Animating by Association: Index Objects and Relational Taxonomies

Zedeño, María Nieves

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“…Hallowell's (, 51) discussion of personhood). For instance, Zedeño (, ) demonstrated how Blackfoot understandings of animacy, bundling, and index objects contrast with archaeological taxonomies that treat artifacts as static (cf. Cipolla, Quinn, and Levy ).…”

Section: Taming the Wolves: Ontologies Of Three Kindsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In their typical focus on non‐Western ways of understanding and classifying the world, what I refer to as worldview‐focused approaches (e.g., Betts, Blair, and Black ; Brown and Walker ; Zedeño , ) follow similar lines as archaeologies focused on reconstructing past cultures. As discussed above, key thinkers in this area, like Zedeño, bring archaeological and non‐Western worldviews into dialogue to help rethink the taken‐for‐granted aspects of Western perspectives.…”

Section: Wendat Archaeology: a Brief Examplementioning

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“…The worldview‐focused approach seeks to improve archaeological method and theory so that it incorporates non‐Western sensibilities and orientations. Zedeño's () important points about “index” objects, for example, demonstrate the differences between Blackfoot and archaeological epistemologies. She frames this work as an important opportunity to rethink how archaeologists classify the world.…”

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Taming the Ontological Wolves: Learning from Iroquoian Effigy Objects

Cipolla

2019

American Anthropologist

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Currently on the rise in archaeology, ontological approaches promise new ways of engaging with alterity of various kinds-different people, different times, different forms, even different worlds. This work promises to aid in critical reflections on the arbitrary nature of the Western gaze and to recognize and incorporate non-Western knowledge in new manners. There are, however, several challenges to address. First, as noted by several leading thinkers in this area, the present range of ontological approaches include contrasting theoretical underpinnings.Second, these approaches are rarely considered in relation to the practical challenges of specific archaeological cases, particularly contexts of settler colonialism in which practitioners are attuned to the potential colonial nature of their work. I divide ontologically engaged archaeologies into three related but distinct groups and use a small museum assemblage of seventeenth-century Wendat materials from Ontario to help think through these three theories. In comparing approaches, I outline their respective strengths, weaknesses, and points in need of further clarification. I conclude that the ontological turns offer new and valuable angles of articulation with archaeological materials but that archaeologists must adopt them cautiously if they are to avoid repeating or continuing some of the darkest parts of our (colonial) disciplinary history. [ontology, archaeology, new materialism, archaeological theory, effigies, colonialism, Iroquoian archaeology, Ontario] RESUMEN Actualmente se están desarrollando en la arqueología, aproximaciones ontológicas que prometen nuevas formas de comprometerse con la alteridad de varios tipos-personas diferentes, tiempos diferentes, formas diferentes, aun mundos diferentes. Este trabajo promete ayudar en reflexiones críticas sobre la naturaleza arbitraria de la mirada occidental y para reconocer e incorporar conocimiento no occidental en nuevas formas. Hay, sin embargo, varios retos para abordar. Primero, como señalado por varios pensadores destacados en estaárea, el rango actual de aproximaciones ontológicas incluye fundamentos teóricos contrastantes. Segundo, estas aproximaciones son consideradas raramente en relación con los retos prácticos de casos arqueológicos específicos, particularmente los contextos del colonialismo de pobladores en los cuales los profesionales están sintonizados con la naturaleza colonial potencial de su trabajo. Divido las arqueologías comprometidas ontológicamente en tres grupos relacionados pero distintos y uso un ensamblaje pequeño de museo de materiales de los hurones del siglo XVII de Ontario para ayudar a pensar a través de estas tres teorías. Comparando las aproximaciones, bosquejo sus debilidades, fortalezas respectivas, y puntos en necesidad de clarificación adicional. Concluyo que los cambios ontológicos ofreceń angulos de articulación nuevos y valiosos con materiales arqueológicos, pero que los arqueólogos los deben adoptar con cautela si van a evitar repetir o continuar algunas de las ...

