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Archaeologies of the Heart || by Supernant, Kisha; Baxter, Jane Eva; Lyons, Natasha; Atalay, Sonya is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic critiques of how archaeology is practiced and how science is used to interpret the past lives of people. Inspired by the calls for a different way of doing archaeology, this volume presents a case here for a heart-centered archaeological practice. Heart-centered practice emerged in care-based disciplines, such as nursing and various forms of therapy, as a way to recognize the importance of caring for those on whom we work, and as an avenue to explore how our interactions with others impacts our own emotions and heart. Archaeologists are disciplined to separate mind and heart, a division which harkens back to the origins of western thought. The dualism between the mental and the physical is fundamental to the concept that humans can objectively study the world without being immersed in it. Scientific approaches to understanding the world assume there is an objective world to be studied and that humans must remove themselves from that world in order to find the truth. An archaeology of the heart rejects this dualism; rather, we see mind, body, heart, and spirit a

Author

Supernant, Kisha; Baxter, Jane Eva; Lyons, Natasha; Atalay, Sonya

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030363505