Honoring Ambiguity/Problematizing Certitude

Gero, Joan M.

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“…We must, however, acquire and assess comparable data from other California bead-making localities before settling on a single, rigid explanation, since this dataset could reflect evidence derived from either apprenticing alone or both innovating and apprenticing practices (Gero 2007). We certainly cannot yet clarify the participation of women, or men, or both, as the primary bead makers among the Island Chumash.…”

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Detecting Apprentices and Innovators in the Archaeological Record: The Shell Bead-Making Industry of the Channel Islands

Arnold

2011

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Archaeologists have demonstrated that it is challenging but feasible to identify the material remains of apprenticing activities associated with stone tool and ceramic assemblages. Building on this work, I explore apprenticing behavior in North America's most intensive ancient shellworking context, using the large beadmaking assemblages from California's Channel Islands. I examine a spectrum of production errors associated with a newly identified variant of Olivella shell bead and offer generalizations about what we should find in the material record of apprentices engaged in manufacturing ornamental goods. I also explore how we may distinguish novices' errors from the mistakes of skilled experts experimenting with new bead forms. Existing ethnoarchaeological studies of children's roles and contemporary craft practitioners specializing in ceramics, bead making, stone work, and other materials are foundational sources of data for this project, providing insights into the transmission of technical information from experts to novices in communities of practice. Such work directly informs archaeological research and facilitates our understanding of apprenticing from periods and regions where ethnographic information is insufficient or inapplicable.By the time they achieved competence, every flintknapper who ever lived had probably already littered the landscape with thousands of virtually indestructible stone artifacts (Shea 2006:212).Growing interest in recovering the material remains of apprenticing activities has led archaeologists to systematically observe both the teaching environments associated with contemporary craft practitioners and the material products-

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Detecting Apprentices and Innovators in the Archaeological Record: The Shell Bead-Making Industry of the Channel Islands

Arnold

2011

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“…Afinal, arqueologia é uma ciência e, como tal, marcada pela objetividade. Parece ser justamente a forte definição da arqueologia por métodos positivistas que atrasou a emersão da auto-reflexão feminista no campo (CONKEY, 1993;GERO, 2007), em comparação, por exemplo, com a antropologia e a história. Nesse texto pretendo discutir os desafios que a marca positivista da arqueologia impõe à reflexão feminista e argumentar a favor da necessidade dessa crítica para a descolonialidade da disciplina.…”

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“…Como espero desenvolver depois, seus efeitos simbólicos, discursivos e materiais estão impregnados de assimetrias de sexo e gênero. Os 'fatos inequívocos' da arqueologia, mencionados acima, e suas representações do passado são produzidos de modo intrinsecamente generificado, não são nem neutros nem inocentes (GERO, 2007). Eles atuam no presente reforçando e mantendo formas de opressão e iniqüidades que operam abaixo do limiar da consciência.…”

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Crítica feminista, arqueologia e descolonialidade

Ribeiro

2017

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O texto discute a intrínseca relação entre colonialismo, ciência e dicotomia de gênero. A partir de temas e problemas das (ditas) arqueologias pré-histórica e histórica, enfatiza a participação da disciplina na legitimação e naturalização das concepções modernas de sexo e gênero. Discute também a institucionalização dessas assimetrias na arqueologia brasileira, defendendo a necessidade de uma arqueologia feminista e descolonial que expresse as particularidades da disciplina e sujeitos nela envolvidos. Palavras-chave: Teoria Feminista; Colonialidade; Ciência. ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the intrinsic relation between colonialism, science and gender dichotomy. From topics and problems of the (alleged) prehistorical and historical archaeology it intends to emphasizes the role of the discipline in the legitimization and naturalization of the modern concepts of sex and gender. It also discusses the institutionalization of those asymmetries in Brazilian archaeology, advocating the need for a feminist and decolonial archaeology that express the particularities of the discipline and agents involved in it.

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“…A arqueologia feminista, por outro lado, tem desde o início se baseado na ambiguidade, uma preocupação feminista fundamental. Apoiando-se na reflexividade e na situacionalidade da produção do conhecimento, cientistas feministas têm investido fortemente no questionamento da autoridade da ciência e de outras estruturas epistemológicas universalizantes (Donna HARAWAY, 1995;Sandra HARDING, 1998;Margaret W. CONKEY, 2005;GERO, 2007;Alison WYLIE, 2000Ericka ENGELSTAD, 2007).…”

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