UID:
almahu_9947414283302882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 157 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511897443 (ebook)
Series Statement:
New directions in archaeology
Content:
This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice. Ideology, Power and Prehistory therefore seeks to reinstate the primacy of social theory and the social nature of the past worlds that archaeologists seek to understand. The contributors to this book argue that past peoples, the creators of the archaeological records, should be understood as actively manipulating their own material world to represent and misrepresent their own and others' interests. Thus the concepts of ideology and power, long discussed in social and political science yet largely ignored by archaeologists, must henceforward play a central role in our understanding of the past as a social creation. Archaeologists must now consider how the material remains they study were used to create images by past societies, which do not simply mirror or reflect but actively orientate the nature of these societies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Ideology, power and prehistory : an introduction / Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley -- Endo ceramics and power strategies / Alice Welbourn -- Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology : the William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland / Mark Leone -- Modernism and suburbia as material ideology / Daniel Miller -- Burials, houses, women and men in the European Neolithic / Ian Hodder -- Economic and ideological change : cyclical growth in the pre-state societies of Jutland / Michael Parker Pearson -- Ritual and prestige in the prehistory of Wessex c. 2,200-1,400 BC : a new dimension to the archaeological evidence / Mary Braithwaite -- Ideology and the legitimation of power in the Middle Neolithic of southern Sweden / Christopher Tilley -- Ideology, power, material culture and long-term change / Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521255264
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897443
