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Journal articles on the topic "Archaeological Hermeneutics"
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Olsen, Bjørnar. "Archaeology, hermeneutics of suspicion and phenomenological trivialization." Archaeological Dialogues 13, no. 2 (October 11, 2006): 144–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203806242089.
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The point of departure for this debate (and the SAA forum) was the question ‘does archaeological theory exist?’ Matthew Johnson's answer is wisely mixed, but mostly negative. Archaeological theory does not exist, he tells us, because there is hardly any distinctive archaeological way of theoretical thinking ‘to which most or even the largest group of archaeologists would willingly or knowingly subscribe’ (p. 117). I shall not spend much time on Johnson's denial, which for several reasons may well be justified, just note that if we apply his rather rigorous consensual criterion to other disciplines, we would probably be searching in vain also for any sociological, economic or even philosophical theory – which Johnson still seems quite convinced do exist.
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McCarty, Matthew M., Mariana Egri, and Aurel Rustoiu. "The archaeology of ancient cult: from foundation deposits to religion in Roman Mithraism." Journal of Roman Archaeology 32 (2019): 279–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047759419000151.
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In the past two decades, the “archaeology of religion” has moved from the margins of scholarship to the center, led by the growth of postprocessual archaeological hermeneutics. 1 Such theoretical frames – whether the materiality of religion, objects as agents, the entanglement of humans and objects, or “thing theory” – demonstrate the centrality of the physical world and its archaeological correlates to religion. They offer new ways of posing questions about the construction of meanings for worshippers through materials.2
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Hegardt, Johan. "Man the Interpreter - From Natural Science to Hermeneutics in Swedish Archaeology." Current Swedish Archaeology 8, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2000.05.
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The epistemological principles of natural science dominate the archaeological discourse. Methods and theories developed exclusively for natural science are used in archaeology without further ado. Archaeological institutions employ experts on scientific methods. University departments, scholarship foundations and other institutions spend large amounts of money on projects and education with an explicit connection to natural science. The significance and outcome of such projects are hardly ever questioned. In this article the background of the present situation is analysed. It is also argued that archaeologists should pay more attention to life. It is in the ontology of life that we as archaeologists seek a significant meaning in history, not in explanations of present conditions constructed with methods developed for natural science. It is stated that archaeologists should tum to the first science —philosophy —if our mission, which is to explore the ontological aspects of life, shall become explicit in the discourse of archaeology.
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Purba, Jhon Leonardo Presley, Yonathan Wingit Pramono, and Robinson Rimun. "Implementasi Arkeologi Alkitabiah (Biblical Archaeology) Dalam Hermeneutik Sebagai Metode Penafsiran Alkitab." New Perspective in Theology and Religious Studies 2, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.47900/nptrs.v2i2.51.
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Abstract Biblical archaeology has very important roles in the method of hermeneutic interpretation to obtain an accurate, valid, precise and accountable interpretation of the Bible. Through a qualitative approach with a literature study method, this study concludes that biblical archaeology in hermeneutics has the implementations as a tool to reveal the historical context and cultural meaning of a text by understanding the archaeological relationship with the biblical text, as a tool to identify the text to adapt its content to the context of the Ancient Near East through the identification of historical, cultural, social, and religious issues provided by archaeological data, as a tool to build the construction of biblical-archaeological exegesis by combining both of data sources through critical thinking to adjust archaeological data with biblical data, as a tool control for context history and a tool produce more accurate historical information for listeners for more accurate application.Abstrak Arkeologi alkitabiah dalam metode penafsiran hermeneutik untuk mendapatkan penafsiran Alkitab yang akurat, valid, teliti dan dapat dipertanggungjawabkan sangat penting. Melalui pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode studi literature, penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa arkeologi alkitabiah dalam hermeneutik memiliki implementasi sebagai alat untuk mengungkap konteks historis dan makna budaya sebuah teks dengan memahami hubungan arkeologi dengan teks Alkitab, sebagai alat untuk mengidentifikasi teks untuk menyesuaikan kontennya dengan konteks Timur Dekat Kuno melalui identifikasi sejarah, budaya, sosial, dan masalah-masalah keagamaan yang disediakan oleh data-data arkeologi, sebagai alat membangun konstruksi eksegesis alkitabiah-arkeologis dengan menggabungkan kedua sumber data tersebut melalui pemikiran kritis untuk menyesuaikan data arkeologi dengan data alkitabiah, sebagai alat kontrol untuk konteks sejarah dan alat menghasilkan informasi historis yang lebih akurat bagi pendengar agar penerapan lebih akurat.
