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Key writings of Alice Beck Kehoe provide students and scholars of anthropology an overview of methodological and ethical issues in Americanist archaeology over the last thirty years.
List of contents
Dramatis Personae
Greetings!
Part 1. Archaeology Makes Histories
1. Constructing Data
2. Excluded from History
3. Revisionist Anthropology
Interpolation: Metis and Rationality, a Classical Class Struggle
Part 2. Archaeology Is a Historical Science
4. Looking at Landscapes: Disciplinary Boundaries and Unrecognized Precursors
5. How the Ancient Peigans Lived
6. The Direct Ethnographic Approach to Archaeology on the Northern Plains
Part 3. Archaeology Lives in Social Contexts
7. Chiefdoms
8. Cahokia from a Postcolonial Standpoint
Part 4. Postcolonial: Scientific Standpoint and Moral Imperative
9. Delgamuukw
10. The Muted Class: Unshackling Tradition
Part 5. The Themes that Bind
Acknowledgments
References
Index
About the author
Alice Beck Kehoe is a professor of anthropology emeritus at Marquette University. She is the author or editor of twenty-one books, including
North America before the European Invasions;
The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology; and
Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession (Nebraska, 2022).
Summary
Key writings of Alice Beck Kehoe provide students and scholars of anthropology an overview of methodological and ethical issues in Americanist archaeology over the last thirty years.
