2005
DOI: 10.1017/s1380203805001583
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Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory

Abstract: In recent years the development of a phenomenological archaeology has provoked considerable discussion within the discipline, particularly within British prehistory. This paper provides a review of this challenging body of research, outlining its problems and potentials and setting it within its broader disciplinary context. Phenomenology has been used to great effect to critique the Cartesian rationalism inherent in traditional archaeological approaches, encouraging imaginative and valuable reinterpretations … Show more

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“…Appadurai 1986, Appadurai 1998, Binsbergen 2005, Brück 2005, Costin 2001, David & Kramer 2001, Demarrais et al 1996, Gabora 2008, Gardner 2008, Gosden & Marshall 1999, Hays-Gilpin 2008, Jones 2002, Jones 2008, Knappett 2005, Kopytoff 1986, Lahiri 82 1995, Lemonnier 1989, Pfaffenberger 1988, Taylor 2008 where the boundaries between the two are both blurred and permeable (Pfaffenberger 1992). For social constructionists, 'technology' is a concept that can encapsulate the entire sphere of human experience pertaining to material culture.…”
Section: Killick 2004amentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Appadurai 1986, Appadurai 1998, Binsbergen 2005, Brück 2005, Costin 2001, David & Kramer 2001, Demarrais et al 1996, Gabora 2008, Gardner 2008, Gosden & Marshall 1999, Hays-Gilpin 2008, Jones 2002, Jones 2008, Knappett 2005, Kopytoff 1986, Lahiri 82 1995, Lemonnier 1989, Pfaffenberger 1988, Taylor 2008 where the boundaries between the two are both blurred and permeable (Pfaffenberger 1992). For social constructionists, 'technology' is a concept that can encapsulate the entire sphere of human experience pertaining to material culture.…”
Section: Killick 2004amentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In line with a technological approach, the performance of experimental archaeology is more than 'doing science', and the experimenter's own relationship and learning experience with the technology may provide otherwise unknown insights into ancient metallurgical behaviour (e.g. Brück 2005, Doonan & Andrews in press, Killick 2004a, Townend 2002.…”
Section: -Theory In Experimental Archaeologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The low hanging fruit for this kind of study includes sanctuaries and churches, large public markets, Roman villae or elite houses, and the many regionally and chronologically specific variants on these categories of places (e.g., Brück 2005; Bjur and Frizell 2009; Renfrew 2007; Bertemes and Biehl 2001; WallaceHadrill 1988; Fredrick 1995; WallaceHadrill 2008; Pollini 2012; Molyneaux 2013. A second requirement is a reasonably good level of preservation, such that the place may be reconstructed and/or documented at a good level of detail.…”
Section: Aq5mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This question of the disconnect between past and present finds echoes in phenomenology in archaeological theory (and the reactions against it), which argue that the original significance of features such as monuments can only be understood through contemporary sensual experience of them (Tilley 1994). This "Being-in-the-world" perspective of the past asserts the centrality of the existential and experiential point of view of the observer (Tilley 1994;Brück 2005;Barret and Io 2009). The study of past dynamism, pathways, movement and mobility are all framed by the ideas of "lived in" social space developed in and after the 1950s; an interpretation of space that cannot be mapped using conventional representational Despite these two decades of interest in existential human space and the relationship between original articulation and contemporary observation, and despite varied exercises in place ontology modelling recently reviewed by Ballatore (2016), the digitization of historic/cultural place in the intellectual assets of the humanities such as maps and text, has not reached the level of epistemological maturity visible in critical GIS (a point underscored by Rossetto's critique of cartography's links with literary criticism).…”
Section: Past Place Present Placementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ybarra's railroad map was created from historical/personal observation 20 (not from imagination), mediated by him in the map he drew in Least Heat Moon's presence, later again by Least Heat Moon when he wrote the passage above, and finally by the reader of PrairyErth. Understanding such non-contemporary understandings/constructions of place requires reference back to the "being in the world" thesis of Heidegger, to notions of what it means to (re)construct place through personal experience, to the theories of phenomenology advanced by Christopher Tilley, and the debates about whether it is possible to access place as perceived and experienced by past peoples (Tilley 1994;Brück 2005;Barrett and Ko, 2009).…”
Section: Past Place Present Placementioning
confidence: 99%