Meskell / Preucel Companion to Social Archaeology

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69286-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarlywork to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology overthe past two decades.
* * Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places,and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay thatcontextualizes the history and developments in social archaeologyand related fields.
* Draws together newer trends that are challenging establishedways of understanding the past.
* Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated majortheoretical trends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meskell, Lynn

Preucel, Robert W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Notes on Contributors.
Part I: Knowledges:.
1. The "Social" in Archaeological Theory: AnHistorical and Contemporary Perspective: Ian Hodder (StandfordUniversity).
2. Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory: Bruce G.Trigger (McGill University).
3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought: Thomas C.Patterson (University of California, Riverside).
4. Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity,Sexuality: Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California,Berkeley).
5. Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A PaleolithicPerspective: Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins (Both at the Universityof Southampton).
Part II: Identities:.
6. Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender:Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading).
7. The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-ColonialArchaeology and Anthropology: Chris Gosden (Pitt Rivers Museum,University of Oxford).
8. Material Culture: Current Problems: Victor Buchli (UniversityCollege, London).
9. Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeologyof Consumption: Paul R. Mullins (Indiana University-PurdueUniversity, Indianapolis).
Part III: Places:.
10. Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology: Emma Blake (StanfordUniversity).
11. Social Archaeologies of Landscape: Wendy Ashmore (Universityof California, Riverside).
12. Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology ofHousehold Production and Social Relations: Julia A. Hendon(Gettysburg College).
13. Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond theBlack Atlantic: Ian Lilley (University of Queensland).
Part IV: Politics:.
14. The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and theProduction of Heritage in the Middle East: Reinhard.
Bernbeck and Susan Pollock (Both at: State University of NewYork, Binghamton).
15. Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism ToGlobalization: Gustavo Politis (CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina) andJosé Antonio Perez Gollán (CONICET-Universidad de BuenosAires, Argentina).
16. Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans: RandallH. McGuire (Binghamton University).
17. Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan:Koji Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at StanfordUniversity. She is founding editor of the Journal of SocialArchaeology and her previous books include Archaeology underFire: Nationalism, Politics, and Heritage in the EasternMediterranean and Middle East (1998, ed.), Archaeologies ofSocial Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt (Blackwell,1999), Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt (2002), EmbodiedLives: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience, (2003,with Rosemary Joyce), and Object Worlds from Ancient Egypt:Material Biographies Past and Present (2004).
Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropologyand Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He is editor of Processual andPostprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past(1991), co-editor with Ian Hodder of Contemporary Archaeology inTheory (Blackwell, 1996), and editor of Archaeologies of thePueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the PuebloWorld (2002).