Global Archaeological Theory Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thou
Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultu
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GLOBAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thoughts
Pedro Paulo Funari Campinas State University Campinas Sao ˜ Paulo, Brazil
Andres ´ Zarankin Instituto Multidiciplinar de Historiae y Ciencias Humanas, Consajo Nacional de Investigacions Cientificas y Technicas Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentine
and Emily Stovel Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin With the support of Fundac¸ ao ˜ de Amparo a` Pesquisa do Estado de Sao ˜ Paulo
KLUWER ACADEMIC / PLENUM PUBLISHERS New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global archaeological theory : contextual voices and contemporary thoughts / edited by Pedro Paulo Funari, Andres ´ Zarankin, Emily Stovel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-306-48650-4—ISBN 0-306-48651-2 (pbk.)—ISBN 0-306-48652-0 (e-book) 1. Archaeology. 2. Material culture. 3. Ethnology. I. Funari, Pedro Paulo A. II. Zarankin, Andres. ´ III. Stovel, Emily. CC72.G57 2005 930.1 01–dc22 2004049806
ISBN 0-306-48650-4 (hardbound); 0-306-48651-2 (paperback); 0-306-48652-0 (e-book) C
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Contents
I. Archaeological Theory
Global Archaeological Theory: Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Andres ´ Zarankin, and Emily Stovel
1. Materiality and the Social . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Julian Thomas
2. Archaeology and the Meanings of Material Culture. . . . . . . . . . . .
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Norberto Luiz Guarinello
3. Why Is There Material Culture Rather than Nothing? Heideggerian Thoughts and Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hakan ˚ Karlsson
4. What Conditions of Existence Sustain a Tension Found in the Use of Written and Material Documents in Archaeology?
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Jose´ Alberione dos Reis
5. The Reception of New Archaeology in Argentina: A Preliminary Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Irina Podgorny, Mar´ıa Dolores Tob´ıas, and Maximo ´ Farro
II. Archaeological Theory and Methods in Action
6. Network Theory and the Archaeology of Modern History . . . . Charles E. Orser Jr.
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