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Book Synopsis
The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people.
  • Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world
  • Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies
  • Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics
  • Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology
  • Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural an

    Table of Contents

    List of Tables and Figures x

    List of Contributors xiii

    Preface xv

    Acknowledgments xvii

    Part I The New Pragmatism 1

    Part II Landscapes, Spaces, and Natures 51

    1 The Temporality of the Landscape 59
    Tim Ingold

    2 Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social 77
    Paul S. C. Tacon

    3 Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia 92
    Eleanor Conlin Casella

    4 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape 104
    Clark L. Erickson

    Part III Agency, Meaning, and Practice 129

    5 Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm 137
    Timothy R. Pauketat

    6 Technology's Links and Chaınes: The Processual Unfolding of Technique and Technician 156
    Marcia-Anne Dobres

    7 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast 170
    Kenneth E. Sassaman

    8 Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence from Fort Ross, California 191
    Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. Schiff

    Part IV Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood 217

    9 Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist Critiques of Science 226
    Alison Wylie

    10 On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa 244
    John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

    11 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica 256
    Rosemary A. Joyce

    12 Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire 265
    Barbara L. Voss

    Part V Race, Class, and Ethnicity 281

    13 The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea 290
    Sarah M. Nelson

    14 Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology 301
    Sian Jones

    15 Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology 311
    Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman

    16 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict 325
    LouAnn Wurst

    Part VI Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence 339

    17 Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society 347
    Webb Keane

    18 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and Social Memory at Chaco 362
    Barbara J. Mills

    19 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology 385
    Paul A. Shackel

    20 Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology 404
    Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz

    Part VII Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism 423

    21 Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain 432
    Margarita Dı´az-Andreu

    22 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory 445
    Carla M. Sinopoli

    23 Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past 459
    Zainab Bahrani

    24 Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us 470
    Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond

    Part VIII Heritage, Patrimony, and Social Justice 491

    25 The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage A Discussion with Arjun Appadurai 498

    26 Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the Archaeological Present 508
    Lynn Meskell

    27 An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research 525
    Michael L. Blakey

    28 Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland 534
    Audrey Horning

    Part IX Media, Museums, and Publics 551

    29 No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI 558
    Sonya Atalay

    30 The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising 571
    Lauren E. Talalay

    31 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts 582
    Ian Hodder

    32 Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology 593
    George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister

    Index 618

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 13/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9781405158534, 978-1405158534
      ISBN10: 1405158530
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      Book Synopsis
      The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people.
      • Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world
      • Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies
      • Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics
      • Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology
      • Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural an

        Table of Contents

        List of Tables and Figures x

        List of Contributors xiii

        Preface xv

        Acknowledgments xvii

        Part I The New Pragmatism 1

        Part II Landscapes, Spaces, and Natures 51

        1 The Temporality of the Landscape 59
        Tim Ingold

        2 Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social 77
        Paul S. C. Tacon

        3 Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia 92
        Eleanor Conlin Casella

        4 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape 104
        Clark L. Erickson

        Part III Agency, Meaning, and Practice 129

        5 Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm 137
        Timothy R. Pauketat

        6 Technology's Links and Chaınes: The Processual Unfolding of Technique and Technician 156
        Marcia-Anne Dobres

        7 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast 170
        Kenneth E. Sassaman

        8 Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence from Fort Ross, California 191
        Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. Schiff

        Part IV Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood 217

        9 Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist Critiques of Science 226
        Alison Wylie

        10 On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa 244
        John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff

        11 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica 256
        Rosemary A. Joyce

        12 Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire 265
        Barbara L. Voss

        Part V Race, Class, and Ethnicity 281

        13 The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea 290
        Sarah M. Nelson

        14 Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology 301
        Sian Jones

        15 Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology 311
        Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman

        16 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict 325
        LouAnn Wurst

        Part VI Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence 339

        17 Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society 347
        Webb Keane

        18 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and Social Memory at Chaco 362
        Barbara J. Mills

        19 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology 385
        Paul A. Shackel

        20 Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology 404
        Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz

        Part VII Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism 423

        21 Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain 432
        Margarita Dı´az-Andreu

        22 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory 445
        Carla M. Sinopoli

        23 Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past 459
        Zainab Bahrani

        24 Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us 470
        Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond

        Part VIII Heritage, Patrimony, and Social Justice 491

        25 The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage A Discussion with Arjun Appadurai 498

        26 Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the Archaeological Present 508
        Lynn Meskell

        27 An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research 525
        Michael L. Blakey

        28 Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland 534
        Audrey Horning

        Part IX Media, Museums, and Publics 551

        29 No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI 558
        Sonya Atalay

        30 The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising 571
        Lauren E. Talalay

        31 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts 582
        Ian Hodder

        32 Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology 593
        George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister

        Index 618

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