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From determinism to accountability. Archaeology, anthropology and ethics
Archaeological Dialogues Pub Date : 2019-06-07 , DOI: 10.1017/s1380203819000096
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels

The discussion by Arponen et al. inserts itself into long-standing debates about the place of causality and determinism in archaeological interpretation. While some of the discussion might feel like retreading familiar ground in those debates, the authors bring a refreshing clarity of exposition to the problem, and more importantly they propose several promising directions for future research. For example, their exhortation to ‘see the human–environment relationship as always already sociocultural’ (p. 8) should be firmly established by now, but I agree with their assertion that this perspective ‘seems underdeveloped in archaeology’ (p. 8) and that looking to anthropology is one especially productive route for developing such a sensibility. In the following I wish to extend and respond to their arguments by (1) addressing how anthropological approaches might best be incorporated into archaeological research on palaeo-environments and coupled human–environment systems, and (2) highlighting the ethical and moral dimensions of this process as integral to it.

中文翻译:

从决定论到问责制。考古学、人类学和伦理学

Arponen 的讨论等。将自己置身于关于因果关系和决定论在考古解释中的地位的长期争论中。虽然一些讨论可能感觉像是在这些辩论中重新审视熟悉的基础,但作者为这个问题带来了令人耳目一新的清晰阐述,更重要的是,他们为未来的研究提出了几个有希望的方向。例如,他们劝告“看到人与环境的关系”一如既往社会文化”(第 8 页)现在应该已经牢固确立,但我同意他们的断言,即这种观点“在考古学中似乎不发达”(第 8 页),并且寻求人类学是发展这种敏感性的一条特别有效的途径。在下文中,我希望通过以下方式扩展和回应他们的论点:(1)探讨如何将人类学方法最好地纳入对古环境和耦合人类环境系统的考古研究,以及(2)强调这一研究的伦理和道德层面。过程作为它的组成部分。
更新日期:2019-06-07
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