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Research Article

‘Trying to Hear with the Eyes’: Slow Looking and Ontological Difference in Archaeological Object Analysis

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Fig. 1. The road to slowness is not about speed, but about attention and care (Speed is Relative, copyright Josh Billings, jbillustrator.com).

Fig. 1. The road to slowness is not about speed, but about attention and care (Speed is Relative, copyright Josh Billings, jbillustrator.com).

Fig. 2. Tea-leaf storage jar, named Chigusa. Mid 13th–mid 14th century China, Southern Song or Yuan period. Stoneware with iron glaze, 41.6 × 36.6 cm (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Freer Gallery no. F2016.20.1).

Fig. 2. Tea-leaf storage jar, named Chigusa. Mid 13th–mid 14th century China, Southern Song or Yuan period. Stoneware with iron glaze, 41.6 × 36.6 cm (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Freer Gallery no. F2016.20.1).

Fig. 3. Object used for the analysis (photo credits Anna Soifer).

Fig. 3. Object used for the analysis (photo credits Anna Soifer).

Fig. 4. Herbert and the poem in the display case of the Joukowsky Common Room in Rhode Island Hall, Brown University (photo by the author).

Fig. 4. Herbert and the poem in the display case of the Joukowsky Common Room in Rhode Island Hall, Brown University (photo by the author).