Archaeology: Historiography and Theory / / by Tim Murray

• Autore: Murray Tim
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2025.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (444 pages)
• Disciplina: 907.2
• Soggetto topico: Historiography; History - Methodology; Archaeology - Philosophy; Philosophical anthropology; Science - History; Historiography and Method; Theoretical Archaeology; Philosophy of Anthropology; History of Science
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Themes and Goals -- Chapter 3. Methodology and Structure -- Chapter 4. Some Aspects of Antiquarianism Before the Three Age System -- Chapter 5. Prehistoric Archaeology and the Development of Ethnology -- Chapter 6. The Consequences of High Human Antiquity -- Chapter 7. National and Ethnic Prehistory -- Chapter 8. Prehistoric Archaeology in the ‘Parliament of Science’ -- Chapter 9. Archaeology from 1960: Transformation, Continuity and Divergence -- Chapter 10. Expanding the Theoretical: Processual and Post-Processual Archaeologies 1960-1990 -- Chapter 11. Expanding the Empirical: Transforming Time, Process and Duration -- Chapter 12. Expanding the Significance of Social and Cultural Context -- Chapter 13. Archaeological Epistemology, Middle Range Theory, and the Prospect of Intractable Problems?- Chapter 14. Historiography and Archaeological Theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines our understanding of the ways in which we produce and consume archaeological knowledge and proposes that this should play a greater role in our attempts to describe and comprehend the nature and purpose of archaeology, and the nature of archaeological knowledge. During the past fifty years prehistoric archaeologists have sought to promote or oppose several redefinitions of archaeological goals and approaches that have emphasized, variously, the liberating or constraining power of critical self-reflection. While practitioners have continued to expand the storehouse of archaeological data, they have also been engaged in active investigation of archaeological goals and approaches, and in intensifying debate over what it is proper or relevant for practitioners to do. Prehistoric archaeology is now much more than a method of data collection and analysis which is transformed into culture history (or exemplifications of material culture theory) by the acts of comparison and interpretation. The central premise of this book is that the kind of understanding sought here should significantly improve our ability to work towards convincing solutions to many of the practical puzzles and problems with which we currently concern ourselves. The author also argues that this understanding will help to redefine the terms under which the collectivity of archaeological practitioners can be considered to be a functioning community.
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeology: Historiography and Theory
• ISBN: 3-032-11846-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911049089303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History Series