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Thinking from things
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ISBN: 0520935403 1597349518 1282359444 9786612359446 9780520935402 9780520223608 0520223608 9780520223615 0520223616 9781597349512 0520223608 0520223616 9781282359444 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In this long-awaited compendium of new and newly revised essays, Alison Wylie explores how archaeologists know what they know. Examining the history and methodology of Anglo-American archaeology, Wylie puts the tumultuous debates of the last thirty years in historical and philosophical perspective.


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Evidential reasoning in archaeology
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ISBN: 9781472525277 1472525272 Year: 2016 Publisher: "London ; New-York : Bloomsbury,

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"How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially those imported from the sciences? To answer these questions, the authors identify close-to-the-ground principles of best practice based on an analysis of examples of evidential reasoning in archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, contested, or instructive failures. They look at how archaeologists put old evidence to work in pursuit of new interpretations, how they construct provisional foundations for inquiry as they go, and how they navigate the multidisciplinary ties that make archaeology a productive intellectual trading zone. This case-based approach is predicated on a conviction that archaeological practice is a repository of considerable methodological wisdom, embodied in tacit norms and skilled expertise--wisdom that is rarely made explicit except when contested, and is often obscured when questions about the status and reach of archaeological evidence figure in high-profile crisis debates"

Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology : essays in the philosophy, history, and socio-politics of archaeology
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ISBN: 0521321093 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge New York Sydney Cambridge University Press

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Evidential reasoning in archaeology
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ISBN: 1474219160 147252893X 1472534697 9781472534699 9781472528933 9781472525277 1472525272 9781474219167 Year: 2016 Publisher: London New York

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"How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially those imported from the sciences? To answer these questions, the authors identify close-to-the-ground principles of best practice based on an analysis of examples of evidential reasoning in archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, contested, or instructive failures. They look at how archaeologists put old evidence to work in pursuit of new interpretations, how they construct provisional foundations for inquiry as they go, and how they navigate the multidisciplinary ties that make archaeology a productive intellectual trading zone. This case-based approach is predicated on a conviction that archaeological practice is a repository of considerable methodological wisdom, embodied in tacit norms and skilled expertise--wisdom that is rarely made explicit except when contested, and is often obscured when questions about the status and reach of archaeological evidence figure in high-profile crisis debates."-- How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially those imported from the sciences? To answer these questions, the authors identify close-to-the-ground principles of best practice based on an analysis of examples of evidential reasoning in archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, contested, or instructive failures. They look at how archaeologists put old evidence to work in pursuit of new interpretations, how they construct provisional foundations for inquiry as they go, and how they navigate the multidisciplinary ties that make archaeology a productive intellectual trading zone. This case-based approach is predicated on a conviction that archaeological practice is a repository of considerable methodological wisdom, embodied in tacit norms and skilled expertise - wisdom that is rarely made explicit except when contested, and is often obscured when questions about the status and reach of archaeological evidence figure in high-profile crisis debates


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Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology : essays in the philosophy, history and socio-politics of archaeology.
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ISBN: 0826315992 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albuquerque University of New Mexico press

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Archaeology --- Philosophy


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Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology : Essays in the philosophy, history and socio-politics of archaeology
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Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Material evidence : learning from archaeological practice
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ISBN: 9780415837453 0415837456 9780415837460 0415837464 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Routledge

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Material Evidence takes a resolutely case-based approach to this question, exploring instances of exemplary practice, key challenges, instructive failures, and innovative developments in the use of archaeological data as evidence. The goal is to bring to the surface the wisdom of practice, teasing out norms of archaeological reasoning from evidence. Archaeologists make compelling use of an enormously diverse range of material evidence, from garbage dumps to monuments, from finely crafted artifacts rich with cultural significance to the detritus of everyday life and the inadvertent transformation of landscapes over the long term. Each contributor to Material Evidence identifies a particular type of evidence with which they grapple and considers, with reference to concrete examples, how archaeologists construct evidential claims, critically assess them, and bring them to bear on pivotal questions about the cultural past. Historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers, and science studies scholars are increasingly interested in working with material things as objects of inquiry and as evidence - and they acknowledge on all sides just how challenging this is. One of the central messages of the book is that close analysis of archaeological best practice can yield constructive guidelines for practice that have much to offer archaeologists and those in related fields. Bob Chapman is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, UK. Alison Wylie is Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Washington, and of Philosophy at Durham University. Publisher's note.

Ethics in American Archaeology : Challenges for the 1990s
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ISBN: 0932839126 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington Society for American Archaeology

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Archeology --- archaeology


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Feminist science studies.
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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A gendered past : a critical bibliography of gender in archaeology.
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Year: 1993 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan. Museum of anthropology

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