The phenomenological concept

Consciousness of
consciousness
Consciousness
(Noesis)
(Noema)

Object
(material or
immaterial)

after Edmund Husserl

 Individual Cultural Change Mechanism
Noetic Perception – Noetic Embodiment

Noesis

Noetic Embodiment
Noetic Perception

Cultural Altered
Noema
Noema

Altered
Material or
Material or
Immaterial
Immaterial
Object
Object

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

Noesis Noesis

Noetic Embodiment

Noetic Embodiment
Noetic Perception

Noetic Perception
Cultural Altered Cultural Altered
Noema Noema
Noema Noema

Altered Altered
Material or Material or
Material or Material or
Immaterial Immaterial
Immaterial Immaterial
Object Object
Object Object
X Group X Group
Individual Individual
X Group
X Group X Group
Individual Object
Object
Object
Object Individual
Immaterial Immaterial
Immaterial Immaterial
Material or Material or
Material or Material or
Altered Altered
Noetic Perception

Noetic Perception
Noetic Embodiment

Noetic Embodiment
Noema Noema
Noema Noema
Altered Altered
Cultural Cultural

Noesis Noesis
 Cultural Change Mechanism
Y Group Individual

X Group Individual Z Group Individual

Output
Perception

X
Group
 Archaeology – the diachronic sabir*

Prehistoric
Present Nous Anthropogenic Material Past Nous

Question Answer

Nous – Ancient Greek Philos. Mind, intellect; intelligence; intuitive apprehension. (source OED)
*based on Ian Hodder, Reading the past, Cambridge, 1986.
Archaeology – the diachronic sabir
 Perception and the Pierce an Trichotomy

Consciousness
(Noema)

Functionality
(Symbolic Meaning*)
Morphology Contextuality
(Iconic Meaning*) (Indexical Meaning*)

Perception

Anthropogenic
Material
Artefacts - -Ecofacts

Features - - Manuports

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

 X Group’s Attributes of Perception of the Anthropogenic Material

Functionality
(Pragmatics)

Contextuality Morphology
(Object
Relation
(Cultures of
Theory) X Group Archaeology)
 Applied Diachronic Sabir

Present Perception Past Perception

Morphology Morphology
Nuanced Archaeological Cultures

~ X Group’s Space and Time

X Group delimited in
Space and Time
delimited as

Anthropogenic Functionality
Functionality
Material

Contextuality Contextuality
 Aspect Tree

Aspect

Morphological Functional Contextual

Classification Classification Classification

Macro Spatial Frame Social Frame Micro Spatial Frame

Temporal Frame Raw Material Frame Social Frame
 Research Methodology :
Excursus on Figurine

Functional Contextual Functional Contextual Functional Contextual

Classification Classification Classification Classification Classification Classification

T Figurine Y Figurine Z Figurine

Morphological Morphological Morphological
Classification Classification Classification

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.
 Case Study of Figurines

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 Hamangia, Medgidia phase (5000-4600 BC )
Baia (former Hamangia)
Morpohlogy (shape, surface treatment, tempering etc.): „Gânditorul de la Hamangia“
Gânditorul de la Târpeşti ≠ Gânditorul de la Hamangia

Space & Time:

Gânditorul de la Târpeşti ≈ Gânditorul de la Hamangia
 Research Methodology :
Group Mentalities – The X Group

Space

Burial Aspects

Time
Figurine X Group Sanctuary
Aspects Aspects

Special Context
Aspects

All aspects are delimited in space and time.

 Research Methodology :
Cultural Change - Comparative Perspective

Space

Burial Aspects Burial Aspects

Sanc
X Group tuar
Figu y
X Group Sanctuar rine Aspe
Figurine
y Aspe cts
Aspects
Aspects cts

Time

Special Context Aspects

Special Context Aspects

Before
After
(in time and space)
(in time and space)
All aspects are defined as space and time
 Noetic Aspect and the X Group

-X Groups spatial
delimitation in Y period

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect
-sanctuary aspect

-special object aspect

 Noetic Aspect and the Y Group

-Y Groups spatial
delimitation in T period

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect
-sanctuary aspect

-special object aspect

 Noetic Landscape as:
the relation of different noetic spaces

-X Groups spatial
delimitation in T period

-Y Groups spatial
delimitation in T period

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect
-sanctuary aspect

-special object aspect

 Cultural change as :
the mobility of noetic landscapes

-X Groups spatial
delimitation in T‘ period

-Y Groups spatial
delimitation in T‘ period

-burial aspect

-figurine aspect
-sanctuary aspect

-special object aspect

 “… 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.