Agency in Archaeology - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415207614 ISBN 13: 9780415207614

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group
Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.

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L'autore

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

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Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of human agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that humans make choices, hold intentions, and take actions. Their use offers archaeologists the means to move beyond broad structural or environmental explanations of culture change and instead to consider the individual and the group. As such, the concept of agency has gained influence in every variety of archaeology, from post-processualism to evolutionary ecology. However, there has been little consensus among archaeologists on what agency actually means, and how specifically it can be used in studying the pre-modern past. Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US. Elizabeth Brumfiel, John Barrett, John Chapman, John E. Clark, George L. Cowgill, Joan M. Gero, Ian Hodder, Matthew Johnson, Arthur Joyce, Lisa J. Lucero, Henrietta Moore, Tim R. Pauketat, Kenneth E.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415207614
• ISBN 13: 9780415207614
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Dobres Marcia-Anne