Archaeo-Ethnography, Auto-Archaeology: Introducing Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

Harrison, Rodney; Schofield, John

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“…Maíldes Alves de Mello (2008) "O jantar dos inocentes: a saga dos expurgados gaúchos". Frei Betto (1982) Moshenska (2008Moshenska ( , 2009Moshenska ( , 2010, González-Ruibal (2008, Buchli & Lucas (2001), Harrisson & Schofield (2009) Bianchini (2015); Suárez (2014Suárez ( , 2016. Pesquisas desta natureza, em especial, na América Latina, assumiram um caráter singular, tanto no sentido da produção de conhecimento sobre a Ditadura quanto no que diz respeito à produção de provas judiciais e de relacionamento com áreas forenses (SALERNO, 2009).…”

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Por uma Arqueologia Feminista da ditadura no Brasil (1964-1985)

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2017

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O presente texto é um exercício interpretativo entre as relações de gênero e o mundo material da repressão em Centros de Detenção e Tortura no Brasil. Tomo como base a Arquitetura do DOPS/RS, além dos materiais e outros elementos não humanos utilizados para tortura de pessoas dentro desses espaços. Para tanto, me proponho a examinar esse meio material, através de seu entrecruzamento com os relatos de ex-presas(os) políticas, vistos sob a ótica do feminismo descolonial, com intuito de trazer à luz novos elementos da dinâmica repressiva brasileira, bem como, trabalhar a perspectiva de gênero como forma de valorizar os relatos de mulheres e de possibilitar a sua visibilidade nesse processo.

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Por uma Arqueologia Feminista da ditadura no Brasil (1964-1985)

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2017

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“…Scholars widely agree on the meaning making capabilities of materials, especially those that are within one's environment (Buchli and Lucas 2001;Du Preez 2008;Harrison and Schofield 2009;Mills 2009;Miller 2001a;2001b). Environment here is construed as socio-cultural and spatio-temporal complexities of a place, affecting entities that occupy it (Jones and Cloke 2008), and material as building blocks of art, used interchangeably with media where appropriate.…”

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“…portrait bust, or pottery. Environment such as above, in the 21 st century popular and visual cultures produce its own materials and objects, and correspondent materiality (Basu 2013;Du Preez 2008;González-Ruibal 2014;Harrison and Schofield 2009;Mills 2009;Miller 2011;Tolentino 2012). Normally, vocations of leading membership like mentors and kin have significant influence in the training of the younger generations through role-playing and active participations.…”

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Rethinking Materiality In Pre-Tertiary Studio Art Education In Ghana

Opoku-Bonsu

2017

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This paper explores the conventional artist and environment connections, and argues that, environment that produce the Senior High School student do so with peculiar material affinities and competences ripe for 21st century art. The culture of obliging student to a few institutionalised media like clay, dyes and paints in the studio based art disciplines inhibit the numerous possibilities available, and confines art education to limited aptitudes and few institutionally expected expressions in pre-tertiary art education in Ghana. Authors believe this practice is inconsistent with global art education trends and well-being of the artist's person in the 21st century art practice. Using content analysis, the paper examines the Art Curricula and WAEC examination questions for Art Students, and institutional bureaucracies and antiquated curriculum philosophies were revealed as being responsible for the present state of affairs, and keep bedeviling the numerous curricula reviews. The paper therefore recommends curricula and examination item reviews, as well as the incorporation of visual and material culture into curricula philosophies to cure the prevailing phenomena. Authors also argue for policy on inclusive curricula, and are convinced that, incorporating these into artistic processes would democratize media choices, allow familial cultural frames, to usher in an art education premised on cultural production and meaning making, with diverse material and visual competences.

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“…Elsewhere I have made a case for a cyber-archaeology which encompasses not only a study of computer hardware and software but also the study of virtual communities and their artefacts (Harrison 2009; for alternate perspectives on archaeology and digital artefacts see Webmoor 2008;Morgan 2009;Witmore 2009). As the line increasingly blurs between work which is undertaken using computerised hardware and software, we need to turn our attention, as a discipline with a focus on material culture, to the role of virtual artefacts.…”

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“…Other methods may be more conventionally focussed on (virtual) material culture. Elsewhere (Harrison 2009) I have suggested that an examination of the histories of creation, ownership, copying and re-use of objects within the virtual world of Second Life should be considered a form of archaeology which focuses on time depth, context and materiality, showing how a focus on virtual material culture can help us to understand the dynamics of virtual communities.…”

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Exorcising the ‘plague of fantasies’: mass media and archaeology's role in the present; or, why we need an archaeology of ‘now’

Harrison

2010

World Archaeology

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Taking as its starting point Slavoj Žižek's (1997) The Plague of Fantasies, this paper considers how the electronic mediascape and its contagious practices have come to dominate all areas of contemporary reportage and history-making. It suggests that Web 2.0's reliance on 'mob-thinking' can lead to a rapid and widespread erasure of alternative accounts and non-dominant narratives. Against this background, the paper explores the urgency of developing an 'archaeology of now' which could provide a stimulus for the production of alternative viewpoints and contemporary histories. Such an archaeology might involve not only a focus on contemporary material evidence, but also the analysis of virtual material culture and the excavation of virtual media to reveal the power structures and micro-histories of its dominant narratives. The paper is intentionally provocative, aiming to stimulate a broader engagement with an archaeology of the present. KeywordsArchaeologies of the present; electronic mediascape; Web 2.0; 'mob-thinking'; virtual material culture; cyber-archaeology Author bio IntroductionIn this paper I want to consider a topic which has received very little comment by archaeologists; that is, the implications of ways in which Web 2.0 promulgates a belief in the 'wisdom of crowds', and the ways in which this has come to influence the process of contemporary reportage, and by extension, history-making. I argue that the 'wisdom of crowds' has been significantly overstated, and that an over-reliance on mob-thinking can lead to a rapid and widespread erasure and subsequent elimination of alternative accounts and non-dominant narratives. The growth of the World Wide Web and associated electronic media over the past two decades has provided unparalleled access to data and information to many widely dispersed individuals across the globe. Yet such material is both highly unstable, and due to its viral nature, highly partial. This situation provides an important argument for the urgency of developing an 'archaeology of now', with a dual focus on material evidence (which might reveal alternative perspectives and accounts of recent events) and the 'excavation' of virtual accounts to reveal their dynamic power structures and microhistories. Furthermore, in an increasingly 'virtual' world, archaeology needs to begin to consider virtual material culture by developing an approach which we might think of as a sort of 'cyberarchaeology' (Harrison 2009). While archaeologists have been slow to engage with the internet, others outside the discipline have not only emphasised the materiality of digital artefacts, but have employed a range of archaeological metaphors to describe its dynamics. Many commentators on the need for an archaeology of the contemporary past have emphasised its role in uncovering those things which late modernity has 'hidden', overwritten, made absent or obscured (e.g. Buchli and Lucas 2001;Buchli 2002; González-Ruibal 2008;Piccini and Holtorf 2009; Harrison and Schofield 2010). The paper is not a deta...

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Archaeo-Ethnography, Auto-Archaeology: Introducing Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

Cited by 55 publications

References 47 publications

Por uma Arqueologia Feminista da ditadura no Brasil (1964-1985)

Por uma Arqueologia Feminista da ditadura no Brasil (1964-1985)

Rethinking Materiality In Pre-Tertiary Studio Art Education In Ghana

Exorcising the ‘plague of fantasies’: mass media and archaeology's role in the present; or, why we need an archaeology of ‘now’

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