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Writing the past : knowledge and literary production in archaeology
- Title
- Writing the past : knowledge and literary production in archaeology / Gavin Lucas.
- Author
- Lucas, Gavin, 1965-
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 187 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based studies, especially focusing on the coalface of archaeology, i.e. fieldwork. But where one was too abstract, the other has become too descriptive and commonly evades issues of epistemic judgement. This book remains within a practice-based approach but also tries to re-introduce a normative dimension to knowledge practices in archaeology - especially in relation to archaeological practice further down the 'assembly line': the production of published texts. For it is here that archaeological knowledge arguably becomes most stabilised and widely disseminated. By exploring the composition of texts in archaeology and the relation between their structural, performative characteristics and key epistemic virtues, this book aims to move debate in both knowledge and writing practices in a new direction. Although directed mainly at archaeologists, the argument offered in this book necessarily has relevance for all academic disciplines concerned with how knowledge production and textual composition intertwine"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The production of archaeological knowledge -- Models of archaeological reasoning in Anglo-American archaeology -- Text types and archaeology -- Textual composition and knowledge production -- Mobile knowledge.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-3004
- ISBN
- 9780367001049
- 0367001047
- 9780367001056
- 0367001055
- LCCN
- 2018035067
- OCLC
- 1047563303
- Author
- Lucas, Gavin, 1965- author.
- Title
- Writing the past : knowledge and literary production in archaeology / Gavin Lucas.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-3004