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Cognitive Archaeology - Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Cognitive Archaeology - Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South
Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives
of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models
of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural
models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an
archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what
kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be
derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in
the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not
widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific
method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of
belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume
brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate
this approach to archaeological interpretation, including
contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan
Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and
substantive research that improves our understanding of the human
past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary
audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and
methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and
theory courses and postgraduate students.
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