Anthropology and archaeology : a changing relationship / / Christopher Gosden

• Autore: Gosden Chris <1955, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 301/.01
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - Methodology; Archaeology - Methodology; Ethnoarchaeology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Anthropological archaeology and archaeological anthropology; Colonial origins; Instituting archaeology and anthropology: the role of fieldwork; Evolutionary, social and cultural anthropologies; The post-war picture: neo-evolution, Marxism and structuralism; Introduction to Part II; Bodily identities: gender, sexuality and practice; Material anthropology: landscape, material culture and history; Globalism, ethnicity and post-colonialism; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anthropology and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects. This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It takes a broad historical approach, setting the early history of the disciplines with the colonial period during which the Europeans encountered and attempted to make sense of many other peoples. It shows how the subjects are linked through their interest in kinship, economics and symbolism, and discusses what each contribute to debate
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology and archaeology
• ISBN: 1-134-71621-4; 0-203-01655-6; 1-280-33444-4; 0-203-15900-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450004703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II