Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations

by Edgeworth, Matt; Bateman, Jonathan; Breglia, Lisa; Carman, John; Erdur, Oguz; Cavalcante Gomes, Denise Maria; Goodwin, Charles; Gustafsson, Anders; Holtorf, Cornelius; Jacobs, Dirk; Karlsson, Hakon; McClanahan, Angela; Reybrouck, David Van; Rodriguez, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780759108448
• ISBN10: 0759108447
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-04
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.

Table of Contents

Multiple origins, development, and potential of ethnographies of archaeology	p. 1
Sites of knowledge : different ways of knowing an archaeological excavation	p. 20
The mutual constitution of natural and social identities during archaeological fieldwork	p. 33
A linguistic anthropologist's interest in archaeological practice	p. 45
Reflecting upon archaeological practice : multiple visions of a late paleolithic site in Germany	p. 56
Pictures, ideas, and things : the production and currency of archaeological images	p. 68
Studying archaeological fieldwork in the field : view from Monte Polizzo	p. 81
Digging the dirt : excavation as a social practice	p. 95
Realisafiction : a day of work at everybody-knows-land	p. 103
Landscapes of disciplinary power : an ethnography of excavation and survey at Leskernick	p. 114
Histories, identity, and ownership : an ethnographic case study in archaeological heritage management in the Orkney Islands	p. 126
Among totem poles and clan power in Tanum, Sweden : an ethnographic perspective on communicative artifacts of heritage management	p. 137
Amazonian archaeology and local identities	p. 148
Conjunctures in the making of an ancient Maya archaeological site	p. 161
Complicit agendas : ethnography of archaeology as ethical research practice	p. 173
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