Interpretive archaeology : a reader /

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Other Authors: Thomas, Julian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology
  • Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology
  • Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view
  • The craft of archaeology
  • Materialism and an archaeology of dissonance
  • Symbolism, meaning and context
  • Hermeneutics and archaeology: on the philosophy of contextual archaeology
  • Is there an archaeological record?
  • On 'heavily decomposing red herrings': scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory
  • Archaeology through the looking-glass
  • The roots of inequality
  • Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation
  • Building power in the cultural landscape of Broome County, New York, 1880-1940
  • Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study
  • Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans
  • Homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology
  • Power, bodies and difference
  • The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Palaeoindian research
  • Bodies on the move: gender, power and material culture: gender difference and the material world
  • Engendered places in prehistory
  • Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text
  • The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
  • Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus
  • Interpreting material culture
  • Can we recognise a different European past? A contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England
  • Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past
  • Toward a critical archaeology
  • This is an article about archaeology as writing
  • The Berber house or the world reversed
  • The temporality of the landscape
  • Past practices in the ritual present: examples from the Welsh Bronze Age
  • Monumental choreography: architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney.