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Title A companion to social archaeology / edited by Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel
Published Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA. : Blackwell Pub., 2004

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Description xi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Part I: Knowledges -- 1. The "social" in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective / Ian Hodder -- 2. Cross-cultural comparison and archaeological theory / Bruce G. Trigger -- 3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought / Thomas C. Patterson -- 4. Embodied subjectivity: gender, femininity, masculinity, sexuality / Rosemary A. Joyce -- 5. Social archaeology and origins research: a Palaeolithic perspective / Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins -- Part II: Identities -- 6. Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender / Roberta Gilchrist -- 7. The past and foreign countries: colonial and post-colonial archaeology and anthropology / Chris Gosden -- 8. Material Culture: Current Problems / V. Buchli -- 9. Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption / Paul R. Mullins -- Part III: Places -- 10. Space, Spatiality and Archaeology / Emma Blake -- 11. Social Archaeologies of Landscape / Wendy Ashmore -- 12. Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations / Julia A. Hendon -- 13. Diaspora and identity in archaeology: moving beyond the Black Atlantic / Ian Lilley -- Part IV: Politics -- 14. The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- 15. Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism To Globalization / Gustavo Politis and José Antonio Perez Gollán -- 16. Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans / Randall H. McGuire -- 17. Identity, modernity, and archaeology: the case of Japan / Koji Mizoguchi
Summary "This collection provides an invaluable reference for students and teachers studying the intersections of archaeology, culture, and society."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social archaeology.
Author Meskell, Lynn.
Preucel, Robert W.
LC no. 2003021516
ISBN 0631225781 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Social archaeology