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People and Things - A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
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People and Things - A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
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The study of the human-made world, whether it is called artifacts,
material culture, or technology, has burgeoned across the academy.
Archaeologists have for cen- ries led the way, and today offer
investigators myriad programs and conceptual frameworks for
engaging the things, ordinary and extraordinary, of everyday life.
This book is an attempt by practitioners of one program -
Behavioral Archaeology - to furnish between two covers some of our
basic principles, heuristic tools, and illustrative case studies.
Our greater purpose, however, is to engage the ideas of two
competing programs - agency/practice and evolution - in hopes of
initiating a dialog. We are convinced that there is enough overlap
in goals, interests, and conceptions among these programs to
warrant guarded optimism that a more encompassing, more coherent
framework for studying the material world can result from a
concerted effort to forge a higher-level synthesis. However, in
engaging agency/ practice and evolution in Chap. 2, we are not
reticent to point out conflicts between Behavioral Archaeology and
these programs. This book will appeal to archaeologists and
anthropologists as well as historians, sociologists, and
philosophers of technology. Those who study science-technology-
society interactions may also encounter useful ideas. Finally, this
book is suitable for upper-division and graduate courses on
anthropological theory, archaeological theory, and the study of
technology.
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