Nurturing and Balancing the World: A Relational Approach to Rock Art and Technology from North Central Chile (Southern Andes)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Troncoso ◽  
Felipe Armstrong ◽  
Francisco Vergara ◽  
Francisca Ivanovic ◽  
Paula Urzúa
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Technological Style ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropology Of Technology ◽  
The World

Technology has been a central theme in archaeological discussion. Different approaches have been developed in order to understand and better explain the processes that lead to the production of objects and things. The anthropology of technology has been one such effort, with its focus on technological style and the chaîne opératoire. In this paper we argue that, despite their many contributions, these approaches tend to isolate the process of production, as well as to see it as the imposition of culture over nature. Instead, we propose a relational approach to technology, one that considers the multiple participants in the social actions involved, stressing the affective qualities of the different entities participating in the process of making. We focus this discussion on the production process of rock art in North Central Chile by Diaguita communities (c. ad 1000–c. 1540), arguing that making petroglyphs was a central activity that aimed at the balancing of the world and its participants, creating a mediating space that facilitated connectedness between the multiple members of the Diaguita world, humans and other-than-humans.

Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Michaeline A Crichlow ◽  
Dirk Philipsen
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Market Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Triadic Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep into the insecurities and inequalities that have endured for several centuries, through liberalism for sure, and compounded ineluctably into these contemporary times. Market fundamentalism is thoroughly complicit with biopolitical sovereignty-its racializing socioeconomic projects, cheapens life given its obsessive focus on high growth, by any means necessary. If such precarity seemed normal even opaque to those privileged enough to reap the largess of capitalism and its political correlates, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic with its infliction of sickness and death has exposed the social and economic dehiscence undergirding wealth in the U.S. especially, and the world at large. The essays remind us of these fissures, offering ways to unthink this devastating spiral of growth, and embrace an unadulterated care centered system; one that offers a more open and relational approach to life with the planet. Care, then becomes the pursuit of a re-existence without domination, and the general toxicity that has accompanied a regimen of high growth. The contributors to this volume, join the growing global appeal to turn back from this disaster, and rethink how we relate to ourselves, to our neighbors here and abroad, and to the non-humans in order to dwell harmoniously within socionature.

Rock art and social networks among hunter gatherers of north-central Chile

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 154-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Troncoso ◽  
Francisca Moya ◽  
Mara Basile
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Chile

scholarly journals Dominasi Korean Hallyu Dalam Konteks Strukturasi Di Industri Budaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-116
Author(s):  
Safira Hasna
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social System ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Asian Music

The popularity of Korean dramas and songs triggers the dominance of Korean Hallyu internationally in various parts of the world. One of the factors which triggers this dominance is the Kpop Bangtan Sonyeodan boy band (BTS). BTS does not only create songs that are massive and standard but also  has a meaning that makes them won a number of international awards. The objective of this paper is to analyze the dominance of Korean hallyu especially Korean boy band BTS as a pioneer of the Asian music industry internationally using structuration theory in the context of the cultural industry by using the literature review method, this is  to describe a number of findings related to the cultural industry and structuration. As a result, BTS as an agent  become an active participant who can reproduce the social system by referring to social actions that ultimately produce a social structure, BTS as an active agent can become a creative labour in the cultural industry by creating works that are not only profit-oriented but combines with the creativity which able to deliver messages through its music, as pioneer of Korean artists internationally.

The Development of Giving in Forms of Object Exchange: Exploring the Roots of Communication and Morality in Early Interaction around Objects

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jeremy I.M. Carpendale ◽  
Ulrich Müller ◽  
Beau Wallbridge ◽  
Tanya Broesch ◽  
Thea Cameron-Faulkner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Pivot Point ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
Early Interaction

Giving is an act of great social importance across cultures, with communicative as well as moral dimensions because it is linked to sharing and fairness. We critically evaluate various explanations for how this social process develops in infancy and take a process-relational approach, using naturalistic observations to illustrate forms of interaction involving the exchange of objects and possible developmental trajectories for the emergence of different forms of giving. Based on our data, we propose that the object becomes a pivot point for interaction, and through the process of such interaction the social actions of showing and giving emerge and take on diverse social meanings within the relations between infants and caregivers.

