Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures x
List of Contributors xiii


Preface xv


Acknowledgments xvii


Part I The New Pragmatism 1


Part II Landscapes, Spaces, and Natures 51


1 The Temporality of the Landscape 59

Tim Ingold


2 Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From
Physical to Social 77

Paul S. C. Tacon


3 Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict
Settlement in Tasmania, Australia 92

Eleanor Conlin Casella


4 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape
104

Clark L. Erickson


Part III Agency, Meaning, and Practice 129


5 Practice and History in Archaeology: An Emerging Paradigm
137

Timothy R. Pauketat


6 Technology's Links and Cha?nes: The Processual Unfolding
of Technique and Technician 156

Marcia-Anne Dobres


7 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast 170

Kenneth E. Sassaman


8 Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social
Settings: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change and Persistence
from Fort Ross, California 191

Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez, and Ann M.
Schiff


Part IV Sexuality, Embodiment, and Personhood 217


9 Good Science, Bad Science, or Science as Usual? Feminist
Critiques of Science 226

Alison Wylie


10 On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa
244

John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff


11 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of
Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica 256

Rosemary A. Joyce


12 Domesticating Imperialism: Sexual Politics and the
Archaeology of Empire 265

Barbara L. Voss


Part V Race, Class, and Ethnicity 281


13 The Politics of Ethnicity in Prehistoric Korea 290

Sarah M. Nelson


14 Historical Categories and the Praxis of Identity: The
Interpretation of Ethnicity in Historical Archaeology 301

Sian Jones


15 Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American
Archaeology 311

Roger Echo-Hawk and Larry J. Zimmerman


16 A Class All Its Own: Explorations of Class Formation and
Conflict 325

LouAnn Wurst


Part VI Materiality, Memory, and Historical Silence
339


17 Money Is No Object: Materiality, Desire, and Modernity in an
Indonesian Society 347

Webb Keane


18 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and
Social Memory at Chaco 362

Barbara J. Mills


19 Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical
Archaeology 385

Paul A. Shackel


20 Re-Representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology
404

Peter R. Schmidt and Jonathan R. Walz


Part VII Colonialism, Empire, and Nationalism 423


21 Archaeology and Nationalism in Spain 432

Margarita D?´az-Andreu


22 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory,
Vijayanagara as Historical Memory 445

Carla M. Sinopoli


23 Conjuring Mesopotamia: Imaginative Geography and a World Past
459

Zainab Bahrani


24 Confronting Colonialism: The Mahican and Schaghticoke Peoples
and Us 470

Russell G. Handsman and Trudie Lamb Richmond


Part VIII Heritage, Patrimony, and Social Justice 491


25 The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage A Discussion
with Arjun Appadurai 498


26 Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism, and Heritage in the
Archaeological Present 508

Lynn Meskell


27 An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural
Research 525

Michael L. Blakey


28 Cultures of Contact, Cultures of Conflict? Identity
Construction, Colonialist Discourse, and the Ethics of
Archaeological Practice in Northern Ireland 534

Audrey Horning


Part IX Media, Museums, and Publics 551


29 No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance
at the NMAI 558

Sonya Atalay


30 The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern
Advertising 571

Lauren E. Talalay


31 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of
Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts 582

Ian Hodder


32 Copyrighting the Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights
Issues in Archaeology 593

George P. Nicholas and Kelly P. Bannister


Index 618

About the Author

Robert W. Preucel is Professor and Chair of Anthropology atthe University of Pennsylvania, Gregory Annenberg WeingartenCurator of the American Section at the University Museum, andDirector of the Penn Center for Native American Studies. Hismost recent book is Archaeological Semiotics(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 in paper). Stephen A. Mrozowski is the founding director of theAndrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also serves as Chairof the Department of Anthropology. He has published more than sixtyscholarly articles and monographs and is the author of TheArchaeology of Class in Urban America (2006).

Reviews

?Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism is a great collection of texts to teach from, but it is much more than that. Preucel and Mrozowski have put together a landmark volume that combines a diversity of exciting contributions with a common intellectual agenda and purpose. One comes away from reading The New Pragmatism with a sense of a serious, mature discipline that combines academic rigour with social engagement.? ?Matthew Johnson, University of Southampton ?Far more than a second edition, this is a fully transformed, cutting- edge, thorough, truly monumental book that captures the richness of archaeological theory today for introductory and advanced readers alike.? ?Stephen Silliman, University of Massachusetts, Boston ?The new pragmatism advanced by the editors places archaeology within its social context, importantly in ways that can serve contemporary needs in the modern world. Archaeology is no longer innocent.? ?Peter Bellwood, Australian National University "This collection of papers works beautifully as an overview of contemporary archaeological theory. It's framing as 'The New Pragmatism' is quite appropriate given the discipline's challenge to better address current social contexts and human needs." ?Dean Saitta, University of Denver