Agency in Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9780415207607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str.

Marcia-Anne Dobres; John E. Robb

Opis

Nineteen internationally renowned scholars discuss theoretically based case studies ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the US.

Recenzje

'This book contains valuable discussions of regional archaeological records.' - Bruno David, Monash University, Australia

Spis treści

1: Editors' introduction; 1: Agency in archaeology; 2: Thinking agency; 2: Agency and individuals in long-term processes; 3: Troubled travels in agency and feminism; 4: Agency in (spite of) material culture; 5: Rationality and contexts in agency theory; 6: A thesis on agency; 3: Using agency; 7: The founding of Monte Albán; 8: Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality; 9: The tragedy of the commoners; 10: The depositional history of ritual and power; 11: Agents of change in hunter-gatherer technology; 12: Tension at funerals; 13: Constellations of knowledge; 14: Self-made men and the staging of agency; 15: Craft to wage labor; 4: Commentary; 16: On the archaeology of choice; 5: Epilogue; 17: Ethics and ontology

O autorze

Marcia-Anne Dobres is a Research Associate at the Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley John Robb, a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton