Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism - eBook

Name: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism - eBook
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ISBN: 9781444358513

Edited By: Robert W. Preucel, Stephen A. Mrozowski

By: Robert W. Preucel(Ed.) & Stephen A. Mrozowski(Ed.)

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Stephen Mrozowski and Robert Preucel's thorough update of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory reflects the changing nature of the discipline. This reader tackles landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and public archaeology. Challenging the division of prehistory and history, this reader looks at the relevance of archaeology in a modern, pluralistic society.

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Title: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism - eBook
By: Robert W. Preucel(Ed.) & Stephen A. Mrozowski(Ed.)
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2011

ISBN: 9781444358513
ISBN-13: 9781444358513
Series: Wiley Desktop Editions
Stock No: WW27369EB

Publisher's Description

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The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people.

Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world
Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies
Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics
Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology
Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural anthropologists

Author Bio

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Robert W. Preucel is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Curator of the American Section at the University Museum, and Director of the Penn Center for Native American Studies. His most recent book is Archaeological Semiotics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 in paper).

Stephen A. Mrozowski is the founding director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He has published more than sixty scholarly articles and monographs and is the author of The Archaeology of Class in Urban America (2006).