My preciousssss...Zwanghaftes Horten, Epistemologie und sozial verhaltensgestörte Archäologie
- Submitting institution
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Bangor University / Prifysgol Bangor
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- UoA21_35
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Massendinghaltung in der Archäologie: Der Material Turn und die Ur- und Frühgeschichte
- Publisher
- Sidestone Press
- ISBN
- 9789088903465
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Since the beginnings of archaeology in the German speaking countries, a mostly unreflected, firmly logical positivist epistemology has been the fundament of practice. This paper demonstrates that this approach to professional archaeological collecting causes damage both to the subject and the objects to be maintained ‘in perpetuity’, and is ultimately unsustainable. Beyond this, the resulting professional practice actually exhibits diagnostic criteria of ‘compulsive hoarding’ (a mental disorder). It is argued that the discipline of archaeology as a community of like-minded and like-educated professionals in German speaking countries essentially exhibits a social functionality disorder.