Henryk Mamzer’s conception is an interesting new contribution to the development of socalled constructivist approaches in archaeology. As such it is a good example of the basic assumptions underlying its theory and methodology. In this article I will argue with some basic assumptions of Mamzer’s theory, trying to show that constructivism doesn’t rescue archaeology from the problems, which he would like to avoid. In fact, it deals with the same problems.
Michael Taussig is a contemporary anthropologist, whose main interest lay in South-American peasentry and it’s relevence to world’s capitalist system. His writings deal with problems which are the goals of so-called „postcolonial theory” but to this day it wasn’t clearly reconsidered. My aim is to re-think the Taussigian „culture of death”/”space of death” concepts in perspective of Walter Benjamin’s messianic theory, but to do it with accordance to the question: what could postcolonial theory learn from it? It is important to rewrite the history of postcolonial theory, but with being aware of falling into one of two main aporias: marxism and postmodernism. The shamanic ritual opens for us a space from where the dead are calling the living and thus, transcends any material culture into some kind of endless passage of ancestors.
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