Agency in Archaeology

Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group
Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.

About the author

Marcia-Anne Dobres is a Research Associate at the Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley John Robb, a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton

Summary

Nineteen internationally renowned scholars discuss nine theoretically based case studies ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the US. Essential reading for all archaeologists.

Product details

• Authors: Marcia-Anne Dobres, John Robb, Dobres Marcia-Anne, Robb John
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 24.02.2000
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9780415207607
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20760-7
• Pages: 288
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Dimensions (packing): 17.4 x 24.6 cm
• Weight (packing): 690 g
• Subjects: Cha, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, timeless, Ecology, Construction, Archaeology, Practice Theory, Ice man, Agency Theory, vessels, Record, Social Reproduction, Young Men, Archaeological, Harpers Ferry, Evolutionary, Mound, Above Ground, soapstone, Mortuary Domain, Long Houses, Red Ocher, Hereditary Inequality, Soapstone Vessels, Mill Branch, Rosario Phase, optoire, American historical archaeology, Harpers Ferry Armory, Savannah River Valley, South Kyme, Stallings Culture, Master Armorer, Material Interference, Sacred Covenant, Grave Depth, Shouldered Points