arh 390.4 methodology searching into the toolbox venus de moche ?

ARH 390.4Methodology

Searching into the Toolbox

Venus de Moche ?

Badminton Game

Badminton Game

Coca Taking Ceremony

Stirrup Spout Bottle

Stirrup Spout

Upper Spout

Arch

Chamber

Ring Base

Straight Spout Bottle

Flaring Bowl

Dipper

JarTrumpet

Cup Bowl

The problematic of research concerns the general direction that your research will take.

The Problematic as questions:

• 1- To what extent the ritual acts performed by these animals or anthropo-zoomorphic beings correspond to observable comportment of similar animals in the natural environment ?

• 2- Amongst the animals represented, are there species sharing similar comportment? In such cases, do they share also inter-related ritual actions?

The problematic of research concerns the general direction that your research will take.

It also represents the broad questions that you want to investigate. Broad questions which can be subdivided in a series of sub-units.

• 2- Amongst the animals represented, are there species sharing similar comportment? In such cases, do they share also inter-related ritual actions?

Nocturnal AnimalsEl Niño Animals

Animals

Four principal stages of an iconographic analysis

• 1 -The definition of a subject of research.

• 2 -The formulation of a research hypothesis.

• 3 -The creation of a corpus of research.

• 4- The exact identification of the elements represented.

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

• It consists in posing the principal problem to be studied.

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

• It permits to circumscribe the general objectives and to retain

during the fieldwork the greatest amount of information possible.

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Pre-analysis

• Your sample has to be as representative as possible.

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

• This phase aims at collecting the data for the analysis.

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentificationNatural Sciences

ArchaeologyEthnography

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Analysis

Desmodus rotundus

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentificationNatural Sciences

ArchaeologyEthnography

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Analysis

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentification

Network of Internal RelationsNetwork of Internal Relations

Analysis

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Natural SciencesArchaeologyEthnography

Sacrifice Ceremony

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentification

Network of Internal RelationsNetwork of Internal Relations

Analysis

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Natural SciencesArchaeologyEthnography

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentification

Network of Internal RelationsNetwork of Internal Relations

InterpretationsInterpretationsNatural Sciences

AnthropologyHealth Sciences

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Natural SciencesArchaeologyEthnography

Analysis

• To pose a sort of analytic and synthetic judgment

Primary Sources

• The primary sources are all the documents written or visual that leads to a first compilation, identification and interpretation of the iconographic corpus. These sources can come from anthropology, the natural sciences, health sciences, etc. The sources are not used to identify the representations but to explain them.

Secondary Sources

• The secondary sources are all the documents written or visual that permit to study the first interpretations but in a diachronic perspective. These documents can come from ethnology or ethnohistory and permit to show continuities or discontinuities of certain themes. …

Secondary Sources

• It thus can help to show if the cognitive concepts underlying certain representations have persisted through time, and if the written sources can help to understand better the meaning of the representations.

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentification

Network of Internal RelationsNetwork of Internal Relations

InterpretationsInterpretations

Thematic Grouping of InterpretationsThematic Grouping of Interpretations

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Natural SciencesArchaeologyEthnography

Natural SciencesAnthropology

Health Sciences

Analysis

A classificatory system designed for the iconography

Subject of ResearchSubject of Research

Hypothesis of ResearchHypothesis of Research

Data CollectingData Collecting

Corpus of InvestigationCorpus of Investigation

IdentificationIdentification

Network of Internal RelationsNetwork of Internal Relations

InterpretationsInterpretations

Thematic Grouping of InterpretationsThematic Grouping of Interpretations

Formulation of New Research HypothesesFormulation of New Research Hypotheses

Pre-analysis

Pre-identification

Natural SciencesArchaeologyEthnography

Natural SciencesAnthropology

Health Sciences

Analysis