Ethnographies of archaeological practice : cultural encounters, material transformations

Publication/Creation:

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2006]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Ethnographies of archaeological practice : cultural encounters, material transformations / edited by Matt Edgeworth

Series Titles:

Worlds of archaeology series
Worlds of archaeology series.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Edgeworth, Matt

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses
Archaeology--Fieldwork--Congresses
Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Multiple origins, development, and potential of ethnographies of archaeology / Matt Edgeworth -- Sites of knowledge : different ways of knowing an archaeological excavation / Thomas Yarrow -- The mutual constitution of natural and social identities during archaeological fieldwork / David Van Reybrouck and Dirk Jacobs -- A linguistic anthropologist's interest in archaeological practice / Charles Goodwin -- Reflecting upon archaeological practice : multiple visions of a late paleolithic site in Germany / Blythe E. Roveland -- Pictures, ideas and things : the production and currency of archaeological images / Jonathan Bateman -- Studying archaeological fieldwork in the field : views from Monte Polizzo / Cornelius Holtorf -- Digging the dirt : excavation as a social practice / John Carman -- Realisafiction : a day of work at Everybody-Knows-Land / Oǧuz Erdur -- Landscapes of disciplinary power : an ethnography of excavation and survey at Leskernick / Michael Wilmore -- Histories, identity and ownership : an ethnographic case study in archaeological heritage management in the Orkney Islands / Angie McClanahan -- Among totem-poles and clan power in Tanum, Sweden : an ethnographic perspective on communicative artifacts of heritage management / Håkon Karlsson and Anders Gustafsson -- Amazonian archaeology and local identities / Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes -- Conjunctures in the making of an ancient maya archaeological site / Timoteo Rodriguez -- Complicit agendas : ethnography of archaeology as ethical research practice / Lisa Breglia.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xviii, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990006035310302486

ISBN:

0759108447 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759108455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759108448 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759108455 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

62281817

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International Article Number: 9780759108448 (cloth : alk. paper)
International Article Number: 9780759108455 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Barcode:

010001122746