In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

Time and Narrative

The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.

Europe and the People without History

A History of Archaeological Thought.

The archaeology of the contemporary past is becoming an important subfield within the discipline and one attractive not only to archaeologists but to social scientists and artists. The period that started with World War I, here identified as “supermodernity,” has been characterized by increasing devastation of both humans and things and the proliferation of archaeological sites, such as battlefields, industrial ruins, mass graves, and concentration camps. The mission of a critical archaeology of this period is not only telling alternative stories but also unveiling what the supermodern power machine does not want to be shown. For this we need to develop a new kind of archaeological rhetoric, pay closer attention to the materiality of the world in which we live, and embrace political commitment without sacrificing objectivity.

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Time to destroy. An archaeology of supermodernity

This essay identifies the potential of an emerging archaeological turn for anthropology—and for archaeology itself. I argue that despite the critiques of the past two decades, the temporality of modernity and a belief in its exceptionalism still structure much of anthropological thought, as exemplified in the division of archaeology and ethnography and in the subfield of historical archaeology and its dystopic treatment of modern urban ruins. But alternative temporalities and analytical possibilities are also emerging, ones attentive to the folding and recycling of cultural elements that Walter Benjamin described with such philosophical depth. On the ground, Benjamin’s insights can be put to use by paying greater attention to the spatiotemporal dynamics of capitalism’s creative destruction, to the social life of ruins, and to projects that challenge the linear divide between modernity and antiquity. Releasing anthropology from progressive time necessarily entails a reintegration of the subfields and a dir...

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Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity

Antarctica was the last continent to be discovered in the early nineteenth century. In order to become acquainted with the process of incorporation of Antarctica to the scope of the capitalist system we have focused on particularity: i.e., specific economic and technological and ideological aspects of everyday life in sealer camps spread along the coastline of the South Shetland Islands. Archaeological research in Byers Peninsula–Livingston Island provides an approach to the mechanisms implemented to organize the first resource exploitation in these lands.

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Archaeology in Antarctica: Nineteenth-Century Capitalism Expansion Strategies

Theoretical Discussions.- Torture, Truth, Repression and Archaeology.- Archaeology and Left in Colombia.- The Archaeology of Conflict in Brazil.- An Archaeological View of Political Repression in Uruguay (1971-1985).- Search for and Identification of Desaparecidos.- Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology: A Balance Sheet.- Clandestine detention centers.- The Materialization of Sadism Archaeology of Architecture in Clandestine Detention Centers (Argentinean Military Dictatorship, 1976-1983).- Objects and Representations.- "They Must Have Done Something Wrong...": The Construction of "Subversion" as a Social Category and the Reshaping of Identities Through Body and Dress (Argentina, 1976-1983).- Scratching Behind the Walls Graffiti and Symbolic Political Imagination at Cuartel San Carlos (Caracas, Venezuela).- Emblematic Case Studies.- The Archaeology of a Search: An Archaeological Search The History of the Finding of "Che" Guevara's Remains.- "Mexico, 1968": Among Olympic Fanfares, Government Repression and Genocide.

Memories from darkness : archaeology of repression and resistance in Latin America

This article discusses the structuring of domination in everyday life, studied through private housing material culture, over a period of several centuries. Our case study deals with the processes ...

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Social archaeology of housing from a Latin American perspective: A case study

What role will archaeology play in the Anthropocene – the proposed new geological epoch marked by human impact on Earth systems? That is the question discussed by thirteen archaeologists and other scholars from five continents in this thought-provoking forum. Their responses are diverse and wide-ranging. While Edward Harris looks to archaeological stratigraphy for a material paradigm of the Anthropocene, Alice Gorman explores the extent of human impact on orbital space and lunar surfaces – challenging the assumption that the Anthropocene is confined to Earth. Jeff Benjamin investigates the sounds of the Anthropocene. Paul Graves-Brown questions the idea that the epoch had its onset with the invention of the steam engine, while Mark Hudson uses Timothy Morton’s concept of hyperobjects to imagine the dark artefacts of the future. Victor Paz doubts the practical relevance of the concept to archaeological chronologies, and Bruce Clarke warns archaeologists to steer clear of the Anthropocene altogether, on the grounds of the overbearing hubris of the very idea of the Age of Humans. Others like Jason Kelly and Ewa Domanska regard the Anthropocene debate as an opportunity to reach new forms of understanding of Earth systems. Andre Zarankin and Melisa Salerno ground significant issues in the archaeology of Antarctica. And Zoe Crossland explores the vital links between the known past and the imagined future. As a discipline orientated to the future and contemporary world as well as the past, Chris Witmore concludes, archaeology in the Anthropocene will have more work than it can handle.

Archaeology of the Anthropocene

Materiality and the Social.- Meanings of Material Culture.- Heideggerian Thoughts.- Tension between Written Document/Material Document?- New Archaeology in Argentina.- Network Theory and Archaeology of Modern History.- The Comparative Method and Study of Spanish and Portuguese South American Material Culture.- Beyond the Sex/Gender Split.- Children?s Activity in the Record of Hunter-Gatherers.- Identity: Ceramic Evidence from Northern Chile.- Stereotypes and Research About Je Populations in South Brazil.- Traveling Objects and Spatial Images.- Materiality of Inka Domination.- Domestication.- Enlightened Discourses.- Social Practices in Spanish Settlement of Floridablanca, Patagonia.- Images as a Material Discourse.- Image of Hestia?s Iconography.- Stylistic Units in Prehistoric Art Research.- Analysis of Rural Scenes in Black and Red-figure Attic Vases and Construction of the Athenian Empire.- The Construction of Archaeological Discourse.- Brazilian Archaeology and Indigenous Identity in Early Decades of the Twentieth Century.- Anglo-American and Latin American Radical Archaeologies.- Archaeology, Ethnography and Romanticism in Imperial Brazil (1838-1867).

Andrés Zarankin

Papers

Archaeology in Antarctica: Nineteenth-Century Capitalism Expansion Strategies

Memories from darkness : archaeology of repression and resistance in Latin America

Social archaeology of housing from a Latin American perspective: A case study

Archaeology of the Anthropocene

Global archaeological theory : contextual voices and contemporary thoughts