Oral traditions and mounds, owls and movement at Poverty Point: An archaeological ethnography of multispecies embodiments and everyday life

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Lee J. Bloch
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Collaborative and Indigenous archaeologies call on researchers to recenter theory and practice on descendant peoples' lives and ways of knowing. Extending this project, this article takes story and dance as a site of theory, foregrounding Indigenous modes of embodiment in which bodily and sensory perspectives are cultivated through participation in more-than-human beings. Drawing on research with members of a small, Muskogee-identified community in the US South, it frames the large-scale earthworks at the Poverty Point site in Louisiana as representing a horned owl. This evokes stories about a people who lived in an owl-shaped village and who could move in particularly owlish ways. Critiquing ontological frameworks in which the sensory is universal and mind is removed from body and land, I argue that ancient peoples may have cultivated perspectival embodiments through the everyday activity of living together in the collective form of an owl. Moreover, as contemporary descendants return to Poverty Point, the land animates shared, multispecies sensory fields that enroll descendants into a longue durée of owlish encounters and entanglements, or what my hosts simply call “Owl's teachings.” Here, I call for an archaeology reimagined in the context of Native American and Indigenous studies, asking how mounds might animate resurgent possibilities rooted in (and routed through) deep Indigenous histories of return.
口述传统和土丘,猫头鹰和贫困点的运动:多物种体现和日常生活的考古人种志
协作考古学和土著考古学呼吁研究人员将理论和实践重新集中在后代人民的生活和认识方式上。这篇文章扩展了这个项目,以故事和舞蹈作为理论的场所,突出了土著的体现模式,在这种模式中,身体和感官的视角是通过参与超越人类来培养的。根据对美国南部一个小型马斯科吉社区成员的研究,它将路易斯安那州贫困点遗址的大型土方工程描绘成一只有角的猫头鹰。这让人想起一个故事,讲的是一个住在猫头鹰形状的村庄里的人,他们的行动方式特别像猫头鹰。我批判了感官是普遍的,心灵从身体和土地中移除的本体论框架,我认为古人可能通过以猫头鹰的集体形式共同生活的日常活动培养了视角的体现。此外,随着当代的后代们回到贫穷点,这片土地激发了共享的、多物种的感官领域,让后代们进入了漫长的猫头鹰遭遇和纠缠的过程,或者我的主人简单地称之为“猫头鹰的教诲”。在这里,我呼吁在美国原住民和土著研究的背景下重新构想考古学,探讨土丘如何激发根植于(并贯穿于)土著回归历史的复兴可能性。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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