Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice - Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations (Paperback)

Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained. This book explores the production of archaeological knowledge from a range of ethnographic perspectives. Fieldwork spans large parts of the world, with sites in Turkey, the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom being covered. They focus on excavation, inscription, heritage management, student training, the employment of hired workers and many other aspects of archaeological practice. These experimental ethnographic studies are situated right on the interface of archaeology and anthropology_on the road to a more holistic study of the present and the past.

General

Imprint:	AltaMira Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Worlds of Archaeology
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	April 2006
Editors:	Matt Edgeworth
Contributors:	Jonathan Bateman • Lisa Breglia • John Carman • Oguz Erdur • Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes • Charles Goodwin • Anders Gustafsson • Cornelius Holtorf • Dirk Jacobs
Dimensions:	230 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	214
ISBN-13:	978-0-7591-0845-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General
LSN:	0-7591-0845-5
Barcode:	9780759108455

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