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SUMMARY: A talk on "Ingenious paradoxes cultural heritage and ontological alterity in Aotearoa New Zealand"
DESCRIPTION:NTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE Invites you to a talk on \nIngenious parad
 oxes cultural heritage and ontological alterity in Aotearoa New Zealand\n\n
 By\n\nProf. Simon Holdaway | Head, School of Social Sciences | University o
 f AucklandAbstract\nJoan Gero argued that archaeological interpretation is 
 not result of accumulating truth but rather an ideological construct while 
 the contemporary Māori academic Linda Smith criticised western intellectual
 s for assuming that they can know all that there is to know about indigenou
 s culture. I discuss both these critiques in the context of the way heritag
 e professionals in New Zealand define taonga tūturu or ‘national treasures’
 . These special archaeological finds defined based on aesthetics of form an
 d manufacture are privileged over mundane items like stone artifacts and he
 arth stones. Using an artifact assemblage from a site on Ahuahu (Great Merc
 ury Island), New Zealand and drawing on the literature describing the ontol
 ogical turn in anthropology and applications to archaeology, I explore alte
 rnative Māori concepts of material connections to the ancestors as a way of
  interpreting archaeological assemblages.\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h4>NTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE Invites you to a talk on <br />Ingenio
 us paradoxes cultural heritage and ontological alterity in Aotearoa New Zea
 land<br /><br />By<br /><br />Prof. Simon Holdaway | Head, School of Social
  Sciences | University of Auckland</h4><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>J
 oan Gero argued that archaeological interpretation is not result of accumul
 ating truth but rather an ideological construct while the contemporary Māor
 i academic Linda Smith criticised western intellectuals for assuming that t
 hey can know all that there is to know about indigenous culture. I discuss 
 both these critiques in the context of the way heritage professionals in Ne
 w Zealand define taonga tūturu or ‘national treasures’. These special archa
 eological finds defined based on aesthetics of form and manufacture are pri
 vileged over mundane items like stone artifacts and hearth stones. Using an
  artifact assemblage from a site on Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island), New Zeal
 and and drawing on the literature describing the ontological turn in anthro
 pology and applications to archaeology, I explore alternative Māori concept
 s of material connections to the ancestors as a way of interpreting archaeo
 logical assemblages.</p>
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