¿Manufacture, use and disposal? Or about the social entanglement of ceramic objects
If we think that things and objects are the result of a multidimensional bundle of actions and relationships, material or inmaterial, made by human and nonhuman agents, it is difficult to keep thinking about the materiality of objects and the archaeological record in terms of processes, as a series...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/9142 |
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| Sumario: | If we think that things and objects are the result of a multidimensional bundle of actions and relationships, material or inmaterial, made by human and nonhuman agents, it is difficult to keep thinking about the materiality of objects and the archaeological record in terms of processes, as a series of successive phases of actions or behaviors. These bundles between things and people are dynamics, steady flows of actions and relationships, where objects are constituted as a dynamic effect of this relationships, not in the sense of their causes but making effective a series of possibilities given by the strategies and the resources involved, the disposition of the agents involved and their position in social space. With these criteria, then we can not think of objects and their contexts as the result of actions (behaviors) and parts of a process, no longer exist a chain of behavior but a bundle of overlapping relationships, where each intersection is a place of mediation among many other actions and relationships. Through a situational and relational analysis of a set of pots from the Ambato Valley (Catamarca, Argentina) we show the potential of this approach for the study of ceramic technology, beyond their manufacturing, use and disposal. |
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