The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger

by Williamson, Ronald F.; Bisson, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780773531277
• ISBN10: 0773531270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he has been an effective voice for non-oppositional forms of argument in archaeological theory. InThe Archaeology of Bruce Trigger, leading scholars discuss their own approaches to the interpretation of archaeological data in relation to Trig ger's fundamental intellectual contributionsContributors include Michael Bisson (McGill), Stephen Chrisomalis (Toronto), Jerimy J. Cunningham (Calgary), Brian Fagan (Lindbrior Corporation), Clare Fawcett (St. Francis Xavier), Junko Habu (California at Berkeley), Ian Hodder (Stanford), Jane Kelley (Calgary), Martha Latta (Toronto), Robert MacDonald (Archaeological Services Inc.), Randall McGuire (Binghamton), Lynn Meskell (Columbia), Toby Morantz (McGill), Robert Pearce (London Museum of Archaeology), David Smith (Toronto), Peter Timmins (Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants), Silvia Tomáaková (North Carolina), Bruce G. Trigger (McGill), Alexander von Gernet (Toronto), Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier), Ronald F. Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc.), Alison Wylie (Washington), and Eldon Yellowhorn (Simon Frasier)

Table of Contents

Illustrations and Tables	vii
Contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
The Many Influences of Bruce Trigger	3	(13)
Ronald F. Williamson
Jerimy J. Cunningham
Jane H. Kelley
Triggering Post-processual Archaeology and Beyond	16	(9)
Ian Hodder
Moderate Relativism/Political Objectivism	25	(11)
Alison Wylie
Comparative Archaeology: An Unheralded Cross-cultural Method	36	(16)
Stephen Chrisomalis
History, Theory, and Politics: Situating Trigger's Contribution to Social Archaeology	52	(9)
Lynn Meskell
Marx, Childe, and Trigger	61	(19)
Randall H. Mcguire
Marxist Theories and Settlement Studies in Japanese Archaeology: Direct and Indirect Influences of V. Gordon Childe	80	(12)
Junko Habu
Clare Fawcett
Yes Virginia, There Is Gender: Shamanism and Archaeology's Many Histories	92	(22)
Silvia Tomaskova
Bruce Trigger's Impact on Ontario Iroquoian Studies	114	(21)
Robert Pearce
Robert MacDonald
David Smith
Peter Timmins
Gary Warrick
Bruce Trigger and the Children of Aataentsic	135	(7)
Martha Latta
In the Land of the Lions: The Ethnohistory of Bruce G. Trigger	142	(32)
Toby Morantz
The Influence of Bruce Trigger on the Forensic Reconstruction of Aboriginal History	174	(20)
Alexander von Gernet
The Awakening of Internalist Archaeology in the Aboriginal World	194	(16)
Eldon Yellowhorn
Wise Counsel: Bruce Trigger at McGill University	210	(11)
Michael S. Bisson
Bruce Trigger: Ambassador for Archaeology	221	(4)
Brian Fagan
Retrospection	225	(34)
Bruce G. Trigger
Bibliography of the Works of Bruce Trigger	259	(30)
Honours, Awards, Special Lectures	289	(4)
Graduate Student Dissertation and Thesis Titles	293	(2)
Index	295