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

Robert W. Preucel and Lynn Meskell

3

(20)

1 The "Social" in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Ian Hodder

23

(20)

2 Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory

Bruce G. Trigger

43

(23)

3 Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought

Thomas C. Patterson

66

(16)

4 Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality

Rosemary A. Joyce

82

(14)

5 Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective

Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins

96

(23)

Part II

119

(94)

Identities

Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel

121

(21)

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

Roberta Gilchrist

142

(19)

7 Thc Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archacology and Anthropology

Chris Gosden

161

(18)

8 Material Culture: Current Problems

Victor Buchli

179

(16)

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

Paul R. Mullins

195

(18)

Part III

213

(100)

Places

Robert W. Preucel and Lynn Meskell

215

(15)

10 Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology

Emma Blake

230

(25)

11 Social Archaeologies of Landscape

Wendy Ashmore

255

(17)

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

Julia A. Hendon

272

(15)

13 Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic

Ian Lilly

287

(26)

Part IV

313

(102)

Politics

Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel

315

(20)

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

Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock

335

(18)

15 Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism to Globalization

Gustavo G. Politis and José Antonio Pérez Galán

353

(21)

16 Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans

Randall H. McGuire

374

(22)

17 Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan

Koji Mizoguchi

396

(19)

Index

415

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