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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Miller grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he spent half his life discovering his love of Southern cuisine and sports. Later, Miller, who is a professional journalist, developed a passion for creativity and ideas in writing that led him to write Daddy, what can I do? inspired by his son, who was five years old at the time when Miller first started helping him tap into his imagination. Klappentext This book starts from the premise that methodology has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. Zusammenfassung This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory! and that past failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Theoretical perspectives I: 1. Ideology, power and prehistory: An introduction Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley; Part II. Ideology and Power in the Present and historical Past: 2. Endo ceramics and power strategies Alice Welbourn; 3. Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: The William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland Mark Leone; 4. Modernism and suburbia as material ideology Daniel Miller; Part III. Ideology and Power in Prehistory: 5. Burials, houses, women and men in the European Neolithic Ian Hodder; 6. Economic and ideological change: Cyclical growth in the pre-state societies of Jutland Michael Parker Pearson; 7. Ritual and prestige in the prehistory of Wessex c. 2200-1400 BC: A new dimension to the archaeological evidence Mary Braithwaite; 8. Ideology and the legitimation of power in the Middle Neolithic of Southern Sweden Christopher Tilley; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Ideology, power, material culture and long-term change Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley....
