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Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in Bristol and York, the book first describes the way in which archaeological methods and theory have come to be usefully applied to the contemporary world, before exploring the historical development of the concept of homelessness. Working with homeless people, the author undertook surveys and two excavations of contemporary homeless sites, and the team co-curated two public heritage exhibitions - with surprising results. Complementing a growing body of literature that details how collaborative and participatory heritage projects can give voice to marginalised groups, Homeless Heritage details what it means to be homeless in the twenty first century.
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• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart I: Knowledges:1. The "Social" in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Ian Hodder (Standford University)2. Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory: Bruce G. Trigger (McGill University)3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought: Thomas C. Patterson (University of California, Riverside)4. Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality: Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)5. Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective: Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins (Both at the University of Southampton)Part II: Identities:6. Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender: Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading)7. The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archaeology and Anthropology: Chris Gosden (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)8. Material Culture: Current Problems: Victor Buchli (University College, London)9. Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption: Paul R. Mullins (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)Part III: Places:10. Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology: Emma Blake (Stanford University)11. Social Archaeologies of Landscape: Wendy Ashmore (University of California, Riverside)12. Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations: Julia A. Hendon (Gettysburg College)13. Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic: Ian Lilley (University of Queensland)Part IV: Politics:14. The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East: ReinhardBernbeck and Susan Pollock (Both at: State University of New York, Binghamton)15. Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism To Globalization: Gustavo Politis (CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina) and Jose Antonio Perez Gollan (CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)16. Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans: Randall H. McGuire (Binghamton University)17. Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan: Koji Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan)Index.
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"A Companion to Social Archaeology" explores the encounter of social theory and archaeology since the 1980s. The volume comprises 17 original essays grouped into four sections - Knowledge's, Identities, Places, and Politics. Each section is prefaced with a review essay prepared by the editors that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields including anthropology, social theory, politics, and philosophy. The volume traces the origins of social theory within archaeology, discusses different conceptions of social archaeology, and identifies key intellectual issues that will have a bearing on the discipline's future direction. This book advocates a social archaeology that foregrounds the situated experiences of material life, the constitution of the object world and, concurrently, their shaping of human experience. This collection provides an invaluable reference for students and teachers studying the intersections of archaeology, culture, and society.
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This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things, use things, leave things etc. The repeated social encounter is often a confrontation with something, such as an opinion, a performance, or with materialities and the effects are often unpredictable. Encounters may reproduce a social pattern, but also contain potential for transformation and change. Such varied responses to encounters will certainly have effects on the archaeological record. The primary focus of the volume is the effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal encounters. The collection hence fills a theoretical and methodological gap in the study of the encounter in archaeology. There is a need for elaborating aspects of postcolonial theory in order to develop new ways of approaching the archaeological record. The articles of this volume include examples from various regions and time periods. They range from Scandinavian Stone Age, through Buddhist social practices of the first millennium AD, Maya warfare and ideology, to Aboriginal-European encounters in 20th century Australia. Per Cornell (PhD, Ass. Prof.) is currently lecturer at the Department of archaeology, University of Gothenburg. Cornell has been involved in extensive field-work in Latin America and current research topics include settlement archaeology, formation processes and social theory. Among his recent books are Local, Regional, Global, co-edited with Per Stenborg (Gotarc, 2004).
