Archaeological Encounters: The Role of the Speculative in Decolonial Archaeology

IF 0.6 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Journal of Contemporary Archaeology Pub Date : 2019-06-18 DOI:10.1558/JCA.33866

Uzma Z. Rizvi

引用次数: 11

Abstract

This article reorients archaeology’s approach to things by acknowledging the moment of the encounter with the past as one of speculation. Years of scientific claim, research design and methodology place the agentive nature of research in the hands of the archaeologist: we go to the site to find the past. However, if we acquiesce to the possibility that antiquity approaches the archaeologist (rather than vice versa), then that forces us to contend with the contemporary nature of the encounter. This article considers the efficacy, urgency, and poetics of decolonization.

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考古相遇：思辨在非殖民化考古中的作用

这篇文章通过承认与过去相遇的时刻是一种猜测，重新定位了考古学的研究方法。多年来的科学主张、研究设计和方法论将研究的代理性质置于考古学家的手中:我们去现场寻找过去。然而，如果我们默许古代接近考古学家的可能性(而不是相反)，那么这就迫使我们与这种遭遇的当代性质作斗争。本文探讨了非殖民化的有效性、紧迫性和诗学。

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Journal of Contemporary Archaeology ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contemporary Archaeology is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to explore archaeology’s specific contribution to understanding the present and recent past. It is concerned both with archaeologies of the contemporary world, defined temporally as belonging to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as with reflections on the socio-political implications of doing archaeology in the contemporary world. In addition to its focus on archaeology, JCA encourages articles from a range of adjacent disciplines which consider recent and contemporary material-cultural entanglements, including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, design studies, heritage studies, history, human geography, media studies, museum studies, psychology, science and technology studies and sociology. Acknowledging the key place which photography and digital media have come to occupy within this emerging subfield, JCA includes a regular photo essay feature and provides space for the publication of interactive, web-only content on its website.