Contemporary Archaeology in Theory The New Pragmatism

by Preucel, Robert W.; Mrozowski, Stephen A.

• ISBN13: 9781405158534
• ISBN10: 1405158530
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people. Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural anthropologists

Author Biography

Robert W. Preucel is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Curator of the American Section at the University Museum, and Director of the Penn Center for Native American Studies. His most recent book is Archaeological Semiotics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 in paper).
Stephen A. Mrozowski is the founding director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He has published more than sixty scholarly articles and monographs and is the author of The Archaeology of Class in Urban America (2006).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
The New Pragmatism	p. 1
Landscapes, Spaces, and Natures	p. 51
The Temporality of the Landscape	p. 59
Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social	p. 77
Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia	p. 92
Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape	p. 104
Agency, Meaning, and Practice	p. 129
Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm	p. 137
Technology's Links and Chaînes: The Processual Unfolding of Technique and Technician	p. 156
Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast	p. 170
Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence from Fort Ross, California	p. 191
Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood	p. 217
Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist Critiques of Science	p. 226
On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa	p. 244
Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica	p. 256
Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire	p. 265
Race, Class, and Ethnicity	p. 281
The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea	p. 290
Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology	p. 301
Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology	p. 311
A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict	p. 325
Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence	p. 339
Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society	p. 347
Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and Social Memory at Chaco	p. 362
Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology	p. 385
Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology	p. 404
Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism	p. 423
Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain	p. 432
Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory	p. 445
Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past	p. 459
Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us	p. 470
Heritage, Patrimony, and Social Justice	p. 491
The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage A Discussion with	p. 498
Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the Archaeological Present	p. 508
An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research	p. 525
Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland	p. 534
Media, Museums, and Publics	p. 551
No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI	p. 558
The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising	p. 571
The Past as Passion and Play: Çatalhöyük as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts	p. 582
Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology	p. 593
Index	p. 618
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