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Archaeology and the Time of Modernity

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In this article an archaeological critique of the time of modernity is proposed. This critique is developed through three main themes: materiality, multi-temporality, and ethics. Materiality is key to producing relevant archaeological accounts of the time of modernity: historical archaeology has to follow the time of things, rather than the temporal frameworks inherited from history and other fields. Multi-temporality is at the heart of modernity, which has to be understood as a heterogeneous phenomenon in which multiple, often incompatible, temporalities coalesce and clash, rather than as an homogeneous time of change and acceleration. Finally, the blurring of the past/present divide that is manifested through universal justice, political temporalities, and indigenous memory practices poses an important challenge to archaeology, but, at the same time, provides a unique opportunity to make the discipline socially relevant.

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González-Ruibal, A. Archaeology and the Time of Modernity. Hist Arch 50, 144–164 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377339

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