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Re: Then you need to think of a new word
Jul 03, 2003, 11:09
There's a lot of agreement with much of what you say from archaeologists here... http://webpages.charter.net/hkirtley/stress/
Shame they've swallowed an academic posers dictionary (ain't I a bitch?) but there's some interesting sane thoughts relating to both sides of the issue e.g.

"....If archaeologists are to provide more than descriptions of spatial and temporal variation in material culture, or, more broadly, if as anthropologists we are to study the mechanisms of cultural change, we must address directly the fundamental question of how cultural change is encoded in and inferred from spatial discontinuity…………Researchers and consultants in regional development have often neglected the attitudes (conscious and unconscious) of an area's inhabitants toward their surroundings. Both historical and cognitive perspectives are critically needed in such studies……...Landscapes are real-world phenomena, and we can study them scientifically. In interacting with their physical environment, people project culture onto nature….....Of course our recognition of pattern and distinctiveness at one scale constitutes an individuation-an abstracting or bracketing of a part of the world from its context for purposes of study. The act of individuating reifies the abstraction, obliging us to analyze the apparent patterns in ways that reveal their relations with other patterns at that spatial and temporal scale and others. Furthermore, because we individuate in a particular way due in part to our own political, economic, or other biases, we must also be dubious toward our own abstractions, however obvious they may seem initially......"
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