Contemporary Archaeology in Theory

A Reader
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-631-19559-7
Verlag: Blackwell Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1312 g

This reader presents an easily accessible collection of seminal articles in contemporary Anglo-American archaeological theory for use in introductory undergraduate classes as well as graduate level seminars. If focuses upon the period from 1980 to the present emphasizing the far-reaching effects of recent internal and external critiques of processual archaeology. The central purpose of the reader is to assist students in thinking about the interrelationships between theory and practice for different theoretical approaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preucel, Robert W.

Hodder, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Prologue: Communicating Present Pasts.

Part II: Ecological Relations: Nature and Culture.

Part III: Political Economy: The Production of Value.

Part IV: Social and Cultural Evolution: Process, Structure and History.

Part V: Meaning and Practice: Material Symbols.

Part VI: Feminist and Gender Archaeologies: Understanding Sex and Gender.

Part VII: The Past as Power: Representations and Antirepresentations.

Part VIII: Responses of the 'Other': Constructing Identities.

Part IX: Dialogue: Theoretical Archaeological Discourse.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at Southern Illinois University and Harvard University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Seasonal Circulation and Dual Residence in the Pueblo Southwest (1990) and, as editor, Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies (1991).

Ian Hodder is Reader at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Amsterdam, Sorbonne, Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, Minnesota, SUNY (Binghamton) and the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Symbols in Action (1982), The Present Past (1982), Reading the Past (1986), The Domestication of Europe (1990) and Theory and Practice in Archaeology (1992).