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Do you follow? Rethinking causality in archaeology
Archaeological Dialogues Pub Date : 2019-06-07 , DOI: 10.1017/s1380203819000047
Eloise Govier

Philosopher and physicist Karen Barad (2003; 2007; 2012) has brought a new understanding of causality to the academic discourse (agential realism theory). Inspired by this new take on causality, I problematize the argument that archaeologists ‘follow’ materials. I begin by challenging the act of ‘following’ on two counts (causality and universalism), and then consider the work of Malafouris (2008a) – a thinker whose ideas have the potential to remediate this issue through his examination of the ‘in-between’ humans and matter. I argue that, despite offering an inspirational approach to mind–matter relationships, the dialectical relationship he evokes remains problematic from a Baradian perspective as it is still rooted in ‘following’. I suggest that Barad’s agential realism offers a valuable conceptual framework for researchers who are weary of ‘unilateral’ linear causality and keen to move beyond dialectical thinking (Barad 2007, 214).

中文翻译:

你跟吗?重新思考考古学中的因果关系

哲学家和物理学家凯伦·巴拉德(Karen Barad,2003;2007;2012)为学术话语(代理实在论)带来了对因果关系的新理解。受这种对因果关系的新看法的启发,我质疑考古学家“遵循”材料的论点。我首先从两个方面(因果性和普遍性)挑战“遵循”的行为,然后考虑 Malafouris(2008a)的工作——他的思想有可能通过对“中间”的检验来纠正这个问题。 '人类和物质。我认为,尽管提供了一种鼓舞人心的思维-物质关系方法,但从巴拉迪的角度来看,他所唤起的辩证关系仍然存在问题,因为它仍然植根于“跟随”。
更新日期:2019-06-07
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