segunda-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2007

Paper in preparation

I have given to a TAG session last December (University of Exeter, UK) the following paper:

Title:

The evanescence of the “material” and of the “cultural”: the impossibility of fixing a face – some steps into an interdisciplinary field of inquiry


Abstract:
Is our body - the physical body of each one of us - predominantly material (biological), or spiritual (cultural)? This kind of questions obviously makes no sense.
The world is infinitely complex. Look, for instance, at the faces of people. Their expression, and in particular their eyes - for a long time considered the “manifestation of the soul” - continuously changes at the most minimal levels.
The face, and the cult of its “beauty” in particular, is part of a modern fetishism, which tries to “materialize” everything, including the most subtle aspects of human life and experience. That fetishism (expressed for instance in pornography) is also the ground where archaeology develops.
Until very recently, archaeology has been a fetishism of objects (be they small artefacts or huge landscapes) into which we project our phantasms, our nostalgia of “returning into the objectuality of things”.
Now, many “archaeologists” - together with people from other disciplines, such as architecture, anthropology, performance arts and studies, land-art, installations, etc. – are making new attempts in order to understand how we human beings relate to other beings and to the environment in which we are submerged.
Faces are indeed a good way of dealing with the strangeness of the reality of our daily life, in which “things” often appear to us as separated from their contexts of action. The same experience of “otherness” occur in archaeology.
But it was our own “scientific enquiry”, in its process of objectification, of “creating objects of observation” separated from subjects that observe in a neutral way, which is responsible for the conditions of the production of that very “otherness”.

The paper is about to be ready. Its bibliography, which I have been using in the last months, is a large one, intending to orient myself in future research. As it may be useful to other people, I reproduce it here:

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copyright voj 2007
All the papers of this session (co-coordinated by Julian Thomas, Univ. of Manchester, and having as discussant Tim Ingold, Univ. of Aberdeen) will be published in JIA (Journal of Iberian Archaeology) vol. 9/10 (2006/2007) during the first half of 2007.

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