Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice write by Eleanor Harrison-Buck. This book was released on 2012-04-15. Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new and broader approach to understanding power and identity in the Mesoamerican archaeological record
Archaeological Theory in Practice
Archaeological Theory in Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeological Theory in Practice write by PatriciaA Urban. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Archaeological Theory in Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this concise, friendly textbook, Patricia Urban and Edward Schortman teach the basics of archaeological theory, making explicit the crucial link between theory and the actual conduct of archaeological research. The first half of the text addresses the general nature of theory, as well as how it is used in the social sciences and in archaeology in particular. To demonstrate the usefulness of theory, the authors draw from research at Stonehenge, Mesopotamia, and their own long-term research project in the Naco Valley of Honduras. They show how theory becomes meaningful when it is used by very real individuals to interpret equally real materials. These extended narratives exemplify the creative interaction between data and theory that shape our understanding of the past. Ideal for introductory courses in archaeological theory.
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology write by Eleanor Harrison-Buck. This book was released on 2018-08-20. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional understanding of agency and personhood, presenting a globally diverse set of case studies that cover a range of cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Agency (the ability to act) and personhood (the reciprocal qualities of relational beings) have traditionally been strictly assigned to humans. In case studies from Ghana to Australia to the British Isles and Mesoamerica, contributors to this volume demonstrate that objects, animals, locations, and other nonhuman actors also potentially share this ontological status and are capable of instigating events and enacting change. This kind of other-than-human agency is not a one-way transaction of cause to effect but requires an appropriate form of reciprocal engagement indicative of relational personhood, which in these cases, left material traces detectable in the archaeological record. Modern dualist ontologies separating objects from subjects and the animate from the inanimate obscure our understanding of the roles that other-than-human agents played in past societies. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology challenges this essentialist binary perspective. Contributors in this volume show that intersubjective (inherently social) ways of being are a fundamental and indispensable condition of all personhood and move the debate in posthumanist scholarship beyond the polarizing dichotomies of relational versus bounded types of persons. In this way, the book makes a significant contribution to theory and interpretation of personhood and other-than-human agency in archaeology. Contributors: Susan M. Alt, Joanna Brück, Kaitlyn Chandler, Erica Hill, Meghan C. L. Howey, Andrew Meirion Jones, Matthew Looper, Ian J. McNiven, Wendi Field Murray, Timothy R. Pauketat, Ann B. Stahl, Maria Nieves Zedeño
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory write by Andrew Gardner. This book was released on . The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation write by Barbara Hausmair. This book was released on 2018-01-29. Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.
