Towards an Ethics of Oblivion and Forgetting
The Parallax View
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2425124 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ian Russell (0000-0001-9627-5524) |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 249-272 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Heritage & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2159-032X • E-ISSN: 2159-0338 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/hso.2012.5.2.249 |
| OpenAlex | W2044561982 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 38 |
The archaeological endeavor is founded on a belief that the revelation of the past through discovery, documentation, interpretation and, at times, preservation is a categorical imperative—that there is an ethical obligation to preserve the past for future generations. Through sampling, the processing of artifacts, laboratory work and survey, the hope is to create knowledge or at least preserve future possibilities for better or different knowledges of the past. This paper, in the spirit of symmetrical archaeology, suggests that while archaeology is often presented as being primarily concerned with documenting and preserving the past, such narratives oversimplify the complex tensions between absences and presences, documentation and omission, that fuel archaeological endeavor and affect (see Giannachi et al. 2012; Olivier 2004; Shanks 2007; Shanks 2012:35-36, 133-139; Shanks and Witmore 2010:273; Witmore 2007).1 It is proposed that far from being a discipline that is concerned only with preserving things, archaeology can also be a discipline of forgetting (see Borić 2010; Buchli 2010; Meskell 2002, 2004; Mills 2010). Underappreciated and under-critiqued, the role and influence of absences, forgetting, decay and oblivion in the archaeological process may provide fertile intellectual ground for a more ethically informed archaeological endeavor
Archaeology · Art · Documentation · Epistemology · Forgetting · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Narrative · Obligation · Political science · Sociology · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Philosophy
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Archaeology and Modernity
Memory, History, Forgetting
Archaeology of Colonialism
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
On Collective Memory
Reflections on the archaeology of archaeological excavation
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology
After Modernity
Notes on the Life History of a Pot Sherd
Between Justice and Legality
Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past
Secondhandedness
Crisis Between the Wars
I Think, Therefore I Err
Symmetrical archaeology
Symmetrical archaeology
Always momentary, fluid and flexible
Negative Heritage and Past Mastering in Archaeology
Observed Decay
Fashioning
Exorcizing Remains
Disposability and Dispossession in the Twentieth Century
Time to Destroy
Occulting the past. Conceptualizing forgetting in the history and archaeology of Sylvester Manor
Still not digging, much
The past of the present. Archaeological memory and time
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,27 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |