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Title Archaeology and anthropology : past, present and future / edited by David Shankland
Edition English edition
Published New York : Berg, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations
Series ASA monographs, 0066-9679 ; 48
A.S.A. monographs ; 48.
Contents Archaeology and Anthropology; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Archaeology and Anthropology: Divorce and Partial Reconciliation; 2 Big Revolutions, Two Small Disciplines, and Socialism; 3 Whose Rights to Which Past? Archaeologists, Anthropologists, and the Ethics of Heritage in the Global Hierarchy of Value; 4 Archaeology and Anthropology: The State of the Relationship; 5 No More Ancient; No More Human: The Future Past of Archaeology and Anthropology; 6 Sacred Architecture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
7 Life with Things: Archaeology and Materiality8 Archaeological Ethnography: Materiality, Heritage, and Hybrid Methodologies; 9 The Anthropological Imagination and British Iron Age Society; 10 Space, Place, and Architecture: A Major Meeting Point between Social Archaeology and Anthropology?; 11 Encountering the Past: Unearthing Remnants of Humans in Archaeology and Anthropology; 12 Archaeology, Anthropology, and Material Things; Index
Summary Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment. This volume argues that the time has come to recognise the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Archaeology''s rigorous approach to evidence and material culture; its ability to develop flexible research methodologies; its readiness to work with large-scale models of comparative social change, and to embrace the latest technology all means that it can offer valuable methods that can enrich and enhance current anthropologi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnoarchaeology.
Social archaeology.
Anthropology.
ethnoarchaeology.
anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Anthropology
Ethnoarchaeology
Social archaeology
Form Electronic book
Author Shankland, David, editor
ISBN 9780857854193
0857854194