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This volume nicely plumbs the thinking of some of the best minds in the field.Journal of Anthropological Research
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This volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over the last decade. It summarizes recent developments and looks to the future, exploring some of the cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of the discipline.
While few practitioners in theoretical archaeology would still argue for a unified disciplinary approach, few volumes have explored the full range of emerging perspectives. This volume, however, captures the diversity of contemporary archaeological theory. Some authors argue for an approach close to the natural sciences, others for an engagement with cultural debate about representation of the past. Some minimize the relevance of culture to societal change, while others see it as central; some focus on the contingent and the local, others on long-term evolution.
The volume also reflects archaeology's new openness to external influences, as well as the desire to contribute to wider debates. The contributors examine ways in which archaeological evidence contributes to theories of evolutionary psychology, as well as to the social sciences in general, where theories of social relationships, agency, landscape and identity are informed by the long-term perspective of archaeology.
Archaeological Theory Today will be essential reading for students and scholars in archaeology and in the social sciences more generally.
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This volume nicely plumbs the thinking of some of the best minds in the field.Journal of Anthropological Research
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This volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over the last decade. It summarizes recent developments and looks to the future, exploring some of the cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of the discipline.
While few practitioners in theoretical archaeology would still argue for a unified disciplinary approach, few volumes have explored the full range of emerging perspectives. This volume, however, captures the diversity of contemporary archaeological theory. Some authors argue for an approach close to the natural sciences, others for an engagement with cultural debate about representation of the past. Some minimize the relevance of culture to societal change, while others see it as central; some focus on the contingent and the local, others on long-term evolution.
The volume also reflects archaeology's new openness to external influences, as well as the desire to contribute to wider debates. The contributors examine ways in which archaeological evidence contributes to theories of evolutionary psychology, as well as to the social sciences in general, where theories of social relationships, agency, landscape and identity are informed by the long-term perspective of archaeology.
Archaeological Theory Today will be essential reading for students and scholars in archaeology and in the social sciences more generally.
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There has recently been a marked increase in the numbers of volumes dealing with archaeological theory, whether these be introductory texts (e.g. Johnson 1999), readers (Preucel and Hodder 1996; Whitley 1998), edited global surveys (Ucko 1995; Hodder 1991) or innovative volumes pushing in new directions (e.g. Shanks and Tilley 1987; Schiffer 1995; Skibo, Walker, and Nielsen 1995; Tilley 1994; Thomas 1996, etc.). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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There has recently been a marked increase in the numbers of volumes dealing with archaeological theory, whether these be introductory texts (e.g. Johnson 1999), readers (Preucel and Hodder 1996; Whitley 1998), edited global surveys (Ucko 1995; Hodder 1991) or innovative volumes pushing in new directions (e.g. Shanks and Tilley 1987; Schiffer 1995; Skibo, Walker, and Nielsen 1995; Tilley 1994; Thomas 1996, etc.). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
behavioral archaeologists, archaeological representation, expanding archaeology, depositional behaviors, linkage factors, cultural deposition, evolutionary archaeologists, mental modularity, ceremonial trash, behavioral archaeology, evolutionary archaeology, symbolic storage, replicative success, cognitive evolution, postprocessual archaeology, cognitive archaeology, contextual archaeology, extended mind, archaeological theory, landscape archaeology, historical archaeology, behavioral chain, gender archaeology, human phenotype, archaeological program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, American Antiquity, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, United States, American Southwest, Current Anthropology, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, Larsen Bay, Filled Shape, Native American, University of Pennsylvania Press, American Anthropologist, Archaeological Review, Harvard University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of California, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge Archaeological, New World, North American, Smithsonian Institution Press, African Americans New!
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- Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis by Sylvia Yanagisako on 5 pages
- Behavioral Archaeology (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry) by Michael Brian Schiffer on 4 pages
- Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory (Social Archaeology) by Joan M. Gero on 4 pages
- Archaeologies of Sexuality by Robert Schmidt on page 208, page 210, and page 212
- Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power (One World Archaeology) by George C. Bond on page 205, page 212, and page 260
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- Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination by Bridget T. Heneghan on 4 pages
- Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology by Ian Hodder in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Archaeology: the Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by Colin Renfrew in Front Matter, page 7, and page 162
- Archaeological Semiotics (Social Archaeology) by Robert W. Preucel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Envisioning the Past: Archaeology an the Image (New Interventions in Art History) by Sam Smiles on page 88, page 179, and page 219
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