1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484082003321

Titolo

After Ethics : Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology / / edited by Alejandro Haber, Nick Shepherd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

1-4939-1689-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Collana

Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice, , 2730-6925 ; ; 3

Disciplina

170

300

301

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology

Anthropology

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: After ethics. Ancestral voices and post-disciplinary worlds in archaeology: an introduction -- Chapter 2: Undisciplining archaeological ethics  -- Chapter 3: “Do as I say and not as I do.” On the gap between good ethics and reality in African archaeology -- Chapter 4: Archaeology and development: ethics of an inevitable relationship -- Chapter 5: The mark of the Indian still inhabits our body. On ethics and disciplining in South American archaeology -- Chapter 6: Excess of hospitality. Critical semiopraxis and theoretical risks in postcolonial justice -- Chapter 7: On burial grounds and city spaces —reconfiguring the normative -- Chapter 8: Archaeology after archaeology.

Sommario/riassunto

While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent years, few attempt to move beyond a conventional discourse on ethics to consider how a discussion of the social and political implications of archaeological practice might be conceptualized differently. The conceptual ideas about ethics posited in this volume make it of interest to readers outside of the discipline; in



fact, to anyone interested in contemporary debates around the possibilities and limitations of a discourse on ethics. The authors in this volume set out to do three things. The first is to track the historical development of a discussion around ethics, in tandem with the development and “disciplining” of archaeology. The second is to examine the meanings, consequences and efficacies of a discourse on ethics in contemporary worlds of practice in archaeology. The third is to push beyond the language of ethics to consider other ways of framing a set of concerns around rights, accountabilities and meanings in relation to practitioners, descendent and affected communities, sites, material cultures, the ancestors and so on.