Working with huacos: Archaeological ceramics and relationships among worlds in the Peruvian North Coast

2021 ◽  
pp. 146960532110280
Author(s):  
Débora L Soares
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Archaeological Ceramics ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Archaeological Artifacts ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Archaeological Ethnography ◽  
Ritual Practices

This article proposes a multitemporal approach to the study of archaeological ceramics in the Peruvian North Coast through archaeological ethnography. It allows us to create a new perspective of a past that seems to be continuously brought back in the ritual practices of curanderos (shamans), and in the daily life of other subjects that interact with what archaeologists call archaeological artifacts. In the rituals of curanderos and in the practice of huaqueo, where archaeological ceramics are known as huacos, it is possible to see how these vessels come to life, performing within a complex meshwork of relationships which extend over different worlds, as well as human and other-than-human participation. This discussion provokes the reevaluation of the relationships among archaeological heritage, archaeological material, and archaeological practice itself. It also shows how past and present are related in this specific Andean context.

Assembling Archaeology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

This book provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. The issues addressed here are global and are applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. In short, this book is applicable to everyone from academia to cultural resource management (CRM), from heritage professional to undergraduate student. At its heart, it addresses the undervaluation of teaching, demonstrating that this affects the fundamentals of contemporary archaeological practice, and is particularly connected to the lack of diversity in disciplinary demographics. It proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of our teaching, training, and practice. Drawing upon the insights from archaeology’s current material turn, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblages, this volume turns the discipline of archaeology into the subject of investigation, considering the relationships between teaching, practice, and research. It offers a new perspective which prompts a rethinking of our expectations and values with regard to teaching, training, and doing archaeology, and ultimately argues that we are all constantly becoming archaeologists.

The ‘anthropologization’ of archaeological heritage

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kolen
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Transmission Of Values

AbstractWith the growing impact of postprocessual orientations, archaeologists have become increasingly aware that the production of values resides in all aspects of archaeological research. This awareness has also paved the way for a more encompassing concept of archaeological heritage, which of course not only includes the management of material traces but also the transmission of values through archaeological practice, method and theory. Many archaeologists and heritage managers now propagate the belief that reflecting on value production will better equip archaeology for ethical concerns or that it will improve its engagement with society, and that adopting anthropological perspectives and key notions may help to achieve this goal. This contribution explores the opposite proposition: that an anthropologically informed reflexive attitude is important to understand present-day heritage practices, but in most cases it is desirable for archaeologists to tell stories about the past, not about themselves, in order to be really engaged with public and ethical issues. Arguments for this proposition can be derived from the discipline's specific articulation of discovery, difference and time depth (including the ‘long term’), which traditionally shape archaeological research and narrative to a high degree, not only within academic discourse but also in a wider social setting.

Eating Empire in the Jequetepeque: A Local View of Chimú Expansion on the North Coast of Peru

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn E. Cutright
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Household Level ◽  
The North ◽  
Local View ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Household Activities ◽  
Farming Village ◽  
North Coast Of Peru ◽  
Domestic Economies

As the Chimú empire (ca. A.D. 900-1470) expanded along the north coast of Peru, it employed a mix of direct and indirect strategies to administer conquered populations. In order to investigate the extent to which Chimú conquest reshaped daily life in the provinces, I explore evidence from Pedregal, a rural farming village in the Jequetepeque Valley. I use cuisine as a window onto daily life at Pedregal, in order to construct a “view from the kitchen” of Chimú expansion. Excavation data from Pedregal households indicate that production of agricultural staples such as corn and cotton intensified during the Chimú period, but that while the focus of household culinary practice shifted, the overall range of household activities remained the same. The Chimú seem to have been able to establish political control and intensify agricultural production in conquered provinces without a radical reorganization of rural domestic economies. These findings have implications not only for emerging models of Chimú imperial expansion, but also for our understanding of how household-level change and continuity are articulated with regional political and economic processes.

scholarly journals Sets of signs denoting the year on a Paleolithic artifact from the Baikal region and a towel from Podillya

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Yevhen Prychepii
Keyword(s):  
Baikal Region ◽  
Stable Sets ◽  
Primitive People ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Paleolithic Artifact ◽  
Archaeological Artifacts ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Perspective

