Joshua Englehardt
Address: El Colegio de Michoacán,
Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos
Cerro de Nahuatzen 85
Fracc. Jardines del Cerro Grande
La Piedad de Cabadas, Michoacán CP 59300, México
Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos
Cerro de Nahuatzen 85
Fracc. Jardines del Cerro Grande
La Piedad de Cabadas, Michoacán CP 59300, México
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Embracing myriad ways in which agency can be interpreted, ancient writing systems from Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, China, and Greece are examined from a textual perspective as both archaeological objects and nascent historical documents. This allows for distinction among intentions, consequences, meanings, and motivations, increasing understanding and aiding interpretation of the subjectivity of social actors. Chapters focusing on acts of writing and public recitation overlap with those addressing the materiality of texts, interweaving archaeology, epigraphy, and the study of visual symbol systems.
Agency in Ancient Writing leads to a more thorough and meaningful discussion of agency as an archaeological concept and will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient texts, including archaeologists, historians, linguists, epigraphers, and art historians, as well as scholars studying agency and structuration theory."
In case studies highlighting the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration, contributors argue that anthropologists and archaeologists are simply not “speaking the same language” and that the division between fields undermines the field of anthropology as a whole. Scholars must bridge this gap and find ways to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration to promote the health of the anthropological discipline. By sharing data, methods, and ideas, archaeology and cultural anthropology can not only engage in more productive debates but also make research accessible to those outside academia.
These "Thin Partitions" gets to the heart of a well-known problem in the field of anthropology and contributes to the ongoing debate by providing concrete examples of how interdisciplinary collaboration can enhance the outcomes of anthropological research.
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arqueológica y la investigación. Del mismo
modo, los nuevos medios y técnicas de visualización
han aumentado la profundidad y el alcance del método
de distribución de información arqueológica y
han planteado cuestiones éticas y filosóficas acerca
de la autenticidad, la representación, la reproducibilidad,
la conservación, y la educación que impactan la
política, las partes interesadas, y el conocimiento popular.
En este artículo exploramos cómo las nuevas
tecnologías son y pueden ser usados en la difusión
y la presentación del objeto arqueológico a un público
más amplio.Se investigó cuestiones asociadas
con la representación y poder simbólico exploradas
por Baudrillard, Benjamin, yDeleuze (entre otros), así
como las dilemas éticas provocados por los nuevos medios de visualización y producción.
https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069364
Embracing myriad ways in which agency can be interpreted, ancient writing systems from Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, China, and Greece are examined from a textual perspective as both archaeological objects and nascent historical documents. This allows for distinction among intentions, consequences, meanings, and motivations, increasing understanding and aiding interpretation of the subjectivity of social actors. Chapters focusing on acts of writing and public recitation overlap with those addressing the materiality of texts, interweaving archaeology, epigraphy, and the study of visual symbol systems.
Agency in Ancient Writing leads to a more thorough and meaningful discussion of agency as an archaeological concept and will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient texts, including archaeologists, historians, linguists, epigraphers, and art historians, as well as scholars studying agency and structuration theory."
In case studies highlighting the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration, contributors argue that anthropologists and archaeologists are simply not “speaking the same language” and that the division between fields undermines the field of anthropology as a whole. Scholars must bridge this gap and find ways to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration to promote the health of the anthropological discipline. By sharing data, methods, and ideas, archaeology and cultural anthropology can not only engage in more productive debates but also make research accessible to those outside academia.
These "Thin Partitions" gets to the heart of a well-known problem in the field of anthropology and contributes to the ongoing debate by providing concrete examples of how interdisciplinary collaboration can enhance the outcomes of anthropological research.
arqueológica y la investigación. Del mismo
modo, los nuevos medios y técnicas de visualización
han aumentado la profundidad y el alcance del método
de distribución de información arqueológica y
han planteado cuestiones éticas y filosóficas acerca
de la autenticidad, la representación, la reproducibilidad,
la conservación, y la educación que impactan la
política, las partes interesadas, y el conocimiento popular.
En este artículo exploramos cómo las nuevas
tecnologías son y pueden ser usados en la difusión
y la presentación del objeto arqueológico a un público
más amplio.Se investigó cuestiones asociadas
con la representación y poder simbólico exploradas
por Baudrillard, Benjamin, yDeleuze (entre otros), así
como las dilemas éticas provocados por los nuevos medios de visualización y producción.
Así, mediante el mecanismo metodológico de la deconstrucción discursiva que permite la semiótica de las narraciones seguida por Umberto Eco, y fundamentando nuestro trabajo en la ontología crítica de Michel Foucault, seguimos la línea del desarrollo de este discurso propuesto desde la arqueología para interpretar a las culturas que moraron en la región, ayudándose de conceptos como Tradición Teuchitlán. Esto debido a que en las distintas ciencias sociales ha sido importante la narrativa que genera un autor, pues esta determina en buena medida el entendimiento sobre un tema en particular, sin embargo en la arqueología ha sido un tópico poco atendido. El discurso generado sobre un tema, impacta en quién lo recibe y genera una visión de lo que “es”, en este caso
un fenómeno arqueológico.
exploring current epistemological presuppositions about anthropological research. We argue that Grindal’s holistic approach to ethnography stands as a model for anthropological
methods across the subdisciplines. We take archaeology as a particular example. Although the humanistic empiricism Grindal espoused has fallen out of fashion among positivist archaeologists and certain cultural anthropologists, the enduring quality of Grindal’s writing offers a path beyond the tensions between so-called “scientific” and “unscientific” approaches in anthropology. He considered the evidence he gathered inseparable from his negotiation of the lived contexts in which he worked. Grindal thus overcame the daunting challenge of describing the temporary return of a dead man to
life in northern Ghana in the 1960s. Rather than try to prove or disprove what he saw, Grindal documented his host’s remarks about the event, aiming to testify intersubjectively to their shared experience, beyond dichotomies of objectivity and
subjectivity. Grindal’s contribution to anthropology therefore lies in his unified view of anthropological methods at a time when anthropologists have drawn battle lines over choices between supposedly explanatory and interpretive viewpoints. His genius lay in recognizing the continuities between both perspectives, rooted in interpersonal communication.
As a result, Grindal’s work stands as a way forward for those eager to combine humanistic flexibility and empirical rigor in anthropological work.
between Crete and Messenia are material manifestations of varying exclusionary and corporate strategies of sociopolitical power. We subject the Minoan influence at Pylos to a cross-cultural comparison with the Teotihuacano impact on the development of lowland Maya architectural styles and cultural projects in the Mesoamerican Early Classic period. We also discuss what these two case studies teach us about the relationship between interaction, architecture, and social organization in emergent complex societies, in both the Old World and the New World."
Contributors: Laura Almendros López | Christopher S. Beekman | Mijaely Castañón | Fabio Germán Cupul-Magaña | Manuel Dueñas García | Joshua D. Englehardt | Rafael García de Quevedo-Machain | Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza | Erika Ibarra | Stephen A. Kowalewski | Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos | Michael Mathiowetz | Joseph B. Mountjoy | David Muñiz García | M. Nicolás Caretta | José Luis Punzo Díaz | Diego Rangel | Kimberly Sumano Ortega | Jesús Zarco
Englehardt, Joshua D., Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, and Christopher S. Beekman, editors. 2020. Ancient West Mexicos: Time, Space, and Diversity. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.