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Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice
Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations
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2006
Summary
Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained. This book explores the production of archaeological knowledge from a range of ethnographic perspectives. Fieldwork spans large parts of the world, with sites in Turkey, the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom being covered. They focus on excavation, inscription, heritage management, student training, the employment of hired workers and many other aspects of archaeological practice. These experimental ethnographic studies are situated right on the interface of archaeology and anthropology_on the road to a more holistic study of the present and the past.
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-0845-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1431-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
195
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
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1 Multiple Origins, Development, and Potential of Ethnographies of Archaeology Matt Edgeworth No access Pages 1 - 19
2 Sites of Knowledge: Different Ways of Knowing an Archaeological Excavation Thomas Yarrow No access Pages 20 - 32
3 The Mutual Constitution of Natural and Social Identities During Archaeological Fieldwork David Van Reybrouck and Dirk Jacobs No access Pages 33 - 44
4 A Linguistic Anthropologist's Interest in Archaeological Practice Charles Goodwin No access Pages 45 - 55
5 Reflecting upon Archaeological Practice: Multiple Visions of a Late Paleolithic Site in Germany Blythe E. Roveland No access Pages 56 - 67
6 Pictures, Ideas, and Things: The Production and Currency of Archaeological Images Jonathan Bateman No access Pages 68 - 80
7 Studying Archaeological Fieldwork in the Field: Views from Monte Polizzo Cornelius Holtorf No access Pages 81 - 94
8 Digging the Dirt: Excavation as a Social Practice John Carman No access Pages 95 - 102
9 Realisafiction: A Day of Work at Everybody-Knows-Land Oğuz Erdur No access Pages 103 - 113
10 Landscapes of Disciplinary Power: An Ethnography of Excavation and Survey at Leskernick Michael Wilmore No access Pages 114 - 125
11 Histories, Identity, and Ownership: An Ethnographic Case Study in Archaeological Heritage Management in the Orkney Islands Angela McClanahan No access Pages 126 - 136
12 Among Totem Poles and Clan Power in Tanum, Sweden: An Ethnographic Perspective on Communicative Artifacts of Heritage Management Håkan Karlsson and Anders Gustafsson No access Pages 137 - 147
13 Amazonian Archaeology and Local Identities Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes No access Pages 148 - 160
14 Conjunctures in the Making of an Ancient Maya Archaeological Site Timoteo Rodriguez No access Pages 161 - 172
15 Complicit Agendas: Ethnography of Archaeology as Ethical Research Practice Lisa Breglia No access Pages 173 - 184