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Sitnikova, Aleksandra. "THEORETICAL, APPLIED AND SYNTHETIC METHODS OF STUDYING CULTURE AS A SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL SYSTEM." Social Anthropology of Siberia 2, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 6–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31804/2687-0606-2021-2-2-6-17.
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The article provides an overview and offers a classification of modern methodological approaches in the field of cultural studies. The article helps to choose an appropriate methodological strategy for conducting cultural research. Cultural studies methods are classified into three types: theoretical, applied and synthetic. The article discusses the specificity, advantages and disadvantages of such methods as field research, an interdisciplinary approach involving sociological analysis, archaeological analysis, art analysis, psychological experiment for cultural studies, and also considers the methodology of structuralism, functionalism, hermeneutics and linguocultural studies.
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Vaquer, José María, and Laura Pey. "Towards a dialogical archaeology: an Andean perspective on hermeneutics, interpretation and political praxis." Antiquity 96, no. 385 (November 10, 2021): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.162.
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Taking a geopolitical perspective centred in the Argentinian Andes, the authors propose a hermeneutical view of dialogical archaeology. The application of this theoretical and methodological approach to the example of the archaeological site of Huayatayoc (Puna de Jujuy, Argentina) enables an interpretation of the site as a complex woven fabric of diachronic local and scientific practices and narratives. The authors’ work at Huayatayoc provides an example of the potential of this approach for the development of a critical Latin American archaeology, which seeks to acknowledge the multiple interests and narratives of researchers and local communities in dialogue.
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Fogelin, Lars. "Inference to the Best Explanation: A Common and Effective Form of Archaeological Reasoning." American Antiquity 72, no. 4 (October 2007): 603–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25470436.
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Processual and postprocessual archaeologists implicitly employ the same epistemological system to evaluate the worth of different explanations: inference to the best explanation. This is good since inference to the best explanation is the most effective epistemological approach to archaeological reasoning available. Underlying the logic of inference to the best explanation is the assumption that the explanation that accounts for the most evidence is also most likely to be true. This view of explanation often reflects the practice of archaeological reasoning better than either the hypothetico-deductive method or hermeneutics. This article explores the logic of inference to the best explanation and provides clear criteria to determine what makes one explanation better than another. Explanations that are empirically broad, general, modest, conservative, simple, testable, and address many perspectives are better than explanations that are not. This article also introduces a system of understanding explanation that emphasizes the role of contrastive pairings in the construction of specific explanations. This view of explanation allows for a better understanding of when, and when not, to engage in the testing of specific explanations.
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Davis, Whitney. "Subjectivity and Objectivity in High and Historical Formalism." Representations 104, no. 1 (2008): 8–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2008.104.1.8.
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High formalism (often identified with the criticism of modern arts) can be defined by the reification of pure formality, the promotion of close looking, and the decontextualization of "the object," its disaggregation from the archaeological and architectural assemblages in which all artifacts are usually found. It is avowedly subjective. By contrast, historical formalism (often identified with the archaeology of art in premodern and non-Western traditions) attempts a hermeneutics of integrated aspect-seeing in the past——including the constitutive historical subjectivity of formality produced by the makers of the artifacts in question——that proceeds methodologically from the formalities we can see when we organize artifacts according to explicit morphological typologies and series. It is provisionally objective.
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Olsen, Bjørnar. "After Interpretation: Remembering Archaeology." Current Swedish Archaeology 20, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 11–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2012.01.
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In the light of some significant anniversaries, this pa- per discusses the fate of archaeological theory after the heyday of postprocessualism. While once considered a radical and revolutionary alternative, post- processual or interpretative archaeology remarkably soon became normalized, mainstream and hegem- onic, leading to the theoretical lull that has charac- terized its aftermath. Recently, however, this consen- sual pause has been disrupted by new materialist per- spectives that radically depart from the postproces- sual orthodoxy. Some outcomes of these perspectives are proposed and discussed, the most significant be- ing a return to archaeology – an archaeology that sacrifices the imperatives of historical narratives, so- ciologies, and hermeneutics in favour of a trust in the soiled and ruined things themselves and the memo- ries they afford.
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Zhao, Y., and C. Xu. "THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN EARTHEN LANDSCAPE HERITAGE AND SOCIO-POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY: A VIEW FROM ARCHAEOLOGY." ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences VIII-M-1-2021 (August 27, 2021): 209–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-viii-m-1-2021-209-2021.
