[...]k (='lgc'>=/= reconstructive)

="trms"nttrm="search">archeological accounts of other's ="trms">ontologies

="trms">animal turn in ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> non="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">zoological studies
Willerselv
="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro

Amazona ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> animism (more than any other ="trms">anthropological ="trms">material) has provided modes of ="trms">relationality to ="trms"nttrm="search">archeologists to ="trms">interpret ="trms">material patterning in ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological records ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]animism='lgc'>: an ethnographic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-analogy for ="trms">past ="trms">ontologies
="lsts lst1">•b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring between ="trms">nature and culture
="lsts lst1">•="trms">relationship with other-than-human ="trms">agencies (="trms">animal, spirit, artifact)
='lgc'>==='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontological critique

="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">systemize amerindian thought into a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to have an reciprocal effect on ="trms">anthropological thought (western ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics)

reference to a “common ="trms">world”

new animism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontology becomes another name for culture

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alebrti outlining='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropological project that considers ="trms">ontology as a critical ="trms">question productive of conceptual engagement
="lsts lst1">•work of ="trms"nttrm="search">archeologists who theorize and practice ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology on the basis of indigenous theories
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where new animists turn to animism for a source of analogies, critical ="trms">ontology turns to animism for a source of theory

perspectivism='lgc'>: multiple ="trms">natures (="trms">worlds) ='lgc'>+ singular culture (way of knowing those ="trms">worlds) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ working from ='strcls'>*commonality='strcls'>* rather than ='strcls'>*alterity='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a theoretical bomb ='lgc'>=/= analogies based on ethnographic content

spirits experienced as diminutive yet brilliantly decorated or huge and grotesque

the more intense ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the more body it is

(the promise of thinking through) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]thing='lgc'>: a non="trms">specified ="trms">ontological ="trms">category that can be “filled” through ethnographic observation that is designed to allow ="trms">ontological alterity to inform its content

recursive ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alterity='lgc'>: a function of the divergence between ethnographic ="trms">materials and the assumptions the analyst brings to them

(if) ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: what is ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> alterity='lgc'>: part of what others say ‘what is’ that does not make sense to us


(the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger of) a new ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">ontological orthodoxy becoming a immutable ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysic

="trms"nttrm="search">archeological alterity='lgc'>: things that do not make sense ="trms">ontologically (escape traditional frameworks)

="trms"nttrm="search">archeology's new kind of reflexivity
="lsts lst1">•openness
="lsts lst1">•="trms">wonder='lgc'>: an intentional naivete, naive ="trms">="trms">empiricism (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> sustain altering ='lgc'>+ enabling meaning, to be besieged ='and'>& committed to ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>=/= moving beyond)
="lsts lst1">•emphasis on descriptive ='lgc'>=/= theoretical
="lsts lst1">•attentiveness to our ="trms">embodied ="trms">responses

(a ="trms">question of critical ="trms">ontology in ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) how are we to mobilize ='and'>& manifest (describe ='and'>& transform) the new ="trms">past from things='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my ="trms">question in ='mywrk'>my research on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•how i am subjectively involved in the ="trms">past we investigate
="lsts lst1">•how i am objectively part of those ="trms">pasts


the all encompassing (nonlinear) descriptive ="trms">writings of ancient and antiquarian ="trms">travelers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is encountered imposes itself ='lgc'>==force='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> description

kinetic activity ='lgc'>+ the experience of being in the field

="trms">aesthetic attentiveness of ="trms">bestiaries


="trms">pragmatic use of the word ="trms">ontology in ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology ='lgc'>--signal='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the potential ="trms">world-shifting ="trms">nature of what is being studied

to be ="trms">ontological='lgc'> = entirety of the analytical ="trms">apparatus and what is being studied should be in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the analysis
(caught up in the process='lgc'>:) the object of study ='lgc'>+ analytical scaf="trms">folding ='lgc'>+ ="trms">method ='lgc'>+ analyst

the degree to which an approach is willing to do ="trms">ontology to itself (investigate its own ="trms">ontological assumptions)

="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology ='lgc'>+ ="trms">ontological ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perspective on reality


(assign things to preexisting conceptual structures ='lgc'>=/=) looking for ways things can have an impact on your thinking, concepts, ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unlocking what is most “of the ="trms">past” about things

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="ppl">Alberti
Ingold

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> cor="trms">respondence='lgc'>: (a pre-conceptual practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">epistemological intimacy in the practices of art, ="trms">science, and ="trms">anthropology
="lsts lst1">•a way to understand one's own research process

(="trms"nttrm="search">archeology='lgc'>: a ="trms">science of cor="trms">respondence)

