The Subject of Suffering

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2258908
AutoresPollock (0000-0001-5879-7110, Freie Universität Berlin, autor correspondente), Susan Pollock (Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie Freie Universität Berlin 14195 Berlin Germany)
Ano2016
Volume118
Fascículo4
Páginas726-741
Data de publicação2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.12686
OpenAlexW2552496275
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas30

As the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno argued, suffering is one of the most fundamental of human experiences. In archaeological narratives, however, suffering seldom appears. Instead, current trends in archaeology, including the focus on the relevance of things, the dissolution of boundaries between subjects and objects, and the foregrounding of agency, shift attention away from the subject of suffering. I discuss an archaeology that takes suffering as a central issue, drawing on archaeological work at sites of the Nazi period in Berlin. Rather than promoting positive identifications with the past, I argue that we need archaeologies that work toward respect and responsibility by acknowledging suffering, both past and present. [suffering, experience, archaeology of Nazi times, Berlin

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Foregrounding · German · Literature · Narrative · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Relevance (law · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration