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7 - Perspectivism and Archaeology

A Coda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

Andrés Laguens
Andrés Laguens
Affiliation:
University of Córdoba, Argentina
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Chapter 7 takes up themes developed throughout the book and summarizes how focusing on the logic of perspectivism, an Amerindian ontology, enables the archaeological record to be read differently. Perspectivism, or any other ontology taken seriously as a theory, can challenge our conceptions of objects, things and human agency. Finally, having argued that the principal challenge presented by Perspectivism in Archaeology is to find ways to understand and think about particular archaeological records in the light of a local ontology, the chapter explores how perspectivism as theory can ultimately be seen as an experiment in decolonizing archaeological thinking and situating its practices.

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logic of perspectivismarchaeological recordobjectsthingshumansdecolonization of thought
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Perspectivism in Archaeology
Insights into Indigenous Theories of Reality
 , pp. 180 - 188
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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