Gavin Lucas

Writing the Past

Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing the Past attempts to re-introduce a normative dimension to knowledge practices in archaeology, especially in relation to archaeological practice further down the 'assembly line' in the production of published texts, where archaeological knowledge becomes most stabilised and is widely disseminated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780367001049
• ISBN-10: 0367001047
• Artikelnr.: 54908027

Autorenporträt

Gavin Lucas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland, where has been teaching since 2002. His main interests lie in archaeological method and theory as well as the archaeology of the modern world, with a special focus on the North Atlantic.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. The production of archaeological knowledge
Chapter 2. Models of reasoning in Anglo-American archaeology
Chapter 3. Text types and archaeology
Chapter 4. Textual composition and knowledge production
Chapter 5. Mobile knowledge
Bibliography
Index