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• Foreword by Colin Renfrew, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge Preface
• 1. Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Setting an Agenda Alex R. Knodell and Thomas P. Leppard Part I: Pathways to Complexity in the Prehistoric Aegean
• 2. The Development of Complex Society on Crete: The Balance between Wider Context and Local Agency Sturt W. Manning, Cornell University
• 3. Gelb and Gell in the Aegean: Thoughts on the Relations between `Writing' and `Art' John Bennet, University of Sheffield
• 4. Prestige-Goods Economies: The Prehistoric Aegean and Modern Northern Highland Albania Compared Michael L. Galaty, Mississippi State University
• 5. Continent, Region, Micro-Region, Site: Settlement Nucleation in the European Neolithic William A. Parkinson, University of Illinois at Chicago Part II: Crossing Scales in the Later Mediterranean
• 6. Industrial Landscapes, Spatial Politics and Settlement Change in the Roman East Bradley M. Sekedat, University of California, Davis
• 7. Political Borders in Pausanias' Greece Sylvan Fachard, University of Geneva
• 8. Monumental Engagements: Cultural Interaction and Island Traditions in the West Mediterranean Alexander Smith, Delta College and Peter van Dommelen, Brown University Part III: Comparative, Theoretical and Disciplinary Concerns
• 9. Does Island Archaeology Matter? Cyprian Broodbank, University of Cambridge
• 10. Islands in the Comparative Stream: The Importance of Inter-Island Analogies to Archaeological Discourse Scott M. Fitzpatrick, University of Oregon
• 11. A Thorny Endeavor: Historical Archaeology and Diachronic, Regional Landscape Survey in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles Krysta Ryzewski, Wayne State University
• 12. Embedded Heterarchies of the Maya: Political Structure and Interactions Inspired by Peer Polity Interaction Thomas G. Garrison, University of Southern California
• 13. Complexities and Emergence: The Case of Argos Christopher Witmore, Texas Tech University
• 14. The Way Things Are... A. Bernard Knapp, University of Glasgow
• 15. Tradition and Divide in Archaeological Publication Camilla MacKay, Bryn Mawr College
• 16. Retrospect and Prospect in Regional Archaeology Thomas P. Leppard and Alex R. Knodell Afterword: My Life with John F. Cherry Jack L. Davis, University of Cincinnati.
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This volume considers regional approaches to social complexity from a variety of perspectives and at a global scale. John F. Cherry has been a key figure in regional-scale inquiry and broader disciplinary interfaces throughout his career, producing, mentoring, and inspiring a remarkably diverse body of work, which nevertheless remains oriented around this central theme. While Cherry's work is the inspiration for this volume and the papers within it, this should not be seen as a traditional festschrift, or piecemeal homage to the honorand's career. Rather, it aims to explore this core concern of regional approaches to society and complexity in comparative perspective, first in the Aegean, then branching out to the wider Mediterranean, New World, and finally reflecting on relevant issues of concern to all archaeologists working at levels above the site.
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• Part I:
• 1. The lower and middle paleolithic of the Southern Levant Gary Rollefson--
• 2. An anthropological review of the upper paleolithic in the Southern Levant Anna Belfer-Cohen and Nigel Goring-Morris--
• 3. Getting it together: the creation of community in the Neolithic William Finlayson--
• 4. Fire and society in the Eastern Mediterranean: a diachronic view with a microarchaeological focus Ruth Shahack-Gross--
• 5. It's a small world: work, family life, and community in the late neolithic Edward B. Banning--
• 6. The spiritual and social landscape during the Chalcolithic Period Yorke M. Rowan--
• 7. Using archaeobotanical remains to model social, political, and economic changes during the Chalcolithic period in the Southern Levant Philip Graham-- Part II:
• 8. The Southern Levant during the early Bronze Age I-III Meredith S. Chesson--
• 9. Continuity, innovation, and change: the intermediate Bronze Age in the Southern Levant Susan L. Cohen--
• 10. Mix 'n' match: the bioarchaeology of commingled remains Susan Guise Sheridan--
• 11. The middle Bronze Age Canaanite City as a domesticating apparatus Assaf Yasur-Landau--
• 12. Cuneiform writing in Bronze Age Canaan Yoram Cohen--
• 13. 'Canaan is your land and its kings are your servants': conceptualizing the late Bronze Age Egyptian government in the Southern Levant Shlomo Bunimovitz-- Part III:
• 14. The 'conquest' of the Highlands in the Iron Age I David Ilan--
• 15. Iron Age I Philistines: entangled identities in a transformative period Aren M. Maeir--
• 16. Moving beyond King Mesha: a social archaeology of Iron Age Jordan Benjamin W. Porter-- Part IV:
