Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship

by Gosden; Chris

• ISBN13: 9780415162500
• ISBN10: 0415162505
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-11-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology, providing a much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these interrelated subjects. Taking a broad historical approach, Chris Gosden examines the development of the disciplines during the colonial period and shows how the subjects are linked through their interest in kinship, economics and symbolism. The book goes on to discuss what each discipline contributes to debates about gender, material culture and globalism in the post-colonial world.Archaeology and Anthropologyoffers a unique and necessary survey of how these two fields inform and enrich each other's perspective on the diversity of human culture.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiv
Anthropological archaeology and archaeological anthropology	1	(14)
Anthropological archaeology	2	(2)
Anthropological archaeology in North America	4	(2)
Anthropological archaeology in Britain	6	(3)
My approach to the special relationship	9	(6)
PART I Histories
Colonial origins	15	(18)
Orders of difference	15	(4)
A tale of two collections: part 1	19	(3)
The problem of Europe	22	(3)
A tale of two collections: part 2	25	(8)
Instituting archaeology and anthropology: the role of fieldwork	33	(29)
Disciplines, professions, cultures	34	(6)
Instituting anthropology	40	(12)
Instituting archaeology	52	(6)
Doubts about anthropological fieldwork	58	(4)
Evolutionary, social and cultural anthropologies	62	(24)
The evolutionists: Morgan and Tylor	63	(3)
The years of change: Haddon and Rivers	66	(4)
Boas, relativism and culture history	70	(3)
The hyper-diffusionists	73	(2)
Functionalism: Durkheim, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown	75	(11)
The post-war picture: neo-evolution, Marxism and structuralism	86	(37)
Neo-evolutionism	88	(12)
Revisionist histories	100	(5)
Marxism	105	(6)
Structuralist and symbolic anthropologies	111	(12)
PART II The contemporary scene
Introduction to Part II	119	(4)
Bodily identities: gender, sexuality and practice	123	(29)
Good practice	124	(3)
Dwelling	127	(2)
Ritualised actions	129	(2)
Gender in anthropology	131	(9)
Gender in archaeology	140	(6)
Sex and sexuality	146	(6)
Material anthropology: landscape, material culture and history	152	(27)
Landscape	153	(7)
Material culture	160	(3)
Creative consumption	163	(4)
History	167	(4)
Styles of life	171	(8)
Globalism, ethnicity and post-colonialism	179	(27)
Globalism and economics	181	(1)
Globalism and culture	182	(3)
Globalism knowledge and representation	185	(5)
Ethnic identity	190	(4)
Archaeology and ethnicity	194	(3)
Post-colonial theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha	197	(6)
Creating the world by way of an ending	203	(3)
References	206	(15)
Index	221