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Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda?

Categorie	Archeologie & Geologie
Boeknummer	#271666
Titel	Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda?
Auteur	Yoffee, Norman & Andrew Sherratt
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0521449588
ISBN13	9780521449588
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	This volume assesses the real achievements of archaeology in increasing an understanding of the past. Without rejecting the insights either of traditional or more recent approaches, it considers the issues raised in current claims and controversies about what is appropriate theory for archaeology. The first section looks at the process of theory building and at the sources of the ideas employed. The following studies examine questions such as the interplay between expectation and evidence in ideas of human origins, social role and material practice in the formation of the archaeological record, and how the rise of states should be conceptualised; further papers cover issues of ethnoarchaeology, visual symbols, and conflicting claims to ownership of the past. The conclusion is that archae... (Lees verder)ologists need to be equally wary of naive positivism in the guise of scientific procedure, and of speculation about the unrecorded intentions of prehistoric actors.
Pagina's	139
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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