Ethnographic Archaeologies

Author : Quetzil Castañeda,Christopher N. Matthews
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461647690

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Ethnographic Archaeologies by Quetzil Castañeda,Christopher N. Matthews Pdf

Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this volume, for example, understand ethnographic archaeology variously as a means of critical engagement with heritage stakeholders, as the basis of public-policy debates, as a critical archaeological study of ethnic groups, as the study of what archaeology actually does (as opposed to what researchers often think they are doing) in excavations and surveys, and as a foundation for transnational collaborations among archaeologists. What keeps the term "ethnographic archaeology" coherent and relevant is the consensus among practitioners that they are embarking on a new archaeological path by attempting to engage the present directly and fundamentally.

Author : Matt Edgeworth
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759108455

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Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice by Matt Edgeworth Pdf

Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.

Author : Amanda Kearney,John Bradley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030348984

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Reflexive Ethnographic Practice by Amanda Kearney,John Bradley Pdf

Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers. In the context of a remote Indigenous Australian community in northern Australia, these researchers—anthropologists, an archeologist, a literary scholar, and an artist—encounter reflexivity and ethnographic practice through deeply personal and professionally revealing accounts of anthropological consciousness, relational encounters, and knowledge sharing. In six discrete chapters, the authors reveal the complexities that run through these relationships, considering how any one of us builds knowledge, shares knowledge, how we encounter different and new knowledge, and how well we are positioned to understand the lived experiences of others, whilst making ourselves fully available to personal change. At its core, this anthology is a meditation on learning and friendship across cultures.

Author : Lena Mortensen,Julia J. Hollowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0813033667

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Ethnographies and Archaeologies by Lena Mortensen,Julia J. Hollowell Pdf

Examines how the past is mediated by social engagements in the present and the consequences of those encounters. This book considers how concepts of nationalism.

Author : Richard A. Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015002701343

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Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology by Richard A. Gould Pdf

Author : Matt Edgeworth
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053028695

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Acts of Discovery by Matt Edgeworth Pdf

In this revised thesis Matt Edgeworth views archaeological theory and practice through the eyes of an ethnographer. He examines the act of fieldwork for example as a craft that can be recorded and analysed as an ethnographer would treat his subject.

Author : Lewis R. Binford
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520303409

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Constructing Frames of Reference by Lewis R. Binford Pdf

Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the "New Archaeology" changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called "ethnoarchaeology"—the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record—and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.

Author : David Whitley,Johannes Loubser,Gavin Whitelaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351654395

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Cognitive Archaeology by David Whitley,Johannes Loubser,Gavin Whitelaw Pdf

Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate this approach to archaeological interpretation, including contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and substantive research that improves our understanding of the human past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and theory courses and postgraduate students.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473819542

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The Present Past by Ian Hodder Pdf

This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodders original and classic work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record.There has long been a need for archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and methods for interpreting the material culture of past civilisations. Archaeological interpretation of the past is inevitably based on the ideas and experiences of the present and the use of such ethnographic analogy has been widely adapted and criticised, not least in Britain.In this challenging study, Ian Hodder questions the assumptions, values and methods which have been too readily accepted. At the same time, he shows how anthropology can be applied to archaeology. He examines the criteria for the proper use of analogy and, in particular, emphasises the need to consider the meaning and interpretation of material cultures within the total social and cultural contexts. He discusses anthropological models of refuse deposits, technology and production, subsistence, settlement, burial, trade exchange, art form and ritual; he then considers their application to comparable archaeological data.Throughout, Professor Hodder emphasises the need for a truly scientific approach and a critical self-awareness by archaeologists, who should be prepared to study their own social and cultural context, not least their own attitudes to the present-day material world.

Author : Gerry Wait,Ibrahima Thiaw
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784919955

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Archaeology and Ethnography Along the Loango Coast in the South West of the Republic of Congo by Gerry Wait,Ibrahima Thiaw Pdf

This book presents the results of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) project in the southwest region of the Republic of the Congo, undertaken to identify and evaluate cultural resources which might need further investigation. The study also reports on ethnographic surveys considering intangible cultural heritage.

Author : David Shankland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181623

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Archaeology and Anthropology by David Shankland Pdf

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment. This volume argues that the time has come to recognise the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Archaeology's rigorous approach to evidence and material culture; its ability to develop flexible research methodologies; its readiness to work with large-scale models of comparative social change, and to embrace the latest technology all means that it can offer valuable methods that can enrich and enhance current anthropological thinking.Cross-disciplinary and international in scope, this exciting volume draws together cutting-edge essays on the relationship between the two disciplines, arguing for greater collaboration and pointing to new concepts and approaches for anthropology. With contributions from leading scholars, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.

Author : William A. Parkinson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201710

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The Archaeology of Tribal Societies by William A. Parkinson Pdf

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

Author : Carol Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0231041837

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Ethnoarchaeology by Carol Kramer Pdf

Author : Alan Daniel McMillan,Denis E. St. Claire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Barkley Sound Region (B.C.)
ISBN : 0864913346

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Huu7̲ii by Alan Daniel McMillan,Denis E. St. Claire Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : LCCN:13004476

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International Archives of Ethnography by Anonim Pdf