| Description |
1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; Biographic-calls; Content-wise; Subjectivist Objectification; 1 Axes of Developing Societies; Epistemology; Axis of Time -- Absolute Time; Axis of Time -- Social Time; Axis of Time -- Subjective Time; Axis of Human Action -- Disciplined Humanism; Axis of Human Action -- Max Weber; Axis of Human Action -- Ludwig von Mises; Axis of Human Action -- Alfred Schütz; Axis of Human Action -- Michel de Certeau; Axis of Human Space -- Existentialism and Embodiment; Axis of Human Space -- Territoriality and Proxemics; Axis of Human Space -- Built Environment |
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Axis of Human Space -- Space Syntax2 Along Disciplinary Lines; Foundations of Human Geography; New Geography, New Archaeology; Present and Future Discource; Social Evolutionism; Culture History, Culture Areas; 3 Processes of Becoming; Time-geography and Structuration; Introducing Allan Pred, Criticising Anthony Giddens; Place and the Social; Place beyond Structuration; Towards Place as Historically Contingent Process; What about the Built Environment?; 4 Theorising towards Datasets; From Regionalisation and Culture Areas; Towards Regionalisation and Culture Areas |
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Constructing Detailed SystemisationTowards Built Environments; 5 Theoretical Integration for Datasets; Some Fundamentals; Social Positioning of Spatialities; Spatial Datasets, Interpretive Issues; Spatial Features; Boundaries and the Macro Scale; Disputation of Potentialities; Are Things Stirring in Archaeology?; Basing a Theory; Building a Theory; A Methodological Turn; Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgements; References |
| Summary |
Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda. The topic of social evolution is concealed by anxiety about previous paradigmatic malpractice and the primary archaeological division of the world in culture areas still suffers from the archaic methods by which it was established. Archaeological inference of developing societies is weighed down by its choice of particularism within agency approaches and overtly reductionist due to the prevalence of statistical, cla |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social archaeology.
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Archaeology -- Philosophy.
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Archaeology -- Philosophy
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Social archaeology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789088901317 |
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9088901317 |
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