كتاب إلكتروني
The rough and the smooth
| العنوان: | The rough and the smooth |
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| المؤلفون: | Knappett, Carl |
| المصدر: | Presses universitaires de Louvain. |
| بيانات النشر: | Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2017-08-17. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| وصف مادي: | 61-73 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | HD, Art, Archaeology, prehistory, Greece, intentional fragmentation, pottery, jewellery, destruction |
| الوصف: | In this paper I explore tensions between the perceived instantaneity of human intentionality, and the slowness of material agency. When archaeologists describe ‘intentional destruction’ or ‘ritual killing’, they imply human actions directed at materials that are instantaneous: the smashing of a figurine, the burning of a building. These are instances in which even in prehistory one might have some notion of the intentionality underlying human agency. But what of more gradual processes of change, when the agency of materials is more prominent, as houses collapse ‘by themselves’, or artefacts ‘simply’ disintegrate? Do such situations really imply an absence of intentionality? If abandonment or disintegration results from a lack of investment in materialities – a kind of carelessness, or even negligence – then is this not also a form of (passive) intentionality? Allowing materialities to take their course can amount to an absence of care – and such absence can be just as willful as active destruction. I will develop these ideas by drawing on recent work in architectural theory, and archaeological and ethnoarchaeological observations from the Aegean on the temporality of buildings. Some buildings are forgotten or grow old with care, others without. The aim, then, is to raise questions concerning the loci of agency and intentionality that are of relevance more broadly for studies of material culture and society. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Chapter |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-2-87558-540-0 978-2-87558-392-5 |
| Relation: | http://books.openedition.org/pucl/basictei/3451; http://books.openedition.org/pucl/tei/3451 |
| الإتاحة: | http://books.openedition.org/pucl/3451 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsrev.6AA70571 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Openedition.org |
| ردمك: | 9782875585400 9782875583925 |
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