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Evergreen Dazed
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Re: Cancer in the Neolithic?
Jan 26, 2017, 19:32
tiompan wrote:
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tiompan wrote:
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Is Pomo losing it's grip ?.


I sincerely hope so. (pun intended)

http://www.metamodernism.com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sincerity




In Franzen's "The Corrections " Chip sells his collection of critical theory books for a small fraction of their original cost , the money going on a fancy salmon to impress his girl friend .
Maybe starting soon , if it didn't start some time ago the pomo texts will start to fill up the second hand bookshops and the dosh spent on a nice bit of scran . Can't think of better use .
As for it's impact on archaeology , millions of student /lecturer hours spent attempting to understand it and a similar amount attempting to apply it unsuccessfully to the discipline. Then we have to wade through the resulting verbiage to discover , nothing .


Correct me if i'm facing in the wrong direction (and I do mean that) but I always imagined it was not so much directly applying postmodern thought to archaeology, as an explosion of subjectivity in light of all aspects of postmodern society?
Archaeology almost taken along in the flow, if you like.

Is discovering 'nothing' a fair thing to say?


It was more than just subjectivity , we had that before PoMo , it was obfuscation , verbiage and shoehorning ( most often post structuralism or sociological theory) into an already threadbare archaeological one .
From volume too value , maybe not nothing , but not much more .


Obfuscation, most definitely!

But without the development of the post-modern would Cope ever have written The Modern Antiquarian for example? (You may or may not be a fan).
Maybe if the new archaeology audience that book created are largely interested in the interpretive, is that a bad thing for archaeology? I'm just thinking aloud at this point, not trying to put words in yr mouth or support any particular argument.

If we look at Burls books, Prehistoric Avebury for exmaple (as it's been mentioned) would you call his approach post-modern?



I have never read TMA but I very much doubt I would describe it as being influenced by POMO or that it had any impact on the reason for it being written . Again I don't know, but doubt if there is any mention of the central figures e.g. Lyotard, Derrida , Foucault , Baudrillard or even their contemporaries who had an impact in sociology/anthropology and thus archaeology but who are a bit less pm e.g. Bourdieu , Gell etc . As for Burl , definitely not .



re Cope I was thinking about him being directly influenced by postmodern philosophy. Maybe i'm wrong. I agree about Burl.
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