The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The
New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and
features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political
agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between
time, space, processes, and people.
* Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences
more generally to the modern world
* Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and
historical archaeologies
* Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics
and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice;
sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity;
materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism,
nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice;
media, museums, and publics
* Examines the influence of American pragmatism on
archaeology
* Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural
anthropologists
Circa l’autore
Robert W. Preucel is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at
the University of Pennsylvania, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten
Curator of the American Section at the University Museum, and
Director of the Penn Center for Native American Studies. His most
recent book is Archaeological Semiotics (Wiley-Blackwell,
2009 in paper).
Stephen A. Mrozowski is the founding director of the
Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the
University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also serves as Chair
of the Department of Anthropology. He has published more than sixty
scholarly articles and monographs and is the author of The
Archaeology of Class in Urban America (2006).
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