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Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things
Christopher Watts
Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as consciousness, reason and intentionality. So deeply-seated is this metaphysical belief, along with the related distinctions we draw between subject/object, mind/body and nature/culture that many of us tacitly assume past groups approached and apprehended the world in a similar fashion. Relational Archaeologies questions how such a view of human beings, ?other-than-human? creatures and things affects our reconstruction of past beliefs and practices. It proceeds from the position that, in many cases, past societies understood their place in the world as positional rather than categorical, as persons bound up in reticular arrangements with similar and not so similar forms regardless of their substantive qualities. Relational Archaeologies explores this idea by emphasizing how humans, animals and things come to exist by virtue of the dynamic and fluid processes of connection and transaction. In highlighting various counter-Modern notions of what it means ?to be? and how these can be teased apart using archaeological materials, contributors provide a range of approaches from primarily theoretical/historicized treatments of the topic to practical applications or case studies from the Americas, the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.
272 pages, 4 black & white tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 31, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415525312 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Genre | Aspects (Academic) > Archaeological |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 167 × 241 × 17 mm · 590 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Watts, Christopher (University of Toronto, Canada) |
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