Dissertation: Reconfiguring the Archaeological Sensibility: mediating heritage at Teotihuacan, Mexico: Home

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Timothy Webmoor's dissertation project has moved. Reconfiguring the Archaeological Sensibility is located at the new Metamedia collaboratory.

Welcome to Mediating the Material Past: Teotihuacán, Mexico!

¡Bienvenidos a la página de web para mi tesis: Mediación y el Pasado Material!

Para un resumen del proyecto en español véase aqui: Resumen del proyecto.

Para una explicación de las ideas fundamentales en español véase aqui: ¿Qué es la arqueología simétrica?.

Uploaded Image As the primary medium for my Dissertation (see my website for more background info.) the following project will organically grow as the research progresses. Principally, the forum will not solely attempt a collaborative approach to my project - w/input from archaeologists and interested community members from the Valley of Teotihuacán (6 local communities) - but will attempt to render the textual grist of the dissertation in a multiple-media format. Hence, two concepts of mediation will be employed: one, rather straightforwardly comes form the legal sense of 'intercession', or 'intermediary' and will critically re-construct the stalled framework of 'Multivocality'/'Pluralism' for archaeological research. The other idea of 'mediation' derives semantically from the 'media' you are engaging with right now, in that a hyper-based 'wiki' forum brings forward and enables interactions with archaeological subjects in a different and specific manner than other technologies - paper-text based, 3-D image collages, GIS maps, etc.. The past is 'mediated' (active verb) in/for the present in various ways depending not solely upon the informing epistemology (primary eg.: correspondence theory striving for present 'representation' as accurate 'mirror' of past reality), but upon the modes of assembling 'the past' for argumentation and presentation in contemporary pursuits.