The archaeology of Bruce Trigger : theoretical empiricism

The archaeology of Bruce Trigger : theoretical empiricism / edited by Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson.

Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology...

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Other Authors: Williamson, R. F. (Ronald F.), Bisson, Michael S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Trigger, Bruce G.
Trigger, Bruce G. > Influence.
Archaeology > Canada.
Indians of North America > Canada > Historiography.
Archaeology and history.
Archaeology > Philosophy.
Social archaeology.
Indians of North America > Historiography.
Archaeology.
archaeology.
historical archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Archaeology
Archaeology and history
Archaeology > Philosophy
Indians of North America > Historiography
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Social archaeology
Canada
Electronic books.
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • The many influences of Bruce Trigger / Ronald F. Williamson, Jerimy J. Cunningham, and Jane H. Kelley
  • Triggering post-processual archaeology and beyond / Ian Hodder
  • Moderate relativism/political objectivism / Alison Wylie
  • Comparative archaeology: an unheralded cross-cultural method / Stephen Chrisomalis
  • History, theory, and politics: situating trigger's contribution to social archaeology / Lynn Meskell
  • Marx, Childe, and Trigger / Randall H. McGuire
  • Marxist theories and settlement studies in Japanese archaeology: direct and indirect influences of V. Gordon Childe / Junko Habu and Clare Fawcett
  • Yes Virginia, there is gender: shamanism and archaeology's many histories / Silvia Tomásaková
  • Bruce Trigger's impact on Ontario Iroquoian studies / Robert Pearce, Robert Macdonald, David Smith, Peter Timmins, and Gary Warrick
  • Bruce Trigger and the children of Aataentsic / Martha Latta
  • In the land of the lions: the ethnohistory of Bruce G. Trigger / Toby Morantz
  • The influence of Bruce Trigger on the forensic reconstruction of aboriginal history / Alexander von Gernet
  • The awakening of internalist archaeology in the aboriginal world / Eldon Yellowhorn
  • Wise counsel: Bruce Trigger at McGill University / Michael S. Bisson
  • Bruce Trigger: Ambassador for archaeology / Brian Fagan
  • Retrospection / Bruce G. Trigger.

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