Giorgio Buccellati, Critique of Archaeological ReasonClassificationGiorgio Buccellati, March 2014The inventory as a closed system Attribute definition: classification's Achilles' heel Perception of structure Competence and awareness Vernacular classifications The import of classification for the Critique The architectural dimension References Back to top Classification and categorizationtaxonomyconcept of "fuori serie," "fuori classe" relationship to Kant's categorial system: -emic categorization as intrinsic to human "pure" reason Back to top The inventory as a closed systemBack to top Attribute definition: classification's Achilles' heelBack to top Perception of structure"Spatial competence"sense of structure in 4Republics Back to top Competence and awarenessBack to topVernacular classificationsstore inventoriesICOM redlist Back to top The import of classification for the CritiqueWithin archaeological theory, artifact classification is the area that comes closest to the concerns developed within the framework of an archaeological critique and of hermeneutics. It is here that formal criteria have been most closely scrutinized in function of arriving at a determination of the mental template from which the artifactual assemblage derived.Back to top The architectural dimensionBack to top References1972 Conklin Folk Classification1976 Levin 1977 "Ascription of Functions" 1978 Chang "Historical Reality" 2007 Read Classification Back to top |