ISSN:
0084-6570
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Annual review of anthropology
Publ. der Quelle:
Palo Alto, Calif : Annual Reviews Inc
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 45 (2016), p. 163-179
DDC:
590
Abstract:
Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been quite different. What I call the "metaphysical archaeologists" trace their genealogy from Latour, though they are now equally influenced by "new materialism" and the "new ontological realism" (Gabriel 2015). They have introduced an alternative metaphysical orthodoxy to archaeology. In contrast, Viveiros de Castro and colleagues have authorized the return of the grand ethnographic analogy to archaeology, particularly in the case of animism. A second, quite different tendency inspired by these same anthropologists is to engage with indigenous ideas as theories to reconfigure archaeological concepts and practice. I suggest that a point of convergence between the metaphysical and the latter anthropological approaches exists in their focus on the concept of alterity. [web URL: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095858]
Note:
Copyright: © COPYRIGHT 2016 Annual Reviews, Inc.
DOI:
10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095858
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1834920668
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