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Author Leach, Stephen D., author.

Title A Russian perspective on theoretical archaeology : the life and work of Leo S. Klein / Stephen Leach
Published Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]

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Contents Foreword / by Stephen Shennan -- Preface -- Part I: Life Story -- Chapter 1: Before Prison -- Chapter 2: Prison -- Chapter 3: After Prison -- Part II: Life's Work -- Chapter 4: Anthropology -- Chapter 5: Homeric Studies -- Chapter 6: The Resurrection of Perun -- Chapter 7: Ethnogenesis -- Chapter 8: Histories of Archaeology -- Chapter 9: Theoretical Archaeology in Relation to Practice -- Chapter 10: What is Theoretical Archaeology? -- Chapter 11: The Archaeologist and the Detective -- Appendix A: The Commandments -- Appendix B: Klejn's Bibliography
Summary "Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, Russia's foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn's wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology. The book details: Klejn's diverse work on ethnogenesis, migration, Homeric studies, pagan Slavic religion, homosexuality, and the history of archaeology; his life challenges as a Russian Jewish scholar, jailed for homosexuality by the KGB and for his challenges to Marxist dogma; his key contributions to theoretical archaeology; and, in particular, Klejn's comparisons between archaeologists and forensic scientists"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kleĭn, L. S. (Lev Samuilovich)
Kleĭn, L. S. (Lev Samuilovich) -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Kleĭn, L. S. (Lev Samuilovich) fast
Subject Archaeologists -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Jewish scholars -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Archaeology -- Philosophy.
Archaeology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Soviet Union -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Archaeologists
Archaeology -- Philosophy
Archaeology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Jewish scholars
Philosophy
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781629581408
1629581402
9781629581415
1629581410
9781315435602
1315435608