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Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology - A South American Perspective (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology - A South American Perspective (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological
thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South
American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and
Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are
unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that
give meanings to symbols) but that their tyranny can be overcome if
they are used from a critical, heuristic and non-prescriptive
stance: critical because the complacent attitude towards their
tyranny is replaced by a militant stance against it; heuristic
because they are used as means to reach alternative and suggestive
interpretations but not as ultimate and definite destinies; and
non-prescriptive because instead of using them as threads to follow
they are rather used as constitutive parts of more complex and
connective fabrics. The papers included in the book are diverse in
temporal and locational terms. They cover from so called Formative
societies in lowland Venezuela to Inca-related ones in Bolivia;
from the coastal shell middens of Brazil to the megalithic
sculptors of SW Colombia. Yet, the papers are related. They have in
common their shared rejection of established, naturalized
typologies that constrain the way archaeologists see, forcing their
interpretations into well known and predictable conclusions. Their
imaginative interpretative proposals flee from the secure comfort
of venerable typologies, many suspicious because of their
association with colonial political narratives. Instead, the
authors propose novel ways of dealing with archaeological data.
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