Archaeology After Structuralism: Post-structuralism and the Practice of Archaeology

327 Pages·2014·17.7 MB·English

by  Ian Bapty

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
ARCHAEOLOGY
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ARCHAEOLOGY AFTER
STRUCTURALISM
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ARCHAEOLOGY AFTER
STRUCTURALISM
Post-structuralism and the
Practice of Archaeology
Edited and introduced by
IAN BAPTYAND TIM YATES
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ARCHAEOLOGY AFTER
STRUCTURALISM
Post-structuralism and the Practice of
Archaeology
Edited and introduced by
Ian Bapty and Tim Yates
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Archaeology after structuralism: post-structuralism and the
practice
of archaeology
1. Archaeology. Theories
I. Bapty, Ian II. Yates, Tim
930.101
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Archaeology after structuralism - post-structuralism and the
practice
of archaeology / edited by Ian Bapty & Tim Yates,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Introduction: Archaeology and post-structuralism
/ Ian Bapty and Tim Yates — The joker is wild, the text
untameable / Gareth Burr — Undermining archaeology /
Willy Maley — Discourse and domination / Shaun
Waterman — The experience and identity of ‘woman’ / Ruth
Bagnal — On modernity and archaeological discourse /
Christopher Tilley — Archaeology through the looking-
glass / Tim Yates — Archaeology, authority, and the
determination of a subject / Paul Moran and David Shaun
Hides — This perfect body, this virgin text / Jarl Nordbladh
and Tim Yates — Nietzsche, Derrida, and Foucault / Ian
Bapty — The post-modernist threat to the past / Kevin
Walsh. Conclusion: Reading the signs / Michael Shanks.
1. Archaeology—Philosophy. 2. Structuralism. I.
Bapty, Ian.
II. Yates, Tim.
CC72.A68 1990
930.1'01—dc20 90-8175
ISBN 0-415-04500-2
For my parents I.B.
For my parents and for Debbie T.Y.
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Introduction: Archaeology and Post-Structuralism 1
Ian Bapty and Tim Yates
Part I: Interdisciplinary Readings
1 The Joker is Wild, the Text Untameable: the Analytics of 35
Homo Analogicus (Anthropology, Post-Structuralism and
Post-Modernism)
Gareth Burr
2 Undermining Archaeology: From Reconstruction to 61
Deconstruction
Willy Maley
3 Discourse and Domination: Michel Foucault and the Problem 79
of Ideology
Shaun Waterman
4 The Experience and Identity of ‘Woman’: Feminism after 103
Structuralism
Ruth Bagnal
Part 2: Archaeological Perspectives
5 On Modernity and Archaeological Discourse 127
Christopher Tilley
6 Archaeology through the Looking-Glass 153
Tim Yates
1 Writing, Authority and the Determination of a Subject 205
Paul Moran and David Shaun Hides