New York: Plenum, Date: 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First printing. Glossy hardcovers, issued without dust jacket. Fine. 215 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations. 1998. Plenum ISBN 0306455560 9780306455568 [US]

New York Plenum 1998 First edition Hardcover Fine First printing. Glossy hardcovers, issued without dust jacket. Fine. 215 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations.

ISBN10: 0306455560, ISBN13: 9780306455568, [publisher: Springer US] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their methods, and their raison d'etre. The focus is on an existential question for archaeology: whether investigations of mate rial culture are necessary at all when studying societies with writing. Is it not sufficient to read and interpret texts if we wish to understand and explain historical periods This book has been written out of a conviction that archaeology is important, even in the study of literate societies. Yet the book has also been written out of a conviction that the importance of the historical archaeologies is not obvious to everyone. The disciplines have a tendency to be marginalized in relation both to history and to archaeology and anthropology, because the archaeologi cal results are sometimes perceived as unnecessary confirmations of what is already known. Although I regard theoretical considerations as crucial for all scholarly work, I do not think that the solution to this marginalization can be found in any 'definitive' theory that might raise the disciplines above the threatened tautology. Instead, I have found it more important to examine different methodological approaches in the historical archaeologies, to investigate how material culture and writ ing can and could be integrated. I am convinced that the ...
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ISBN10: 0306455560, ISBN13: 9780306455568, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
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New York, NY Springer 1998 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 215 p. Contains: Unspecified. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology.