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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
The New Pragmatism
“Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism is a great collection of texts to teach from, but it is much more than that. Preucel and Mrozowski have put together a landmark volume that combines a diversity of exciting contributions with a common intellectual agenda and purpose. One comes away from reading The New Pragmatism with a sense of a serious, mature discipline that combines academic rigour with social engagement.” “Far more than a second edition, this is a fully transformed, cutting- edge, thorough, truly monumental book that captures the richness of archaeological theory today for introductory and advanced readers alike.” “The new pragmatism advanced by the editors places archaeology within its social context, importantly in ways that can serve contemporary needs in the modern world. Archaeology is no longer innocent.” "This collection of papers works beautifully as an overview of contemporary archaeological theory. It's framing as 'The New Pragmatism' is quite appropriate given the discipline's challenge to better address current social contexts and human needs."
—Matthew Johnson, University of Southampton
—Stephen Silliman, University of Massachusetts, Boston
—Peter Bellwood, Australian National University
—Dean Saitta, University of Denver
Robert W. Preucel (Edited by), RW Preucel (Author), Stephen A. Mrozowski (Edited by)
9781405158534, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 13 April 2010
672 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.6 cm, 1.157 kg
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.
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 2 Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social 77 3 Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia 92 4 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape 104 Part III Agency, Meaning, and Practice 129 5 Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm 137 6 Technology's Links and Chaınes: The Processual Unfolding of Technique and Technician 156 7 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast 170 8 Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence from Fort Ross, California 191 Part IV Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood 217 9 Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist Critiques of Science 226 10 On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa 244 11 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica 256 12 Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the Archaeology of Empire 265 Part V Race, Class, and Ethnicity 281 13 The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea 290 14 Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology 301 15 Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology 311 16 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and Conflict 325 Part VI Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence 339 17 Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an Indonesian Society 347 18 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and Social Memory at Chaco 362 19 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology 385 20 Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology 404 Part VII Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism 423 21 Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain 432 22 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory 445 23 Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past 459 24 Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples and Us 470 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 27 An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research 525 28 Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland 534 Part IX Media, Museums, and Publics 551 29 No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI 558 30 The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising 571 31 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts 582 32 Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Archaeology 593 Index 618
Tim Ingold
Paul S. C. Tacon
Eleanor Conlin Casella
Clark L. Erickson
Timothy R. Pauketat
Marcia-Anne Dobres
Kenneth E. Sassaman
Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M. Schiff
Alison Wylie
John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
Rosemary A. Joyce
Barbara L. Voss
Sarah M. Nelson
Sian Jones
Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman
LouAnn Wurst
Webb Keane
Barbara J. Mills
Paul A. Shackel
Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz
Margarita Dı´az-Andreu
Carla M. Sinopoli
Zainab Bahrani
Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond
Lynn Meskell
Michael L. Blakey
Audrey Horning
Sonya Atalay
Lauren E. Talalay
Ian Hodder
George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
