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9780415207614

Agency in Archaeology

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    9780415207614

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    0415207614

  • Edition: 1st
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  • Copyright: 2000-03-16
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Agency in Archaeologyis the first critical volume to scrutinize the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognize that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at the broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group. The book brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology.

Table of Contents

List of figures
vii
List of tables
ix
List of contributors
x
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xv
PART 1 Editors' Introduction 1(18)
Agency in archaeology: paradigm or platitude?
3(16)
Marcia-Anne Dobres
John E. Robb
PART 2 Thinking agency 19(50)
Agency and individuals in long-term processes
21(13)
Ian Hodder
Troubled travels in agency and feminism
34(6)
Joan M. Gero
Agency in (spite of) material culture
40(11)
H. Martin Wobst
``Rationality'' and contexts in agency theory
51(10)
George L. Cowgill
A thesis on agency
61(8)
John C. Barrett
PART 3 Using agency 69(178)
The founding of Monte Alban: sacred propositions and social practices
71(21)
Arthur A. Joyce
Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality: a critical assessment of natural and historic human agents
92(21)
John E. Clark
The tragedy of the commoners
113(17)
Timothy R. Pauketat
The depositional history of ritual and power
130(18)
William H. Walker
Lisa J. Lucero
Agents of change in hunter-gatherer technology
148(21)
Kenneth E. Sassaman
Tension at funerals: social practices and the subversion of community structure in later Hungarian prehistory
169(27)
John Chapman
Constellations of knowledge: human agency and material affordance in lithic technology
196(17)
Anthony Sinclair
Self-made men and the staging of agency
213(19)
Matthew Johnson
Craft to wage labor: agency and resistance in American historical archaeology
232(15)
Paul A. Shackel
PART 4 Commentary 247(10)
On the archaeology of choice: agency studies as a research stratagem
249(8)
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
PART 5 Epilogue 257(7)
Ethics and ontology: why agents and agency matter
259(5)
Henrietta L. Moore
Index 264

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