The offered concept states that primitive people operated "sacred" sets. The author considers them to be sets of signs on archaeological artifacts and folk ornaments conveying the cycles of heavenly bodies and the physiological cycles of a woman reduced by certain numbers. These are stable sets having become entrenched in mythology and acquired the status of "sacred". Based on this concept, the sets of signs have been studied on the Paleolithic artifact from the Baikal region. Two groups of signs have been distinguished: circles (there are 364 of them) forming sets, and signs (there are 7 of them) delimiting the sets. The author presents the idea that the artifact superposes the days of a year (364) and woman's pregnancy (280) sets. For this purpose, ancient people depicted the "sacred" set of 88 located in the center of the spiral in a color different from the rest of the spiral. Thus, according to the author, they indicated the subtraction of the "sacred" set of 88 from the set of the year. Since the difference between them (364-88 = 276) is four days less than the set of 280, the deficiency was made up by four delimitation signs indicating the action of addition. The research considers two options for superposing the yearly and pregnancy sets. To compare, the author analyzes the sets of signs on the ornament of a towel from Podillya. This analysis shows that these sets are sacred and add up to a year (364). The author assumes that the "sacred" sets on the artifacts of ancient people and on ornaments could appear as summands for obtaining great sets (365/364, 280, 224, etc.). This approach opens up a new perspective in the study of sets on artifacts and ornaments.

scholarly journals Between Rationalism and Romanticism - Archaeological Heritage Management in the 1990s

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Kristian Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Cultural Biography ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Holistic Perception ◽  
Archaeological Heritage Management

In this article it is argued that "heritage" both as a theoretical concept and a practice, is central to defining archaeology's role in society. Greater critical attention should therefore be given to this arena of archaeological practice on the part of theoretical archaeology and the heritage administration itself. Since archaeological heritage management is situated between interests in the present, these have to be defined as a first step. Three basic concepts and their role in shaping the development of archaeological heritage management are briefly analysed: the cultural environment, the cultural biography and cultural identity. It is argued that they are part of a development towards a more holistic perception and ideological use of the cultural heritage. This invites political manipulation. To avoid this, certain universal objectives in combination with ethical guidelines are suggested.

Public Archaeology in Poland: State of the Art and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Michał Pawleta
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
General Public ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The Past

This article aims to conceptualize the present state of public archaeology in Poland, which has recently become topical in archaeological practice. The author defines public archaeology and discusses the historical background of such activities in the context of the specific traditions of Polish archaeology. He then describes the main forms of outreach activities undertaken by archaeologists in Poland and presents community-oriented initiatives that go beyond the education of the general public about the past and strive to engage local communities in activities focused on archaeology and archaeological heritage. He concludes by outlining some directions that this sub-discipline may adopt in future.

Tradition und Fortschreibung bei Ibn Rušd

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serdar Kurnaz
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
New Perspective

This study portrays the unique philosophical approach of Ibn Rushd to systematising Islamic law flexibly in order to solve the problems Muslims experience in daily life. His approach allows for a new perspective in the discourse on how to update Islamic law for contemporary times and how norms are qualified as being Islamic. Taking the prohibition of usury as an example, this study scrutinises Ibn Rushd’s approach and compares it with others from Muslim legal scholarship. For this purpose, the introduction and the chapter on usury in his juristic work Bidāyat al-mujtahid have been translated and commented on, with his approach analysed and the sources that he consulted identified.

scholarly journals PENGOPERASIAN JARING ARAD DI PERAIRAN PANTAI UTARA JAWA: MASALAH DAN PENYELESAIANNYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Ratna Indrawasih ◽  
Ary Wahyono
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Long Term Impact

