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The Maya Enlightenment: Towards a Post-Postclassic
Cambridge Archaeological Journal ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 , DOI: 10.1017/s0959774324000374
Panos Kratimenos
Cambridge Archaeological Journal ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 , DOI: 10.1017/s0959774324000374
Panos Kratimenos
While increased focus in recent decades has been paid to conceptions of time in archaeological interpretation, comparably less attention has been afforded to the way in which we ourselves conceive of time in the construction of chronologies to periodize the past. In this paper, I focus on the tripartite chronology utilized by scholars of the Precolumbian Maya as a case study to explore the potential of a critical approach to archaeological chronologies and periodizations. By examining the chronology's origins and the intellectual histories which underpin it, I demonstrate that the issues at stake are more than questions of temporal accuracy but, rather, matters of reflexivity. Through a process of ‘sublimation’, problematic assumptions and mentalities upon which periodizations were originally constructed are obscured in contemporary usage, leading to the perpetuation of outdated tropes and a conceptual path dependency in narratives of the past. Conversely, appreciating the arbitrary nature of chronological demarcations and treating such frameworks as negotiable and open to revision is a powerful tool in opening up new interpretive possibilities to the narration of the past.
中文翻译:
玛雅启蒙运动:迈向后古典主义
虽然近几十年来人们越来越关注考古学解释中的时间概念,但相对较少地关注我们自己在构建年表以分期过去时构想时间的方式。在本文中,我重点介绍前哥伦布时期玛雅学者用作案例研究的三方年代学,以探索考古年代学和分期的批判方法的潜力。通过研究年表的起源和支撑它的思想历史,我证明了利害攸关的问题不仅仅是时间准确性的问题,而是反身性的问题。通过“升华”的过程,最初构建分期的有问题的假设和心态在当代使用中被掩盖,导致过时的比喻永久存在,并在过去叙事中产生概念路径依赖。相反,欣赏时间划分的任意性,并将这些框架视为可协商的和可以修改的,是为过去的叙述开辟新的解释可能性的有力工具。
更新日期:2025-01-28
中文翻译:
玛雅启蒙运动:迈向后古典主义
虽然近几十年来人们越来越关注考古学解释中的时间概念,但相对较少地关注我们自己在构建年表以分期过去时构想时间的方式。在本文中,我重点介绍前哥伦布时期玛雅学者用作案例研究的三方年代学,以探索考古年代学和分期的批判方法的潜力。通过研究年表的起源和支撑它的思想历史,我证明了利害攸关的问题不仅仅是时间准确性的问题,而是反身性的问题。通过“升华”的过程,最初构建分期的有问题的假设和心态在当代使用中被掩盖,导致过时的比喻永久存在,并在过去叙事中产生概念路径依赖。相反,欣赏时间划分的任意性,并将这些框架视为可协商的和可以修改的,是为过去的叙述开辟新的解释可能性的有力工具。