The phenomenological concept

Percep

tio

n

Percepti

on

after Edmund Husserl

Individual Cultural Change Mechanism

Noetic Perception – Noetic Embodiment

Noetic

Percep

tion

Noetic Embodiment

Cultural

Sensory

Percept

ion

Noetic

Percep

t

ion

Noetic

EmbodimentMotory

Embodiment

Change

Individ

ual

Noetic Noetic - Of a process, faculty, etc.: characterized by or involving intellectual activity or, - Of a process, faculty, etc.: characterized by or involving intellectual activity or, more narrowly, intellectual intuition; of or more narrowly, intellectual intuition; of or relating to knowledge or intellect, cognitive. (source OED)relating to knowledge or intellect, cognitive. (source OED)

Group Mentalities – The X Group

Noetic

Perception

Noetic Embodiment

Cultural

Sen sor y Per cep tio n

Noetic

Perception

Noetic Embodiment

Motory

Embodiment

Change

Indivi

dual No

etic

Perception

Noetic Embodiment

Cultural

Sen sor y Per cep tio n

Noetic

Perception

Noetic Embodiment

Motory

Embodiment

Change

Indivi

dual

Noesis

Altered Noema

Altered Material or

Immaterial

Object

Material or

Immaterial

Object

Noema

Noetic Perception

Noetic

EmbodimentCult

ural

Sensory

Perception

Noetic Perception

Noetic

Embod

iment

Motor y

Embod

iment

Chan

ge

Indivi

dual

Noesis

Altered Noema

Altered Material or

Immaterial

Object

Material or

Immaterial

Object

Noema

Noetic Perception

Noetic

EmbodimentCult

ural

Sensory

Perception

Noetic Perception

Noetic

Embod

iment

Motor y

Embod

iment

Chan

ge

Indivi

dual

X GroupX GroupIndividualX Group

Individual

X GroupIndividualX GroupIndividual

OutputPe

rcep

tion

Output

Percepti

on Output

Percep

tion

Cultural Change Mechanism

X Group Individual

Y Group Individual

Z Group Individual

Archaeology – the diachronic sabir*

AnswerQuestion

Nous – Ancient Greek Philos. Mind, intellect; intelligence; intuitive apprehension. (source OED)*based on Ian Hodder, Reading the past,

Cambridge, 1986.

Archaeology – the diachronic sabir

Consciousness(Noema)

-Ecofacts

- Manuports

Artefacts -

Features -

Percepti

on

Perception

Percep

ti

on

Perception and the Pierce an Trichotomy

*After T. Deacon, The symbolic species, London, 1997, 71.

X Group’s Attributes of Perception of the Anthropogenic Material

Morphology

(Cultures of

Archaeology)

Functionality(Pragmatics)

Contextuality

(Object Relation Theory)

X Group

X Group delimited inSpace and Time

Nuan

ced Arch

aeol

ogical C

ultu

res

delimi

ted as

~ X Grou

p’s Sp

ace

and

Time

Applied Diachronic Sabir

Aspect Tree

Macro Spatial Frame

Temporal Frame

Micro Spatial Frame

Social Frame

Social FrameRaw Material Frame

Research Methodology : Excursus on Figurine

Functional Classification of T Figurine ≈ Y Figurine ≠ Z Figurine

Contextual Classification of T Figurine ≈ Y Figurine ≠ Z Figurine

Morphological Classification of T Figurine ≈ Y Figurine ≠ Z Figurine

T and Y Figurines <50% probability is the result of similar Group Mentalities (X Group).

X Groups (Group Mentality) figurine aspects are delimited in space and time by T and Y

figurines temporal and spatial attributes.

T Figurine

Y Figurine

Z Figurine

Hamangia, Medgidia phase (5000-4600 BC )

Baia (former Hamangia)„Gânditorul de la Hamangia“

Pre-Cucuteni III (4750–4500 BC)  Târpeşti

„Gânditorul de la Târpeşti“Functionality (positioning of body and body parts, expression etc.):Gânditorul de la Târpeşti ≈ Gânditorul de la Hamangia

Contextuality (associated “anthropogenic material”):Gânditorul de la Târpeşti ≈ Gânditorul de la Hamangia

Morpohlogy (shape, surface treatment, tempering etc.):Gânditorul de la Târpeşti ≠ Gânditorul de la Hamangia

Space & Time:Gânditorul de la Târpeşti ≈ Gânditorul de la Hamangia

Case Study of Figurines

Research Methodology : Group Mentalities – The

X Group

All aspects are delimited in space and time.

Burial Aspects

Sanctuary

Aspects

Special Context Aspects

Figurine

Aspects

X Group Time

Spa

ce

Research Methodology : Cultural Change - Comparative

Perspective

All aspects are defined as space and time

Burial Aspects

Sanctuary Aspects

Special Context Aspects

Figurine Aspects

X Group

Burial Aspects

Sanctuary Aspects

Special Context Aspects

Figurine

Aspects

X Group

Time

Spa

ce

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect -sanctuary aspect -special object aspect

-X Groups spatial delimitation in Y period

Noetic Aspect and the X Group

-burial aspect -figurine aspect -sanctuary aspect -special object aspect

-Y Groups spatial delimitation in T period

Noetic Aspect and the Y Group

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect -sanctuary aspect -special object aspect

-X Groups spatial delimitation in T period

-Y Groups spatial delimitation in T period

Noetic Landscape as: the relation of different

noetic spaces

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect -sanctuary aspect -special object aspect

-X Groups spatial delimitation in T‘ period

-Y Groups spatial delimitation in T‘ period

Cultural change as :the mobility of noetic

landscapes

“… Husserl believed that phenomenology could become an eidetic science of consciousness, essential to the reform of the natural sciences.”

D. Moran, Introduction to phenomenology, London/New York, 2000.