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Intro; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface: The Contradictions of Theory; 1 Common Sense is Not Enough; Definitions of Theory; Understanding Theory; 2 The "New Archaeology"; Culture History; Origins of the New Archaeology; New Archaeology: Key Points; Case Study: The Enigma of the Megaliths; Conclusion; 3 Archaeology as a Science; Definitions of Science; Positivism; Examples; Objections to "Science"; Kuhn and Feyerabend; Social Constructivism; 4 Middle-Range Theory, Ethnoarchaeology, and Material Culture Studies; Binford and Middle-Range Theory |
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Interpreting the Mousterian; Uniformitarian Assumptions; Case Study: Bones at Olduvai; Middle-Range Theory: Problems; Behavioral Archaeology; Material Culture Studies; 5 Culture and Process; Culture History; Cultural Systems: Summary; The Idea of Process; Example: Cultural Process around the North Sea; Cultural Process: Strengths; The Context of Cultural Systems; Processual Thinking: Drawbacks; Processual Thinking Modified; Culture, Process, and the Individual; 6 Thoughts and Ideologies; Looking at Thoughts; Structuralism; Marxism; Ideology; Cognitive Archaeology; Conclusion |
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7 Postprocessual and Interpretative Archaeologies; Postprocessual Archaeology; Case Studies: Rock Art and Medieval Houses; 8 The Material Turn; Things Are Important; Things Are Complicated; Phenomenology; Objects and Mediation; Objects and Agency; Ecology, Environment, and the Anthropocene; Objects and Entanglement; Assemblages; Actor Network Theory and Symmetrical Archaeology; Criticisms of the Material Turn; Conclusion; 9 Archaeology, Gender, and Identity; Gender; Bias Correction; Critique of Archaeological Practice; Archaeologies of Gender; Men, Women, and Knowledge |
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Case Study: What This Awl Means; Archaeologies of Identity; Race and Ethnicity; Queering Archaeology; Archaeologies of Disability; Performativity; Conclusion; 10 Archaeology and Cultural Evolution; Darwin, Marx, and Spencer; Cultural Evolution; Criticisms of Cultural Evolution; Multilinear Evolution; Cultural Evolution and Marxism; Origins of the State; Case Study: Cahokia; Cultural Evolution Strikes Back; 11 Archaeology and Darwinian Evolution; Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Cultural Ecology; Human Behavioral Ecology; Genes and Memes; Co-Evolutionary Theory; Selectionist Archaeology |
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Case Study: Art, Handaxes, Population, and Innovation Paleolithic conclusionclusion; 12 Archaeology and History; Traditional History; The Annales School; The Linguistic Turn; The Material Turn in History; Medieval and Historical Archaeology; Historical Archaeology and the Text; Case Study: Bodiam Castle; Conclusion; 13 Archaeology, Politics, and Culture; Case Study: African Burial Ground; Indigenous Archaeologies; "Heritage" and Community Archaeology; The Relativism Question; 14 Conclusion; Where We Are Now; The Fall and Rise of Empiricism; Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies |
| General note | Political Economy, the Social, and the Material |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Johnson, Matthew. Archaeological Theory : An Introduction. Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, ©2019 9781118475027 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781118499382 |
| ISBN | 1118499387 |
