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Contemporary archaeology in theory : the new pragmatism / edited by Robert W. Preucel and Stephen A. Mrozowski.

Contributor(s): Preucel, Robert W | Mrozowski, Stephen AMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Edition: 2nd edDescription: xix, 637 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9781405158329 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1405158328 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781405158534 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1405158530 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): ArchaeologyDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC173 | .C66 2010
Contents:
1. The temporality of the landscape / Tim Ingold -- 2. Identifying ancient sacred landscapes in Australia : from physical to social / Paul S.C. Tacon -- 3. Landscapes of punishment and resistance : a female convict settlement in Tasmania, Australia / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- 4. Amazonia : the historical ecology of a domesticated landscape / Clark L. Erickson -- 5. Practice and history in archaeology : an emerging paradigm / Timothy R. Pauketat --6. Technology's links and Chaînes : the processual unfolding of technique and technician / Marcia-Anne Dobres -- 7. Structure and practice in the archaic Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- 8. Daily practice and material culture in pluralistic social settings : an archaeological study of culture change and persistence from Fort Ross, California / Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. Schiff -- 9. Good science, bad science, or science as usual? : feminist critiques of science / Alison Wylie --^
10. On personhood : an anthropological perspective from Africa / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- 11. Girling the girl and boying the boy : the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica / Rosemary A. Joyce -- 12. Domesticating imperialism : sexual politics and the archaeology of empire / Barbara L. Voss -- 13. The politics of ethnicity in prehistoric Korea / Sarah M. Nelson -- 14. Historical categories and the praxis of identity : the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology / Siân Jones -- 15. Beyond racism : some opinions about racialism and American archaeology / Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman -- 16. A class all its own : explorations of class formation and conflict / LouAnn Wurst -- 17. Money is no object : materiality, desire, and modernity in an Indonesian society / Webb Keane -- 18. Remembering while forgetting : depositional practices and social memory at Chaco / Barbara J. Mills --^
19. Public memory and the search for power in American historical archaeology / Paul A. Shackel -- 20. Re-representing African pasts through historical archaeology / Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz -- 21. Archaeology and nationalism in Spain / Margarita Díaz-Andreu -- 22. Echoes of empire : Vijayanagara and historical memory, Vijayanagara as historical memory / Carla M. Sinopoli -- 23. Conjuring Mesopotamia : imaginative geography and a world past / Zainab Bahrani -- 24. Confronting colonialism : the Mahican and Schaghticoke peoples and us / Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond -- 25. The globalization of archaeology and heritage / a discussion with Arjun Appadurai -- 26. Sites of violence : terrorism, tourism, and heritage in the archaeological present / Lynn Meskell -- 27. An ethical epistemology of publicly engaged biocultural research / Michael L. Blakey --^
28. Cultures of contact, cultures of conflict? : identity construction, colonialist discourse, and the ethics of archaeological practice in Northern Ireland / Audrey Horning -- 29. No sense of the struggle : creating a context for survivance at the NMAI / Sonya Atalay -- 30. The past as commodity : archaeological images in modern advertising / Lauren E. Talalay -- 31. The past as passion and play : Catalhoyuk as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts / Ian Hodder -- 32. Copyrighting the past? : emerging intellectual property rights issues in archaeology / George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister.
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. [This edition:] 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. --Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The temporality of the landscape / Tim Ingold -- 2. Identifying ancient sacred landscapes in Australia : from physical to social / Paul S.C. Tacon -- 3. Landscapes of punishment and resistance : a female convict settlement in Tasmania, Australia / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- 4. Amazonia : the historical ecology of a domesticated landscape / Clark L. Erickson -- 5. Practice and history in archaeology : an emerging paradigm / Timothy R. Pauketat --6. Technology's links and Chaînes : the processual unfolding of technique and technician / Marcia-Anne Dobres -- 7. Structure and practice in the archaic Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- 8. Daily practice and material culture in pluralistic social settings : an archaeological study of culture change and persistence from Fort Ross, California / Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. Schiff -- 9. Good science, bad science, or science as usual? : feminist critiques of science / Alison Wylie --^

10. On personhood : an anthropological perspective from Africa / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- 11. Girling the girl and boying the boy : the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica / Rosemary A. Joyce -- 12. Domesticating imperialism : sexual politics and the archaeology of empire / Barbara L. Voss -- 13. The politics of ethnicity in prehistoric Korea / Sarah M. Nelson -- 14. Historical categories and the praxis of identity : the interpretation of ethnicity in historical archaeology / Siân Jones -- 15. Beyond racism : some opinions about racialism and American archaeology / Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman -- 16. A class all its own : explorations of class formation and conflict / LouAnn Wurst -- 17. Money is no object : materiality, desire, and modernity in an Indonesian society / Webb Keane -- 18. Remembering while forgetting : depositional practices and social memory at Chaco / Barbara J. Mills --^

19. Public memory and the search for power in American historical archaeology / Paul A. Shackel -- 20. Re-representing African pasts through historical archaeology / Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz -- 21. Archaeology and nationalism in Spain / Margarita Díaz-Andreu -- 22. Echoes of empire : Vijayanagara and historical memory, Vijayanagara as historical memory / Carla M. Sinopoli -- 23. Conjuring Mesopotamia : imaginative geography and a world past / Zainab Bahrani -- 24. Confronting colonialism : the Mahican and Schaghticoke peoples and us / Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond -- 25. The globalization of archaeology and heritage / a discussion with Arjun Appadurai -- 26. Sites of violence : terrorism, tourism, and heritage in the archaeological present / Lynn Meskell -- 27. An ethical epistemology of publicly engaged biocultural research / Michael L. Blakey --^

28. Cultures of contact, cultures of conflict? : identity construction, colonialist discourse, and the ethics of archaeological practice in Northern Ireland / Audrey Horning -- 29. No sense of the struggle : creating a context for survivance at the NMAI / Sonya Atalay -- 30. The past as commodity : archaeological images in modern advertising / Lauren E. Talalay -- 31. The past as passion and play : Catalhoyuk as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts / Ian Hodder -- 32. Copyrighting the past? : emerging intellectual property rights issues in archaeology / George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister.

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. [This edition:] 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. --Publisher description.