Artifacts and Ideas

Essays in Archaeology
Herausgeber: Trigger, Bruce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the remnants of the material objects they made and used. This fact has encouraged partisan approaches to the history and method of archaeology. This work challenges partisan versions of developments in archaeology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781412806503
• ISBN-10: 141280650X
• Artikelnr.: 22538575

Autorenporträt

Bruce Trigger

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Understanding the Material Remains of the Past
2: Engels on the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man: An Anticipation of Contemporary Archaeological Theory
3: Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian
4: Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist
5: Archaeology at the Crossroads: What's New?
6: Hyperrelativism, Responsibility, and the Social Sciences
7: Archaeology and Epistemology: Dialoguing across the Darwinian Chasm
8: The Real, the Perceived, and the Imagined
9: Imagination and Scientific Curiosity
10: The 1990s: North American Archaeology with a Human Face?