Over the past six decades, researchers investigating the rock art of the Algonquian-speaking peoples of Central and Eastern Canada have produced interpretations that recognize and draw on Algonquian peoples’ oral traditions, worldviews, and realities. Mainly characterized by the use of ethnohistorical and ethnographic evidence and analogy, this has resulted in a number of important developments and trends in Algonquian rock art research. In particular, this research has identified some of the motives, practices, and performances that underpin the making of rock art, and focused attention on the ways in which humans and other-than-humans are implicated. It has also revealed the paradigms within which researchers have operated. In recent years, the interest in ‘new animism’ has resulted in a shift from epistemological concerns to new ontologically related approaches, which engage Algonquian ontologies as sources of theory and heuristic tools with which to examine the relationality and agency of rock art. The trajectory of current research indicates that the recognition and acceptance of ontological multiplicity and the multivocality of the past are crucial not only to the interpretation of rock art but also to the ‘worlding practices’ that characterize Algonquian rock art research.

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探索关系：加拿大中东部讲阿尔冈冈语的人的岩石艺术研究叙事的视角

在过去的六十年中，研究人员对加拿大中部和东部的讲阿尔冈昆人的岩石艺术进行了研究，得出的解释承认并借鉴了阿尔冈昆人的口头传统，世界观和现实。其主要特点是利用民族历史学和人种学证据以及类推，这导致了阿尔贡奎恩岩石艺术研究的许多重要发展和趋势。尤其是，这项研究已经确定了一些支持岩石艺术创作的动机，实践和表演，并将注意力集中在牵涉人类和非人类的方式上。它还揭示了研究人员进行工作的范式。最近几年，对“新万物有灵论”的兴趣导致了从认识论的关注向新的本体论相关方法的转变，这些方法使阿尔贡奎恩本体论成为研究岩石艺术的关系和代理的理论和启发式工具的来源。当前研究的轨迹表明，本体论多样性和过去的多声性的认可和接受不仅对岩石艺术的解释至关重要，而且对于阿尔冈昆岩石艺术研究的“世界实践”也至关重要。