288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1: Editors' introduction; 1: Agency in archaeology; 2: Thinking agency; 2: Agency and individuals in long-term processes; 3: Troubled travels in agency and feminism; 4: Agency in (spite of) material culture; 5: Rationality and contexts in agency theory; 6: A thesis on agency; 3: Using agency; 7: The founding of Monte Albán; 8: Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality; 9: The tragedy of the commoners; 10: The depositional history of ritual and power; 11: Agents of change in hunter-gatherer technology; 12: Tension at funerals; 13: Constellations of knowledge; 14: Self-made men and the staging of agency; 15: Craft to wage labor; 4: Commentary; 16: On the archaeology of choice; 5: Epilogue; 17: Ethics and ontology
Biography
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
'This book contains valuable discussions of regional archaeological records.' - Bruno David, Monash University, Australia
