Companion to Social Archaeology

Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Inside Cover......Page 4
Copyright... ISBN10: 0631225781......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
PART I - Knowledges......Page 13
1 The ‘‘Social’’ in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective......Page 34
2 Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory......Page 54
3 Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought......Page 77
4 Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality......Page 93
5 Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective......Page 107
PART II - Identities......Page 130
6 Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender......Page 152
7 The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archaeology and Anthropology......Page 171
8 Material Culture: Current Problems......Page 189
9 Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption......Page 205
PART III - Places......Page 222
10 Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology......Page 238
11 Social Archaeologies of Landscape......Page 263
12 Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations......Page 280
13 Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic......Page 295
PART IV - Politics......Page 321
14 The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East......Page 342
15 Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism to Globalization......Page 360
16 Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans......Page 381
17 Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan......Page 403
Index......Page 422