ABSTRACT
The author presents the archaeologies of phenomenology, or post-processual archaeologies that have embraced the notion of being-in-the-world and embodiment as part of an archaeological methodology, and the ways that these ideas shaped some aspects of the Mardi Gras research. The lands of archaeology were created, and they were peopled by a folk called the cultural historians. They worked hard and toiled much in the earth while they learned to put pots into categories. Binford came with commandments from the Great God Science, and together, Binford and the people created processual archaeology. Social change, argued Hodder, is always historically situated and subject to contextual and cultural particularities. Thomas, 1996, argued that because humans experience the world in time, understanding for any person was developed over the course of a lifetime. As occupants of the modern world, archaeologists could never experience things as prehistoric people could but only understand the past through the lenses of our own socially structured experiences.
