Companion to Social Archaeology

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

• ISBN13: 9780631225782
• ISBN10: 0631225781
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• 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.

Author Biography

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is founding editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology and her previous books include Archaeology under Fire: Nationalism, Politics, and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (1998, ed.), Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt (Blackwell, 1999), Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt (2002), Embodied Lives: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience, (2003, with Rosemary Joyce), and Object Worlds from Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present (2004).

Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past (1991), co-editor with Ian Hodder of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory (Blackwell, 1996), and editor of Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Part I	1	(118)
Knowledges
Robert W. Preucel and Lynn Meskell	3	(20)
1 The "Social" in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Ian Hodder	23	(20)
2 Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory
Bruce G. Trigger	43	(23)
3 Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought
Thomas C. Patterson	66	(16)
4 Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality
Rosemary A. Joyce	82	(14)
5 Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective
Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins	96	(23)
Part II	119	(94)
Identities
Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel	121	(21)
6 Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender
Roberta Gilchrist	142	(19)
7 Thc Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archacology and Anthropology
Chris Gosden	161	(18)
8 Material Culture: Current Problems
Victor Buchli	179	(16)
9 Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption
Paul R. Mullins	195	(18)
Part III	213	(100)
Places
Robert W. Preucel and Lynn Meskell	215	(15)
10 Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology
Emma Blake	230	(25)
11 Social Archaeologies of Landscape
Wendy Ashmore	255	(17)
12 Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations
Julia A. Hendon	272	(15)
13 Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic
Ian Lilly	287	(26)
Part IV	313	(102)
Politics
Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel	315	(20)
14 The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East
Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock	335	(18)
15 Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism to Globalization
Gustavo G. Politis and José Antonio Pérez Galán	353	(21)
16 Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans
Randall H. McGuire	374	(22)
17 Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan
Koji Mizoguchi	396	(19)
Index	415