Marcia-Anne Dobres, John Robb

Agency in Archaeology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nineteen internationally renowned scholars discuss nine theoretically based case studies ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the US. Essential reading for all archaeologists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317959397
• Artikelnr.: 41067277

Autorenporträt

Marcia-Anne Dobres is a Research Associate at the Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley John Robb, a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton

Inhaltsangabe

1: Editors' introduction
1: Agency in archaeology
2: Thinking agency
2: Agency and individuals in long-term processes
3: Troubled travels in agency and feminism
4: Agency in (spite of) material culture
5: Rationality and contexts in agency theory
6: A thesis on agency
3: Using agency
7: The founding of Monte Albán
8: Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality
9: The tragedy of the commoners
10: The depositional history of ritual and power
11: Agents of change in hunter-gatherer technology
12: Tension at funerals
13: Constellations of knowledge
14: Self-made men and the staging of agency
15: Craft to wage labor
4: Commentary
16: On the archaeology of choice
5: Epilogue
17: Ethics and ontology