="ppl">Alberti sug="trms">gesting to separate arts and ="trms">crafts (for analytical purposes)

artwork='lgc'>: non-conceptual outcomes of practice

artwork ='and'>& ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological things ='lgc'>--share='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological problem of how to make something new ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*sensations/="trms">past never before experienced/thought='strcls'>*='lgc'>] out of (circumscribed body of) ="trms">materials

="trms"nttrm="search">archeological things carry both sensation ='and'>& ='strcls'>*residue of concepts='strcls'>* with them (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> artistic research ='lgc'>=/= artworks)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> resurrect the conceptual potential immanent to the ="trms">specific arrangement of ="trms">materials (and their temporary forms)

(="trms">ontological dilemma ='lgc'>[of both art and ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*how to anticipate the coming into being of something sensed but as yet not thought='qstn'>?='strcls'>*
(='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor)

="trms">scientific ="trms">interpretation and explanation of the ="trms">past ='lgc'><-='lgc'>~ ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology
='lgc'>{='mywrk'>my work='lgc'>: speculative ="trms">interpretation and explanation of the ="trms">past ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prefigure new becomings ='lgc'>+ intensification and unleashing of ‘i am part of what i seek to understand’ (= my subjectivity)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= lock the ="trms">past into pre="trms">dictability='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•my ‘things’ in ="nms">ajayeb are to an extent ‘="trms"nttrm="search">archeological things’

="large lg1" stl="font-size:141%"> contemporary ="trms">science ='lgc'>--gives='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontologically ="trms">relational ="trms">world (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to be acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged by art and ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology)

="trms"nttrm="search">archeology ='lgc'>--="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fostering ='strcls'>**a particular sensibility to what is of the ="trms">past in things='strcls'>**

="trms">anthropology='lgc'>: the art of inquiry
(something you can learn from)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms"nttrm="search">archeological sensibility='lgc'>: a ="trms">pervasive set of attitudes towards traces and remains, towards ="trms">memory, time and temporality, the fabric of ="trms">history
="prgrph">-Shanks

="trms">craft ='lgc'>--Ingold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge grow from the crucible of our practical and observational engagement with being and things
(="ppl">Aristotlean ="trms">poiesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">craft='lgc'>: slow and intimate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgeable work (of how we get along with the ="trms">world; that cultivates in oneself the ="trms">skill for discerning the ='strcls'>*meanings that are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready there='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological paring of conceptual ="trms">language ='and'>& physical condition
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> meaning and concepts are drawn out of objects (not given to them)


="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> companion ="trms">species='lgc'> = biologist ='lgc'>+ creatures
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Barad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concepts are ="trms">literally ="trms">embodied by the differing physical ="trms">apparatuses
="lsts lst1">•


(we need more) art='lgc'>: careful accumulation of ="trms">skills


21st century ="trms">historiographic trends in art

artists increasingly ='strcls'>*deploy simulacra of ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological practices and motifs='strcls'>* in their work


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> art practiced as ="trms">craft (but not all the time) ='lgc'>==allow='lgc'>='lgc'>==> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge grow from the insight of being in the ="trms">folding of life ='lgc'>[of infantile grandious fantasy, as well='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">anthropology

producing contemporary ruins to draw attention to ='strcls'>*the work of the ="trms">present in the production of the ="trms">past='strcls'>*

='strcls'>*artists take ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology as muse='strcls'>*
(through borrowing from ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology artists)
="lsts lst1">•create a kind of intellectual framing
="lsts lst1">•incorporate archival research
="lsts lst1">•themes of ="trms">memory and entropy
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of absence
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> prosaic ="trms">nature of ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological research
production of the finds


the way Dion distorts ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological work (allegorizing ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological practice) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•consequence of sleight of hand
="lsts lst1">•he is dibbling at, performing being an ="trms"nttrm="search">archeologist
="lsts lst1">•‘play at’ ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology
='lgc'>=/= Simon Callery

="ppl">Alberti > Russell
transform ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology from ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor to allegory ='lgc'>--play='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology-as-="trms">aesthetics through performance ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> risk of undermining and reinforcing art as a subjective practice concerned with only ="trms">aesthetics and ="trms">affective='lgc'>]


="large lg5" stl="font-size:155%"> ="trms">craft='lgc'>: a model for careful practices and knowing the ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= artwork='lgc'>: a model for how to break out of disciplinary frames and how to think of the ="trms">ontology of ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological things ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what ="ppl">Sennett calls ="trms">epistemic breaking='lgc'>]

="trms">questions for the art='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what effect is produced='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•how does this effect wrench from its ="trms">materiality what has not been perceived or sensed before='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ="trms"nttrm="search">archeology same ="trms">question, from the ="trms">material that remain from the ="trms">past in the ="trms">present

(the traditional task of art='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•defamiliarization='lgc'>: to estrange our common consciousness and sensations o[...]