1st Edition
Agency Uncovered Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human
Edited By Andrew Gardner
Copyright 2007
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or environmental conditions, have lost sight of the 'real people' and reduced them to passive cultural... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Agency, Power, and Being Human, Andrew Gardner; Part 1 Social Agency; Chapter 2 An Evolutionary Perspective on Agency in Archaeology, Stephen Shennan; Chapter 3 Agency and Community in 4th Century Britain: Developing the Structurationist Project, Andrew Gardner; Chapter 4 'Agency' Theory Applied: A Study of Later Prehistoric Lithic Assemblages from Northwest Pakistan, Justin Morris; Chapter 5 Agency, Technology, and the 'Muddle in the Middle': The Case of the Middle Palaeolithic, Brad Gravina; Part 2 Agency and Power; Chapter 6 Dirt, Cleanliness, and Social Structure in Ancient Greece, Astrid Lindenlauf; Chapter 7 Examining the Role of Agency in Hunter-Gatherer Cultural Transmission, Peter Jordan; Chapter 8 Identifying and Defining Agency in A Political Context, Fiona J.L Handley, Tim Schadla-Hall; Part 3 Being Human; Chapter 9 Acts of God and Active Material Culture: Agency and Commitment in the Andes, Bill Sillar; Chapter 10 Being in A Simulacrum: Electronic Agency, Mark W. Lake; Chapter 11 Agency and Views Beyond Meta-Narratives that Privatise Ethics and Globalise Indifference, Stephanie Koerner; Part 4 Commentary; Chapter 12 Agency, Structure and Archaeological Practice, Matthew Johnson;
Biography
Gardner, Andrew
