Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology

Description

Editors: Pinsky, Valerie and Wylie, Alison

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1995  (Reprint edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  There is a small bend, approx.  1/8″, to about the first twenty pages of the text at the upper front corner.  Otherwise appears unused.

Notes: Originally printed in 1989 by Cambridge University Press.  Maybe not so critical now, maybe not so contemporary.  Lots of archaeo-speak–“Broadly construed, the significant feature of this recent literature on the socio-politics of archaeology is that it is no longer preoccupied with establishing, in critical response to the positivist rhetoric of objectivity, the general point that archaeology is a social and political enterprise…the highly visible and largely external challenges from indigenous peoples, and a range of other nonarchaeological interest groups, who are insisting on their rights of access to, or control over, the resources, interpretive process and products of archaeology.” (From the Editors’ Preface)  Archaeological Theory.