smead 2014;West and Gardner 2010;Smail 2013). Ne znamo u kolikoj meri služi u potonjem smislu danas, ali postoje indicije, na osnovu izjave lekara iz kovid-bolnica, da zaista funkcioniše tako, odnosno da su se pojavljivali pacijenti oboleli od kovida-19, a koji su izražavali žaljenje zbog svog, u osnovi antisocijalnog i zdravstveno štetnog ponašanja, to jest učestvovanja na korona-žurkama 10 . ...

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Cognitive and Medical Misanthropology: Corona Parties and Kolo Dancing by the Monument

... By linking our disciplinary origins to early modernity, anthropologists implicitly reinforce one of the central tenets of modernist ideology: its own sense of historical and cultural exceptionalism, and refusal to acknowledge the relevance of anything before the medieval/modern divide (cf. Smail 2011). Considering the intimate (perhaps indistinguishable) relationship between modernity and colonialism, I contend that anthropological theory cannot be fully decolonized until it begins to problematize the medieval/modern periodization that lies at the very core of the modernist ideologies of rupture and difference. ...

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The Erasure of the Middle Ages from Anthropology's Intellectual Genealogy

... Even greater attention was given to the research of the homage of the English kings in front of the French rulers; although, as shown in the study of van Eickels, those were in most cases peace treaties after the feuds among the French and English royalty, which ended with the homage, the oath of fi delity and with the kiss of peace (van Eickels, 1997, 133–140). This topic has seen considerable interest in the studies of Italy in particular (Niccoli, 2007;Bellabarba, 2008, 77–78;Muir, 1998) and France (Smail, 2012;Carroll, 2003). Comparing the criminal courts of Lucca and Marseille beetwen 1334 and 1342, Smail did not see their task as to regulate violence through counter-violence, coercion, and arrest. ...

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DAROVEC, Darko. Blood feud as gift exchange : the ritual of humiliation in the customary system of conflict resolution. Acta Histriae, ISSN 1318-0185, 25 (2017), n.o 1, pp. 57-96