Description
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a critical examination of the relationship between archaeology and language, analyzing the rhetorical practices through which archaeologists create representations of the past. It examines rhetoric, narrative and dialogue as crucial topics for archaeological reflection.
Trade Review"Joyce takes on archaeology's major themes, writing, and practice in her own engaging text. She has indeed produced a telling story. The book disentangles the enmeshed terrain of representation and narrative, and promises to make a lasting contribution to archaeological theory." Lynn Meskell, Columbia University "This is an engaging and readable study of a profoundly neglected topic in archaeology. The Languages of Archaeology constitutes an open and disarmingly honest investigation of how archaeologists write and indeed construct the past through this process. This is a highly innovative and groundbreaking piece of research, in which the aim of retrieving dialogue from its marginalized position is successfully achieved." Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
1 Introducing the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.
2 Writing the Field of Archaeology: Rosemary Joyce and Robert W. Preucel.
3 Dialogues Heard and Unheard, Seen and Unseen: Rosemary Joyce.
4 A Second Voice: Crafting Cosmos: Jeanne Lopiparo.
5 Voices Carry Outside the Discipline: Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer, and Michael Joyce.
6 The Return of the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.
7 Final Dialogues: Rosemary Joyce.
Bibliography.
