The Materiality of Domestic Waste

Douny, Laurence

doi:10.1177/1359183507081897

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“…In this regard, since the objects in question lack su cient historical depth to be recognised as part of an archaeological surface record, the recovery of those vases more closely resembles the phenomena observed by Douny (2007) with the Dogon in Mali, a society that does not fully dispose of anything that may still be considered useful and/or meaningful to them. Consequently, Douny analyses that case from a viewpoint of "recycling cosmology" (in his own words), which may be particular to a given culture, and even to a given population, as in the case at hand.…”

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“…Based on the premise that the concept of household waste depends on the cosmogony of each particular culture, ethnic group or population (Douny 2007), we began to enquire with the neighbours and to notice that the so-called waste contained objects that, according to their statements, had been placed there by the neighbours of the plot for future use or for recycling. Consequently, such waste continued to be viewed as useful in many ways, and creating a record of it would allow us to retrieve information related to different temporalities.…”

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Agency of the local community in surface records of a nineteenth-century archaeological site in a rural area of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

López,

Vommaro,

Lanza

2023

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This paper presents the methods and techniques used to survey and analyse an archaeological site in the rural area of Buenos Aires Province with a high density of surface waste, and the results obtained relating to its formation and resettlement process between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The construction that remains standing to date is a typical nineteenth century dwelling. It is situated within what used to be the Old Town of San Vicente, next to the lagoon with the same name, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentine Republic. The site, identified as San Vicente 3 (SV3), features material surface records that are the product of a true palimpsest: a mixture of archaeological events and old waste from the historical cemetery located in front of the site, and different types of objects and residues resulting from activities carried out by the neighbours that re-occupied the dwelling and moved around its surrounding area throughout the period referred to. We proposed several tools for studying the site to record the high density and variety of materials and temporalities visible on the surface and determine the presence of different events in its formation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Agency of the local community in surface records of a nineteenth-century archaeological site in a rural area of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

López,

Vommaro,

Lanza

2023

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“…Desde a década de 1990, constata-se um crescente interesse acerca dos problemas advindos dos impactos ambientais dos resíduos, bem como sua gestão e eliminação (DOUNY, 2007). Isso porque já havia uma preocupação dos estudiosos quanto ao processo irracional de industrialização que previa que os recursos naturais não poderiam ser sustentados por muito mais tempo, levando em consideração a alteração no cenário ambiental e as consequências causadas pelo modelo de industrialização (ANACLETO et al, 2017).…”

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Produção mais Limpa de Cachaça de Alambique: Um Estudo a Partir das Práticas Sociomateriais

Sant‘Anna¹,

Paiva²,

Alcântara

et al. 2023

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A Produção Mais Limpa em cachaça de alambique é marcada por imbricações sociomateriais. Significa dizer que neste tipo de produção há a presença de agências sociais (ou humanas) e materiais, incluindo objetos, tecnologias, resíduos, recursos materiais, entre outros aspectos materiais, que ao se imbricarem em certos contextos tornam-se sociomateriais e produzem efeitos na sustentabilidade. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar mecanismos causais que explicam como as práticas de Produção Mais Limpa de cachaça de alambique tornam-se sociomateriais. Após a realização da pesquisa de natureza qualitativa (bibliográfica e documental), foram identificadas práticas de Produção Mais Limpa no reaproveitamento do vinhoto, reutilização do bagaço da cana, reutilização da ponta de cana e no tratamento dos resíduos de cobre. Os resultados demonstraram como a imbricação das agências social e material produz efeitos, a partir de diferentes mecanismos, que resultam na construção de práticas de produção de cachaça com maior enfoque sustentável e que, por sua vez, trazem impactos socioeconômicos positivos para as organizações. Evidencia-se que essas imbricações variam conforme o tempo, as tecnologias, a intenção dos praticantes, o contexto normativo, conhecimento sobre o reaproveitamento dos resíduos e seus impactos negativos ao meio ambiente.

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“…However, fragments are not placed randomly, but to the west of habitation structures, which is considered the ‘direction of decay’ (Hutson and Stanton, 2007: 141). In contrast, for the Dogon (Mali) certain types of rubbish like bìnugu (a mixture of manure, straw and ‘dirty’ liquids; Douny, 2007: 317) are viewed through a positive lens, so the accumulation of these materials in domestic spaces is welcomed. It is a sign of prosperity.…”

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“…Other materials like broken pottery and plastic bottles are dumped outside, where they remain potential resources for reuse. In this way, domestic waste is always in transformation (Douny, 2007: 313).…”

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Outline of a theory of breakage

Vindrola-Padrós

2023

Anthropological Theory

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Much of the debate in archaeological theory throughout the last decades has revolved around challenging problematic humanist principles that have shaped our discipline, particularly the idea that humans are masters over nature. Postprocessualists sought, among other things, to emancipate the human condition from this essentialist claim in part by exposing the historical and cultural situatedness of this humanist principle – an epistemological endeavour. In comparison, posthumanists have animated the material world (albeit in different ways) to decentre human beings in relation to long-forsaken nonhumans – an ontological agenda. While posthumanists accuse postprocessualists of practicing anthropocentrism and the latter accuse the former of occupying an ahumanist and anti-epistemological position, there are powerful commonalities in their critique of late humanist doctrines. The aim of this paper is to introduce a theory that exposes the illusory humanist claim of human control over nature and to recognise other forces with momentum besides human will, while at the same time giving prominence to questions about human knowledge and practice. Therefore, a connection is formed between postprocessualism and posthumanism and, as an ironic result, a theory of breakage is formulated. When we consider human participation with breakage, defined as those continuous and uncontrollable phenomena involving the unbinding of object form, we come to terms with a different form of anthropological understanding termed ‘the social knowledge of breakage’. This constitutes an embodied form of knowledge, which is acquired and expressed practically from a young age about how objects break and how one must respond to these situations. This knowledge is exposed in both mundane and ceremonial practices, in linguistic and non-linguistic forms, shaping social practices in uncertain ways, and can be analysed according to three different strands. In this way, we become aware of the creative ways in which broken materials inadvertently affect our practices.

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The Materiality of Domestic Waste

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Agency of the local community in surface records of a nineteenth-century archaeological site in a rural area of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

Agency of the local community in surface records of a nineteenth-century archaeological site in a rural area of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

Produção mais Limpa de Cachaça de Alambique: Um Estudo a Partir das Práticas Sociomateriais

Outline of a theory of breakage

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