Archaeology and Anthropology
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Archaeology and Anthropology

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Archaeology and Anthropology

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This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely unreciprocated. To date, the causes and consequences of this imbalance have received little attention, particularly within anthropology. Including papers by eminent thinkers within both disciplines, this book sheds new light on issues of disciplinary identity. The contributors show how a lack of collaboration has resulted in a narrowing of horizons within both disciplines and explore the grounds upon which these might be opened up. The papers draw on a range of theoretical perspectives and empirical case-studies, but are unified in their concern to explore the ideological, practical and methodological commitments that mark each discipline as distinct. Ultimately, the volume arrives at the startling conclusion that archaeologys apparent absence of data may actually be a positive attribute, leading to a distinctive approach from which anthropology can learn.

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Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2010
ISBN
9781842178096
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Archaeology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. List of figures
  3. Notes on the contributors
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1. Introduction: archaeological anthropology
  6. 2. Not knowing as knowledge: asymmetry between archaeology andanthropology
  7. 3. Triangulating absence: exploring the fault-lines between archaeologyand anthropology
  8. 4. Spaces that were not densely occupied – questioning ‘ephemeral’evidence
  9. 5. On the boundary: new perspectives from ethnography of archaeology
  10. 6. Archaeology and the anthropology of memory: takes on the recent past
  11. 7. Resolving archaeological and ethnographic tensions: a case study fromSouth-Central California
  12. 8. Words and things: thick description in archaeology and anthropology
  13. 9. Re-evaluating the long term: civilisation and temporalities
  14. 10. Relational personhood as a subject of anthropology and archaeology:comparative and complementary analyses
  15. 11. No more ancient; no more human: the future past of archaeologyand anthropology
  16. 12. Commentary. Boundary objects and asymmetries
  17. 13. Commentary. Walls and bridges
  18. Index