Making as a didactic process: Situated cognition and the chaîne opératoire

Walls, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.005

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“…Recent archaeological and ethnographic research in Greenland demonstrates the results of these critiques, with more active participation of Indigenous communities (e.g. Flora, et al 2018; Walls 2016) Ethnographic analogies have also played an important role in structuring the discursive formation of eastern Arctic archaeology (e.g. Grønnow, et al 1983;Maxwell 1985;McGhee 1976McGhee , 1996Taylor 1967).…”

Section: Earlier Critiques Of Prevailing Interpretative Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thomas 2015;Witmore 2014). The discourse emerged as a critique on the division between idealised generalisations of human behaviour and social practice; a division of 'Mind-Matter' where mind and matter are separated in reality (Malafouris 2004;Walls 2016).…”

Section: Moving Beyond the Mind-on-matter Principle In Chaîne Opératoire Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The crafting, use, and maintenance of tool technologies were never entirely outcomes of people enacting traditional knowledge and practice onto materials-i.e. 'mind on matter'-as materialities situated and structured their decisions and strategies (Malafouris 2004;Walls 2016).…”

Section: Towards a Relational Perspective On Greenlandic Dorset Lifewaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent discussions on the use of the chaîne opératoire have presented an opportunity to reconfigure this understanding of change in materials and technologies over time by emphasising the situated emergence of the technological process. Instead of considering the development of material and technological change to be oriented around 'ideal' social practice, this development is understood as a generative process involving a 'developmental ecology' (Ingold 2011;Walls 2016), where technological process is bound to the relations of and among people, materials, and the environment. Technological patterns are thus no longer constituted solely by knowledge and know-how of ideal practice, but co-created by materials and other non-human entities in the environment (Walls 2016:22, 26).…”

Section: From Typologies Via the Chaîne Opératoire To Assemblages Of Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The thesis therefore builds on moves now underway to harness the potential of relational thinking to innovate our understanding of the past and present northern circumpolar world (e.g. Betts, et al 2015;Herva and Lahelma 2019;Hill 2011Hill , 2013Walls 2016). More generally, these new research developments build on the recent theoretical discourse of New Materialism that seeks to bridge modernist dualisms such as Subject-Object, Nature-Culture, and Mind-Matter (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assembling Arctic Lifeways: a relational approach to lithic assemblages from the Greenlandic Dorset period

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A big thank you also goes to Arctic Centre colleagues Maarten Loonen, Annette Scheepstra, Frits Steenhuisen, and Sean Desjardins.xiv Acknowledgements Additional thanks to Sean for his generosity and patience through years of being barraged with impromptu queries on anything related to eastern Arctic archaeology. Whereas the Arctic Centre has been my primary base of operations, the Ethnographic Collection and Archives at the National Museum of Denmark holds a special significance as a second home of sorts for me through these years. My research stays and visits here have been rewarding and enjoyable experiences, to which I owe the colleagues working there. My sincere gratitude therefore goes to Martin Appelt, Ulla Ødegaard, Peter Andreas Toft, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Ditlev Mahler, and the other staff members that have been present there during my stays. My thanks also go to Mikkel Sørensen and Jens Fog Jensen, who graciously shared their deep knowledge and experience in the study of lithic technology and the Greenlandic Dorset period with me. Your support was immensely helpful, especially during the early stages of my analyses in Copenhagen. During my years of PhD research, I have also had the additional privilege of participating in archaeological fieldwork both in Greenland and Norway. A big thank you to my friend and fellow PhD candidate Asta Mønsted who brought me along to assist her in the surveying of Thule Inuit sites near Ilimanaq in Qeqertarsuup Tunua during the summer of 2019. This gave me my first and memorable experience of archaeological fieldwork in Greenland. Much gratitude goes to Charlotte Damm and Marianne Skandfer, who kindly invited me to participate during the workshops and fieldwork of the Stone Age Demographics research project

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Section: Earlier Critiques Of Prevailing Interpretative Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Moving Beyond the Mind-on-matter Principle In Chaîne Opératoire Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards a Relational Perspective On Greenlandic Dorset Lifewaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Typologies Via the Chaîne Opératoire To Assemblages Of Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Identifying Female in the Halaf: Prehistoric Agency and Modern Interpretations

Belcher

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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self

Malafouris

2024

Phenom Cogn Sci

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Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the norm. The emphasis is on when and how we became human while the problem of self (how did the ability to think about one’s own self come about? ) is largely neglected. This article suggest that those two aspects of human becoming cannot be meaningfully disentangled: humans are both persons and members of a species. I argue that people are STRANGE. I use the acronym STRANGE to describe the Situated TRANsactional and GEnerative process by which the human species (nature) and the human self (culture) become co-constituted in the lived space of material engagement. I propose that to study this middle space of self-becoming a synergy of enactive and situated perspectives from philosophy and archaeology is needed. Drawing on material engagement theory I sketch out my vision of what this synergy entails based on the notions of self-bounding, enactive in/dividuation, and the situated person perspective. I use the archaeological examples of stone knapping (toolmaking) and early body ornamentation to substantiate some of the main issues and methodological challenges.

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Making as a didactic process: Situated cognition and the chaîne opératoire

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Assembling Arctic Lifeways: a relational approach to lithic assemblages from the Greenlandic Dorset period

Assembling Arctic Lifeways: a relational approach to lithic assemblages from the Greenlandic Dorset period

Identifying Female in the Halaf: Prehistoric Agency and Modern Interpretations

People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self

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