Archaeological theory and social crisis
Keywords:
Crisis of modernity, patriarchal order, reason-emotion, identity, individuality, relational identity.
Abstract
The aim of this text is to demonstrate that the current socio-economic crisis of the Western World and the epistemological crisis of archaeology are deeply connected. Both are expression of a same order of knowledge-power (in Foucault terms), characterized by a dissociation between reason and emotion, by an idealization of reason and by a concealment of the importance of emotion. This logical order, raised to the place of the truth by the Enlighment, is the patriarchal order. This text will be focused on the link between the discourse we construct about the past and the socio-economic order of the present. It defends that the archaeologist have a responsibility in the construction of our future which should not be eluded by them.Downloads
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Published
2012-12-04
How to Cite
Hernando A. (2012). Archaeological theory and social crisis. Complutum, 23(2), 127-145. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CMPL.2012.v23.n2.40880
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