I’ve been trying to think of the best way to post this URL. I can’t really post it on my website, and there’s no place in the sidebar of my blog to throw it, so a blog post will have to suffice. A year ago, to help myself study for an anthropological theory course I was taking I decided to adopt the SIMILE platform and create a timeline of everything we covered in class (and then some). I was having some difficulty placing people in their respective eras and organizing who wrote what and when. I knew I needed to get it out of my head so I could visualize it. I had daydreams about all the information being sent from a small integrated circuit implanted in my visual cortex that would stimulate my retina, producing a head-up display that I could then manipulate out in front of me with quick movements of my hands and fingers. Since that couldn’t happen, I settled on SIMILE (it does look pretty sweet on a 50″ LCD TV, though).
I understand there are always discrepencies with dates, time periods, publications, and all that jazz. I welcome any corrections or debate over information presented in the timeline. It begins at 1200 and ends at 1992, so there’s more than 10 years that could be filled in. To navigate by small intervals, click and drag the top portion of the timeline. To navigate by larger intervals, click and drag the bottom portion. Mouse-over the major paradigms/perspectives to get a brief explanation and links to some major figures. Please, any discussion is more than welcomed. When I get some more time I will experiment with communal editing possibilities so I can relinquish my position as “timeline master.”
check it out here: http://adambohannon.org/timeline.htm
Also anthro related. If any of you are interested physical anthropology, my buddy Kambiz from Anthropology.net has made an awesome geographical timeline using google maps over at hominin.net, check it out!
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Nice work Adam! I’m really glad you’ve got this up on your own website/domain now. This way you can get proper credit for all the work you put into it!
your timeline is awesome, i am a totally visual person and this will help me so much. Thank you Adam.
I am currently studying an anthro subject at ANU, this timeline is the best ive seen thus far, and way more informative. Thanks again
Hey Adam!
Great work with the timeline. I myself was thinking about making one since I feel I’ve read so much about all different movements, important publications, crises and critiques, I don’t have a clue how it fits together. Fortunately I checked the internet first
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Thanks a lot!
xxx
Lore
Thanks Lore! If you have any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to post them here. I’d love to make it open for anyone to edit, but the software prevents that from happening =\
Glad it can be of use to you!
Your time line assisted my research, thank you!
Have you considered adding functionalism, processualism (Binford), and post-processulalism (Hodder) to your list of paradigms?
Please fix the timeline! I’d love to see it but it’s not working.
@Meredith: hmmm… still having trouble? It’s working for me.