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Author: Matt Edgeworth
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780759108455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.
Author: Matt Edgeworth
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2006-05-04
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0759114315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained. This book explores the production of archaeological knowledge from a range of ethnographic perspectives. Fieldwork spans large parts of the world, with sites in Turkey, the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom being covered. They focus on excavation, inscription, heritage management, student training, the employment of hired workers and many other aspects of archaeological practice. These experimental ethnographic studies are situated right on the interface of archaeology and anthropology_on the road to a more holistic study of the present and the past.
Author: Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906540739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume charts archaeological ethnography as a new territory of engagement and research. Archaeological Ethnography is defined here as a trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural space, a meeting ground for diverse publics and researchers, in archaeology, social anthropology, and potentially other disciplines practices and traditions. It is a space that encourages and fosters dialogue, collaboration and critique on materiality and temporality, on archaeology as a social practice in the present, on the links, interactions and associations amongst things and people, on local and trans-local valorisations of past material remains. Bringing together the most notable practitioners of this new area from archaeology and social anthropology, and building on a wide range of case studies from England, Greece, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States, the volume explores issues of definition and ontology, epistemology and method, but also ethics and politics. This dialogic book will inspire readers to shape their own view and position on this emerging field, and experiment with their own archaeological ethnographies.
Author: Quetzil E. Castañeda
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780759111356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnographic Archaeologies examines the role of ethnography in public archaeology, offering fresh insights into theories that advocate the engagement of archaeologists and archaeological investigations with the communities that are being studied.
Author: Jane Lydon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1315427680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors to this volume—themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries—suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.
Author: Lena Mortensen
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813033662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how the past is mediated by social engagements in the present and the consequences of those encounters. This book considers how concepts of nationalism.
Author: Peter Jordan
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780759102774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.
Author: Alfredo González-Ruibal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-03-27
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1442230916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is an early area of state formation and at the same time the home of many egalitarian, small scale societies, which have lived in the buffer zone between states for the last three thousand years. For this reason, resistance is not something added to their sociopolitical structures: it is an inherent part of those structures—a mode of being. The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory, ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different processes of resistance in the long term.
Author: Duncan Garrow
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842173879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that both archaeology & anthropology arose from the project to understand human cultural & social diversity, this volume discusses the divergence between the separate disciplines in recent times & considers the possible benefits from greater interdisciplinary work.
Author: Sonya Atalay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1315416522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeology for whom? The dozen well-known contributors to this innovative volume suggest nothing less than a transformation of the discipline into a service-oriented, community-based endeavor. They wish to replace the primacy of meeting academic demands with meeting the needs and values of those outside the field who may benefit most from our work. They insist that we employ both rigorous scientific methods and an equally rigorous critique of those practices to ensure that our work addresses real-world social, environmental, and political problems. A transformed archaeology requires both personal engagement and a new toolkit. Thus, in addition to the theoretical grounding and case materials from around the world, each contributor offers a personal statement of their goals and an outline of collaborative methods that can be adopted by other archaeologists.
