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Agency Uncovered - Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human (Hardcover)
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Agency Uncovered - Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human (Hardcover)
Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
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This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term
used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to
individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been
argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining
social change in terms of structural or environmental conditions,
have lost sight of the 'real people' and reduced them to passive
cultural pawns, on the other, introducing the concept of agency to
counteract this can be said to perpetuate a modern, Western view of
the autonomous individual who is free from social constraints. This
book discusses the balance between these two opposites, using a
range of archaeological and historical case studies, including
European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka
and other Andean cultures. While focusing on the relevance of
'agency' theory to archaeological interpretation and using it to
create more diverse and open-ended accounts of ancient cultures,
the authors also address the contemporary political and ethical
implications of what is essentially a debate about the definition
of human nature.
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