Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and

professional archaeologists and the public. When "Reconstructing Archaeology" was first published, it provoked a storm of controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. This second edition provides an updated preface and appendix, in which Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley further develop their arguments, responding to their most vocal critics.

List of illustrations

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Figures

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Tables

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Acknowledgements

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Foreword

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Ian Hodder

Preface to the second edition

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Introduction

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PART I ISSUES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE: CRITIQUE AND DEVELOPMENT

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1 The present past

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Introduction

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The problematic past

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Time travel: getting from the present back to the past

9

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Recreating the past

15

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Archaeology - history

16

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The practice of archaeology

22

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Justifications

25

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Conclusions

27

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2 Positivism and the `new archaeology'

29

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Introduction

29

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The new paradigm - or traditional archaeology resurrected?

29

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Grounding knowledge claims: positivism

32

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Naturalism

34

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Phenomenalism and the demarcation of science/non-science

36

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Conclusion

43

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3 Facts and values in archaeology

46

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Introduction

46

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An objective and scientific archaeology: rational method and therapy

46

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Reification and empirical regularity

48

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Manipulating the past as image of the present: economic archaeology

49

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Systems theory, the status quo and pathology

52

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Cultural evolution, the politicization of time

53

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Evolution: biology and behaviour

54

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Statistics, mathematics and objectivity

56

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Mathematical archaeology

57

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Reason as method: a logistical archaeology

59

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Justifications and the meaning of archaeology

62

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Facts and values, ideology and criticism

62

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The lament of High Culture

63

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The valuable past

64

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Conclusions: notes towards a critical archaeology

65

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4 Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum

68

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Introduction

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PART ONE: THE MUSEUMS

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The artifact transformed into an object in commodified time

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The Museum of Antiquities of the University and Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne

69

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The aesthetic artifact

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The British Museum

71

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Bringing the past alive

73

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Narrative display and the artifact as information

74

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The Museum of London

74

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Presence, absence and the authenticating quote

74

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The exhibited past

76

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A period room in the Castle Museum, York

76

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The erotics of the museum

79

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The George Joicey Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne

80

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Shop-front commodification

81

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The Castle Museum, York

81

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Heritage: visiting a mythical past

83

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The North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, County Durham

83

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Labour and discovery: the archaeologist as hero

86

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Jorvik Viking Centre, York

86

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PART TWO: PAST AND PRESENT IN THE MUSEUM

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Entertaining the public: `real' and `popular' archaeology

91

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Archaeologists as creatures of their times

93

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Mediating past and present

94

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Conclusion: towards a redemptive aesthetic

97

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PART II PERSPECTIVES FOR A SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY

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5 Hermeneutics, dialectics and archaeology

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Archaeology as interpretation

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The hermeneutic circle

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The role of the interpreter

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Archaeology as fourfold hermeneutic

107

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Thought as embedded in historical process

108

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Beyond hermeneutics, towards dialectics

110

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Explanation

112

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Knowledge

113

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Conclusions

114

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6 Social archaeology: the object of study

116

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Introduction

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Artifact, culture, system

117

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Against essentialism: social system as relational whole

119

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Agency and social practices

122

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A stratified model of agency

125

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Structures, structuring principles

126

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Structuration

128

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Contradiction, power, ideology, change

129

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Material culture: objectification and social strategies

130

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Meaning in material culture

131

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Conclusions

134

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PART III MATERIAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICES

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7 Style and ideology

137

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Introduction

137

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How archaeologists have dealt with style

138

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An alternative perspective

146

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Style: a summary

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Style as ideology in southern Swedish middle neolithic ceramics

155

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Summary

171

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8 Social values, social constraints and material culture: the design of contemporary beer cans

172

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Introduction

172

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THE DESIGNS ON BRITISH AND SWEDISH BEER CANS

173

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Differences between British and Swedish beer can designs

175

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Differences between British beer and lager cans

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Differences between Swedish beer classes

183

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DRINK, THE STATE, CONSUMERISM, DISCIPLINE

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Early industrial capitalism and alcohol production

186

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Changes in experience of work and leisure

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Drink, social control and disciplinary power

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Consumerism, the welfare state and the medicalization of drinking practices

198

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The brewing industry

207

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ALCOHOL IN THE MEDIA AND ADVERTISING

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Drink and the news

209

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