By reflecting on new and emerging perspectives and trends in the contemporary humanities and social sciences, including the critique of anthropocentrism, Eurocentrism and secularism, the questioning of human epistemic authority over knowledge building, the ‘indigenization of the academy’, and debates over the applicability of the humanities to the problems of the contemporary world, the author identifies tendencies that are relevant to discussions on the future role of archaeology. In her analysis of the ontological and animist/ic turns, the author claims that asking the questions ‘what is an object?’ and ‘is it alive?’ within the context of this paradigm shift might support the emergence of an alternative worldview based on a participatory perspective of the world that understands (new) animism as a different way of being human and relating to the world on different terms. The author asks whether it is possible for archaeology (as the discipline of ‘animated bones and things’) to potentially become an intellectual platform for exercising an alternative worldview.

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这石头是活的吗？预示考古学的未来角色

通过反思当代人文和社会科学中新出现的观点和趋势，包括对人类中心主义、欧洲中心主义和世俗主义的批判、对人类知识建构的认知权威的质疑、“学院的本土化”以及关于适用性的辩论在人文科学与当代世界的问题中，作者确定了与讨论考古学未来作用相关的趋势。在她对本体论和万物有灵论/ic 转向的分析中，作者声称提出问题“什么是对象？” 以及“它还活着吗？” 在这种范式转变的背景下，可能会支持基于参与式世界观的替代世界观的出现，该世界观将（新）万物有灵论理解为人类的不同方式并以不同的方式与世界相关联。作者询问考古学（作为“动画骨骼和事物”的学科）是否有可能成为锻炼另类世界观的智力平台。