A Companion to Social Archaeology

The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades. Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields. Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past. Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is founding editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology and her previous books include Archaeology under Fire: Nationalism, Politics, and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (1998, ed.), Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt (Blackwell, 1999), Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt (2002), Embodied Lives: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience, (2003, with Rosemary Joyce), and Object Worlds from Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present (2004).

Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past (1991), co-editor with Ian Hodder of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory (Blackwell, 1996), and editor of Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World (2002).

List of Figures

vii

Notes on Contributors

viii

Part I

1

(118)

Knowledges

3

(20)

Robert W. Preucel

Lynn Meskell

The ``Social'' in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective

23

(20)

Ian Hodder

Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory

43

(23)

Bruce G. Trigger

Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought

66

(16)

Thomas C. Patterson

Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality

82

(14)

Rosemary A. Joyce

Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective

96

(23)

Clive Gamble

Erica Gittins

Part II

119

(94)

Identities

121

(21)

Lynn Meskell

Robert W. Preucel

Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender

142

(19)

Roberta Gilchrist

The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archaeology and Anthropology

161

(18)

Chris Gosden

Material Culture: Current Problems

179

(16)

Victor Buchli

Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption

195

(18)

Paul R. Mullins

Part III

213

(100)

Places

215

(15)

Robert W. Preucel

Lynn Meskell

Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology

230

(25)

Emma Blake

Social Archaeologies of Landscape

255

(17)

Wendy Ashmore

Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations

272

(15)

Julia A. Hendon

Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic

287

(26)

Ian Lilley

Part IV

313

(102)

Politics

315

(20)

Lynn Meskell

Robert W. Preucel

The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East

335

(18)

Reinhard Bernbeck

Susan Pollock

Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism to Globalization

353

(21)

Gustavo G. Politis

Jose Antonio Perez Gollan

Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans

374

(22)

Randall H. McGuire

Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan

396

(19)

Koji Mizoguchi

Index

415

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A Companion to Social Archaeology

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