TY - BOOK ID - 7986859 TI - Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies : Traditions, Theories, Prospects AU - Marciniak, Arkadiusz. AU - Yalman, Nurcan. PY - 2013 VL - 7 SN - 1461491169 1461491177 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology. KW - Social action. KW - Sociology. KW - History & Archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Archaeology. KW - Enthnoarchaeology. KW - Humanities. KW - Archeology KW - Social sciences. KW - Cultural heritage. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Cultural Heritage. KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Classical education KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Human beings KW - Cultural heritage KW - Cultural patrimony KW - Cultural resources KW - Heritage property KW - National heritage KW - National patrimony KW - National treasure KW - Patrimony, Cultural KW - Treasure, National KW - Property KW - World Heritage areas KW - Primitive societies KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7986859 AB - Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies provide a systematic overview of major non-American traditions of ethnoarchaeology, with a particular focus on Europe and Asia. It explores all stages of their research agenda. These ethnoarchaeologies were embedded in theoretical traditions of local archaeologies. Moreover, ethnoarchaeological studies carried out in these different settings targeted a wide range of different issues and addressed numerous questions of covering all sorts of different issues. Consequently, achieved results and data have been largely idiosyncratic and hardly compatible. Hence, this volume aims not only to conceptualize characteristics of these diverse ethnoarchaeologies but more importantly put them in a broader context of the development of archaeology in different parts of Europe and Asia. The contributors to the volume express their own diverse views on the cognitive and interpretative value of ethnoarchaeology for studying prehistoric past, based on particular cases of experience and research. As such, the volume is not only a valuable overview of numerous ethnoarcheological practices in different parts of the region, but also a significant contribution to the history of archaeological thought. This perspective shall make the book of wider applicability and make possible to put up ethnoarchaeology as an immanent and important element of archaeological theory.  . ER -