Rock art assemblages in north-central Chile

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Armstrong ◽  
Andrés Troncoso ◽  
Francisca Moya-Cañoles
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Chile

Inca Landscapes of Domination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Troncoso
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Local Leaders

In many provinces of the Tahuantinsuyu, the understanding of Inca domination has been focused on the political strategies implemented by the state. However, the political landscape developed during this time required an engagement with dynamic local communities. By studying the visual and spatial distribution of rock art in North-Central Chile, we discuss how traditional community practices were transformed during the Inca era. We propose that in the Late Intermediate Period rock art was key in the production of a corporate community, whereas in the Inca period it promoted the construction of hierarchy and social differences within the communities. This change was promoted by the local leaders, who took advantage of ancestral places and traditional community practices. Simultaneously, the Inca political strategy made concerted efforts to invisibilize such places and practices.

First absolute dating of Andean hunter-gatherer rock art paintings from North Central Chile

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Troncoso ◽  
Francisca Moya ◽  
Marcela Sepúlveda ◽  
José J. Carcamo
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
Absolute Dating

scholarly journals PARIETAL AND MOBILE ART OF ROC-AUX-SORCIERS ROCK SHELTER (MIDDLE MAGDALENIAN, VIENNE, FRANCE)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Fuentes ◽  
G. Pincon
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Animal Bone ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Portable Art

