Re-Constructing Archaeology Theory and Practice

Name: Re-Constructing Archaeology Theory and Practice
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ISBN: 9780415088701

ISBN-10: 0415088704

ISBN-13: 9780415088701

Edition: 2nd 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley

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How should we view the archaeological past? How can we come to understand it and what procedures are suitable for constructing archaeological knowledge? What is the goal of archaeology?Reconstructing Archaeologytackles these issues with wit and vigor, challenging the disciplinary practices of both traditional and "new" archaeology and presenting a radical alternative--a critically self-conscious archaeology and a social archaeology that appreciates artifacts not merely as objects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. Reconstructing Archaeologyranges widely across social and philosophical literature, from philosophy of science to…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/19/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Foreword



Preface to the second edition


Introduction



Issues in Archaeological Theory and Practice: Critique and Development



The present past



Positivism and the 'new archaeology'



Facts and values in archaeology



Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum



Perspectives for a Social Archaeology



Hermeneutics, dialectics and archaeology



Social archaeology: the object of study



Material Culture and Social Practices



Style and ideology



Social values, social constraints and material culture: the design of contemporary beer cans



Conclusions



Archaeological theory and practice today


Appendix: Archaeology into the 1990s


References


Index