In this paper, we analyse some of the issues associated with the posthumanist rejection of Humanism. First, we discuss some of the possibilities and challenges that New Materialism and the Ontological Turn have brought into archaeology in terms of understanding past ontologies and decolonizing archaeological thought. Then, focusing on the concept of agency, we reflect on how its use by some posthumanist authors risks turning it into an empty signifier, which can have ethical implications and limit archaeology's potential for social critique. The concept of things’ effectancy is presented as a valuable alternative to previous conceptualizations of ‘object agency’. While we acknowledge the heuristic potential of many posthumanist proposals, we believe that humanist perspectives should not be rejected altogether. Instead of creating rigid divides, we argue that elements of New Humanism, as recently defined by philosophical anthropology, can hold value when facing current societal challenges.

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后人文主义、新人文主义及超越

在本文中，我们分析了与后人文主义拒绝人文主义相关的一些问题。首先，我们讨论了新唯物主义和本体论转向在理解过去本体论和非殖民化考古思想方面给考古学带来的一些可能性和挑战。然后，关注能动性的概念，我们反思一些后人类主义作者如何使用它可能会将其变成一个空洞的能指，这可能会产生伦理影响并限制考古学对社会批判的潜力。事物有效性的概念被提出来作为先前“对象代理”概念化的有价值的替代方案。虽然我们承认许多后人文主义提议的启发式潜力，但我们认为不应完全拒绝人文主义观点。与其制造僵化的鸿沟，