Post-Doc, Dept of historical studies
Researcher
Thesis Title: The Roads In-Between: Causeways and Polyagentive Networks at Ichmul and Yo’okop, Cochuah Region, Mexico
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Per Cornell
Stephen Houston |
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I am a researcher at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg (aka Göteborg University) in Sweden. My current research on caves and climate change in the northern Maya lowlands is financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). My next project on water as archaeological material is financed by the Central Bank of Sweden (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond).
My dissertation from December 2006 (Göteborg University) concerns causeways at two sites in southern Mexico (Ichmul and Yo’okop). The dissertation was also a development phase for what I have called polyagentive archaeology, posthumanocentric archaeology and most recently neomaterialistic archaeology. These are concepts that relates to a neo-realist archaeology, largely inspired by the writings of Bergson, Deleuze and DeLanda.
My research is dedicated to an archaeological perspective that downplays the importance of the human. It is posthumanocentric, or prehuman in a sense since it focuses on processes that form materials, humans and other entities. I claim that there is nothing essential in the human from where we can define the human. According to this reasoning, the human needs to be decentralized from the archaeological record in the initial phase of research. She cannot be used as an a-priori starting point. I take the consequence of this argument one step further away from what I call an essentialist humanocentrism in archaeology. Humanocentrism works from a static and generalized view of human and culture.
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