• 17. A social archaeology of the kingdom of Judah: tenth-sixth centuries BCE Avraham Faust--
• 18. Phases in the history of the kingdom of Israel Daniel M. Master--
• 19. The alphabet comes of age: the social context of alphabetic writing in the first millennium BCE Christopher A. Rollston--
• 20. People, material culture, and ethno-religious regions in Achaemenid Palestine Oren Tal--
• 21. Land/homeland, story/history: the social landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus Andrea M. Berlin--
• 22. The effects of empire on daily life in the provincial East (37 BCE-313 CE) Alexandra Ratzlaff--
• 23. The social archaeology of the Southern Levant in the Byzantine Period: rethinking the material evidence Itamar Taxel--
• 24. Rural communities and labor in the Middle Islamic-Period Southern Levant Ian W. N. Jones--
• 25. Society in the Frankish Period Rabei G. Khamisy-- Part V:
• 26. Themes and patterns in human-animal interactions: hunting, domestication, and livestock husbandry Nimrod Marom--
• 27. Finding a world of women: an introduction to women's studies and gender theory in biblical archaeology Stephanie Budin--
• 28. Social archaeology in the Levant through the lens of archaeometallurgy Erez Ben-Yosef and Sariel Shalev--
• 29. The archaeology of maritime adaptation Assaf Yasur-Landau-- Part VI:
• 30. The impact of radiocarbon dating and absolute chronology in the Holy Land: a social archaeological perspective Felix Hoeflmayer and Katharina Streit--
• 31. Itinerant objects: the legal lives of Levantine artifacts Morag M. Kersel--
• 32. Archaeology, museums, and the public in Jordan: 100 years of educating Arwa Badran-- Epilogue Assaf Yasur-Landau, Yorke M. Rowan and Eric H. Cline.
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The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and bioanthropology, the volume presents central debates around a range of archaeological issues, including gender, ritual, the creation of alphabets and early writing, biblical periods, archaeometallurgy, looting, and maritime trade. Collectively, the essays also engage diverse theoretical approaches to demonstrate the multi-vocal nature of studying the past. Significantly, The Social Archaeology of the Levant updates and contextualizes major shifts in archaeological interpretation.
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• La percepción de la historia y la arqueología en América Latina : un enfoque teórico
• Arqueología e independencia en Centro América y el Caribe
• La arqueología social : un paradigma alternativo al anglo-norteamericano
• Historia arqueológica de Caracas : una visión alternativa a la historia oficial.

• 1. The geographic and environmental background--
• 2. Before cultivation: human origins and the incipient development of human culture in China--
• 3. The transition to food production: variability and processes--
• 4. The development of agriculture and sedentary life in north China--
• 5. The shift to agriculture and sedentism in central and south China--
• 6. The emergence and development of sociopolitical complexity--
• 7. Stepping into history--
• 8. The Shang dynasty: the emergence of the state in China--
• 9. Regional variation and interregional interactions during the Bronze Age: 'center and periphery' or 'interaction spheres'?--
• 10. The societies and cultures of the Zhou period: processes of globalization and the genesis of local identities--
• 11. The son of heaven and the creation of a bureaucratic empire.
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This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese archaeology. It covers an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese Empire some two thousand years ago. The geographical coverage includes the traditional focus on the Yellow River basin but also covers China's many other regions. Among the topics covered are the emergence of agricultural communities; the establishment of a sedentary way of life; the development of sociopolitical complexity; advances in lithic technology, ceramics, and metallurgy; and the appearance of writing, large-scale public works, cities, and states. Particular emphasis is placed on the great cultural variations that existed among the different regions and the development of interregional contacts among those societies.
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The study of children and childhood in historical and prehistoric life is an overlooked area of study that Jane Baxter addresses in this brief book. Her timely contribution stresses the importance of studying children as active participants in past cultures, instead of regarding them mainly for their effect on adult life. Using the critical concepts of gender and socialization, she develops new theoretical and methodological approaches for the archaeological study of this large but invisible population.
