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Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015054076198
Author : Eugenia W. Herbert,A. Bernard Knapp,Vincent C. Pigott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134676521
Original theoretical viewpoint of thematic material. Historical and anthropological. A. Bernard Knapp is a well-known and respected author. Goes beyond economic/technological analysis to social, economic, historical and anthropological. Covers themes of gender, colonialism, ethnicity, production, consumption.
Author : Lynn Meskell,Robert W. Preucel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470692868
The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades. Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields. Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past. Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.
Author : Camille Westmont
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800736160
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.
Author : Dries Daems
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000344738
Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexity in Archaeology. Social complexity in archaeology is commonly related to properties of complex societies such as states, as opposed to so-called simple societies such as tribes or chiefdoms. These conceptualisations of complexity are ultimately rooted in Eurocentric perspectives with problematic implications for the field of archaeology. This book provides an in-depth conceptualisation of social complexity as the core concept in archaeological and interdisciplinary studies of the past, integrating approaches from complex systems thinking, archaeological theory, social practice theory, and sustainability and resilience science. The book covers a long-term perspective of social change and stability, tracing the full cycle of complexity trajectories, from emergence and development to collapse, regeneration and transformation of communities and societies. It offers a broad vision on social complexity as a core concept for the present and future development of archaeology. This book is intended to be a valuable resource for students and scholars in the field of archaeology and related disciplines such as history, anthropology, sociology, as well as the natural sciences studying human-environment interactions in the past.
Author : Bruno David,Bryce Barker,Ian J. McNiven
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780855754990
The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective. Building on the foundational work of Harry Lourandos, the book critically examines and challenges traditional approaches which have presented Indigenous Australian past as static and tethered to ecological rationalism. The book reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of long term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment. The book encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with and constructed their worlds. It solicits a deeper understanding of the contemporary political and social context of research and the insidious impacts of colonialist philosophies. In short, it concerns people, both past and present. The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies looks beyond the stereo
Author : Stella G. Souvatzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107684846
The study of households and everyday life is increasingly recognized as fundamental in social archeological analysis. This volume is the first to address the household as a process and as a conceptual and analytical means through which we can interpret social organization from the bottom up. Using detailed case studies from Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi examines how the household is defined socially, culturally, and historically; she discusses household and community, variability, production and reproduction, individual and collective agency, identity, change, complexity, and integration. Her study is enriched by an in-depth discussion of the framework for the household in the social sciences and the synthesis of many anthropological, historical, and sociological examples. It reverses the view of the household as passive, ahistorical, and stable, showing it instead to be active, dynamic, and continually shifting.
Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037641730
Author : Ellen Swift,Jo Stoner,April Pudsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198867340
Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources, yet this potential has been underexploited in research on Roman and Late Antique Egypt. This book presents the first in-depth study that uses everyday artefacts as its principal source of evidence to transform our understanding of the society and culture of Egypt during these periods. It represents a fundamental reference work for scholars, with much new and essential information on a wide range of artefacts, many of which are found not only in Egypt but also in the wider Roman and late antique world. By taking a social archaeology approach, it sets out a new interpretation of daily life and aspects of social relations in Roman and Late Antique Egypt, contributing substantial insights into everyday practices and their social meanings in the past. Artefacts from University College London's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology are the principal source of evidence; most of these objects have not been the subject of any previous research. The book integrates the close study of artefact features with other sources of evidence, including papyri and visual material. Part one explores the social functions of dress objects, while part two explores the domestic realm and everyday experience. An important theme is the life course, and how both dress-related artefacts and ordinary functional objects construct age and gender-related status and facilitate appropriate social relations and activities. There is also a particular focus on wider social experience in the domestic context, as well as broader consideration of economic and social changes across the period.
Author : Lynn Meskell,Robert W. Preucel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Social archaeology
ISBN : 140514968X
This volume provides an overview of developments in social archaeology. It aims to trace the origins and development of this new encounter with social theory in archaeology, while signalling new trends that extend and challenge established ways of understanding and approaching the past.
Author : Vere Gordon Childe
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759105936
V. Gordon Childe is probably the most widely read early archaeologist of the 20th century and one of the world's most renowned prehistorians. A thorough understanding of the evolution of Childe's theoretical perspective is crucial to an understanding of the foundations of social archaeology. For the first time, a diverse collection of Childe's writings have been brought together in one volume. These fourteen essays, from his earliest seminal work in 1935 to his reflective essay 'Retrospect' written in 1958 shortly before his death, document the progression of this dynamic thinker. Essays such as 'Archaeology and Anthropology' show the evolution of Childe's theories from a conception of the past as a trait-list conceptualization of culture to an understanding of the profound importance of social relations in transforming human history. His understanding of history evolved from a static notion into a dynamic conception that openly embraced social interaction and all that it entailed, a transformation that marked the earliest strains of social archaeology. The introduction by prominent anthropologists Thomas Patterson and Charles Orser places Childe's work in a larger context and explores Childe's ongoing value to modern readers. This volume will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of social archaeology.
Author : Douglas J. Bolender
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438434247
The potential of events for interpreting changes in the archaeological record.
Author : Michael Parker Pearson,Colin Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134728114
This book offers contributions ranging from studies of hunter-gatherer camp organization to the use of space in Classical and Medieval worlds.
Author : Henry Cleere
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052124305X
This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protection of archaeological monuments. With the exception of Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, no country adopted a positive policy towards the protection and conservation of its archaeological and historical heritage until the twentieth century. Moreover, it was not until the middle of that century, under the threat of wholesale devastation from extensive schemes for social and economic development, that the accelerating disappearance of the sites and monuments of Antiquity became the object of intensive study and legislation. Since then systems of cultural resource management have developed throughout the world. A range of countries (from Europe, America, Asia and Africa) representing a diversity of political and ideological systems - capitalist, socialist and ex-colonial - have been selected as being broadly representative of the variety of these systems. The case studies have been written by distinguished archaeologists and provide critical evaluations of the objectives and shortcomings of these systems.
Author : Ian Hodder,Scott Hutson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521528844
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