Archaeological Concepts for the Study of the Cultural Past

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvAlan Sullivan III,Alan P. Sullivan III

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One idiosyncrasy of archaeology in North America is that it is considered a sub-field of cultural anthropology. To explore the dimensions of this situation, editor Alan P. Sullivan assembled a group of practicing archaeologists, each with different expertise, to analyze problems with the current disciplinary arrangement and to recommend changes in practice and pedagogy that might coalesce into a truly archaeological study of the cultural past.By using the theoretical tension that has arisen between archaeology and cultural anthropology, the contributors illustrate the effectiveness of concepts and methods that have little, if any, overlap with those of the mother discipline. Archaeological Concepts for the Study of the Cultural Past examines the degree to which the historically close relationship between archaeology and cultural anthropology may actually have inhibited archaeological investigations—particularly of those aspects of the cultural past that may be ethnographically undocumented or incompletely described.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-03-25
Mått178 x 254 x 18 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFoundations of Archaeological Inquiry
Antal sidor172
FörlagUniversity of Utah Press,U.S.
ISBN9780874809220

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List of FiguresList of Tables1. Forward to the Cultural Past2. An Archaeological View of the Archaeological Record3. Raising the Bar: Making Geological and Archaeological Data More Meaningful for Understanding the Archaeological Record4. Archaeological Science in American and Britain5. Remote Sensing Approaches to Archaeological Reasoning: Pattern Recognition and Physical Principles6. Non-Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Lithic Artifact and Assemblage Variability7. Exploring the Historical Foundation and Interpretive Potential of Provenience8. Theory, Method,and the Archaeological Study of Occupation Surfaces and Activities9. Abandonment Patterning at Archaeological SettlementsList of ContributorsIndex