Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas

Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms

Av Melissa R. Baltus, Sarah E. Baires

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Beskrivning

In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2017-10-16
Mått: 159 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt: 476 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 184
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781498555357

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Melissa R. Baltus is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo.Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.

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Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms asks and attempts to answer some of the big questions facing archaeology today: what is impact and role of the ontological turn in archaeological interpretations of the Indigenous Americas? How are we to understand and recognize multiple forms of agency and animacy? And how can archaeology approach the ontological turn without engaging in neocolonial theorizing that erases, ignores, or claims ownership over Indigenous epistemologies? Baltus and Baires’s volume advances archaeological theorizing about relationality and multiple ontologies in the past and the present. The diverse case studies highlight the vibrancy of past lifeworlds in new and exciting ways.

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