Re-constructing Archaeology : Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415088701 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 320 str.

Michael Shanks;Shanks Michael

Opis

In Re-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the new archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as practice in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as objects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It aims to provide a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.

Recenzje

`I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to all archaeologists.' - Australian Archaeology

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Issues in archaeological theory and practice: critique and development; 1: The present past; 2: Positivism and the ‘new archaeology'; 3: Facts and values in archaeology; 4: Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum; 2: Perspectives for a social archaeology; 5: Hermeneutics, dialectics and archaeology; 6: Social archaeology: the object of study; 3: Material culture and social practices; 7: Style and Ideology; 8: Social values, social constraints and material culture: the design of contemporary beer cans; 4: Conclusions; 9: Archaeological theory and practice today

O autorze

Christopher Tilley, Michael Shanks