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This article by anthropology professor Chris Begley is part of <\/em>a series<\/em><\/a> by the Transylvania community on the theme of our academic year: Resilience. As we face the biggest public health crisis in a generation, we\u2019re digging deep to find what it takes to bounce back, to face adversity with both grit and kindness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I sat on a yellow toolbox in an ancient archaeological site,\nnow covered by jungle. Mariano lived in a nearby village and worked with me on\nexcavations in the Honduran rain forest. These were his ancestors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We talked about how the iconography on the pottery changed over\ntime. He rubbed the incised decoration on the piece he held, and then tossed it\nback in the artifact bag. \u201cBut we don\u2019t know anybody\u2019s name,\u201d he said, looking\ndown. \u201cWe don\u2019t even know what language they spoke.\u201d He stood up and made\nhimself busy. What do we really know, then? He never said that in so many\nwords, but I understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know a lot, I might have argued. We know about trade\nroutes, about relationships with neighbors. We know what strategies leaders used\nto gain and maintain power. And we know the iconography on the pottery changed\nover time. I understood what Mariano was feeling, though. I felt it, too. The\ndifficulty in learning about the lives of people in a society that no longer\nexists frustrates archaeologists. These folks once lived in big villages. They\ncreated all kinds of spectacular artifacts. Suddenly, it seems, all of that\nended. The connection between then and now is hard to see. If only there was\nsome continuity, if not everything had changed, we might know them better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archaeologists used to talk about “collapses” \u2014 things falling apart. In that, however, there is an implicit suggestion of failure. They collapsed; they did not make it. This is a convenient way to envision the past. Nobody needs take responsibility. As colonizers, we can absolve ourselves of blame for whatever happened. They were not going to make it anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of us now see the dangerous implications in that\nrhetoric, so we changed the discourse, and our vocabulary. Resilience, not\ncollapse, has been our term for a while now. Rather than focus on what ended, we\nemphasize what endured. These societies did not fail; they transformed, and\nthat transformation can be good. Perhaps the societies that created the\nspectacular artifacts did not create an equally spectacular quality of life for\nits people. We study these changes, and we look for the reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic,\ntransforming. We see semblances of normality in some things, but most everything\nis unprecedented. It is disconcerting in its stillness. Everything is changing,\nbut not moving. That seems impossible. Can that possibly be how transformation\nhappens? Change comes as we remove energy from the system, forcing an ersatz\nboycott of most everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, we talk about resilience. We will get through this,\ntogether. We will survive, and return to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike in the rhetoric archaeologists have chosen, however, “resilience” can be a problematic term right now. Certainly, resilience in the sense of “springing back into shape” makes no sense. The old normal involved crisis after crisis (e.g. housing, healthcare, education). We see much bigger problems on the horizon, like the coming climate change catastrophe that will dwarf the present one. The structures and systems generating these crises will collapse, eventually. They are not sustainable, and we knew that. Because these collapses are coming, we should seek some degree of control. Crash landing a plane is better than just crashing. Springing back into shape may be the last thing we want to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In some ways, we were already moving there. Attitudes change.\nExcessive consumption becomes an embarrassment, not an achievement. The\nexpensive house in the elite neighborhood becomes a symbol of the problem, not\nof success. The middle manager who finally dons the paraphernalia of affluence\nbecomes a sad, selfish figure at best: less generously, an agent of an\noppressive system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, springing back should not be what we mean by\nresilience in the context of a university. Rather, resilience here means to persevere,\nrather than succumbing to paralyzing despair. Resilience represents a recovery\nfrom the shock of unexpected hardship. We mean hopeful action as opposed to\npassive resignation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must not spring back(wards) into shape. We should spring forward. Everything is momentarily stopped, and we are free of the insurmountable inertia that pushed us in a certain direction. For a brief frozen moment, the currents of history do not propel us; this slack tide allows an opportunity. Imagine what an input of energy can do now. We can go any direction we want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the jungle, after Mariano got up, I walked over to\nhim. \u201cYou\u2019re right. We don\u2019t know their names. But I do know the names of who\nthey became. Mariano.\u201d They were resilient. They did not spring back, but\nforward. They quit building spectacular, unsustainable things. They built\nsomething better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author: Chris Begley<\/a> ’88 is an anthropology professor, archaeologist, National Geographic Explorer and author of the forthcoming book \u201cThe Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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