Global Archaeological Theory

Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thoughts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-01-14
Mått:178 x 254 x 32 mm
Vikt:1 020 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:380
Upplaga:2005
Förlag:Springer Science+Business Media
ISBN:9780306486500

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi

Innehållsförteckning

Archaeological Theory.- Materiality and the Social.- Materiality and the Social.- Archaeology and the Meanings of Material Culture.- Why is There Material Culture Rather than Nothing? Heideggerian Thoughts and Archaeology.- What Conditions of Existence Sustain a Tension Found in the Use of Written and Material Documents in Archaeology?.- The Reception of New Archaeology in Argentina: A Preliminary Survey.- Archaeological Theory and Methods in Action.- Network Theory and the Archaeology of Modern History.- The Comparative Method in Archaeology and the Study of Spanish and Portuguese South American Material Culture.- Bodies in Prehistory: Beyond the Sex/Gender Split.- Children's Activity in the Production of the Archaeological Record of Hunter-Gatherers: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach.- The Archaeology of Identity Construction: Ceramic Evidence from Northern Chile.- Rethinking Stereotypes and the History of Research on Jê Populations in South Brazil: An Interdisciplinary Point of View.- Space and Power in Material Culture.- Traveling Objects and Spatial Images: Exchange Relationships and the Production of Social Space.- The Materiality of Inka Domination: Landscape, Spectacle, Memory, and Ancestors.- Walls of Domestication—Archaeology of the Architecture of Capitalist Elementary Public Schools: The Case of Buenos Aires.- Enlightened Discourses, Representations, and Social Practices in the Spanish Settlement of Floridablanca, Patagonia 18th Century.- Images as Material Discourse.- Stylistic Units in Prehistoric Art Research: Archeofacts or Realities?.- Water and Olive Oil: An Analysis of Rural Scenes in Black and Red Figure Attic Vases and the Construction of the Athenian Empire.- The Construction of Archaeological Discourse.- Between Motorcycles and Rifles:Anglo-American and Latin American Radical Archaeologies.- Footsteps of the American Race: Archaeology, Ethnography, and Romantism in Imperial Brazil (1838–1867).- Brazilian Archaeology: Indigenous Identity in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century.- Discussion: A Response from the ‘Core’.