Don’t Fall Asleep by a Boulder: Time, Communication, and Consciousness in relation to Andean Stone

IF 0.5 4区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI:10.1007/s11759-024-09499-4

Catherine J. Allen

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Abstract

My paper addresses perspectives on powerful stones among rural farmers and pastoralists in the contemporary Andes. Stones are considered sites of transformation that transcend temporal dimensions. Some boulders are considered to have been people in previous ages; their petrification is an ongoing process that affects human beings in their vicinity, suggesting an ontological orientation in which time, place, materiality, and consciousness are intimately interrelated. Significant stones, ranging from miniature livestock to huge monoliths, are connected with powerful mountains through a play of fractal relations that animates the cosmos.

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不要在巨石旁睡着：与安第斯石头有关的时间、交流和意识

我的论文论述了当代安第斯山脉的农民和牧民对强大石头的看法。石头被认为是超越时间维度的转化场所。有些巨石被认为是前人遗留下来的；它们的石化是一个持续的过程，影响着它们附近的人类，表明了一种时间、地点、物质性和意识密切相关的本体论取向。重要的石头，从微型牲畜到巨大的巨石，通过分形关系的游戏与强大的山脉联系在一起，使宇宙充满活力。

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期刊介绍： Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress offers a venue for debates and topical issues, through peer-reviewed articles, reports and reviews. It emphasizes contributions that seek to recenter (or decenter) archaeology, and that challenge local and global power geometries. Areas of interest include ethics and archaeology; public archaeology; legacies of colonialism and nationalism within the discipline; the interplay of local and global archaeological traditions; theory and archaeology; the discipline’s involvement in projects of memory, identity, and restitution; and rights and ethics relating to cultural property, issues of acquisition, custodianship, conservation, and display. Recognizing the importance of non-Western epistemologies and intellectual traditions, the journal publishes some material in nonstandard format, including dialogues; annotated photographic essays; transcripts of public events; and statements from elders, custodians, descent groups and individuals.