Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

Description

Editor: Layton, R. (Robert)

Publisher: Routledge

Pub Date: 1994

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper corner half-title page.  Light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Conference and solicited papers.  “The overall theme therefore took as its starting point the proposition that archaeological interpretation is a subjective matter.  It also assumed that to regard archaeology as somehow constituting the only legitimate ‘scientific’ approach to the past needed re-examination and possibly rejection.  A narrow parochial approach to the past which simply assumes that a linear chronology based on a ‘verifiable’ set of ‘meaningful’ ‘absolute’ dates i the only way to tackle the recording of, and the only way to comprehend, the past completely ignores the complexity of many literate and of many non-literate ‘civilizations’ and cultures.”  (From the Foreword).  Several essays concerning pushback on Aboriginal and Native American rights to “relics.”  Essentially “Prove it.”