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• The archaeology of childhood in context / Jane Eva Baxter
• Constructing an archaeology of children : studying children and child material culture from the African past / Flordeliz T. Bugarin
• Childhood learning and the distribution of knowledge in foraging societies / Kathryn Keith
• The "nature" of childhood : ethnography as a tool in approaching children in archaeology / Kelly Thomas
• Growing up North : exploring the archaeology of childhood in the Thule and Dorset cultures of Arctic Canada / Robert W. Park
• Children and ceramic innovation : a study in the archaeology of children / Patricia E. Smith
• Making space for children in archaeological interpretations / Jane Eva Baxter
• Redefining childhood through bioarchaeology : toward an archaeological and biological understanding of children in antiquity / Megan A. Perry
• Dominant discourses, lived experiences : studying hte archaeology of children and childhood / Kathryn A. Kamp
• Materializing children : challenges for the archaeology of childhood / Helen B. Schwartzman.

• Preface. Notes On Contributors.
• 1. Archaeologies Of Memory: An Introduction: Ruth M. Van Dyke And Susan E. Alcock (Colorado College-- University Of Michigan). Part I: Memory Studies With Access To Texts:
• 2. Echoes Of Empire: Vijayanagara And Historical Memory, Vijayanagara As Historical Memory: Carla M. Sinopoli (University Of Michigan).
• 3. Memory's Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice And Disjunctive Locales: Lynn Meskell (Columbia University).
• 4. Memory Tattered And Torn: Spolia In The Heartland Of Byzantine Hellenism: Amy Papalexandrou (Independent Scholar).
• 5. Glories Of The Past In The Past: Ritual Activities At Palatial Ruins In Early Iron Age Crete: Mieke Prent (University Of Amsterdam).
• 6. Concrete Memories: Fragments Of The Past In The Classic Maya Present (500-100 AD): Rosemary A. Joyce (University Of California, Berkeley). Part II: Memory Studies In Prehistory:
• 7. Creating Memory In Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques Of Southwest Iberia: Katina T. Lillios (Ripon College).
• 8. Memory, Mounds, And The Mississippian Argument Against Structure: Timothy R. Pauketat And Susan M. Alt (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
• 9. Memory And The Construction Of Chacoan Society: Ruth M. Van Dyke (Colorado College). Part III: Caveats And Commentaries:
• 10. The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse Of Sicily's Prehistoric Rock-Cut Tombs: Emma Blake (Stanford University).
• 11. The Translation Of Time: Richard Bradley (University Of Reading). Index.
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As in the present, past peoples commemorated, constructed, and manipulated their past for their own social and political ends. Archaeologists can use a variety of evidence to study social memory and to recover past ideas about what the more distant past was like. Archaeologies of Memory is a groundbreaking text that presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. This unique collection of new essays brings together contributions from both anthropological and classical archaeologists. Essays, drawn from a variety of cultures and time periods, engage a number of common themes, such as issues of authority and identity, and the role memory plays in their creation and transformation. Archaeologies of Memory is an accessible investigation into the central issues in the study of memory and provides an engaging introduction to this controversial subject.
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• Jean-Paul Demoule, un intellectuel ... au-delà de l'archéologie européenne; Anick Coudart, Laurence Manolakakis, Nathan Schlanger & Sander van der Leeuw; Archéologie européenne : Identités & Migrations; Hommages à Jean-Paul Demoule ; Laurence Manolakakis, Nathan Schlanger & Anick Coudart; It is all a question of discipline ... ; Sander van der Leeuw; Reflections on a 1992 tour of the "New East Europe"; Ruth Tringham; Collective representations and identity construction; The material constraints of archaeology; Marc-Antoine Kaeser; Culture and collective identity construction; Anick Coudart.

