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Present Past: An Introduction to Anthropology for Archaeologists (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Present Past: An Introduction to Anthropology for Archaeologists (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodder's original and classic
work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation
of the archaeological record. There has long been a need for
archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and
methods for interpreting the material culture of past
civilisations. Archaeological interpretation of the past is
inevitably based on the ideas and experiences of the present and
the use of such ethnographic analogy has been widely adapted - and
criticised, not least in Britain. In this challenging study, Ian
Hodder questions the assumptions, values and methods which have
been too readily accepted. At the same time, he shows how
anthropology can be applied to archaeology. He examines the
criteria for the proper use of analogy and, in particular,
emphasises the need to consider the meaning and interpretation of
material cultures within the total social and cultural contexts. He
discusses anthropological models of refuse deposits, technology and
production, subsistence, settlement, burial, trade exchange, art
form and ritual; he then considers their application to comparable
archaeological data. Throughout, Professor Hodder emphasises the
need for a truly scientific approach and a critical self-awareness
by archaeologists, who should be prepared to study their own social
and cultural context, not least their own attitudes to the
present-day material world.
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