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Informationen zum Autor David S. Whitley is the US representative of ICOMOS and lectures at UCLA. He is an internationally acclaimned expert on rock art, on which he has published widely. Klappentext This Reader in Archaeological Theory presents sixteen articles of key theoretical significance, in a format which makes this notoriously complex area easier for students to understand. This volume: * provides an intellectual history of different approaches to archaeology which contextualizes the complex traditions of cognitive archaeology and postprocessualism on which it focuses * organizes theories of archaeology, the meanings of things, the prehistoric mind and cognition, gender, ideology and social theory and archaeology's relationship to today's society and politics * includes lucid section introductions to each section which provide context, explain why the papers are so significant and summarize their key points * emphasizes research from the 'New World', making archaeological theory especially relevant and accessible to students in North America. Zusammenfassung This Reader in Archaeological Theory presents sixteen articles of key theoretical significance, in a format which makes this notoriously complex area easier for students to understand. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, 1 NEW APPROACHES TO OLD PROBLEMS: Archaeology in Search of an Ever Elusive Past PART I: THEORECTICAL VIEWPOINTS 2 COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY 3 SYMBOLIC, STRUCTURAL, AND CRITICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 4 PROCESSUAL, POSTPROCESSUAL AND INTERPRETIVE ARCHAEOLOGIES PART II: MEANINGS OF THINGS 5 SOUND, COLOR AND MEANING IN THE METALLURGY OF ANCIENT WEST MEXICO 6 ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGININGS: Contextualization of Images PART III: PREHISTORIC COGNITION 7 FROM DOMAIN SPECIFIC TO GENERALIZED INTELLIGENCE: A Cognitive Interpretation of the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic Transition 8 WRESTLING WITH ANALOGY: A Methodological Dilemma in Upper Palaeolithic Art Research PART IV: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 9 ANNALISTES, HERMENEUTICS AND POSITIVISTS: Squaring Circles of Dissolving Problems 10 SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF THE LONGUE DUREE IN THE PREHISTORY OF THE MIDCONTINENTAL UNITED STATES PART V: GENDERING THE PAST 11 THE DEVELOPMENT OF HORTICULTURE IN THE EASTERN WOODLANDS OF NORTH AMERICA: Women's Role 12 BOYS WILL BE BOYS: Masculinist Approaches to a Gendered Archaeology PART VI: IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY 13 BY THE HUNTER, FOR THE GATHERER: Art, Social, Relations and Subsistence Change in the Prehistoric Great Basin 14 ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE PETTY CAPTAINS, THEY OBEY TH EM BADLY: The Dialectics of Prehispanic Western Pueblo Social Organization PART VII: ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 15 ARCHAEOLOGY AS SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTION IN THE PRESENT 16 RETURN OF THE SACRED: Spirituality and the Scientific Imperative, Index...
