Reading the past

Current approaches to interpretation in archaeology

Libro publicado por Ian Hodder y Scott Hutson (tercera edición - 2003)

Contenido:

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition

1 The problem
Cultural meanings and context
Individuals and agents
Historical context
Conclusion

2 Processual and systems approaches
A materialist approach to culture?
Agency
History and time
Behavioural archaeology
Measuring and predicting mind: cognitive processual archaeology
Neo-evolutionary archaeology and mind
Conclusion

3 Structuralist, post-structuralist and semiotic archaeologies
Formal analysis and generative grammars
Structuralist analysis
Critique
Post-structuralism
Verification
Conclusion: the importance of structuralist archaeology

4 Marxism and ideology
Marxist archaeology
Ideology
Ideology and power: conclusions

5 Agency and practice
Practice and structuration
Resistance
Agency

6 Embodied archaeology
Materiality and malleability
From an archaeology of the body to embodiment
The limits of the body
Conclusion

7 Archaeology and history
History of the long term
Historical theory and method: Collingwood
Some examples
Conclusion and critique

8 Contextual archaeology
Meaning and understanding
Meaning in archaeology
Reading material culture
Context
Similarities and differences
Relevant dimensions of variation
Definition of context
Explanation and description
Critical hermeneutics
Conclusion

9 Post-processual archaeology
Variability and materiality
Process and structure
Historical meaning content: the ideal and the material
Archaeology and society
Conclusion

10Conclusion: archaeology as archaeology
Testing interpretations
Archaeology and its distinctive role