An alternative to the epistemological scheme in archaeology where the ‘field’ is separated from the ‘home bases’, whether laboratories, archives, or studies. Multiple fields is a relational approach to the process of archaeological knowledge production which focuses on the complex interactions between archaeologists, instruments, materials, and media that occur in real-time.
Figure: "The transformation of the material world into final publication media involves many small gaps (augmented from figure 2.21, Latour 1999, 70). An articulation from materiality to reference occurs across these gaps as is played out in each individual archaeological field, whether along a survey transect, across the draftsman’s table, under the ceramicist’s magnifying glass, or between the stack of various notebooks and the computer screen. The direction of mediation is away from the material world while the direction of iteration and reiteration facilitates revisiting and reworking these fields" (Witmore 2004(in press)). 2004).
Refer to: Witmore, C.L. 2004 (in press) 2004: On multiple fields. Between the material world and media: Two cases from the Peloponesus, Greece. Archaeological Dialogues.Dialogues
11(2) 133-164.
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Posted at Apr 05/2005 04:08 AM:
luz mae pinton
this is very easy way to discuss. i can't appreciate the real intention why you write this in this way.
