According to Foucault, Archaeology Is a Method, Whereas Genealogy Is a Tactic. What Is the Difference?

For the second presentation, Matthieu Sossoyan presented Prehistoric burnials on the island of Montreal. This event was based on archaeology that is present in Montreal. Out of these two lecture, this one is by far the most interesting since because I've learn more things about Vanier College's past and about Montreal. The important point raised during this hearing is when Matthieu explained how we are surrounded by hundreds of archaeological sites, meaning that we're are basically surrounded by history. For example, mesuems and cementries are places that we can visit that allows us to ''travel back in time''. What got my attention during this lecture is when Matthieu told the story about an old man that digged out his basement because he was

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It is observed that the historical happenings have a great negativity on the face of the society, which is yet to be fixed. And so, the belief behind, digging up the past, is all about ‘’telling the story of human

This became a tool which rivaled Chagnon’s incessant pestering about their lineage, which discussion proved to be a strict cultural stigma. Chagnon did well to manipulate their desires to extract necessary information. It is difficult to judge the ethicality of doing so, based on no knowledge of what was done with the genealogical data after collected. This is a breakdown where the AAA (American Anthropological Association) might see an opportunity for ethical issues concerning the method of information attained.

“Foucault’s work gave the terms discursive practices and discursive formation to the analysis of particular institutions and their ways of establishing orders of truth, or what is accepted as ‘reality’ in a given society” (Goldberg). Discursive formations display hierarchical arrangement and are understood as reinforcing certain already established identities or subjectivities- in matters of sexuality, status, or class for example. These dominant discourses are understood as in turn reinforced by existing systems of law, education and the media”. Foucault’s work is to show that members of society such as intellectuals, “are implicated in discourse and in the discursive regimes or systems of power and regulation which give them their livelihoods

He could see, through his excavations, that there were separate groups of humans that he came across and therefore the phrases urban and industrial revolution came about. Childe didn’t merely describe and correlate the culture sequences he attempted to account for their origin as well (Renfrew and Bahn, 2012:36). Not only could Childe notice different cultures but “in 1942, Childe used the distribution of tombs on Rousay to estimate the size and distribution of population on this Scottish island during the Neolithic period (Trigger, 2006:376),” and later on whilst he was excavating at sites such as Skara Brae the “analysis of the community and the estimation of population size became much easier (Renfrew and Bahn, 2012:190).” Throughout his life “as early as 1925, Childe had employed a functional view of culture to facilitate his culture-historical analysis (Trigger, 2006:397),” this concept of culture –historical approach is still being considered and thought about in archaeology today. “During the years of 1928 and 1957 Childe revolutionised specific words relating to the past. These terms became important, not just for archaeologists but also historians and more importantly the public. This terminology that was introduced allowed for clear stages that can be seen throughout the chronological timeline of the past (Greene, 1999:97).” These words such as, urban

This essay will aim to cover several archaeology techniques and methodologies that would have been used during excavation of archeological sites, in particular the New Kinord site. These methods will provide an insight into a wide range of information that I am interested in discovering. These include what the inhabitants of the site did for a living, their diet and how the term of occupation can be determined.

The history of archaeology plays an important role in the controversial issues surrounding the science. Archaeology has only recently become a concrete science. Although mankind has always had an interest in the past, the root of archaeology is believed to have started in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. During this time period, artifacts were mainly sought after for collecting. The upper class of the Renaissance period collected artifacts from places such as Rome and Greece to display in their homes as art. As time went on, the lure of historical art and artifacts increased. “Classical archaeology” is the direct result of this curiosity. The “classical archaeologists” were mainly wealthy men that collected artifacts for their homes and studied where they

Living in today’s society it is extremely hard to imagine growing up in a house that is occupied by eight other families. However, this was the case for all children living in seventeenth century Huronia. Due to the fact that the seventeenth century was so far in the past, that it is difficult to fathom what life must have been like growing up in these circumstances, as the inhabitants of this time are not around anymore. With the help of archaeology we are able to distinguish many aspects of seventeenth century Huron life. Using applied archaeology, replicas of the longhouses can be made to represent the true size of these buildings. There are evident soil burns, which show hearths within a long house, implying the amount of families that occupied the building. Although this archaeology paints a general picture of their civilization, to get a truer representation of seventeenth century life, analysis of actual Jesuit missionary accounts should be conducted.

The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis, is an educational series of lectures that effectively advances the theories of famous historiographers. He specifically focuses on historians like E.H. Carr and Marc Bloch and tries to encourage historians and students to not only reevaluate the concepts of Carr and Bloch but to dissect the system that historiographers use. Gaddis, in an indirect approach does contest particular assumptions of postmodernism, mainly the radical interpretation that historiographers remain incapable of creating deductions about the past. Gaddis's flair rests in his handling of the historian's occupation and how he considers them both a science and an art. Through the examination of The Landscape of History, the reader, gets a sense that Gaddis is combining the techniques of an artist and the methods of scientists. He describes throughout the whole book what a historian does and what he must do with a mixture of inundating metaphors.

cultures. The prominent role of ethnic research in archaeology makes sense because it re affirmed the long-held archaeological tenet that culturally discrete peoples could be identified by their specific objects. Orser continues by saying that the basis for identifying archaeological cultures linked distinct peoples and their unique artifacts. This quite Interesting because objects from the past, some maybe valuable brings about a sense of culture.

This theory was primarily a reaction to processual archaeology, criticizing its methods, and disagreeing with the idea of using the scientific method, and relies greatly on records and data. Post-processual theory has two approaches to archaeology, first there is Subjectivism, arguing that archaeology is more subjective than objective and that the truth from archaeological record has relations to the viewpoint of the archaeologist presenting the data. Second is Interpretation, informing that almost all archaeologists include their own views and bias in their interpretations their data. Many post-processualists opposed racism, colonialism, and elitism within the field, because it wasn’t right for rich elites to interpret the past of ordinary people. They also believe that past societies must be interpreted by idealistic and materialist ideas. (Johnson, M).

Archaeology and archaeological findings are rarely, if ever, politically neutral. As stated by Quetzil E. Castañeda, “Once the archaeologist produces an interpretation of the past, that knowledge has a political life of its own” (as quoted in McGuire, 2008). Even if archaeologists pursue their research with no political intent, their work can be cited and used to support political agendas. Meaning, once archaeologists present the information to the public, whoever is able to access it is free to use it. Therefore, archaeology and politics are perpetually intertwined. This is not necessarily problematic, unless archaeological undertakings are commissioned with a desired outcome, as was the case with much of the Nazis’ archaeological ‘research’.

Before the history is recorded through the invention of writing, the prehistoric men had been showing their existence or culture through painting, tools used, and oral traditions. The end of prehistory is different for every region since the discovery of writing varies with different places. By using the oral traditions, tools, and painting, numerous philosophers claimed several ideas of how the prehistoric men lives and the culture or social behaviors in the prehistoric period. However, as different new antiques are found, philosophers then presented new theories about the prehistoric men’s cultures. Therefore, our perspectives for the prehistoric culture are also changed or shifted throughout the time. Moreover, with different fields of study

• The study of the past based on recovering and identifying artifacts and making inferences about those who left these artifacts is called Archaeology .