A companion to social archaeology /
This volume provides an overview of developments in social archaeology. It aims to trace the origins and development of this new encounter with social theory in archaeology, while signalling new trends that extend and challenge established ways of understanding and approaching the past.
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Malden, MA :
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I. KNOWLEDGES
- The "social" in archaeological theory: an historical and contemporary perspective / Ian Hodder
- Cross-cultural comparison and archaeological theory / Bruce G. Trigger
- Social archaeology and Marxist social thought / Thomas C. Patterson
- Embodied subjectivity: gender, femininity, masculinity, sexuality / Rosemary A. Joyce
- Social archaeology and origins research: a paleolithic perspective / Clive Gamble, Erica Gittins
- PART II. IDENTITIES
- Archaeology and the life course: a time and age for gender / Roberta Gilchrist
- The past and foreign countries: colonial and post-colonial archaeology and anthropology / Chris Gosden
- Material culture: current problems / Victor Buchli
- Ideology, power, and capitalism: the historical archaeology of consumption / Paul R. Mullins
- PART III. PLACES
- Space, spatiality, and archaeology / Emma Blake
- Social archaeologies of landscape / Wendy Ashmore
- Living and working at home: the social archaeology of household production and social relations / Julia A. Hendon
- Diaspora and identity in archaeology: moving beyond the Black Atlantic / Ian Lilley
- PART IV. POLITICS
- The political economy of archaeological practice and the production of heritage in the Middle East / Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock
- Latin American archaeology: from colonialism to globalization / Gustavo G. Politis, José Antonio Pérez Gollán
- Contested pasts: archaeology and Native Americans / Randall H. McGuire
- Identity, modernity, and archaeology: the case of Japan / Koji Mizoguchi.