This volume brings together a series of papers which define the
relevance of archaeology to the study of long term change and to
the understanding of our contemporary world. It re-evaluates the
premises and epistemologies which underlie the study of archaeology
and looks at the ways discoveries about the past have a direct
bearing oncontemporary beliefs and actions. The major theoretical
ideologies which have influenced archaeology since the mid-1970s
are considered: functionalism, determinism, structural Marxism,
world systems theory, postmodernism and postprocessual archaeology.
The papers in this volume, however, concentrate on the study of
structures as far as the archaeological record brings new or
different insight to their functioning in the long term. The volume
also remains committed to the possibility of an historical
reconstruction of social realities. The text is a compilation of
papers in theoretical archaeology and should appeal to academics
and postgraduates in archaeology, anthropology and history.
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