A companion to social archaeology
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A companion to social archaeology
Blackwell, 2007
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Originally published: 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades.
Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields.
Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past.
Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.
Table of Contents
List of Figures. Notes on Contributors.
Part 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: Reinhard.
Bernbeck 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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