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Abstract. In the past two decades, landscape archaeology has undergone a paradigm shift from traditional theoretical methods to being practically oriented, with the advent of the widespread application of philosophical theories (such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and others) and the emerging new technologies in social sciences. Nevertheless, landscape archaeology has not been able to garner the attention it requires from Chinese archaeology, which fails to understand its significance behind the systematic regional survey methods. Rather, for a long time, the study of the man-land relationship has been considered to be a part of environmental archaeology. Besides, the landscape elements in archaeological excavations were often considered as mechanical interactions between people and the environment, resulting in a lack of holistic and systematic research on a selection of archaeological sites. The focus however has remained restricted to the earthen remains and relics in the archaeological process. The Northern Wei Dynasty was the first nomadic regime to control the Central Plains in the Chinese history and moved its capital three times for the purpose of sinicization. The recent archaeological excavations of the ancient city of Shengle, imperial palaces, tombs, sacrificial sites, gardens, Yinshan palaces, and the border defense facilities during the Shengle period of the Northern Wei Dynasty have revealed several phenomena and evidence of the cultural integration of the various ethnic groups. As mentioned earlier, the limitations in the research horizon have led to the in-depth analysis and research of archaeological relics and archaeological data during this period seeking the desired attention. This study considers landscape archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and history as the primary research methods pertinent to the above situation. It considers archaeological relics and archaeological data from the prosperous period as the research object and thoroughly analyses the relationship between the people and the earthen landscape relics, to reveal the social culture, the religious beliefs, the politics, and the military behind the integration of the multi-ethnic culture, along with the cognition of the natural environments, the social structures, and the religious spaces. Simultaneously, the analysis results would also endeavor to integrate the artifacts, the relics (space, structure, layout, and locational relationship), road grids, surrounding environment, and several other surface space elements to restore and reproduce the prosperous social and cultural situations scenes of the bygone period. The final outcome shall become a typical research case. By comparing and combing the archaeological discoveries of the Northern and the Southern Dynasties of China and the pertinent archaeological data, we could further understand and explain the multi-ethnic cultural development and evolution while providing an essential theoretical basis for the present social and cultural research on the Northern Wei Dynasty in China.
Books on the topic "Archaeological Hermeneutics"
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Marit︠s︡as, Konstantinos. Hermeneutics of megaliths. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Yeşilyurt, Metin. Die wissenschaftliche Interpretation von Göbeklitepe: Die Theorie und das Forschungsprogramm. Berlin: Lit, 2014.
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Malley, Shawn. Excavating the Future. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941190.001.0001.
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Well-known in popular culture for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist is also a rich though often unacknowledged figure for constructing ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds’ in science fiction. But more than a well-spring for scenarios, SF’s archaeological imaginary is also a hermeneutic tool for excavating the ideological motivations of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of popular though critically neglected North American SF film and television texts–spanning the gamut of telefilms, pseudo-documentaries, teen serial drama and Hollywood blockbusters–Excavating the Future treats archaeology as a trope for exploring the popular archaeological imagination and the uses to which it is being put by the U.S. state and its adversaries. By treating SF texts as documents of archaeological experience circulating within and between scientific and popular culture communities and media, Excavating the Future develops critical strategies for analyzing SF film and television’s critical and adaptive responses to contemporary geopolitical concerns about the war on terror, homeland security, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, and the ongoing fight against ISIS.
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Schröter, Jens, and Christine Jacobi, eds. The Jesus Handbook. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-003r.
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An authoritative handbook on Jesus, his world, the outcomes of his life, and the quests to locate him in history. The Jesus Handbook is an indispensable reference work featuring essays from an international team of renowned scholars on the significance and meaning of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Rooted in historical-critical methodology, it emphasizes a diversity of perspectives and provides a spectrum of possible interpretations rather than a single unified portrait of Jesus. The Handbook’s dozens of authors — Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Protestant — all remain committed to the principle of interpreting the life of Jesus in context, while also giving due diligence to the implications of archaeological evidence and recent discourses in the hermeneutics of history. After an introduction that lays out the considerations of the task at hand, the authors survey the history of Jesus research and take a close look at the historical material itself — textual and otherwise. From this foundation, the Handbook then details the life of Jesus before at last exploring the reception and effects of Jesus’s life after his death, especially in the first centuries CE. With this wealth of information available in a single volume, scholars and students of the New Testament and early Christianity — and anyone interested in the search for the historical Jesus — will find The Jesus Handbook to be a resource that they return to time and again for both its breadth and depth.
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Westerdahl, Christer. The Maritime Cultural Landscape. Edited by Ben Ford, Donny L. Hamilton, and Alexis Catsambis. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199336005.013.0032.
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Maritime culture existed parallel to the agrarian mainstream. The term cultural landscape is partly applied into archaeological thinking. The first application of the specific concept of a maritime cultural landscape (also known as seascape, waterscape, island archeology etc.) dates to the middle of the 1970s. Any holistic view of maritime culture must be conceptual, administrative, material, or instinctive. Maritime cultural landscape is multilayered, not isolated from inland landscape, and was first published in English at the University of Copenhagen. It includes any hermeneutic kind of human relationship to the sea. The concept of Maritime cultural landscape has been used universally. There are many efforts currently made across the globe to make the maritime cultural landscape concept meaningful and enrich the appreciation of the maritime heritage.
