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Interpretive archaeology : a reader /

New forms of archaeology are emerging which position the discipline firmly within the social and cultural sciences. These approaches have been described as ""post processual"" or ""interpretive"" archaeology, and draw on a range of traditions of enquiry in the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thomas, Julian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.