• Le postmodernisme en archéologieVingt-cinq ans d'une aporie paralysante; Patrice Brun; De l'empire à la nation, de la nation aux régions; Constructions du patrimoine et de l'archéologie préventive au Japon; Laurent Nespoulous; Les ruines comme instrument de renouveau dans l'Europe de la pré-Renaissance; Alain Schnapp; La main, ses doigts, ce qu'ils fabriquent dans la disruption et au-delà; Bernard Stiegler; Dire l'archéologie en Européen; Vers une terminologie comparée; Nathan Schlanger; Archéologie du merveilleux; La fouille d'un conte de fées (Peau d'âne, J. Demy 1970); Olivier Weller.

• Quand le front néolithique passait par Dikili Tash et KovačevoUne vision géo-archéologique de la néolithisation des Balkans méridionaux; Jean-François Berger; Des migrations, oui, mais point trop n'en faut!; Catherine Perlès; Kovačevo et ses femmes; Représentations et symboles; Marion Lichardus-Itten; The Durankulak cemetery
• signs of changing gender tensions; John Chapman; On the South and Southwest boundaries of the Varna Culture; Vladimir Slavčev; So long blades ... ; Materiality and symbolism in the north-eastern Balkan Copper Age; Laurence Manolakakis; The Europe of jade.

• From the Alps to the Black SeaPierre Pétrequin, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera, Alison Sheridan, Tsoni Tsonev, Senica Turcanu & Valentina Voinea; Large-scale excavations to understand the past; Ivan Pavlů, Petr Květina1 & Radka Šumberová1; Modélisation, simulation et scénarios d'expérimentation; La colonisation LBK de l'Europe tempérée (5550-4950 av.n.e.); Jérôme Dubouloz, Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel et Richard Moussa; Ni anges ni démons; De la violence chez les premiers agriculteurs de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest; Vincent Blouet.

• The representation of violence in the rock art of the Sahara and the Spanish LevantRoberto Risch et Harald Meller; Aux origines du phénomène mégalithique dans l'Ouest de la France; Grégor Marchand; Sémiologie du pouvoir; Dominants chalcolithiques de l'Europe du Sud; Jean Guilaine; Enduring conundrum
• Indo-European relationships; Colin Renfrew; Origins of the Indo-Europeans and archaeology; Leo S. Klejn; Genetics, migrations and language dispersals; Re-theorizing mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Cultures in Europe; Kristian Kristiansen.

As it appears in diverse guises - and notably as a founding narrative - the past is at the core of every functioning human society. The idea that the past can be known through scientific research has long been a fundamental challenge for western societies and for European researchers, from all disciplines concerned. Through more than four decades of outward-looking archaeological practice, the scholar, teacher and intellectual Jean-Paul Demoule has elaborated a truly global approach to European cultures and their transformations, spanning from the social inequality in Neolithic times to Indo E.

• An introduction to archaeologies of violence and privilege / by Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi
• Violence in archaeology and the violence of archaeology / by Reinhard Bernbeck
• Discursive violence and archaeological ruptures: archaeologies of colonialism and narrative privilege in highland Guatemala / by Guido Pezzarossi
• Spanish colonialism and spatial violence / by Kathryn E. Sampeck
• "An incurable evil" : direct and structural violence in the mercury mines of colonial Huancavelica (AD 1564-1824) / by Douglas K. Smit and Terren K. Proctor
• The violence of "a more sensitive class of persons" : privilege, landscape, and class struggle in northeast Pennsylvania / by Michael P. Roller
• Sifting through multiple layers of violence : the archaeology of gardens of a WWII Japanese American incarceration camp / by Koji Lau-Ozawa
• Race and the water : swimming, sewers, and structural violence in African America / by Paul R. Mullins, Kyle Huskins, and Susan B. Hyatt
• Binocular vision : making the carceral metropolis in northern New Jersey / by Christopher N. Matthews
• Commentary: the violence of violence? / by Louann Wurst
• Forum: thoughts and future directions.

