Charles E. Jr. Orser

Archaeological Thinking

How to Make Sense of the Past

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser Jr., provides a commonsense guide to applying critical thinking skills to archaeological questions and evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781442226975
• ISBN-10: 1442226978
• Artikelnr.: 41195960

Autorenporträt

Charles E. Orser Jr. is research professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Illinois State University. His publications include Historical Archaeology, 2e (2004) and The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America (2007). He is founder and editor of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. What's This All About, Anyway? Thinking in Archaeology A
Question of Belief? Science versus History Thinking to Some Purpose The
Process of Clear Thinking A Brief History of Archaeo-Thinking Postmodern
Thinking Continue Reading 2. It All Seems So Sciencey: Archaeology,
Science, and History How Do Archaeologists Use Science and History to
Think? SEARCHing Plausibility The Exeter Mystery The Ongoing Tussle between
Evidence and Perspective The Changing Nature of Coarse, Low-Fired
Earthenware 3. Those Pesky Facts: Understanding Historical Facts Can Facts
Be Selected? Is Fact Selection Dishonest? Glass Beads and Glass Buttons We
Really Do Select Facts? Continue Reading 4. If p . . . Then What?
Archaeological Thinking and Logic Our Love of Logic Deducing Not Deduction,
the Other One . . . I've Been Abducted Continue Reading 5. Is That Chair
Really a Chair? Analogy and Archaeological Thinking Archaeologists and
Analogy The Direct Historical Approach Ethnographic Analogy Evaluating
Analogy Strength What Is the Purpose of Analogy in Archaeology? Continue
Reading 6. Source-Thinking: The Relationship between Archaeological and
Textual Evidence What Is History? Archaeology and History "Historical"
Sources Reading the Declaration of Independence The Search for Saint
Brendan the Navigator Continue Reading 7. Artifact-Thinking: Archaeological
Thought and Excavated Things Ceramics as Historical Documents Ceramics as
Commodities Ceramics as Ideas Continue Reading 8. Thinking to Some Purpose:
Archaeological Research and Critical Thinking The Danger of Faulty
Archaeo-Thinking Final Thoughts Continue Reading Index About the Author