Interpretive archaeology : a reader
New forms of archaeology are emerging which position the discipline firmly within the social and cultural sciences. This volume gathers together a series of the canonical statements which have defined an interpretive archaeology. The collection is put into context by an editorial introduction.
xvi, 622 p. : il., mapas ; 25 cm
9780718501921, 9780718501914, 0718501926, 0718501918
318274766
Introduction - the polarities of post-processual archaeology, Julian Thomas. Part 1 On the character of archaeology: fields of discourse - reconstituting a social archaeology, John C. Barrett; theoretical archaeology - a reactionary view, Ian Hodder; the craft of archaeology, Michael Shanks and Randall McGuire; materialism and an archaeology of dissonance, Christopher Tilley. Part 2 Interpretation, inference, epistemology: symbolism, meaning and context, Ian Hodder; hermeneutics and archaeology - on the philosophy of contextual archaeology, Harald Johnsen and Bjornar Olsen; is there an archaeological record?, Linda Patrik; on "heavily decomposing red herrings" - scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory, Alison Wylie; archaeology through the looking glass, Tim Yates. Part 3 Social relations, power and ideology: the roots of inequality, Barbara Bender; conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation, Matthew Johnson; building power in the landscape of Broome County, New York 1880-1940, Randall McGuire; mortuary practices, society and ideology - an ethnoarchaeological study, Michael Parker Pearson; the meaning of social - from baboons to humans, Shirley Strum and Bruno Latour. Part 4 Feminism, queer theory and the body: homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology, Thomas Dowson; power, bodies and difference, Moira Gatens; the social world of prehistoric facts - gender and power in palaeoindian research, Joan Gero; bodies on the move - gender, power and material culture, Henrietta Moore; engendered places in prehistory, Ruth Tringham. Part 5 Material culture: interpreting material culture - the trouble with text, Victor Buchli; the cultural biography of things - commodification as process, Igor Kopytoff; material metaphor, social interaction and historical interpretations - exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus, Keith Ray; interpreting material culture, Christopher Tilley. Part 6 Archaeology, critique and the construction of identity: can we recognize a different European past? a contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in Southern England, J.D. Hill; discourse of identity in the interpretation of the past, Sian Jones; towards a critical archaeology, Mark P. Leone et al; this is an article about archaeology as writing, Anthony Sinclair. Part 7 Space and landscape: the Berber House or the world reversed, Pierre Bourdieu; the temporality of the landscape, Tim Ingold; past practices in the ritual present - examples from the Welsh Bronze age, Paul Lane; monumental choreography - architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney, Colin Richards.