In ‘Humanist Missteps’, Matthew Greer makes the pointed observation that non-anthropocentric frameworks, including symmetrical, object-oriented and posthuman feminist archaeologies, have primarily focused on deconstructing the human–non-human binary while failing to problematize humanist assumptions about who counts as Human. At the core of Greer's argument is the matter of citational practice: which social theorists are archaeologists referencing in their efforts to craft relational approaches to humans, things, animals and plants? In answering this question, the author points to a notable lack of Black Studies theorists, particularly the work of Sylvia Wynter, Zakkiyah Jackson and Tiffany King, in posthumanist archaeologies. While I agree with Greer's critiques, his essay stops short of explaining this citational silence. In this brief commentary, I suggest that this absence of Black Studies scholarship reflects the fact that the discipline of archaeology remains a ‘white public space’ (Brodkin et al.2011: 545) and maintains an artificial division between analysis and activism.

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对反人道主义考古学的思考：格里尔 2023 的评论

在《人文主义失误》中，马修·格里尔提出了尖锐的观察，即非人类中心框架，包括对称的、面向对象的和后人类女权主义考古学，主要关注于解构人类与非人类的二元关系，而未能对关于谁重要的人文主义假设提出问题作为人类。格里尔论证的核心是引用实践的问题：考古学家在努力制定人类、事物、动物和植物的关系方法时参考了哪些社会理论家？在回答这个问题时，作者指出后人类主义考古学中黑人研究理论家的明显缺乏，特别是西尔维娅·温特、扎基亚·杰克逊和蒂芙尼·金的工作。虽然我同意格里尔的批评，但他的文章没有解释这种引用沉默。在这篇简短的评论中，我认为黑人研究奖学金的缺乏反映了考古学学科仍然是“白人公共空间”这一事实（布罗德金等人。2011：545）并在分析和行动主义之间人为划分。