shumon.bsky.social
Forager and Multispecies Archaeology, Palaeolithic & Mesolithic, Environmental Humanities, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports
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Hi John, a few years ago we have tried to elaborate on this point from a slightly different perspective, see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Yes, I agree and the chapter Simon mentiones below (thanks!) talks a bit about this but it can be explored in far more depth in relation to the issues you raise here of course.
I have a whole Chapter section on visualization practices in my PhD dissertation as well: hdl.handle.net/1887/69812
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Not just ethical, fundamental conceptual issues as well ;)
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I really hope what may be called "critical human origins studies" will soon be an important component of the field (and the timing couldnt be better, even if sadly so)
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Quite interesting human origins chapters in this volume, too.
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Yes, it can be, as contextualism regards knowledge itself as part of a wider situated context of knowing (and thus as contextual itself); I have written about this in relation to key questions in the archaeology of human origins: hdl.handle.net/1887/69812
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Vielleicht auch Zeit für diese wichtige Frage (die ich mir schon länger stelle): ist der Konservatismus ("Bewahrung bestehender oder [] früherer gesellschaftlicher Ordnungen“) mit der weitgehend konsensualen Diagnose unserer Zeit - radikaler gesellschaftlicher Transformation - überhaupt vereinbar?
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The (living) organism model/root metaphor also is extremely "successful", but many people are not aware of the resp. body of work, see esp. this beauty of a book: www.ucpress.edu/books/world-...
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Yes, but not coated in neoliberal anachronisms of maximization, please.
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I hope you realize that this is not a question of delusional renderings of alledged "male nature" 🫠
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Ich hoffe auf den Phönix (den mit der Asche).
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In fact, mono-linguality is perhaps much more of a Western (i.e. state-derived) myth than one may think 🫠
(and language hence more a question of social horizontality rather than intergenerational verticality)
But the point remains: nothing of this can be known or assumed a priori, right?
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The problem also is that archaeology (and its history/the history of its core concepts) is literally full of these confusions (and this is obviously an euphemism); the closer you look, the more you unfortunately find (as I tried to do here for example: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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😵💫😵💫😵💫
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2/3 Recommended by @shumon.bsky.social, felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and S. Plutniak based on reviews by Edward B. Banning and 2 anonymous reviewers. All editorial work accessible here for full transparency: doi.org/10.24072/pci....
This manuscript will be a chapter from a Sidestone Press book
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Ich finden den Teil zur "Natur der Männlichkeit" besonders schockierend - das greift genau solche verfänglichen und leider viel zu weit verbreiteten Narrative wieder auf, die wir gerade in einem meiner Seminar besprechen und an denen die Urgeschichtsforschung leider nicht unbeteiligt ist.
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Bei mir drehen sich die Sterne gerade schön im Karussellmodus über meinem Kopf.
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Congrats Paige!
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Clearly the sine-qua-non of the the truly-human.
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Offene Feldschlacht ohne Reserves und Kavallerie auch keine gute Idee einfach
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Totally agree
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Arts & humanities are "use-less" anyways, qed.
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This whole debate seems to utterly anachronistic to me; I can only recommend The Blind Spot (2024) for why we need to distinguish science, science triumphalism, and scientism (spoiler: only the latter two claim absolute standpoint neutrality for themselves, or however they wish to frame it)
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Haha very nice - good luck and hope you find some good ideas! ;)
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I would like to be added, too, at least if we construe Multispecies studies more broadly here ;)