Interpretive Archaeology: A Reader

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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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