The rock shelter of the Roc-aux-Sorciers at Angles-sur-lAnglin (Vienne, France) is one of the archaeological reference sites for the Upper Paleolithic. The sculpted, painted and engraved frieze was gradually brought to light in its archaeological context by Susanne Cassou de Saint-Mathurin and Dorothy Garrod from 1949 onwards (Saint-Mathurin, Garrod, 1950). A wealth of archaeological material was discovered alongside the parietal art, comprising numerous works of portable art, tools made of animal bone, jewellery, etc. It was very rapidly observed that the portable art and the parietal art shared the same graphic and thematic conventions. For example, images of female bodies are rendered in high relief, in a monumental way, but also in the form of small statuettes. Our research has demonstrated the undeniable intra-site links between the portable art and the parietal art (Pinon, 2012). Here we propose to broaden this analysis within a well-identified culture of the Middle Magdalenian known as the Magdalenian of Lussac-Angles spearpoints. At the time of the discovery of the Magdalenian site of La Marche in 1937 (Vienne) (Lwoff, Pricard, 1940), some similarities had been identified between this site and that of Le Roc-aux-Sorciers, where the discoveries dated back to 1927 (Rousseau, 1933). These similarities are also perceptible in shared techniques (Chehmana, Beyries, 2010), as well as in the production of objects in hard organic materials such as the Lussac-Angles spearpoints (Pinon, 1988), the jewellery in fossil mammoth ivory (Dujardin, Pinon, 2000), the engraved horse incisors (Mazire, 2009) and the figurative art (Bourdier et al., 2016 Fuentes, 2016). We propose to further explore the links between these two sites through the analysis of the dynamic processes of reworking images. In particular we examine the engraved plaquettes of La Marche and the parietal art of Le Roc-aux-Sorciers to bring these links into perspective. This could shed light on some common ways of seeing the world in this Magdalenian group. Bourdier, C., Pinon, G., Bosselin, B. (2016). Norme et individualit au Rocaux-Sorciers (Vienne, France): approches des mains du registre animalier au travers de la forme. In M. Groenen, M.-Ch. Groenen (Eds.), Style, Techniques and Graphic expression in Rock Art (pp. 1735). BAR S2787. Chehmana, L., Beyries, S. (2010). Lindustrie lithique du Roc-aux-Sorciers (collection Rousseau). In J. Buisson-Catil, J. Primault (Eds.), Prhistoire entre Электронная библиотека ИА РАН: https://www.archaeolog.ru/ru/el-bib 16 Vienne et Charente. Hommes et socit du Palolithique (pp. 453460). Association des publications Chauvinoises, mmoire XXXVIII. Dujardin, V., Pinon, G. (2000). Le Magdalnien dans la Vienne et la Charente. In G. Pion (Dir.), Le Palolithique suprieur rcent: nouvelles donnes sur le peuplement et lenvironnement (pp. 213222). Actes de la table ronde de Chambry, 12-13 mars 1999, Mmoire de la Socit prhistorique franaise 28. Fuentes, O. (2016). The social dimension of human depiction in Magdalenian rock art (16,500 cal. BP 12.000 Cal. BP): the case of the Roc-aux-Sorciers rockshelter. Quaternary International, 430, 97113. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.quaint.2016.06.023 Pericard, L., Lwoff, S. (1940). La Marche. Commune de Lussac-les-Chteaux (Vienne). Premier atelier de Magdalnien III dalles graves mobiles. Bulletin de la Socit Prhistorique franaise, 37(79), 155180. Pinon, G. (1988). Fiche sagaie de Lussac-Angles. In H. Camps Fabrer (Dir.), Fiches typologiques de lindustrie osseuse prhistorique. Commission de nomenclature sur lindustrie de los prhistorique. Cahier I: sagaies (fiche 3bis). Universit de Provence. Pinon, G. (2012). Art mobilier et art parital du Roc-aux-Sorciers (Angles-surlAnglin, Vienne, France): disparits ou sens communs In J. Clottes (Ed.), Lart plistocne dans le monde / Pleistocene art of the world / Arte pleistoceno en el mundo (pp. 15491558). Bulletin Socit Prhistorique Arige-Pyrnes. Mazire, G. (2009). Les incisives de chevaux graves. In G. Pinon (Dir.), Le Roc-aux-Sorciers: art et parure du Magdalnien. Runion des Muses Nationaux. http://www.catalogue-roc-aux-sorciers.fr Rousseau, L. (1933). Le Magdalnien dans la Vienne. Dcouverte et fouille dun gisement du Magdalnien, Angles-sur-lAnglin (Vienne). Bulletin de la Socit Prhistorique franaise, 30, 239256. Saint-Mathurin (de), S., Garrod, D. (1950). Une frise sculpte du Magdalnien ancien dcouverte Angles-sur-lAnglin, dans la Vienne. Acadmie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 94(2), 123128.

Commitment to pro- versus counter-attitudinal behavior and the dynamics of social representations

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tafani ◽  
Lionel Souchet
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cognitive Restructuring ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Students Attitudes

This research uses the counter-attitudinal essay paradigm ( Janis & King, 1954 ) to test the effects of social actions on social representations. Thus, students wrote either a pro- or a counter-attitudinal essay on Higher Education. Three forms of counter-attitudinal essays were manipulated countering respectively a) students’ attitudes towards higher education; b) peripheral beliefs or c) central beliefs associated with this representation object. After writing the essay, students expressed their attitudes towards higher education and evaluated different beliefs associated with it. The structural status of these beliefs was also assessed by a “calling into question” test ( Flament, 1994a ). Results show that behavior challenging either an attitude or peripheral beliefs induces a rationalization process, giving rise to minor modifications of the representational field. These modifications are only on the social evaluative dimension of the social representation. On the other hand, when the behavior challenges central beliefs, the same rationalization process induces a cognitive restructuring of the representational field, i.e., a structural change in the representation. These results and their implications for the experimental study of representational dynamics are discussed with regard to the two-dimensional model of social representations ( Moliner, 1994 ) and rationalization theory ( Beauvois & Joule, 1996 ).

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