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Informationen zum Autor Citizenship:UK & US Klappentext Archaeology beyond Postmodernity introduces to archaeology a new concept of culture as well as many valuable interpretive techniques that have emerged in sociology to study culture scientifically. This book is a proposal for and a stout defense of an archaeology based the ideas of Bruno Latour and Actor Network Theory. Martin not only lays out the central ideas of a Latourian archaeology but he also situates the ideas in relation to other approaches in theoretical archaeology. The book also provides two sustained archaeological examples which will be of interest to both American and British audiences: the prehistoric mounds of Hopewell in north America, and the Bronze Age of lowland Britain. The end result is an important book that explains and substantiates a new approach in archaeology and provides an exciting challenge for existing perspectives in the discipline. -- Ian Hodder, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University Zusammenfassung Archaeology beyond Postmodernity introduces to archaeology a new concept of culture as well as many valuable interpretive techniques that have emerged in sociology to study culture scientifically. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Entangled by ModernismChapter 2. Archaeological Use of TheoriesChapter 3. Object ScienceChapter 4. Group Formation, Dissent, and ChangeChapter 5. A Method for Analyzing Cultural ActionChapter 6. Fragmenting the Bronze AgeChapter 7. Contestation in the HopewellChapter 8. ConclusionAppendix 1. Structural Similarities Between Mounds in Barrow GroupsAppendix 2. Correlation of Inhumations and Cremations with Barrow TypesAppendix 3. Proximity of Wessex Anomalies to Beaker BarrowsAppendix 4. Context of Beaker Barrows Appendix 5. Comparison of Size Between Last Beaker and Wessex BarrowsAppendix 6. Context of Secondary Cremations Appendix 7. Secondary Inhumations in Cremation MoundsAppendix 8. Characteristics of Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 MoundsBibliography About the Author...