Artikel tentang pengoperasian jaring arad di perairan Pantai Utara Jawa: problem dan penyelesaiannya ini membahas masalah konflik kenelayanan, terutama permasalahan yang berkaitan dengan penggunaan jaring arad di perairan Pantai Utara Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Barat. Artikel ini merupakan hasil penelitian yang mengambil lokasi di Kabupaten Rembang dan Cirebon. Penelitian tersebut dilakukan dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan penangkapan udang dengan menggunakan jaring semi trawl merupakan suatu fenomena sosial yang menunjukkan tidak ada alternatif lain bagi nelayan dalam mencari sumber kehidupan. Fenomena ini juga menunjukkan telah terjadi jalan pintas dan bersifat jangka pendek tanpa melihat dampak-dampak yang ditimbulkan baik dari segi sosial, ekonomi dan lingkungan. Upaya untuk mengatasi problem penggunaan jaring arad di Pantura tampaknya tidak mudah. Pemerintah telah mengeluarkan peraturan yang melarang penggunaan jaring arad. Akan tetapi tampaknya kebijakan pelarangan alat tangkap tersebut menghadapi masalah pada implementasi di lapangan. Penegakan hukum belum bisa dilakukan secara optimal. Hal ini antara lain disebabkan masih pasifnya para petugas dalam mengontrol terjadinya pelanggaran, dan keberadaan petugas tidak didukung oleh prasarana yang memadai. Jadi ada kesan bahwa pelarangan alat tangkap tersebut tidak mendapat dukungan dari aparat penegak hukum, sehingga masalah yang berkaitan dengan penggunaan alat tangkap yang sudah dilarang tersebut tidak dapat terselesaikan secara tuntas. Tittle: The Operation of Arad Net in The North Coast of Java: Problems and Their Solutions.The article of “The Operation of Arad Net in The North Coast of Java: Problems and their Solution” discusses the problem of fishers conflict especially related to the usage of arad net in North Coast of Central Java and West Java. This article was conducted in Rembang and Cirebon Regencies. Qualitative approach was used in the research. Results showed that the exploitation of shrimps using a semi-trawl called ‘jaring arad’ was considered a social phenomenon of fishing to cope daily life. This phenomenon also shows that there was a short term profit orientation without considering long-term impact on social, economic and environment aspects. The effort to reduce the used of arad in Pantura was not easy. Government has erected the regulation on banning the used of arad. However, low enforcement was quite weak. This is because the officer could not effectively control territory and was not supported by adequate infrastructure and equipments. That is why, it seemed that regulation on banning the use of arad was not supported by adequate enforcement efforts. Hence, problem related the use of Arad could not be solved effectively.

scholarly journals KEARIFAN LOKAL BERDASARKAN TINGGALAN BUDAYA DI SITUS PARUMASAN CIAMIS

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Lia Nuralia
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Sacred Land ◽  
Archaeological Approach

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan menginventarisasi tinggalan budaya di Situs Parumasan Ciamis yang berhubungan dengan aspek kearifan lokal pada masyarakat tradisional yang tinggal di sekitar situs. Fokus kajian ditujukan pada tinggalan budaya materi dan non materi dalam konsepsi budaya masa lalu, termasuk pengelolaan lahan yang disakralkan dan yang lebih bersifat profan bagi masyarakat sekitar, yang diterapkan dalam kehidupan mereka sehari-hari. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian budaya, dengan pendekatan arkeologis secara deskriptif dan penalaran induktif. Cara pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan survei atau pengamatan langsung terhadap Situs Parumasan. Untuk memahami lebih jauh pandangan masyarakat terhadap keberadaan Situs Parumasan, dilakukan pula wawancara dengan Juru Kunci Parumasan dan masyarakat setempat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya kearifan lokal berdasarkan tinggalan arkeologis, makna ritual keagamaan, dan upacara adat di antaranya terjaganya kelestarian alam dan keberlangsungan hidup yang nyaman dan aman. AbstractThe purpose of this research is to make an inventory of cultural heritages in the site of Parumasan in Ciamis that has a relationship to the local wisdom of traditional community that lives around the site. The foci are material and non-material cultural heritage that lived in old times, including sacred-land management and a more profane ones that applied to their daily life. The author has conducted a cultural research method with archaeological approach, either desciptively or inductively. Data were obtained by surveying or observing Parumasan site. Interview with juru kunci (key person) of Parumasan was also perfomed in order to get data about the perspective of the site from the community’s point of view. The result is that there is local wisdom based on archaeological heritage, religious rites and adat ceeremony resulting in conservation of the nature as well as a peaceful life.

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