Towards a dialectical archaeology: a heuristics and an explanation of the Moche phenomenon
Authors
Henry Tantaleán
Investigador Asociado, Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima/Investigador Prometeo, Escuela Superior Politénica del Litoral, Guayaquil
This article proposes a heuristic inspired by dialectics to explain the historical relationships between the various entities that constitute the world, as an alternative to teleological perspectives used in archaeology. This heuristic moves away from archaeological, ethnohistorical, historical, and anthropological information as well as life experience. In this perspective, there exist a number of entities that are immersed and intertwined in dialectical, historically contingent, material relationships that may coexist in tension and/or conflict. After explaining this set of elements and their relationships, we apply use this heuristic to explain the Moche phenomenon that developed on the north coast of Peru between the III and VII centuries AD.
Keywords:
Heuristics, Teleology, Contingency, Dialectical Relationships, Moche Society
Tantaleán, H. (2016). Towards a dialectical archaeology: a heuristics and an explanation of the Moche phenomenon. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (31). Retrieved from https://resonancias.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/40607
