Individual experience and emotional closeness: Archaeologists’ valuation of encountered objects
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Psychology, economy, religion, society, and environment (geology, climate, flora, and fauna) are all interrelated with material culture and shape human behaviour. Consequently, in order to judge ancient people’s valuation of objects and understand patterns of discard, we have to consider all cultural aspects and subsystems. It is not only the public that usually values ancient finds in an economic sense and admires treasure items, but the similar behaviour archaeologists
themselves express. Such a professional attitude is inherited partly from the collectors’ and cultural-historical periods when objects were appreciated in aesthetic terms. Partly it comes from the processual archaeology when the research was mainly focused on the economy of past communities and societies. By phenomenological approach, I analyse the archaeologists’ behaviour when encountering past remains, when unearthing and studying things. The individual’s level of experience and the field of expertise (i.e., the am...ount and the nature of the acquired knowledge on certain types of material) determine his judgment of objects and consequent treatment. Case studies reveal differences and similarities in laic and expert’s valuation of things and point to the importance of another dimension in the judging process. The individual’s opportunity to realise physical closeness to evaluated objects (to look at, to touch, or even to possess) and possibly create an emotional attachment to them also influences the patterns of their keeping and discarding. We can use the same criteria for reconstructing past people’s actions and their evaluation of the surrounding materiality.
Кључне речи:
emotions / archaeology / consumers / phenomenology / cultural systemИзвор:
Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Abstract book. Kiel Conference 13-18.3.2023, 2023, 148-148Издавач:
- Kiel University
Напомена:
- Kiel Conference, 13-18.3.2023
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https://kielconference.uni-kiel.de/wp-content/uploads/Book-of-Abstracts-2023-03-08-web.pdfhttp://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5927
Институција/група
Arheologija / ArchaeologyTY - CONF AU - Mitrović, Milica PY - 2023 UR - https://kielconference.uni-kiel.de/wp-content/uploads/Book-of-Abstracts-2023-03-08-web.pdf UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5927 AB - Psychology, economy, religion, society, and environment (geology, climate, flora, and fauna) are all interrelated with material culture and shape human behaviour. Consequently, in order to judge ancient people’s valuation of objects and understand patterns of discard, we have to consider all cultural aspects and subsystems. It is not only the public that usually values ancient finds in an economic sense and admires treasure items, but the similar behaviour archaeologists themselves express. Such a professional attitude is inherited partly from the collectors’ and cultural-historical periods when objects were appreciated in aesthetic terms. Partly it comes from the processual archaeology when the research was mainly focused on the economy of past communities and societies. By phenomenological approach, I analyse the archaeologists’ behaviour when encountering past remains, when unearthing and studying things. The individual’s level of experience and the field of expertise (i.e., the amount and the nature of the acquired knowledge on certain types of material) determine his judgment of objects and consequent treatment. Case studies reveal differences and similarities in laic and expert’s valuation of things and point to the importance of another dimension in the judging process. The individual’s opportunity to realise physical closeness to evaluated objects (to look at, to touch, or even to possess) and possibly create an emotional attachment to them also influences the patterns of their keeping and discarding. We can use the same criteria for reconstructing past people’s actions and their evaluation of the surrounding materiality. PB - Kiel University C3 - Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Abstract book. Kiel Conference 13-18.3.2023 T1 - Individual experience and emotional closeness: Archaeologists’ valuation of encountered objects EP - 148 SP - 148 DO - 10.38071/2023-00120-3 ER -
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Mitrović, M.. (2023). Individual experience and emotional closeness: Archaeologists’ valuation of encountered objects. in Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Abstract book. Kiel Conference 13-18.3.2023 Kiel University., 148-148. https://doi.org/10.38071/2023-00120-3
Mitrović M. Individual experience and emotional closeness: Archaeologists’ valuation of encountered objects. in Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Abstract book. Kiel Conference 13-18.3.2023. 2023;:148-148. doi:10.38071/2023-00120-3 .
Mitrović, Milica, "Individual experience and emotional closeness: Archaeologists’ valuation of encountered objects" in Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Abstract book. Kiel Conference 13-18.3.2023 (2023):148-148, https://doi.org/10.38071/2023-00120-3 . .