Theme:
Theories and methods in archaeological sciences
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each
Title:
Rethinking time in (contemporary) archaeological context.
Content:
Philosophers and social sciences when beginning their discussion about time, often call attention to the complexity of the task ahead of them. Time investigation has come today to the fore, especially the recent notion of "fluid time” reflecting the relations between the multidinamical process of time and the global capitalist system.
Taking our ideas from both philosophers and social scientists we are interested in the questions such as the following:
- Time depth is what gives archaeology its distinction as an intellectual discipline. Yet, how do archaeologists (traditional and contemporary) cope with the palimpsest nature of the material world they discover?
What is the nature of the boundary between “past “and “present”?
How could we reconcile long terms phenomena with the emphasis on individual action?
Is “chronological” time that measures the unilinear sequence of events in archaeology a subjective measure?
- Time framework as a site of confrontation between the state and individual/Indigenous communities.
How does the control of time by modern national states that disregards individual community histories erases their identities?
How do individual communities challenge time - control by the state and what are the measures they take to confront it ?
- Time and religion
How do religious communities actualize the problem of temporality and what strategies do they take for constructing relationship of contemporary adherents with time?
Our purpose, therefore, is to investigate the various perspectives taken by the social sciences to approach the concept of time and we welcome papers elaborating on these topics.
Keywords:
time, archaeology, religion, material culture.
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Main organiser:
Ph.D Talia Shay (Israel) 1
Co-organisers:
Ph.D Marie Pyrgaki (Greece) 2
Ph.D student Lilen Malugani Guillet (Argentina) 3
Affiliations:
1. Former Senior Lecturer, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel
2. Hellenic Open University
3. Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Facultad de Humanidades, Catamarca , Argentina
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