文档介绍：THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ARCHAEOLOGY
This book aims to show through a series of examples that an interpretive archaeology
dealing with past meanings can be applied in practice to archaeological data, and that it
can also contribute effectively to social practice in the world of today.
Seven of the een contributions included have been specifically written for this
volume to act as an overview of the way archaeology has developed over the last ten
years. Yet Ian Hodder goes beyond this: he aims to break down the separation of theory
and practice and to reconcile the division between the intellectual and the ‘dirt’
archaeologist. Faced with public controversy over the ownership and interpretation of the
past, archaeology needs a clear image of itself, be able to gain funding, win public
confidence and manage the heritage professionally and sensitively. Hodder asserts that
archaeologists cannot afford to ignore general theory in favour of practice any more than
they can afford an ivory-tower approach. Theoretical debate is important to any
discipline, particularly in archaeology, if it is not to placent, self-interested
and uncritical
Theory and Practice in Archaeology captures and extends the lively debate of the
1980s over symbolic and structural approaches to archaeology. It will be essential
reading for students of archaeology and for those involved in, and responsible for,
heritage management.
Ian Hodder is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of
Darwin College and a Director of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit.
MATERIAL CULTURES
Interdisciplinary studies in the material construction of social worlds
Series Editors:
Daniel Miller, Dept of Anthropology, University College London;
Michael Rowlands, Dept of Anthropology, University College London;
Christopher Tilley, Institute of Archaeology, University College London;
te Weiner, Dept of Anthropology, New York University
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