LEADER 05150nam 22006255 450 001 9910485016303321 005 20200920054147.0 010 $a1-4614-8724-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4614-8724-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001151683 035 $a(EBL)1538512 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001049350 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11652484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001049350 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11017344 035 $a(PQKB)10679035 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1538512 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4614-8724-1 035 $a(PPN)176099492 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001151683 100 $a20131024d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAgainst Typological Tyranny in Archaeology $eA South American Perspective /$fedited by Cristóbal Gnecco, Carl Langebaek 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer New York :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4614-8723-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAgainst typological tyranny. Cristóbal Gnecco and Carl Langebaek -- Social complexity in ancient Amerindian societies: perspectives from the Brazilian lowlands. Cristiana Barreto -- Blind men and an elephant: exchange systems and sociopolitical organizations in the Orinoco basin and neighboring areas in pre-Hispanic times. Rafael Gassón -- Palenques and palisades: a revision of social complexity issues in contact- period eastern Venezuela. Rodrigo Navarrete -- Agricola est quem domus demonstrate. Alejandro Haber -- Social space and the archaeology of inequality: insights into social differences at Ambato valley, southern Andes, Argentina. Andrés Laguens -- Poor chiefs: corporate dimensions of pre-Inca society in the southern Andes. Axel Nielsen -- Against the domain of master narratives: archaeology and Antarctic history. María Ximena Senatore and Andres Zarankin -- Testing a model of site location in the Alto Magdalena, Colombia. Víctor González -- Children of the creeks: cultural characterization of Nasa politics. Wilhelm Londoño -- On hybrids recently unleashed. Cristóbal Gnecco -- The role of place-making in chiefdom societies. Hope Henderson -- Words, things and text: El Infiernito, archaeology, documents and ethnology in the study of Muisca society. Carl Henrik Langebaek. 330 $aThe papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that give meanings to symbols) but that their tyranny can be overcome if they are used from a critical, heuristic and non-prescriptive stance: critical because the complacent attitude towards their tyranny is replaced by a militant stance against it; heuristic because they are used as means to reach alternative and suggestive interpretations but not as ultimate and definite destinies; and non-prescriptive because instead of using them as threads to follow they are rather used as constitutive parts of more complex and connective fabrics. The papers included in the book are diverse in temporal and locational terms. They cover from so called Formative societies in lowland Venezuela to Inca-related ones in Bolivia; from the coastal shell middens of Brazil to the megalithic sculptors of SW Colombia. Yet, the papers are related. They have in common their shared rejection of established, naturalized typologies that constrain the way archaeologists see, forcing their interpretations into well known and predictable conclusions. Their imaginative interpretative proposals flee from the secure comfort of venerable typologies, many suspicious because of their association with colonial political narratives. Instead, the authors propose novel ways of dealing with archaeological data. 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aCultural property 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aArchaeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X13000 606 $aCultural Heritage$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/419000 606 $aRegional and Cultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000 607 $aSouth America$xAntiquities 615 0$aArchaeology. 615 0$aCultural property. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 14$aArchaeology. 615 24$aCultural Heritage. 615 24$aRegional and Cultural Studies. 676 $a980.01 702 $aGnecco$b Cristóbal$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aLangebaek$b Carl$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910485016303321 996 $aAgainst Typological Tyranny in Archaeology$92847804 997 $aUNINA