Archaeological Theory

Who Sets the Agenda?

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Paperback | 20 September 1993

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This volume assesses the real achievements of archaeology in increasing an understanding of the past. Without rejecting the insights either of traditional or more recent approaches, it considers the issues raised in current claims and controversies about what is appropriate theory for archaeology. The first section looks at the process of theory building and at the sources of the ideas employed. The following studies examine questions such as the interplay between expectation and evidence in ideas of human origins, social role and material practice in the formation of the archaeological record, and how the rise of states should be conceptualised; further papers cover issues of ethnoarchaeology, visual symbols, and conflicting claims to ownership of the past. The conclusion is that archaeologists need to be equally wary of naive positivism in the guise of scientific procedure, and of speculation about the unrecorded intentions of prehistoric actors.

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'I recommend this provocative volume, in which I found much to think about, not least Sherratt's plea that archaeologists - not the media, tour managers or politicians - should be the ones who set the agenda.' Nick Saunders, New Scientist

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Introduction: The sources of archaeological theory
The Social Context of Archaeological Theory
Limits to a post-processual archaeology (or The dangers of a new scholasticism)
A proliferation of new archaeologists 'Beyond objectivism and relativism'
Ambition, deference, discrepancy, consumption the intellectual background to a post-processual archaeology
Archaeological Theory from the Paleolithic to the State
Ancestors and agendas
After social evolution: a new archaeological agenda?
Too many chiefs? (or, Safe texts for the 90s)
Case-Studies in Archaeological Theory and Practice
When is a symbol archaeologically meaningful? Meaning, function and prehistoric visual arts
Re-fitting the 'cracked and broken facade': the case for empiricism in post-processual ethnoarchaeology
Communication and the importance of disciplinary communities: who owns the past?
Postscript and Epilogue
The relativity of theory
Archaeology: the loss of nerve
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