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Section: Taming the Wolves: Ontologies Of Three Kindsmentioning

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Section: Wendat Archaeology: a Brief Examplementioning

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Taming the Ontological Wolves: Learning from Iroquoian Effigy Objects

Cipolla

2019

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“…Es por ello, que la incorporación de animación por sobre la de animismo (ZEDEÑO, 2009;PAUKETAT, 2012), viene a dar cuenta de esa ontología y capacidad de acción de los otros-seres-no-humano, sin remitir específicamente a un tipo específico de sistema como es el animismo.…”

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Relacionalidad, prácticas, ontologías y arte rupestre en el centro norte de Chile (2000 A.C. A 1.540 D.C.)

Troncoso¹

2014

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ESPECIAL: VI TAAS RESUMENLas ontologías son sistemas relacionales inconscientes que se producen y reproducen a partir de un conjunto de prácticas y materialidades. A través de ellas, nociones claves a la vida social como el concepto de persona, y de comunidad se construyen históricamente, así como la misma idea de animación de los objetos. En este trabajo esbozamos una aproximación a las ontologías prehispánicas en el Centro Norte de Chile usando las propuestas de Descola como recursos heurísticos para interrogar el registro y explorar las particularidades locales e históricas de los distintos sistemas ontológicos desplegados entre el 2000 a.C. y 1540 d.C. Usando el arte rupestre como ejemplo, exploramos un enfoque ontológico que no reifique al animismo como recurso interpretativo básico Palabras clave: Ontología, Relacionalidad, Cultura Material, Paisaje, Arte Rupestre, Chile, Norte Semiarido. ABSTRACTOntologies are unconscious, and relational systems produced and reproduced through a set of practices and materialities historically situated. Ontologies engage with key aspects of social life such as personhood, the idea of community and the animacy of objects. In our paper, we discuss an ontological approach to the prehistory of Central Northern Chile approaching the visual and spatial characteristics of rock art. To get our aims, we use some theoretical ideas of Descola about four general ontological systems, discussing the local and historical particularities of some ontological systems in our study area between 2000 BCE to 1540 CE. Using this approach we avoid to reify animism as a unique ontological and interpretative framework.

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“…Furthermore, it is also used to describe the belief in non-human persons, such as spirits that "possess souls, life-force and qualities of personhood become attached to it (Alberti and Marshall 2009;Brown and Walker 2008;Groleau 2009;Haber 2009;Helvenston and Hodgson 2010;Wallis 2009;Zedeño 2009). For the field of hunter-gatherer and rock-art studies, Dowson (2009) has recently argued that 'animism' can also integrate the concept of 'shamanism' and can therefore dissolve issues that have plagued discussions about the reading of hunter-gatherer rock-art for more than two decades.…”

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‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People

Porr

Bell²

2011

J Archaeol Method Theory

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In recent years, the concept of 'animism' has gained considerable popularity among archaeologists in exploring non-Western expressions of material culture. This development has also influenced recent academic approaches towards the study of 'rock-art' of people living as hunter and gatherers or in a hunting and gathering tradition. We argue here that attempts in this direction so far are generally compromised, because they fail to take Indigenous philosophies and intellectual contributions seriously. Any concern with Indigenous material expressions, including so-called rock-art, has to involve a critical re-assessment of academic discourse itself and a challenge to the primacy of Western scientific and literary, academic methodologies. With reference to the 'rock-art' and the world-view of the Ngarinyin (Kimberley, Northwest Australia), we present some preliminary thoughts for the development of an alternative interpretative framework, while offering a (much needed) legitimacy to another more balanced epistemology.

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Animating by Association: Index Objects and Relational Taxonomies

Cited by 105 publications

References 22 publications

Taming the Ontological Wolves: Learning from Iroquoian Effigy Objects

Taming the Ontological Wolves: Learning from Iroquoian Effigy Objects

Relacionalidad, prácticas, ontologías y arte rupestre en el centro norte de Chile (2000 A.C. A 1.540 D.C.)

‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People

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