Making Sense of Material Culture Transformation: A Critical Long-Term Perspective from Jomon- and Yayoi-Period Japan

IF 3.8 1区历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2020-03-19 DOI:10.1007/s10963-020-09138-0

Koji Mizoguchi

引用次数: 5

Abstract

This JWP Focus paper argues that material culture transformation can be understood as the transformation of the way human beings and material culture mutually open up their potentialities. Such opening up/becoming takes place in the domains of their encounter, which often take the form of human communications. In communication, human beings and material culture mutually mediate/intervene/transform their modes of existence as the former cope with various uncertainties and risks that the world generates and that communication differentiates. Drawing upon the theory of communication developed by the social systems theorist, Niklas Luhmann, the paper will elucidate and elaborate this perspective through an examination of the long-term transformation of the mode of such mutual opening up/becoming by human beings and the material culture of their potentialities that took place in the Jomon and the Yayoi periods of Japan between 13000 Cal BC and AD 250/300.

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物质文化转型的意义:绳纹与弥生时代日本的长期批判视角

这篇JWP Focus论文认为，物质文化转型可以理解为人类和物质文化相互打开各自潜力的方式的转变。这种开放/成为发生在他们相遇的领域，通常采取人类交流的形式。在传播中，人类与物质文化在应对世界产生的各种不确定性和风险以及传播差异化的过程中，相互调解/干预/转换着各自的存在方式。根据社会系统理论家Niklas Luhmann发展的交流理论，本文将通过对日本绳文和弥生时期(公元前13000年至公元250/300年)发生的人类相互开放/成为模式的长期转变及其潜力的物质文化的研究，来阐明和阐述这一观点。

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Journal of World Prehistory Multiple-

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