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5 - Pot-Persons in Ambato

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

Andrés Laguens
Affiliation:
University of Córdoba, Argentina
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Chapter 5 carries out a methodological experiment starting from perspectivism as a theory of reality, used as a heuristic device, producing a dialogue mediated by translating this native theory into our archaeological terms. The focus is on the relations between humans and things where materiality has all the qualities seen previously, non-human entities can be persons, and the capacity for agency relates to the possibility that objects will become persons. The focus is on anthropomorphic vessels from Ambato and their contexts, considered as objects that can be subjects with a point of view. Three relational situations are analysed: the manufacturing process, the contexts of use and abandonment. Manufacture, as the genesis of these vessels as subjects, is analysed through three procedures: as a copy of a model, as mimesis of a mythical object with human properties and as a form of quotation or reference to socially inscribed ways of making. It is argued that such object subjects could be de-subjectivized to turn them into pure objects. Finally, the chapter details how the relationships people established with such vessels responded to the principles of predation and commensality, just as other forms of relationship between humans and non-humans.

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Perspectivism in Archaeology
Insights into Indigenous Theories of Reality
, pp. 120 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Pot-Persons in Ambato
  • Andrés Laguens, University of Córdoba, Argentina
  • Book: Perspectivism in Archaeology
  • Online publication: 01 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009393874.007
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  • Andrés Laguens, University of Córdoba, Argentina
  • Book: Perspectivism in Archaeology
  • Online publication: 01 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009393874.007
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  • Pot-Persons in Ambato
  • Andrés Laguens, University of Córdoba, Argentina
  • Book: Perspectivism in Archaeology
  • Online publication: 01 February 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009393874.007
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