A Gentle Shock of Mild Surprise: Surface ecologies and the archaeological encounter
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A Gentle Shock of Mild Surprise : Surface ecologies and the archaeological encounter. / Sørensen, Tim Flohr.
Heritage Ecologies. ed. / Torgeir Rinke Bangstad; Þóra Pétursdóttir. London : Routledge, 2021. p. 145-164 (Archaeological Orientations).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - A Gentle Shock of Mild Surprise
T2 - Surface ecologies and the archaeological encounter
AU - Sørensen, Tim Flohr
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This chapter aims to discuss studies by probing into the methodical implications of a post-humanist focus, that is, how to do archaeological fieldwork from a post-humanist perspective. It examines the one consequence of the post-human-ist orientation is to ‘decentre’ the ordinary discursive mode of inquiry, revolving around meaning, purpose, linear narrative, plot and explanation, and instead allow questions, curiosity and confusion to emerge in the delayed, purposeless encounter with surfaces. The methodical disposition therefore needs to frame an attitude to the unexpected surface encounter without immediately leading from wonder to explanation. Contending that an object is seen better by looking away, by giving way to wonder, and to dwell with the affective response to the encounter can seem iconoclastic in the field of archaeology, where exhaustive accounts and meticulous analyses of objects are normally celebrated as a cardinal point of the disciplinary methods.
AB - This chapter aims to discuss studies by probing into the methodical implications of a post-humanist focus, that is, how to do archaeological fieldwork from a post-humanist perspective. It examines the one consequence of the post-human-ist orientation is to ‘decentre’ the ordinary discursive mode of inquiry, revolving around meaning, purpose, linear narrative, plot and explanation, and instead allow questions, curiosity and confusion to emerge in the delayed, purposeless encounter with surfaces. The methodical disposition therefore needs to frame an attitude to the unexpected surface encounter without immediately leading from wonder to explanation. Contending that an object is seen better by looking away, by giving way to wonder, and to dwell with the affective response to the encounter can seem iconoclastic in the field of archaeology, where exhaustive accounts and meticulous analyses of objects are normally celebrated as a cardinal point of the disciplinary methods.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Surface ecology
KW - Heritage
KW - Archaeological method
KW - Photography
KW - Weak theory
KW - Contemporary archaeology
KW - Subjectivity
KW - Ecologies
KW - Surfaces
KW - Insignificance
KW - Subjectivity
KW - Photography
KW - Archaeology
KW - Multispecies
U2 - 10.4324/9781315101019-12
DO - 10.4324/9781315101019-12
M3 - Book chapter
T3 - Archaeological Orientations
SP - 145
EP - 164
BT - Heritage Ecologies
A2 - Bangstad, Torgeir Rinke
A2 - Pétursdóttir, Þóra
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
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