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Tables of Contents for Interpretive Archaeology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures
viii
 
Notes on contributors
xi
 
Acknowledgements
xv
 
Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology
1
22
Julian Thomas
Part I On the Character of Archaeology
Introduction
21
2
Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology
23
10
John C. Barrett
Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view
33
23
Ian Hodder
The craft of archaeology
56
15
Michael Shanks
Randall H. McGuire
Materialism and an archaeology of dissonance
71
15
Christopher Tilley
Part II Interpretation, Inference, Epistemology
Introduction
83
3
Symbolism, meaning and context
86
11
Ian Hodder
Hermeneutics and archaeology: on the philosophy of contextual archaeology
97
21
Harald Johnsen
Bjørnar Olsen
Is there an archaeological record?
118
27
Linda E. Patrik
On `heavily decomposing red herrings': scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory
145
13
Alison Wylie
Archaeology through the looking-glass
158
43
Tim Yates
Part III Social Relations, Power and Ideology
Introduction
199
2
The roots of inequality
201
10
Barbara Bender
Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation
211
17
Matthew H. Johnson
Building power in the cultural landscape of Broome County, New York, 1880-1940
228
18
Randall H. McGuire
Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study
246
20
Michael Parker Pearson
Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans
266
17
Shirley S. Strum
Bruno Latour
Part IV Feminism, Queer Theory and the Body
Introduction
281
2
Homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology
283
7
Thomas A. Dowson
Power, bodies and difference
290
14
Moira Gatens
The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Palaeoindian research
304
13
Joan M. Gero
Bodies on the move: gender, power and material culture: gender difference and the material world
317
12
Henrietta Moore
Engendered places in prehistory
329
34
Ruth Tringham
Part V Material Culture
Introduction
361
2
Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text
363
14
Victor A. Buchli
The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
377
21
Igor Kopytoff
Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus
398
20
Keith Ray
Interpreting material culture
418
13
Christopher Tilley
Part VI Archaeology, Critique and the Construction of Identity
Introduction
429
2
Can we recognise a different European past? A constrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England
431
14
J. D. Hill
Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past
445
13
Sian Jones
Toward a critical archaeology
458
16
Mark P. Leone
Parker B. Potter, Jr.
Paul A. Shackel
This is an article about archaeology as writing
474
19
Anthony Sinclair
Part VII Space and Landscape
Introduction
491
2
The Berber house or the world reversed
493
17
Pierre Bourdieu
The temporality of the landscape
510
21
Tim Ingold
Past practices in the ritual present: examples from the Welsh Bronze Age
531
10
Paul Lane
Monumental choreography: architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney
541
20
Colin Richards
Bibliography
561
57
Index
618