Ingesting the Material from Ganeshwar to Karbala: Reconstituting the Analytic and Recognizing Centrifugality in Archaeological Theory

Abstract

First presented as part of the 2010 TAG Plenary session on Location of Theory, this short project questions archaeologies quest to locate theory. It posits that we reconsider the questions we ask to allow us to encounter the objects we study in a more intimate and visceral manner, providing them with properties that go beyond the social lives that we reconstruct for them.