Don't Fall Asleep by a Boulder: Time, Communication, and Consciousness in relation to Andean Stone

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作者
Allen, Catherine J. [1 ]
机构
[1] George Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, Washington, DC 20052 USA
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ARCHAEOLOGIES-JOURNAL OF THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS | 2024年 / 20卷 / 01期
关键词
Andean communities; Ontology of stone; Miniaturization; Fractality; PERSPECTIVE; MINIATURES;
D O I
10.1007/s11759-024-09499-4
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K85 [文物考古];
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0601 ;
摘要
My paper addresses perspectives on powerful stones among rural farmers and pastoralists in the contemporary Andes. Stones are considered sites of transformation that transcend temporal dimensions. Some boulders are considered to have been people in previous ages; their petrification is an ongoing process that affects human beings in their vicinity, suggesting an ontological orientation in which time, place, materiality, and consciousness are intimately interrelated. Significant stones, ranging from miniature livestock to huge monoliths, are connected with powerful mountains through a play of fractal relations that animates the cosmos. Mon article traite des perspectives relatives a des roches puissantes se trouvant parmi des fermiers ruraux et des gardiens de troupeaux dans les Andes contemporaines. Les roches sont considerees comme des sites de transformation qui transcendent les dimensions temporelles. Certains blocs de roche sont consideres comme ayant ete des personnes au cours d'epoques anterieures. Leur petrification est un processus continu affectant les etres humains dans leur voisinage, ce qui suggere une orientation ontologique au sein de laquelle le temps, le lieu, la materialite et la conscience sont imbriques de maniere intime. Les roches de grande signification, allant des troupeaux miniatures aux gigantesques monolithes, sont reliees aux montagnes puissantes par le biais d'un jeu de relations fractales animant le cosmos. Mi articulo aborda las perspectivas sobre las piedras poderosas entre los agricultores y pastores rurales de los Andes contemporaneos. Las piedras son consideradas lugares de transformacion que trascienden las dimensiones temporales. Se considera que algunos cantos rodados han sido habitados por personas en epocas anteriores; su petrificacion es un proceso continuo que afecta a los seres humanos de su entorno, lo que sugiere una orientacion ontologica en la que el tiempo, el lugar, la materialidad y la conciencia estan intimamente interrelacionados. Piedras importantes, que van desde ganado en miniatura hasta enormes monolitos, estan conectadas con poderosas montanas a traves de un juego de relaciones fractales que animan el cosmos.
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