Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader (Social Archaeology) - Softcover

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9780631195610: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader (Social Archaeology)

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ISBN 10: 0631195610 ISBN 13: 9780631195610

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This reader presents an easily accessible collection of seminal articles in contemporary Anglo-American archaeological theory for use in introductory undergraduate classes as well as graduate level seminars. If focuses upon the period from 1980 to the present emphasizing the far-reaching effects of recent internal and external critiques of processual archaeology. The central purpose of the reader is to assist students in thinking about the interrelationships between theory and practice for different theoretical approaches.

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About the Author:

Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at Southern Illinois University and Harvard University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Seasonal Circulation and Dual Residence in the Pueblo Southwest (1990) and, as editor, Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies (1991).

Ian Hodder is Reader at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Amsterdam, Sorbonne, Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, Minnesota, SUNY (Binghamton) and the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Symbols in Action (1982), The Present Past (1982), Reading the Past (1986), The Domestication of Europe (1990) and Theory and Practice in Archaeology (1992).

Review:

"Contemporary Archaeology in Theory makes a valuable contribution to contemporary archaeological theory by making it accessible to students and archaeologists generally, in a structured and comprehensive way. This book would provide a good basis for an advanced level archaeological theory course." (Australian Archaeology, Number 44, 1997)

"... by all means adopt this Reader as a text to go with your own reader. Its framework is catholic, broad-ranging and reasonably balanced with respect to developments in archaeological theory over the last two decades."
--Roger C. Green, Dept of Anthropology, University of Auckland

"It is an excellent source for advanced and graduate seminars in archaeological theory. The editors are to be congratulated for completing a monumental and controversial task with such authority and equanimity."
--Patty Jo Watson, Washington University (American Antiquity, 1998)

"Preucel's and Hodder's pieces, covering a total of almost 100 pages of text - a small monograph - constitute the real strength of the book. They are humane, intelligent, well-read, balanced and critical guides to the proliferation of processual and interpretive theoretical positions that archaeologists espouse." (Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology)

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