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Critique of Archaeological Reason
3. Notes

8. The invention of a site

8.1 The reconfiguration of the finds
8.2 The physical and referential nature of the record
8.3 The constitutive nature of the record
8.4 The publication as embodiment of the record
8.5 Selectivity and the question of "non-data"
8.6 The great transfer
8.7 The interpretive filters
8.8 The basic presuppositions
8.9 The delay in archaeological publishing
8.10 A definitive publication
8.11 The maieutics of archaeology
8.12 Socially responsible archaeology and the question of identity


8.1 The reconfiguration of the finds

a.Excavation as creating something new and altering rather than destroying sites: Lucas 2001a; excavation as transformation: Lucas 2001b, pp. 201-204. – [Laerke Recht, September 2014]
b.For essays with a variety of ethnographic approaches to the process of archaeological excavation and how a site and its finds are both created by and create archaeologists, see papers in Edgeworth 2006: Yarrow 2006, van Reybrouck and Jacobs 2006, Roveland 2006, Carman 2006, and Erdur 2006. – [Laerke Recht, October 2014]
c.Archaeologists as mediators: Olsen et al. 2012. – [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
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8.2 The physical and referential nature of the record

a.Cf. the definition of "archaeological record" in Lucas 2012. – [Laerke Recht, March 2017]
b.The 'record' – what we record as what is created and what is repeatable, made into text and image: Lucas 2001b. – [Laerke Recht, March 2017]
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8.3 The constitutive nature of the record

a.The notion of fusion of horizons is common in hermeneutics with a different emphasis.
b.On reality and simulations of reality, see e.g. Baudrillard 1994. – [Laerke Recht, September 2014]
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8.5 Selectivity and the question of "non-data"

a.On selectivity: Carr 1985, pp. 8-10; van Reybrouck & Jacobs 2006. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
b.Cf. Madella et al. 2014. – [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
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8.11 The maieutics of archaeology

a.Socrates on his role as a midwife, see Plato 1881. – [Laerke Recht, March 2016]
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8.12 Socially responsible archaeology and the question of identity

a.For the concept of "community archaeology", see e.g. Atalay et al. 2014 and Marshall 2002. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
b.Memory and identity: Casey 2004. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
c.Cf. the concept of "pseudoarchaeology", e.g. Derricourt 2012 and Fagan 2006. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
d.Archaeology, identity and politics, see e.g. Goode 2007; Layton et al. 2001; cf. Rowan & Baram 2004; Simandiraki-Grimshaw & Stefanou 2012; Trigger 1984. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
e.Relations with stakeholders, see e.g. Hodder 2002; Hodder 2003. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
f.Ethnoarchaeology, see e.g. Hodder 1982. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016]
g.Public archaeology, see e.g. Merriman 2004; Shackel & Chambers 2004. – [Laerke Recht, August 2016]
h.Social archaeology, e.g. Shanks & Tilley 1992, ch. 6. – [August 2016]
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