Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field

Open Archaeology

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Rimvydas Laužikas¹  Costis Dallas²  Suzie Thomas³  Ingrida Kelpšienė¹  Isto Huvila⁴  Pedro Luengo⁵  Helena Nobre⁶  Marina Toumpouri⁷  Vykintas Vaitkevičius¹ 

[1] Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University;Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada & Digital Curation Unit, IMIS-Athena Research Centre;Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki;Department of ALM, Uppsala University;Department of History of Art, University of Seville;University of Aveiro, Campus Universitario de Santiago;Αθωνική Ψηφιακή Κιβωτός (Athoniki Psifiaki Kivotos)

关键词: archaeology-related communities;    semiosphere theory;    Yuri Lotman;    digital heritage;    nonprofessional archaeology;   

DOI  :  10.1515/opar-2018-0022

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology.

【 授权许可】

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