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2013, No. 1 (4), On Representation
Anna Zalewska
Archaeological Representation as the Ongoing Transgression of Humans and Things
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Keywords: archaeology, thing, (de)presentification, representation as the mediation and as the replacement
Abstract: The starting point for the deliberations presented in that article was L. Olivier’s diagnosis that archeology is contaminated by the mutations of contemporaneity in its relations with the material remnants from the past and in their methods of representation of the past. The principal object of deliberations in this article focuses on the problem(atic) admissibility of treating archeology as a field predestined to ensure the relevance, importance, uniqueness and power of things in the processes of re-presenting and ‘transferring’ past into present; conditions under which representations become a replacement (représentance) and causes and consequences of people and things transgressions in the processes of re-presentations of the past.
About Author:
ZALEWSKA ANNA - archaeologist, historian, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Archaeology, University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska.
