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Professor Jamie Hampson

Associate Professor of Rock Art and Indigenous Heritage

J.G.Hampson@exeter.ac.uk

01326 371887

Overview

Professor Jamie Hampson specialises in Indigenous rock art and ontology, heritage studies, and post-colonial history. He has conducted extensive archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in southern Africa, Australia, North America, and India, and, in collaboration with Traditional Elders, has documented hundreds of rock art sites.

Jamie has a PhD in Archaeology from Cambridge; an MPhil in Archaeological Heritage and Museums (also Cambridge); and a BA (and six-guinea MA) in History (Oxford). 

Current projects include work on Indigenous heritage and world views; post-colonial historiography; rock art regionalism and identity; cultural tourism and the presentation of heritage sites to the public; the commodification of the past; the relationships between humans and animals; and human interaction with cultural landscapes.

Prior to his arrival in Cornwall in January 2018, Jamie was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and the University of Western Australia. From 2014-17 he was also a Principal Investigator and a Marie Curie Global Research Fellow at Stanford University and the University of York. In addition to this, Jamie has received grants totalling c. £1 million from the Australian Research Council, the University of Cambridge, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). He tries to spend at least six weeks each year working in the field with Indigenous groups, often acting as an advisor on how best to develop visitor centres and cultural 'keeping places' in remote regions.

Jamie's latest book is Rock Art and Regional Identity: a Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2016). As of September 2020, he has published 24 journal articles and 7 book chapters (including 21 as sole- or leading-author). Two new edited volumes - one on visual culture, appropriation, and identity; the other on the history of rock art research - are due in March 2021.

Jamie is currently accepting PhD and MRes students on any of the topics outlined above.

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Research

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Publications

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2022

  • Hampson J, Challis S, Goldhahn J. (2022) Why the history of rock art research matters, Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories Around the World, Archaeopress.
  • Hampson J. (2022) The history of rock art research in west Texas, North America, and beyond, Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
  • Hampson J, Challis S, Goldhahn J. (2022) Powerful Pictures: Rock Art Research Histories around the World, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
  • Challis S, Sinclair-Thomson B, David B, Freslov J, Dyll L, Guenther M, Hampson J, Jolly P, Loubser J, Morris D. (2022) The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa "The Disconnect", CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, volume 63, DOI:10.1086/722260. [PDF]

2021

  • Rozwadowski A, Hampson J. (2021) Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
  • Hampson J, Rozwadowski A. (2021) Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present: An Introduction, Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
  • Hampson J, Weaver R. (2021) Indigenous art in new contexts: inspiration or appropriation?, Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present, Archaeopress.
  • Hampson J. (2021) Approaching rock art regions: Trans-Pecos Texas (USA) as an illustrative case study, Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art, Equinox.
  • Hampson J. (2021) Indigenous ontologies and the contact rock art of far west Texas, Ontologies of rock art: images, relational approaches, and Indigenous knowledge, Routledge.

2019

  • Hampson JG. (2019) Symbolism, aesthetics, and narrative in rock art, Aesthetics, applications, artistry and anarchy: essays in prehistoric and contemporary art, Archaeopress, 109-118.
  • Hampson JG. (2019) Crystal quartz materiality in terminal Pleistocene Lesotho, Antiquity.

2017

  • Hampson JG, Brady L, Domingo Sanz I. (2017) Recording rock art: strategies, challenges, and embracing the digital revolution, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art, Oxford University Press.

2016

2015

2014

  • Hampson JG. (2014) Conflict on the frontier: San rock art, spirituality, and historical narrative in the Free State Province, South Africa, Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes, Springer.

2013

2012

  • Hampson JG. (2012) Seeing and Knowing. Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography, SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN, volume 67, no. 195, pages 151-152. [PDF]

2010

2009

  • Hampson JG, Boivin N. (2009) Re-examining rock art studies in India: a case study from Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, Recent research trends in South Asian archaeology, Deccan, 261-278.

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