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Archaeology will be just fine
Archaeological Dialogues Pub Date : 2016-11-02 , DOI: 10.1017/s1380203816000180
Artur Ribeiro

Many archaeologists are currently stuck in a mindset in which attention is paid exclusively to ideas that are ‘new’ and ‘revolutionary’. This fetishization of the ‘new’ leads us down a dangerous road as it promotes uncritical disdain of old ideas which remain valid and it advocates fads from neighbouring disciplines which are methodologically vapid and philosophically dubious. The objective of this paper is to question whether archaeology requires constant ‘paradigmatic change’ and my answer to this question is no. By constantly altering the status quo, archaeologists are promoting a culture in which theoretical ‘newness’ is given the spotlight and ideas are considered valid as long as they are original. Against this, I recommend a more critical view of new ideas and a revision of old ones – a culture which prioritizes the quality of archaeological theories regardless of whether they are new or old.

中文翻译:

考古会很好

许多考古学家目前陷入一种只关注“新”和“革命性”思想的心态。这种对“新”的迷恋将我们引向了一条危险的道路,因为它促进了对仍然有效的旧观念的不加批判的蔑视,它鼓吹邻近学科的时尚,这些时尚在方法论上是乏味的,在哲学上是可疑的。本文的目的是质疑考古学是否需要不断的“范式变革”,我对这个问题的回答是否定的。通过不断改变现状,考古学家正在促进一种文化,在这种文化中,理论“新奇”受到关注,只要想法是原创的,就被认为是有效的。对此,
更新日期:2016-11-02
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