Barbara Carè
University of Fribourg, Archéologie et histoire de l'art, Senior researcher - ERC-funded project Locus Ludi (2022-2023)
Université de Fribourg, Histoire de l'art et archéologie classique, Invited Researcher (SNF Scientific Exchange Grant) 2022
Università degli Studi di Torino, Missione Archeologica a Locri Epizefiri, Archaeologist - Surveyor/Draftsman (2010-2016)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche, Archeologiche e Storico Territoriali (SAAST), Research Associate - Project "Museo e Area Archeologica di Locri Epizefiri - SPA26) - 2010-2011
Università degli Studi di Torino, Missione Archeologica a Costigliole Saluzzo, Archaeologist - Surveyor/Draftsman (2007-2016)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Archaeology, Post-Doc Researcher (Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation - 18th Foreigners' Fellowships Programme - 2013
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 3rd Foreigners's Fellowships Programme NSRF 2013-2014 - Academy of Plato, Post-Doc Researcher (2014-2015)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche, Archeologiche e Storico Territoriali, Cultore di Archeologia Classica (2009-2014)
University of Nottingham, Department of Classics and Archaeology, CSPS Post Doc Visiting Fellow (09/2017-02/2018)
Scuola Archeologica Italiana Atene, Clelia Laviosa Fellowship funded by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Post Doc Fellow (2020)
ORCID 0000-0002-3862-6151
Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Member of the Cost Action CA22145 - Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable) and co-leader of WG5 (Implementation, Dissemination and Education).
Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Member of the Cost Action CA22145 - Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable) and co-leader of WG5 (Implementation, Dissemination and Education).
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The small bones from the hind legs of mammals are mainly connected to the ludic domain in archaeological literature; nevertheless, their widespread involvement in ritual activities in the ancient world has been recently revealed.
The contribution focuses, in particular, on their use as implements of a whip (named as “astragalotē”) reported by several sources and on their connection to flogging ceremonies attested in antiquity, in relation to different cults and beliefs and variously endowed with propitiatory, expiatory or initiatory functions.
Participating in ritual performances and rites of passages, astragali cross the boundaries between play, education and religiosity.
Despite the increase in attention to the question of the origin of this community and to the changes which have affected this “language island” over the centuries leading to a sharp decrease in the number of speakers and the progressive decline of this variety, both in the contexts of academic and popular settings, environmental and topographical factors are still rarely considered as significant issues. This paper outlines the potential of landscape archaeology to contribute to the debate integrating spatial analysis with semantic and ethnographic data, aiming at a better understanding of this historical phenomenon.
The research concerns the long-term occupational history of this community and explores settlement dynamics and connectivity patterns in the area in a diachronic perspective, looking both at internal and external change agents (such as historical or climatic events) and comparing local narratives to a larger-scale framework of global trends.
Linking archaeological datasets, glossary, semantic material and place-names, it also investigates subsistence strategies and changing taskscapes of the local communities and addresses how landscape is represented in the language and what this reveals about the relationships of people to places and lands and to their own cultural identity.
La marcata caratterizzazione ludica ed infantile dell’osso, dedotta dalla testimonianza offerta dalle fonti tradizionali, si è tenacemente radicata in letteratura e ha guidato l’interpretazione dell’evidenza archeologica, a prescindere dalla necessaria analisi contestuale. Il progredire della ricerca, tuttavia, ha gradualmente rivelato l’infondatezza di tale assunto interpretativo ed evidenziato l’accentuata variabilità che connota questo peculiare costume rituale nel mondo greco, da cui deriva la necessità di ricercare chiavi di lettura differenziate. Nel corso della conferenza verranno presentati alcuni casi di studio, con particolare riferimento alla realtà funeraria di Taranto; si discuteranno, inoltre, i risultati emersi dal recente riesame di un corredo pressoché inedito contenente l’unica attestazione attualmente nota di mastix astragalotē che le fonti ricordano come strumento di flagellazione rituale.
Please consider submitting a paper for our Session (#493) “Animals mediating the real and imaginary: In Search for New Understandings of Human-Animal Relationships” (deadline 8 February 2024).
Organisers: Anja Mansrud (Norway),
Barbara Care (Switzerland)
Dimitris Filioglou (Greece)
Sigmund Oehrl (Norway)
Kristin Armstrong-Oma (Norway)
V. Di Napoli, Romanizing Greece? Spectacles and Buildings
Giovedi 15/11/2018 - 17:00
E. Tzavella, Attica after Antiquity (4th-7th c.)
Giovedi 13/12/2018 - 17:00
S. Katsarou, Rituals in caves in the Neolithic in Greece
It assembles - each year in a different country - a wide range of scholars, curators, inventors, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world to present and discuss new researches in the field.
The 21st annual Board Game Studies Colloquium is the first one to be held in Greece from Tuesday 24th April to Thursday 26th April 2018, hosted by the Benaki Museum (138, Pireos Str.) and the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens (14 Parthenonos Str).
This event is organized by Dr. Barbara Carè (Postdoctoral Scholar at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens). December, 13th, 2018, Italian Archaeological School at Athens, 'Seminar Room 3rd floor', 5.00 p.m.
Due to the limited availability of seats in the seminar room, please confirm your attendance to: [email protected]
Topics presented fall within the wide-range of the Fellows’ research interests and address in particular the themes of their own projects. The talks are aimed at providing opportunity for debate and discussion.
Attendance of young scholars and students is particularly encouraged. However, the talks are open to everyone interested.
📽 Our seminars will be delivered online via Zoom.
We kindly ask you to register by filling this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyGKBdtTSEP9BTpyrND60t1ciU42OoeaC_eH-XnGyqMimZkQ/viewform?gxids=7628&fbclid=IwAR0CwVCAsY9vD8AWK_ksbuRnPdcMOyphlEA9wjQq52RxoORH0yWrQeH8Y9E
"It's all Greek to me. Hellenization and Greek language survival in Calabria", organized by Dr. Barbara Carè (IASA).
24.11.2018, 'Doro Levi Lecture Hall', 9:30 a.m.
It assembles - each year in a different country - a wide range of scholars, curators, inventors, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world to present and discuss new researches in the field.
The 21st annual Board Game Studies Colloquium is the first one to be held in Greece and it will be hosted by the Benaki Museum and the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens, from Monday 23rd April to Thursday 26th April 2018.
It is organized by Barbara Care', Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology, in collaboration with Véronique Dasen, professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Fribourg, principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant Project “Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity”, and Ulrich Schädler Director of the Swiss Museum of Games and partner of the ERC project.
In the 2018 Colloquium, subtitled "Dialogues and Interactions", a special emphasis will be put on the role of games as “vehicles” of cultural transmission and interaction.
Ancient game-related material evidence, the continuity and the reception of antiquity in board games of different ages will be explored. Papers on other aspects of Board Game Studies, in any academic field, will be equally welcome.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Barbara Carè (Italian School of Archaeology at Athens)
Véronique Dasen (University of Fribourg)
Ulrich Schaedler (Swiss Museum of Games)
For further informations, please visit our website: www.bgs21.com
https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/cat/index/sCategory/59423