Eleanor Harrison-Buck is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. She won the 2015 Gordon R. Willey Award from the American Anthropological Association for her article “Architecture as Animate Landscape: Circular Shrines in the Ancient Maya Lowlands” and is the editor of Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice.Julia A. Hendon is professor of anthropology, associate provost, and director of the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning at Gettysburg College. She is author of Houses in a Landscape, winner of the 2015 Linda S. Cordell Book Award in Archaeology, and coauthor of Material Relations.

“As archaeologists—with our reliance on the material world serving as the basis of our interpretations of the past—we must question Western assumptions about how the world is organized and divided in terms of the roles and significance played by ‘things.’ This book does just that.”—Linda Brown, George Washington University  “This is an impressive collection written by a wide range of specialists each of whom makes an important contribution.”—Chris Fowler, Newcastle University

Eleanor Harrison-Buck is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. She won the 2015 Gordon R. Willey Award from the American Anthropological Association for her article “Architecture as Animate Landscape: Circular Shrines in the Ancient Maya Lowlands” and is the editor of Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice.Julia A. Hendon is professor of anthropology, associate provost, and director of the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning at Gettysburg College. She is author of Houses in a Landscape, winner of the 2015 Linda S. Cordell Book Award in Archaeology, and coauthor of Material Relations.

“As archaeologists—with our reliance on the material world serving as the basis of our interpretations of the past—we must question Western assumptions about how the world is organized and divided in terms of the roles and significance played by ‘things.’ This book does just that.”—Linda Brown, George Washington University  “This is an impressive collection written by a wide range of specialists each of whom makes an important contribution.”—Chris Fowler, Newcastle University

Eleanor Harrison-Buck is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. She won the 2015 Gordon R. Willey Award from the American Anthropological Association for her article “Architecture as Animate Landscape: Circular Shrines in the Ancient Maya Lowlands” and is the editor of Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice.Julia A. Hendon is professor of anthropology, associate provost, and director of the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning at Gettysburg College. She is author of Houses in a Landscape, winner of the 2015 Linda S. Cordell Book Award in Archaeology, and coauthor of Material Relations.

“As archaeologists—with our reliance on the material world serving as the basis of our interpretations of the past—we must question Western assumptions about how the world is organized and divided in terms of the roles and significance played by ‘things.’ This book does just that.”—Linda Brown, George Washington University  “This is an impressive collection written by a wide range of specialists each of whom makes an important contribution.”—Chris Fowler, Newcastle University