Histories of archaeology : a reader in the history of archaeology

Histories of archaeology : a reader in the history of archaeology / edited by Tim Murray and Christopher Evans.

A collection of 19 reprinted papers by distinguished scholars, Histories of Archaeology reflects the growing interest in the historiography of this discipline. A general introduction orients readers by outlining core themes and issues in the field. - ;In recent years there has been an upsurge of int...

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Other Authors: Murray, Tim, 1955-, Evans, Christopher, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Historiography.
Archaeology > History.
Archaeology and history.
Archaeology > Social aspects.
Archaeology > Political aspects.
historical archaeology.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Archaeology
Archaeology and history
Archaeology > Historiography
Archaeology > Political aspects
Archaeology > Social aspects
Arkeologi.
15.30 archaeology: general.
Archaeology.
History of science (discipline)
Political aspects.
Social aspects.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Brixham Cave and the antiquity of man (1965) / Jacob W. Gruber
  • Introduction and polemic (1968) / David Clarke
  • Perspectives of a sentimental journey : V. Gordon Childe in Australia 1917-1921 (1981) / Jim Allen
  • The burden of tribalism : the social context of Southern African Iron Age studies (1984) / Martin Hall
  • Uses of the past : archaeology in the service of the state (1987) / Don D. Fowler
  • The past as propaganda : totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany (1990) / Bettina Arnold
  • The history, philosophy, and sociology of archaeology : the case of the Ancient Monuments Protection Acts (1882) (1990) / Tim Murray
  • The role of biography in writing the history of archaeology (1992) / Douglas R. Givens
  • 'Our ancestors the Gauls' : archaeology, ethnic nationalism, and the manipulation of Celtic identity in Modern Europe (1994) / Michael Dietler
  • Archaeology against the state : roots of internationalism (1995) / Christopher Evans
  • Kultur and the World War (1996) / Suzanne L. Marchand
  • Excavating women : towards an engendered history of archaeology (1998) / Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
  • Gustaf Kossinna (1858-1931) (2001) / Leo Klejn
  • A history of archaeology in Brazil (2001) / Pedro Paulo A. Funari
  • How to benefit from received ideas (2001) / Wiktor Stoczkowski
  • Historiography (2001) / Bruce Trigger
  • On the international roots of prehistory (2002) / Marc-Antoine Kaeser
  • Between antiquarians and archaeologists : continuities and ruptures (2002) / Alain Schnapp.

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