Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice : Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations - Matt Edgeworth
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Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice

Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations

By: Matt Edgeworth (Editor), Jonathan Bateman (Contribution by), Lisa Breglia (Contribution by), John Carman (Contribution by), Oguz Erdur (Contribution by)

Hardcover | 4 May 2006

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Ethnographic 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.
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Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice shows the best results of how and why the daily life of archaeology works. Here are the questions asked, the range of methods used, the best investigators' work, and the results. The book tells us what should be done next and provides a model of how to do a more effective archaeology using ethnographic examination of archaeological work. -- Mark Leone, University of Maryland

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