A perspectiva das pedras : fenomenologia e percepção no sítio arqueológico Santa Clara

Abstract

This paper is the outcome of a phenomenological view on archeology, based on the perceptive commitment and in the try to enlighten the separation created between subject and object, under the influence of the Cartesian paradigm which induced all scientific knowledge to a mechanistic view of the world and to the hegemony of academic rationalism. Therefore, we seek in phenomenology the understanding of the essences in existence (return to the same things) and we seek the definition of human experiences. We can say that the phenomenological method seeks to get in touch with the facts and perceive them in themselves and decipher them in a way that gives meaning to things. Therewith, we review the occupational models created for the prehistory of Quaraí and the region of the western border of Rio Grande do Sul, believing that the groups that lived there remained, from the beginning, commitment in your environment, as an person-organ who forms with the world a network system, and this inhabited by material objects, human and non-human and that related to each other.