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Acts of Discovery An ethnograpy of archaeological practice

AuteurEdgeworth M.

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Jaar2003

PublicatietypeBoek

SerieBAR British Archaeological Reports International Series

VolumeS1131

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Pagina’s128

UitgeverArchaeopress

PlaatsOxford

ISBN9781841715049

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Exemplaar23387 ReknummerT-4-3-d

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Escaping form the text 1-14
  • Basic analogies or Root metaphors, Material remains as meterial record, From reading to writing the past, The derivation of the record metaphor, The archaeological record: a matter of "fact", What the record metaphor hides, , pp. 1-6
  • ... Material remains as raw material, From inside to outside perspective, Recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge, Text versus practice in social anthropology, The irony of ethnography of archaeology, The problem of analogy, ... , pp. 7-13
  • ... A time for experiment , p. 14

The site 15-25
  • Some background information, The meaning of the site, Excavation strategy, The setting of the site, The presence of the ethnographer on site, Methods of recording and analysis , pp. 15-25

Craft activities and "tools of the trade" 26-29
  • Excavation as a craft skill, Two categories. Tools-for-nature: Tools-for-culture, Material transactions: Acts of inscription, The primacy of material transactions, Locating the act of discovery , pp. 26-29

The body and the material field: an ontology of the trowel 30-40
  • The pointed trowel, The temporal structure of the material field, Rhythms of the Body, Technique, Practical reasoning, The referential structure of the trowel-in-use, The trowel as material symbol , pp. 30-40

Social transactions 41-48
  • Work as socially-medieted activity, Co-opperative labour, The ethnographic interview, Visits, The merging of perspectives, Individual action as social action , pp. 41-48

A moment for reflexion 49-52
  • Subject-object and culture-nature relations, From the point of view of the archaeologist, From the point of view of the ethnographer, From the point of view of the writer, From the point of view of the reader , pp. 49-52

Discovered artefacts and the agents of discovery 53-64
  • Finds", The act of recognition, Material context, Use-values, Design, Practical analogy: the anatomy of Deep Inference, Deep inference-in-action , pp. 53-64

Archaeological" versus "Natural" 65-78
  • The "Natural", Natural counterparts of discovered artefacts, Archaeological and natural features, Archaeological - Natural, Natural - Archaeological, Global archaeological - Natural transitions, Negative practical analogies, A question of time, ... , pp. 65-77
  • ... Kinds of agency , p. 78

Giving / Taking from: material and cognitive tools in action 79-93
  • Traditional aspects of excavations, The historical dimension of craft skills, The "feature": object and concept, The excavation of cremations: a photographic essay, Schemes of past human action, The resistance of the material field, ... , pp. 79-90
  • ... A cognitive toolkit, Interferences about past human cognition, Symbols of the body , pp. 92-93

Acts of inscription and the closure of the act of discovery 94-107
  • The act of inscription as boundary or treshold, Imposition of textual grid, Measuring devices, Social transaction and the merging of perspectives, The camera, The virtual presence of the reader on site , pp. 94-107

Conclusion 108-116
  • The material culture or material culture, Analogies in action: analogies of action, The paradox of the body, The body and time, The limits of the act of discorvery, Reconstituting the subject and the object, ... , pp. 108-115
  • ... New perspectives: avenues for further research, The ironic twist , pp. 115-116

Appendices 117-120
  • Appendix 1. Notes on sketches , p. 117
  • Appendix 2. "Natural artefacts" , pp. 118-120
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