Bundled Worlds: The Roles and Interactions of Complex Objects from the North American Plains

Zedeño, María Nieves

doi:10.1007/s10816-008-9058-4

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“…Part of our reluctance surely stems from taken-forgranted assumptions of the rigid divide separating human beings from the material world. In grappling with the limitations of Cartesian duality, a number of scholars have attempted to develop more inclusive theories (e.g., Ashmore et al 1994;Gell 1998;Latour 1993) and apply these to archaeological data (e.g., Boast 1997;Gosden 2005;Mills and Ferguson 2008;Olsen 2003;Quilter 2007;Walker 2008;Zedeño 2008). In doing so, they revisit a basic question in social science: where does the material world end and human society begin?…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiations with the Animate Forest: Hunting Shrines in the Guatemalan Highlands

Brown

Emery

2008

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Ethnoarchaeological research at highland Maya hunting shrines documents the material remains of interactions between two types of animate beings: humans and the forest. When either active agent enters the others' domain there are accompanying ceremonial activities to assuage the inherent danger, often leaving physical traces in the material record. These traces, if found in the archaeological record, might reveal similar ancient interactions. Using the material correlates of modern hunting rituals, we explore the utility of ethnoarchaeological research in identifying negotiations with non-human agents associated with the animate forestan active agent in many societies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiations with the Animate Forest: Hunting Shrines in the Guatemalan Highlands

Brown

Emery

2008

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…Positioned within middle mound levels and thus above the human interments were several shrine clusters or bundles composed of varying substances and things (cf. Mills and Ferguson 2008;Pauketat 2013;Zedeño 2008) that were likely visible to those in the workshop (Table 5.2b, Table 5.3). The most apparent of these was emplaced adjacent to a forge installation in 44N 6W.…”

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“…van der Leeuw 2008:fig. 12.8; see also Pauketat 2013;Zedeño 2008). To appreciate how these scaffolding "meshworks" related to broader "networks" requires scalar approaches and methods that connect "zoomed in and "zoomed out" perspectives-of microhistory and geopolitical history-things and "meshworks" with objects and networks (Knappett 2011b:47; see also Robb and Pauketat 2013).…”

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5 Metalworking and Ritualization: Negotiating Change through Improvisational Practice in Banda, Ghana

Stahl

2015

Archaeological Papers of the American

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Villagers of the 15th through mid-16th centuries C.E. in the Banda area of west central Ghana were living in times of change. The Saharan exchange networks that for several centuries had shaped the lives of earlier villagers were to give way by the late 17th century to Atlantic ones. Both offered opportunities (of access to desired goods) and perils (of enslavement). This paper focuses on a metallurgical workshop and the varied ritual practice associated with metalworking as gleaned from residues of stratified depositional practice. A variety of ritualized contexts and object configurations created a scaffolding "meshwork" that animated metallurgical practice, one that was improvised in relation to the broader context of opportunities and perils within which skilled artisans worked. These ritualized configurations were central to how craftsmen calibrated their practice in relation to the shifting global connections and moral terrains of their times. [metalworking, ritualization, improvisation, depositional practice, Ghana, Atlantic trade, Saharan trade]

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“…Zedeño (2008) explores the roles and interactions of ceremonial bundles of objects among the North American Blackfoot. She views these complex objects in relation to their potential to either 'incite or modify human behaviour' (agency) or their potential to possess 'life force or soul and conditions for personhood (animacy)'.…”

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‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People

Porr

Bell²

2011

J Archaeol Method Theory

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In recent years, the concept of 'animism' has gained considerable popularity among archaeologists in exploring non-Western expressions of material culture. This development has also influenced recent academic approaches towards the study of 'rock-art' of people living as hunter and gatherers or in a hunting and gathering tradition. We argue here that attempts in this direction so far are generally compromised, because they fail to take Indigenous philosophies and intellectual contributions seriously. Any concern with Indigenous material expressions, including so-called rock-art, has to involve a critical re-assessment of academic discourse itself and a challenge to the primacy of Western scientific and literary, academic methodologies. With reference to the 'rock-art' and the world-view of the Ngarinyin (Kimberley, Northwest Australia), we present some preliminary thoughts for the development of an alternative interpretative framework, while offering a (much needed) legitimacy to another more balanced epistemology.

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Bundled Worlds: The Roles and Interactions of Complex Objects from the North American Plains

Cited by 135 publications

References 18 publications

Negotiations with the Animate Forest: Hunting Shrines in the Guatemalan Highlands

Negotiations with the Animate Forest: Hunting Shrines in the Guatemalan Highlands

5 Metalworking and Ritualization: Negotiating Change through Improvisational Practice in Banda, Ghana

‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People

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