Companion to Social Archaeology

by Editor: Lynn Meskell (Stanford University); Editor: Robert W. Preucel (University of Pennsylvania)

• ISBN13: 9780470692868
• ISBN10: 0470692863
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades. Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields. Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past. Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Knowledges

The ôSocialö in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory

Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought

Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality

Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective

Identities

Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender

The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archaeology and Anthropology

Material Culture: Current Problems

Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption

Places

Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology

Social Archaeologies of Landscape

Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations

Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic

Politics

The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East

Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism To Globalization

Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans

Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan

Index

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