Vítor Oliveria Jorge, professor da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, e investigador na área da arqueologia, para além de interessado pela cultura e pensamento contemporâneo, deslocou-se ao Canada no passado mês de Março para realizar várias conferências, uma das quais na Universidade de Toronto ( Canada) no dia passado dia 24 de Março que versou sobre a problemática da anarqueologia, sob o título «Can archeology overcome evolutionism, culture history and processualism? Towards a na anarchaelogy»
Reproduzimos um breve resumo da referida Conferência facultado pelos serviços da Universidade de Toronto:
Despite the fact that cultural evolutionism, as a theory of human development, was born in the 19th century as a consequence of modern rationalism and the Enlightenment, it continues to this day as our principal frame of reference when looking at history (and prehistory in particular).
As a long trend that percolates through contemporary thought to explain change and history, cultural evolutionism imparts an historical teleology which tends to explain each “future” as a more or less unavoidable consequence of each particular “past”. Among philosophers, this illusion has been called into question by the likes of Nietzsche, Foucault and many others.
Can we, as archaeologists, envisage a past that proceeds any differently? Admittedly, that is not an easy task, and yet it is appealing and urgent, if for no other reason than to free us from an unnecessary ideology
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