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Ontology, Ethnography, Archaeology: an Afterword on the Ontography of Things

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2009

Martin Holbraad
Martin Holbraad
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT; Email: m.holbraad@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

In commenting on the preceding articles of the Special Section, this afterword elaborates on the methodological and analytical implications for archaeology of the ontological alterity of animist phenomena. If such phenomena are challenging because they transgress the conceptual coordinates of archaeologists' habitual interpretive repertoires (mind vs matter, materiality vs culture, etc.), then what might archaeology's response to such challenges be, what might be distinctively archaeological about it, and how might it compare to related concerns among socio-cultural anthropologists and philosophers?

Type
Special Section: Animating Archaeology: of Subjects, Objects and Alternative Ontologies
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , October 2009 , pp. 431 - 441
Copyright
Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2009

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