An Introduction to oracy : frameworks for talk /: frameworks for talk. (1998)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jackie Holderness and Barbara Lalljee.
• Other Names: Holderness, Jackie; Lalljee, Barbara
• Contents: Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology; PART I: ON THE CHARACTER OF ARCHAEOLOGY; Introduction; 2 Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology; 3 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view; 4 The craft of archaeology; 5 Materialism and an archaeology of dissonance; PART II: INTERPRETATION, INFERENCE, EPISTEMOLOGY; Introduction; 6 Symbolism, meaning and context; 7 Hermeneutics and archaeology: on the philosophy of contextual archaeology; 8 Is there an archaeological record? 9 On ''heavily decomposing red herrings'': scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory10 Archaeology through the looking-glass; PART III: SOCIAL RELATIONS, POWER AND IDEOLOGY; Introduction; 11 The roots of inequality; 12 Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation; 13 Building power in the cultural landscape of Broome County, New York, 1880-1940; 14 Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study; 15 Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans; PART IV: FEMINISM, QUEER THEORY AND THE BODY; Introduction. 16 Homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology17 Power, bodies and difference; 18 The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Palaeoindian research; 19 Bodies on the move: gender, power and material culture: gender difference and the material world; 20 Engendered places in prehistory; PART V: MATERIAL CULTURE; Introduction; 21 Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text; 22 The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process. 23 Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus24 Interpreting material culture; PART VI: ARCHAEOLOGY, CRITIQUE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY; Introduction; 25 Can we recognise a different European past? A contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England; 26 Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past; 27 Toward a critical archaeology; 28 This is an article about archaeology as writing; PART VII: SPACE AND LANDSCAPE; Introduction. 29 The Berber house or the world reversed30 The temporality of the landscape; 31 Past practices in the ritual present: examples from the Welsh Bronze Age; 32 Monumental choreography: architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y.
• Publisher Details: London : Cassell
• Publication Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 372.62/2044/0941; Oral communication -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Great Britain; English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Great Britain; EDUCATION -- Elementary; English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Oral communication -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Mündliche Überlieferung; Sprachunterricht; Spreekvaardigheid; Leerlingen; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441127167
• Related ISBNs: 144112716X; 0304339490; 9780304339495; 0304339504; 9780304339501
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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