Contemporary Archaeology in Theory

Robert W. Preucel is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Curator of the American Section at the University Museum, and Director of the Penn Center for Native American Studies. His most recent book is Archaeological Semiotics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 in paper). Stephen A. Mrozowski is the founding director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He has published more than sixty scholarly articles and monographs and is the author of The Archaeology of Class in Urban America (2006).

• List of Tables and Figures xList of Contributors xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiPart I The New Pragmatism 1Part II Landscapes, Spaces, and Natures 511 The Temporality of the Landscape 59Tim Ingold2 Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social 77Paul S. C. Tacon3 Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia 92Eleanor Conlin Casella4 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape 104Clark L. EricksonPart III Agency, Meaning, and Practice 1295 Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm 137Timothy R. Pauketat6 Technology's Links and Chaınes: The Processual Unfolding of Technique and Technician 156Marcia-Anne Dobres7 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast 170Kenneth E. Sassaman8 Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence from Fort Ross, California 191Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. SchiffPart IV Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood 2179 Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist Critiques of Science 226Alison Wylie10 On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa 244John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff11 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica 256Rosemary A. Joyce12 Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire 265Barbara L. VossPart V Race, Class, and Ethnicity 28113 The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea 290Sarah M. Nelson14 Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology 301Sian Jones15 Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology 311Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman16 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict 325LouAnn WurstPart VI Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence 33917 Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society 347Webb Keane18 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and Social Memory at Chaco 362Barbara J. Mills19 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology 385Paul A. Shackel20 Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology 404Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. WalzPart VII Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism 42321 Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain 432Margarita Dı´az-Andreu22 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory 445Carla M. Sinopoli23 Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past 459Zainab Bahrani24 Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us 470Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb RichmondPart VIII Heritage, Patrimony, and Social Justice 49125 The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage A Discussion with Arjun Appadurai 49826 Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the Archaeological Present 508Lynn Meskell27 An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research 525Michael L. Blakey28 Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland 534Audrey HorningPart IX Media, Museums, and Publics 55129 No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI 558Sonya Atalay30 The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising 571Lauren E. Talalay31 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts 582Ian Hodder32 Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology 593George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. BannisterIndex 618