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Re-constructing archaeology : theory and practice

Title
Re-constructing archaeology : theory and practice / Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley.
Author
Shanks, Michael.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors
Tilley, Christopher Y.
Description
xxiii, 287 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
New studies in archaeology
Uniform Title
New studies in archaeology.
Subject
  • Archaeology > Philosophy
  • Social archaeology
  • Material culture
  • Archaeological museums and collections > Great Britain
  • Archaeological museums and collections
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Ian Hodder -- Preface to the second edition -- Pt. I. Issues in Archaeological Theory and Practice: Critique and Development. 1. The present past. 2. Positivism and the 'new archaeology'. 3. Facts and values in archaeology. 4. Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum -- Pt. II. Perspectives for a Social Archaeology. 5. Hermeneutics, dialectics and archaeology. 6. Social archaeology: the object of study -- Pt. III. Material Culture and Social Practices. 7. Style and ideology. 8. Social values, social constraints and material culture: the design of contemporary beer cans -- Pt. IV. Conclusions. 9. Archaeological theory and practice today -- Appendix: Archaeology into the 1990s.
ISBN
  • 0415085225
  • 0415088704 (pbk.)
LCCN
93132570
OCLC
  • 28182433
  • ocm28182433
  • SCSB-14531002
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries