Table of Contents

Contents: C. Tilley, Introduction: Interpretation and a Poetics of the Past - T. Yates, Frameworks for an Archaeology of the Body - J. Thomas, The Hermeneutics of Megalithic Space - M. Edmonds, Interpreting Causewayed Enclosures in the Past and Present - C. Richards, Monumental Choreography; Architecture and Spatial Representation in Neolithic Orkney - T. Kirk, Space, Subjectivity, Power and Hegemony: The Megaliths and Long Barrows in Earlier Neolithic Brittany - J. Thomas and C. Tilley, The Axe and the Torso: Symbolic Structures in the Neolithic of Brittany - M. Johnson, Notes Towards an Archaeology of Capitalism - J. Thomas, Discourse, Totalization and the Neolithic - C. Tilley, Prospecting Archaeology - C. Evans, Digging with the Pen: Novel Archaeologists and Literary Traditions

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About the Author

Christopher Tilley Professor of Anthropology, University College London.

Reviews

'I consider "Interpretative Archaeology" to be an important book worth reading.' Ethnos