‘Fields of discourse’ revisited:

Catapoti, Despina; Relaki, Maria

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“…Gibson 2021). The central problem facing traditional archaeology, identified by Catapoti and Relaki (2021), lies in archaeology’s desire to define and to analyse static categories of material, meaning that it is poorly placed to reveal the transitory and dynamic conditions of life. If the ways that humans ‘have related to the world’ is something that we might aim to understand using the traditional practices of archaeology, in which the forms of archaeological things are treated as a record of the actions that had generated them, then it would appear that a traditional archaeology is condemned to explain material change by seeking the human motivations for those changes.…”

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Humanness as performance

Barrett

2022

Arch. Dial.

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If archaeology is the examination of historical conditions with reference to a surviving material residue, then one way in which these conditions might be characterized is as the different ways they had enabled the development of different forms of humanness. The historical construction of this diversity is discussed here as the ways that the relationships between humans and things had been performed. This means that the practice of archaeology must question the recent desire to adopt a flat ontology that defines archaeology as the ‘discipline of things’. It is argued that it was by means of the performances established between humans and their various objects of concern that different forms of human life were able to define themselves. The implications of this argument for the practice of archaeology are explored.

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Section: The Task Of Archaeologymentioning

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Humanness as performance

Barrett

2022

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