GLOBAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY

Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thoughts





libro editado por Pedro Paulo Funari, Andrés Zarankin y Emily Stovel (2005)


I. Archaeological Theory
Global Archaeological Theory: Introduction
Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Andrés Zarankin, and Emily Stovel

1. Materiality and the Social
Julian Thomas
2. Archaeology and the Meanings of Material Culture
Norberto Luiz Guarinello
3. Why Is There Material Culture Rather than Nothing? Heideggerian Thoughts and Archaeology
Hakan Karlsson
4. What Conditions of Existence Sustain a Tension Found in the Use of Written and Material Documents in Archaeology?
José Alberione dos Reis
5. The Reception of New Archaeology in Argentina: A Preliminary Survey
Irina Podgorny, María Dolores Tob´ıas, and Ma´ ximo Farro

II. Archaeological Theory and Methods in Action
6. Network Theory and the Archaeology of Modern History
Charles E. Orser Jr.
7. The Comparative Method in Archaeology and the Study of Spanish and Portuguese South American Material Culture
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
8. Bodies in Prehistory: Beyond the Sex/Gender Split
Benjamin Alberti
9. Children’s Activity in the Production of the Archaeological Record of Hunter-Gatherers: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach
Gustavo G. Politis
10. The Archaeology of Identity Construction: Ceramic Evidence from Northern Chile
Emily M. Stovel
11. Rethinking Stereotypes and the History of Research on Jeˆ Populations in South Brazil: An Interdisciplinary Point of View
Francisco Silva Noelli

III. Space and Power in Material Culture
12. Traveling Objects and Spatial Images: Exchange Relationships and the Production of Social Space
Marisa Lazzari
13. The Materiality of Inka Domination: Landscape, Spectacle, Memory, and Ancestors
Félix A. Acuto
14. Walls of Domestication—Archaeology of the Architecture of Capitalist Elementary Public Schools: The Case of Buenos Aires
Andrés Zarankin
15. Enlightened Discourses, Representations, and Social Practices in the Spanish Settlement of Floridablanca, Patagonia 18th Century
Maria Ximena Senatore

IV. Images as Material Discourse
16. Stylistic Units in Prehistoric Art Research: Archeofacts or Realities?
André Prous
17. Water and Olive Oil: An Analysis of Rural Scenes in Black and Red Figure Attic Vases and the Construction of the Athenian Empire
André Leonardo Chevitarese

V. The Construction of Archaeological Discourse
18. Between Motorcycles and Rifles: Anglo-American and Latin American Radical Archaeologies
Randall H. McGuire and Rodrigo Navarrete
19. Footsteps of the American Race: Archaeology, Ethnography, and Romantism in Imperial Brazil (1838–1867)
Lúcio Menezes Ferreira
20. Brazilian Archaeology: Indigenous Identity in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century
Ana Cristina Piñón Sequeira
21. Discussion: A Response from the ‘Core’
Matthew H. Johnson