‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People
‘Rock-art’, ‘Animism’ and Two-way Thinking: Towards a Complementary Epistemology in the Understanding of Material Culture and ‘Rock-art’ of Hunting and Gathering People
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“岩石艺术”、“万物有灵论”与双向思维：物质文化与狩猎采集的“岩石艺术”理解中的互补认识论
DOI：
10.1007/s10816-011-9105-4
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
H. Bell
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作者：
M. Porr;H. Bell
近年来，“万物有灵论”的概念在考古学家探索非西方物质文化表达方式时受到相当广泛的欢迎。这种发展也影响了最近对以狩猎和采集者或狩猎和采集传统为生的人们的“岩石艺术”研究的学术方法。我们在此认为，迄今为止在这个方向上的尝试通常都受到了损害，因为它们未能认真对待土著哲学和知识贡献。任何对土著物质表现形式（包括所谓的岩石艺术）的关注都必须涉及对学术话语本身的批判性重新评估，并对西方科学和文学、学术方法的首要地位提出挑战。参考“岩石艺术”和 Ngarinyin（澳大利亚西北部金伯利）的世界观，我们提出了一些关于发展替代解释框架的初步想法，同时为另一种更平衡的认识论提供了（急需的）合法性。
In recent years, the concept of ‘animism’ has gained considerable popularity among archaeologists in exploring non-Western expressions of material culture. This development has also influenced recent academic approaches towards the study of ‘rock-art’ of people living as hunter and gatherers or in a hunting and gathering tradition. We argue here that attempts in this direction so far are generally compromised, because they fail to take Indigenous philosophies and intellectual contributions seriously. Any concern with Indigenous material expressions, including so-called rock-art, has to involve a critical re-assessment of academic discourse itself and a challenge to the primacy of Western scientific and literary, academic methodologies. With reference to the ‘rock-art’ and the world-view of the Ngarinyin (Kimberley, Northwest Australia), we present some preliminary thoughts for the development of an alternative interpretative framework, while offering a (much needed) legitimacy to another more balanced epistemology.