Violence is rampant in today's society. From state-sanctioned violence and the brutality of war and genocide to interpersonal fighting and the ways in which social lives are structured and symbolized by and through violence, people enact terrible things on other human beings almost every day. In Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, archaeologists Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi bring together a collection of authors who document the ways in which past social formations rested on violent acts and reproduced violent social and cultural structures. The contributors present a series of archaeological case studies that range from the mercury mines of colonial Huancavelica (AD 1564-1824) to the polluted waterways of Indianapolis, Indiana, at the turn of the twentieth century--a problem that disproportionally impacted African American neighborhoods. The individual chapters in this volume collectively argue that positions of power and privilege are fully dependent on forms of violence for their existence and sustenance.

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects or directly access their ideas; both must be inferred from what survives of the material objects they made and used. In recent decades this has led to a partisan approach to the history and method of archaeology. From an empirical discipline stressing data, classification, and chronology, it has given way to a behaviorist approach interpreting finds as products of ecologically adaptive strategies and then to an idealist, cultural-relativist epistemology stressing belief and cultural traditions. Most recently, Darwinian or evolutionary archaeology has established itself as a materialist substitute. In Artifacts and Ideas, Bruce G. Trigger challenges these partisan versions of recent developments in archaeology while remaining committed to understanding the past from a social science perspective.
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• Introduction - the polarities of post-processual archaeology, Julian Thomas.
• Part 1 On the character of archaeology: fields of discourse - reconstituting a social archaeology, John C. Barrett-- theoretical archaeology - a reactionary view, Ian Hodder-- the craft of archaeology, Michael Shanks and Randall McGuire-- materialism and an archaeology of dissonance, Christopher Tilley.
• Part 2 Interpretation, inference, epistemology: symbolism, meaning and context, Ian Hodder-- hermeneutics and archaeology - on the philosophy of contextual archaeology, Harald Johnsen and Bjornar Olsen-- is there an archaeological record?, Linda Patrik-- on "heavily decomposing red herrings" - scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory, Alison Wylie-- archaeology through the looking glass, Tim Yates.
• Part 3 Social relations, power and ideology: the roots of inequality, Barbara Bender-- conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation, Matthew Johnson-- building power in the landscape of Broome County, New York 1880-1940, Randall McGuire-- mortuary practices, society and ideology - an ethnoarchaeological study, Michael Parker Pearson-- the meaning of social - from baboons to humans, Shirley Strum and Bruno Latour.
• Part 4 Feminism, queer theory and the body: homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology, Thomas Dowson-- power, bodies and difference, Moira Gatens-- the social world of prehistoric facts - gender and power in palaeoindian research, Joan Gero-- bodies on the move - gender, power and material culture, Henrietta Moore-- engendered places in prehistory, Ruth Tringham.
• Part 5 Material culture: interpreting material culture - the trouble with text, Victor Buchli-- the cultural biography of things - commodification as process, Igor Kopytoff-- material metaphor, social interaction and historical interpretations - exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus, Keith Ray-- interpreting material culture, Christopher Tilley.
• Part 6 Archaeology, critique and the construction of identity: can we recognize a different European past? a contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in Southern England, J.D. Hill-- discourse of identity in the interpretation of the past, Sian Jones-- towards a critical archaeology, Mark P. Leone et al-- this is an article about archaeology as writing, Anthony Sinclair.
• Part 7 Space and landscape: the Berber House or the world reversed, Pierre Bourdieu-- the temporality of the landscape, Tim Ingold-- past practices in the ritual present - examples from the Welsh Bronze age, Paul Lane-- monumental choreography - architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney, Colin Richards.
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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 humanities, from Marxism and critical theory to hermeneutics, feminism, queer theory, phenomenology and post-colonial thinking. This volume gathers together a series of the canonical statements which have defined an interpretive archaeology. Many of these have been unavailable for some while, and others are drawn from inaccessible publications. In addition, a number of key articles are included which are drawn from other disciplines, but which have been influential and widely cited within archaeology. The collection is put into context by an editorial introduction and thematic notes for each section.
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