Penelope Dransart
Penelope Dransart FSA | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Fibre to fabric: the role of fibre in Camelid economies in prehispanic and contemporary Chile (1991) |
Academic work | |
Discipline |
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Sub-discipline | Castellology |
Institutions |
Penelope Dransart FSA is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles. Until 2016 she was a Reader at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen.[1][2] Dransart was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1998.[3] She has written or edited several books, including Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding (2002, Routledge).
Dransart completed a
Blairs Museum in Aberdeen. She is part of the permanent committee of the Colloques Château Gaillard, a biannual conference for castellologists.[1] Dransart is also Editor for Archaeology and Art for Studia Celtica, an academic journal about Celtic studies.[6]
Select publications
- Penny Dransart (February 1991). "Llamas, herders and the exploitation of raw materials in the Atacama Desert". Wikidata Q57271122.
- Penelope Dransart (March 2002). "Concepts of Spiritual Nourishment in the Andes And Europe: Rosaries in Cross-Cultural Contexts". Wikidata Q61950086.
- Penelope Z. Dransart (2002). Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding. London: Wikidata Q106097676.
- Penelope Dransart; Nicholas Bogdan (2004). "The material culture of recusancy at Fetternear: kin and religion in post-Reformation Scotland". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 134: 457–470. Wikidata Q48574998.
- Penelope Dransart (2008). "Prospect and excavation of moated sites: Scottish earthwork castles and house societies in the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries". Château Gaillard. Etudes de castellologie médiévale. 23: 115–128. Wikidata Q48574710.
- Penelope Dransart (December 2015). "Reconstruction of a chamfered doorway from a late 16th-century tower at Fetternear, Aberdeenshire" (PDF). The Castle Studies Group Journal. 29: 310–313. Wikidata Q42355189.
- Penelope Dransart (April 2016). "Bishops' palaces in the medieval dioceses of Aberdeen and Moray". Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the Dioceses of Aberdeen and Moray: 58–81. Wikidata Q106097717.
- Penelope Dransart (2020). "A highland textile tradition from the far south of Peru during the period of Inka domination". PreColumbian Textile Conference VIII / Jornadas de Textiles PreColombinos VIII: 137–156. Wikidata Q106097770.
Edited
- Penelope Dransart, ed. (1995). Andean Art: visual expression and its relation to Andean beliefs and values (in English and English). Avebury. Wikidata Q105104117.
- Penelope Dransart; Jonathan Trigg, eds. (2008), The Bishop's Palace, Fetternear 2005-2006, Wikidata Q105087072
- Penelope Dransart, ed. (2013). Living beings: perspectives on interspecies engagements. London: Wikidata Q106097823.
References
- ^ a b Dr Penny Dransart D. Phil (Oxford), University of Wales Trinity Saint David, retrieved 17 March 2021
- ^ Penelope Dransart, ORCID, retrieved 17 March 2021
- ^ Dr Penelope Dransart, Society of Antiquaries of London, retrieved 17 March 2021
- ^ Fibre to fabric : the role of fibre in Camelid economies in prehispanic and contemporary Chile, British Library Ethos, retrieved 17 March 2021
- Wikidata Q106131819.
- ^ "Studia Celtica | UWP". www.uwp.co.uk. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
External links
- Penelope Dransart publications on Academia.edu
- Penny Dransart (2002). Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: an ethnography and archaeology of Andean camelid herding [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000347
- Wenner-Gren Foundation grantee: Dransart, Penelope Zoe
- Lochleven Castle and the incarceration of Mary Queen of Scots, 2021 talk by Dr. Dransart