Archaeological theory in dialogue : situating relationality, ontology, posthumanism, and indigenous paradigms / Rachel J. Crellin, Craig N. Cipolla, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Oliver J.T. Harris, and Sophie V. Moore.

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"Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues facing archaeology today. Interspersing detailed investigations of critical theoretical issues with dialogues between the authors, the book interrogate...

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Main Authors: Crellin, Rachel (Author)
Cipolla, Craig N., 1978- (Author)
Montgomery, Lindsay M. (Lindsay Martel) (Author)
Harris, Oliver J. T. (Author)
Moore, Sophie V. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Philosophy.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Archaeology > Fieldwork.
Physical Description:xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Locating the book
  • What do we mean by relational anyway?
  • Discussing relations : typology, difference, and change
  • Indigenous alterity as archaeological praxis
  • Discussing indigenous difference : translation, ontology and the future of European prehistory
  • A song of Byzantium
  • Discussing phenomenology and posthumanism : experience, assemblages, and beliefs
  • Posthumanist power
  • Discussing posthumanist approaches to power : Marxism, politics, affect
  • In search of different pasts
  • Discussing different pasts : categories, interdisciplinarity, and metaontologies.