Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: A Review of Contemporary Theorectical. Debates in Archaeology (Ian Hodder). 2. Behavioral Archaeology: Toward a New Synthesis (Vincent M. LaMotta and Michael B. Schiffer). 3. Evolutionary Archaeology (Robert D. Leonard). 4. Archaeological Theory and Theories of Cognitive Evolution. (Steven Mithen). 5. Symbol before Concept: Material Engagement and the Early. Development of Society (Colin Renfrew). 6. Agency, the Duality of Structure, and the Problem of the. Archaeological Record ( John C. Barrett). 7. Archaeologies of Place and Landscape (Julian Thomas). 8. Archaeologies of Identity (Lynn Meskell). 9. American Material Culture in Mind, Thought, and Deed. (Anne Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry). 10. Postcolonial Archaeology: Issues of Culture, Identity, and. Knowledge (Chris Gosden). 11. Archaeological Representation: The Visual Conventions for. Constructing Knowledge about the Past (Stephanie Moser). 12. Culture/Archaeology: The Dispersion of a Discipline and. its Objects (Michael Shanks). Index.

About the Author

Ian Hodder is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University

Reviews

This volume nicely plumbs the thinking of some of the best minds in the field.Journal of Anthropological Research