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J Material Culture 11 (3)
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Title:
J Material Culture 11 (3)
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Series:
Journal of Material Culture
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Volume:
11 (3)
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Journal
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Editor:
Susanne Küchler
Mike Rowlands
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Publisher:
Sage Publications
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Year of Publication:
2006
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://mcu.sagepub.com/content/vol11/issue3/
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25 Jun 2007
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Vision, media, noise and the percolation of time: symmetrical approaches to the mediation of the mat...
Christopher L Witmore
267 - 292
The article considers in relation to sound the question of why, in the articulation of archaeological knowledge, wider sensory properties of the material world been overlooked. It argues that the neglect of sound is partly the product of human transactions with instruments and media in practice. Moreover, it is suggested that the denial of sound as a relevant category of archaeological inquiry arises out of modernist notions of space-time that reside at the heart of the discipline; so while the visual is linked with spatial properties that are resistant to change, the aural is connected with the temporal and is considered momentary and fleeting in nature. Still, it is argued that sound as a quality of things is fundamental to human sensation. In building upon a non-modernist notion of time where entities and events quite distant in a linear temporality are proximate through their simultaneous entanglement and percolation the author suggests we might learn what we can understand from tuning into the acoustic properties of the material past. But rather than reproduce an unnecessary dualism between seeing and hearing, this endeavour will require us to relearn how to see and hear at the same time through other, complimentary modes of articulation and engagement.
Observed decay: telling stories with mutable things
Caitlin DeSilvey
318 - 338
The degradation of cultural artefacts is usually understood in a purely negative vein: the erosion of physical integrity is associated with a parallel loss of cultural information. The article asks if it is possible to adopt an interpretive approach in which entropic processes of decomposition and decay, though implicated in the destruction of cultural memory traces on one register, contribute to the recovery of memory on another register. The article tracks the entanglement of cultural and natural histories through the residual material culture of a derelict homestead in Montana. In conclusion, the article suggests that deposits of degraded material, though inappropriate for recovery in conventional conservation strategies, may be understood through the application of a collaborative interpretive ethic, allowing other-than-human agencies to participate in the telling of stories about particular places.