Dreaming to avoid the end of archaeology: dreams as a research methodology and the production of archaeological knowledge
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Dreams, Invisible, Archaeology, Alternative methodologies, OntologyAbstract
This study start from the idea that dreams, visions, and intuitions, rather than a set of representations from an individual unconscious psychic, configure real experiences and thus a legitimate source of knowledge. Incorporating dreams, visions, and intuitions as a source of data in archaeology opens new ways of understanding reality, enabling a pluriversal and counter-colonial epistemology. The use of dreams as a research methodology in archaeology offers, rather than a technical innovation, a true reconfiguration of the way we understand knowledge. If dreams, visions, and intuitions have an epistemological character in some societies, no reason exists to deny the possibility of using these experiences as a basis for knowledge.
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