Ideology, power and prehistory
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Bibliographic Information
Ideology, power and prehistory
(New directions in archaeology)
Cambridge University Press, 1984
- : pbk
Available at 25 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographies and index
Papers presented at a symposium held at the 3rd Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Reading, U.K., Dec. 1981
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice. Ideology, Power and Prehistory therefore seeks to reinstate the primacy of social theory and the social nature of the past worlds that archaeologists seek to understand. The contributors to this book argue that past peoples, the creators of the archaeological records, should be understood as actively manipulating their own material world to represent and misrepresent their own and others' interests. Thus the concepts of ideology and power, long discussed in social and political science yet largely ignored by archaeologists, must henceforward play a central role in our understanding of the past as a social creation. Archaeologists must now consider how the material remains they study were used to create images by past societies, which do not simply mirror or reflect but actively orientate the nature of these societies.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Theoretical perspectives I: 1. Ideology, power and prehistory: An introduction Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley
- Part II. Ideology and Power in the Present and historical Past: 2. Endo ceramics and power strategies Alice Welbourn
- 3. Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: The William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland Mark Leone
- 4. Modernism and suburbia as material ideology Daniel Miller
- Part III. Ideology and Power in Prehistory: 5. Burials, houses, women and men in the European Neolithic Ian Hodder
- 6. Economic and ideological change: Cyclical growth in the pre-state societies of Jutland Michael Parker Pearson
- 7. Ritual and prestige in the prehistory of Wessex c. 2200-1400 BC: A new dimension to the archaeological evidence Mary Braithwaite
- 8. Ideology and the legitimation of power in the Middle Neolithic of Southern Sweden Christopher Tilley
- Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Ideology, power, material culture and long-term change Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley.
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