1st Edition
Writing the Past Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology
By Gavin Lucas
Copyright 2019
198 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based study, such as fieldwork. But where one was too abstract, the other has... Read more
Contents; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1. The Production of Archaeological Knowledge; Chapter 2. Models of Archaeological Reasoning in Anglo-American archaeology; Chapter 3. Text Types and Archaeology; Chapter 4. Textual Composition and Knowledge Production; Chapter 5. Mobile Knowledge; Index
Biography
Gavin Lucas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland, where has been teaching since 2002. His main interests lie in archaeological method and theory as well as the archaeology of the modern world, with a special focus on the North Atlantic.