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Nicolini-Zani, Matteo. The Luminous Way to the East. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197609644.001.0001.
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This book is a comprehensive survey of the historical, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources of the first stage of the Christian mission to China. It explores the complex and multifaceted process of the interaction with the different cultural and religious milieux that the Church of the East underwent in its diffusion throughout Central Asia and into China during the first millennium. It offers an overview of the Christian presence in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907) by reconstructing the composition and organization of Christian communities, the geographical location of Christian monasteries, and the related historical events attested by the sources. Through a new and richly annotated English translation of the Chinese Christian texts produced in Tang China, the volume provides a documented look at what was the earliest, and probably the most extraordinary, encounter of Christianity with Chinese culture and religions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism). It shows how East Syriac Christianity in its eastward expansion along the Silk Road from Persia to China was open to the adoption of other languages and imagery, and was able to inculturate the Christian teaching into new cultural and religious forms without losing its identity. This study offers source materials with introductory hermeneutical keys for further in-depth theological, missiological, and intercultural investigations in the field of Christianity in China.
Book chapters on the topic "Archaeological Hermeneutics"
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Embree, Lester. "Phenomenological Excavation of Archaeological Cognition or How to Hunt Mammoth." In The Question of Hermeneutics, 377–95. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1160-7_16.
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Lewis, Theodore J. "The History of Scholarship on Ancient Israelite Religion: A Brief Sketch." In The Origin and Character of God, 17–47. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072544.003.0002.
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In order to study the broad topic of divinity, it is essential to survey the history of scholarship, especially to understand the foundation of views inherited by modern scholars. The Enlightenment is chosen as a starting point due to the growth of the critical study of the Bible during these times. Germanic scholarship of the Hebrew Bible in nineteenth century is articulated as a critical turning point. Subsequent developments include the emergence of sociological methods, the “history of religion” comparative approach, and the “myth-and-ritual” school of thought. Newly discovered archaeological remains caused yet another shift, with scholars now debating whether ancient Israel’s religion was in fact as unique as confessional traditions taught. More recently, varying methodological approaches have exploded on the scene including epigraphy, socio-historical linguistics, revisionist historical hermeneutics, feminist approaches, intertextuality, and iconographic studies together with the maturing of the fields of archaeology and sociology.
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Price, Monroe E. "Law, Force, and the Russian Media." In Television, 108–27. Oxford University PressOxford, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198183624.003.0006.
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Abstract Looking at the development of mass-media law in post-Soviet Russia is like examining the wrists of a recently freed prisoner where the marks of the chains are still present. The very claims for freedom and the guarantees of change bespeak past injustices and old allocations of power. In the short moments that have transpired, issues of law in the defining of communication have already had a dramatic cycle: the rule of law has been followed by the assertion of military force and bloodshed, and force, in its tum, has been followed again by a clumsy reaffirmation of law. In 1995, Vladislav Listyev, the first head of a newly-organized Russian Public Television, was assassinated. Television has been an arena for bitter struggle, political and armed. In this context, the evolution of rules for the organization and governance of the press has reflected changes in political and economic powers in a society seeking definition and stability. The forms of a media law-its words, its constructions, its hermeneutics-cannot be understood without its embedded context. Like other laws, those concerning broadcasting can be studied like shards from an archaeological site, as clues to the nature of their social and political origins.
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Hampson, Jamie. "Towards an Understanding of Indigenous Rock Art from an Ideational Cognitive Perspective." In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology, C41P1—C41N19. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895950.013.41.
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Abstract Many years before the so-called ontological and materialist turns in archaeological and anthropological theory, ideational cognitive archaeologists made progress towards understanding at least some of the meanings of—and motivations behind the creation of—rock art. Working closely with Indigenous groups, and tacking back and forth between ethnographic, neurological, and material-cultural data, researchers were able to challenge the nihilist assertion that “we will never know anything about the original significance of the art.” This chapter considers historiography, theoretical, and methodological developments, and in situ case studies from west Texas, western North America, and beyond. It shows that hermeneutic and cross-disciplinary research into rock paintings and engravings is one of the most effective and compelling ways of understanding archaeology, varied ontological outlooks, and cognitive approaches to material culture, and what happened in the past.
Conference papers on the topic "Archaeological Hermeneutics"
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Zeng, Liuxiang. "Cultural Hermeneutics of Ancient Chinese Local History Exhibition - A Case Study of Archaeological Site Museum of Nanyue Palace." In 2018 4th International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.32.
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