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Archaeology, Ethnology, Economic
and Social Evolution;
Southeast Asia
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Current Research
- Past Research - Selected Publications
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Dr. Bronson
is tracing the evolution of technology and trade in Asia through
research on excavations of ancient seaports.
The ancient world had surprising similarities
to our own in terms of the importance of commercial competition, the
effects of technological progress, and the causes of economic
development and decline. In line with these interests I have been
involved for a number of years in a program of archaeological and
ethnographic work in Asia combined with research on the Asian
collections of The Field Museum. I have collaborated with several
specialists outside the Museum on studies of early metallurgy in
Southeast Asia and China. |
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With my in-Museum colleague, Adjunct Curator
Chuimei Ho, I am now engaged in a three-year project that focuses on
the early ceramic and metal industries of Southeast China and on the
history of international trade in eastern and southern Asia.
I am also pursuing several other collections-oriented research
projects. These include studies of recent (AD 1400-1900) East Asian
bronzes, of Asian animal-keeping pastimes, of connections between early
Southeast Asia and Madagascar as revealed in artifact design and
nomenclature, of early glass and glaze chemistry, and of the historical
art of the Philippines. |
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2004
(With Chuimei Ho) Splendors of China's Forbidden City: the
Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong. London, New York: Merrell; Chicago:
Field Museum.
2004 (Edited with Chapurukha M. Kusimba and J. Claire Odland)
Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar. Los Angeles: UCLA
Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
2004 The Weapons of the Emperor. Orientations 35(2): 74-81.
1998 Jim VanStone at the Field Museum. Arctic Anthropology 35(2):10-19.
1998 (With Chapurukha Kusimba) Comments on the Recommendations of ICOM
Working Groups 1 and 2 Concerning the Protection of African Heritage.
Museum Anthropology 22(2):85-86.
1996 (With Joseph B. Lambert, Suzanne C. Johnson, and Robert T.
Parkhurst) Analysis of Ninth Century Thai Glass. ACS Symposium Series
625: 10-22.
1990 (With William Rostoker) Pre-industrial Iron: Its Technology and Ethnology. Philadelphia: Archeomaterials.
1988 (With Phisit Charoenwong) Prehistoric Studies: the Stone and
Metal Ages in Thailand. Bangkok: Thai Antiquity Working Group with the
support of the John F. Kennedy Foundation of Thailand.
1986 (With Phisit Charoenwong) Eyewitness Accounts of the Early
Mining and Smelting of Metals in Mainland Southeast Asia. Bangkok:
Thailand Academic Publishers. |
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