‘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, Martin; Bell, Hannah Rachel

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“…20 Stoczkowski has criticised this approach, emphasising that Landau has not succeeded in unravelling the philosophical and historical origins of the structures that she described. 21 He identifies four 'complementary assumptions' that have structured explanations and narratives of human origins and evolution since the eighteenth century, and have produced surprisingly 17 Blundell 2003;Blundell and Woolagoodja 2012;Layton 1992;Milroy and Revell 2013;Porr and Bell 2012;Redmond 2001;Vinnicombe and Mowaljarlai 1995. 18 Landau 1984, 1993Stoczkowski 2002.…”

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“…During a conversation in Kalumburu, Kim mentioned that she recently was asked by young Indigenous men the following: 'The scientists said that Aborigines only 12 Stanner 1958;Wolfe 1991. 13 Kolig 2000Porr and Bell 2012;Stanner 1968. 14 Milroy and Revell 2013.…”

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2015

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“…Si bien Alberti y Marshall (2009), han apelado a la necesidad de explorar y descubrir otros sistemas ontológicos, sus propuestas las generan explícitamente a partir de la combinación de teorías relacionales, propuestas sobre materialidad y animismo. La relevancia del animismo no es de extrañar dada la asociación que se establece entre tal sistema ontológico, la agencia de los no humanos y la constitución de comunidades a partir de las relaciones establecidas entre estos agentes y las personas (ALBERTI & MARSHALL, 2009;HABER, 2009;BROWN & WALKER, 2008;PORR & BELL, 2012;SILLAR, 2009;WALLIS, 2009WALLIS, , 2013.…”

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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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“…Instrumental western epistemological models starkly contrast with indigenous epistemologies in the management of humannature interactions and reveal a cultural gap in understanding how traditional knowledge and practices sustain indigenous land and sea country (Harmon 2003;Jamal et al 2006;Zeppel2010). Howitt and Suchet-Pearson (2006) and Porr and Bell (2011) in the Australian context highlight serious intellectual gaps and lost opportunities arising from the application of western approaches to the management of human-nature interactions in intercultural spaces. Drawing on Rose (1999), they illustrate how current systems ontologically self-perpetuate, excluding or discrediting alternative world views.…”

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Capturing Intangible Cultural Impacts of Tourism on Aboriginal Land in Australia's Kimberley Region

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Kim²

2011

Tourism Recreation Research

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This paper highlights the gap in current indicator-based approaches to address intangible cultural impacts and traditional owner values and ontologies in the development and management of tourism. Present approaches to management and assessment of tourism impacts on indigenous land and sea country (where "country" denotes Aboriginal space and place) are heavily influenced by "objective" science-driven approaches which rationalize and instrumentalize human-nature relationships into measurable units and quantifiable methods and indicators. They reflect a western Eurocentric cultural framework that erases indigenous peoples' worldviews, associations and relationships, viewing indigenous spaces as ecological landscapes rather than as culture-scapes in which "nature" and "culture" are inseparable and rules for access apply. Based on a case study from the Kimberley coastal region of Australia, this paper finds that the "wicked problem" of tourism access without traditional owner permission, a longstanding unresolved issue, continues to be the overarching cultural impact on traditional owners and precludes the finer scale assessment of site-based impacts. The manifestations of the impacts of unsanctioned access range from the scale of individual persons to regional climatic effects and are deeply embedded in the traditional owner ontology. It concludes that, first, there are essential prerequisites to the development of effective local-scale sustainability indicators of intangible cultural impacts of tourism. Second, the paper highlights an urgent need for working within (rather than on) indigenous ontologies in order to overcome the continuing embeddedness of colonizing practices in reductionist indicator-based approaches.

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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

Cited by 97 publications

References 61 publications

Lives and Lines

Lives and Lines

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

Capturing Intangible Cultural Impacts of Tourism on Aboriginal Land in Australia's Kimberley Region

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