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Comment on ‘The symmetries and asymmetries of human–thing relations. A dialogue’
Archaeological Dialogues Pub Date : 2017-12-08 , DOI: 10.1017/s1380203817000149
John C. Barrett

Gavin Lucas questions whether Ian Hodder's analysis of the ‘entanglements’ between humans and many other things necessarily assumes an inherent asymmetry. The quick answer is that it is more than likely, and we might wonder why Lucas thinks that this is a problem. The recent ‘ontological turn’ in archaeology has sought to treat the differences between all things ‘symmetrically’ and ‘without a priori subsuming them into an asymmetrical regime of radical divides’ (Olsen and Witmore 2015, 188). One such radical divide would be between living things (such as humans) and non-living things (such as hammers): it is the potential asymmetry across this divide that Lucas seems to want to avoid.

中文翻译:

评《人与物关系的对称与不对称》。对话'

加文·卢卡斯质疑伊恩·霍德对人类与许多其他事物之间“纠缠”的分析是否必然假设了一种固有的不对称性。快速的回答是很有可能,我们可能想知道为什么卢卡斯认为这是一个问题。考古学最近的“本体论转向”试图“对称地”处理所有事物之间的差异,并且“没有先验地将它们纳入激进分裂的不对称制度”(Olsen and Witmore 2015, 188)。生物(例如人类)和非生物(例如锤子)之间存在这样一个根本性的鸿沟:卢卡斯似乎想要避免这种鸿沟的潜在不对称性。
更新日期:2017-12-08
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