Interpretive archaeology : a reader /: a reader. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julian Thomas.
• Other Names: Thomas, Julian
• Contents: Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology -- Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology -- Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view -- The craft of archaeology -- Materialism and an archaeology of dissonance -- Symbolism, meaning and context -- Hermeneutics and archaeology: on the philosophy of contextual archaeology -- Is there an archaeological record? -- On 'heavily decomposing red herrings': scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory -- Archaeology through the looking-glass -- The roots of inequality -- Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation -- Building power in the cultural landscape of Broome County, New York, 1880-1940 -- Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study -- Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans -- Homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology -- Power, bodies and difference -- The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Palaeoindian research -- Bodies on the move: gender, power and material culture: gender difference and the material world -- Engendered places in prehistory -- Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text -- The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process -- Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus -- Interpreting material culture -- Can we recognise a different European past? A contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England -- Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past -- Toward a critical archaeology -- This is an article about archaeology as writing -- The Berber house or the world reversed -- The temporality of the landscape -- Past practices in the ritual present: examples from the Welsh Bronze Age -- Monumental choreography: architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Leicester University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 622 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 930.1; Social archaeology; Archaeology -- Methodology; Archaeology -- Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology; Archaeology -- Methodology; Archaeology -- Philosophy; Social archaeology; Archeologie; Interpretatieve methode; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441179296; 1441179291
• Related ISBNs: 0718501918; 9780718501914; 0718501926; 9780718501921
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-618) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.