A Companion to Social Archaeology

Copyright © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Social Archaeology

Editor(s): Lynn Meskell, Robert W. Preucel

Published Online: 17 MAR 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631225782

Online ISBN: 9780470693605

DOI: 10.1002/9780470693605

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The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades.


  • Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields.
  • Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past.
  • Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xi)

  2. Part I: Knowledges

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      Knowledges (pages 3–22)

      Robert W. Preucel and Lynn Meskell

    2. Chapter 1

      The “Social” in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective (pages 23–42)

      Ian Hodder

    3. Chapter 2

      Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory (pages 43–65)

      Bruce G. Trigger

    4. Chapter 3

      Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought (pages 66–81)

      Thomas C. Patterson

    5. Chapter 4

      Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality (pages 82–95)

      Rosemary A. Joyce

    6. Chapter 5

      Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A Paleolithic Perspective (pages 96–118)

      Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins

  3. Part II: Identities

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      Identities (pages 121–141)

      Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel

    2. Chapter 6

      Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender (pages 142–160)

      Roberta Gilchrist

    3. Chapter 7

      The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-Colonial Archaeology and Anthropology (pages 161–178)

      Chris Gosden

    4. Chapter 8

      Material Culture: Current Problems (pages 179–194)

      Victor Buchli

    5. Chapter 9

      Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology of Consumption (pages 195–211)

      Paul R. Mullins

  4. Part III: Places

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      Places (pages 215–229)

      Robert W. Preucel and Lynn Meskell

    2. Chapter 10

      Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology (pages 230–254)

      Emma Blake

    3. Chapter 11

      Social Archaeologies of Landscape (pages 255–271)

      Wendy Ashmore

    4. Chapter 12

      Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology of Household Production and Social Relations (pages 272–286)

      Julia A. Hendon

    5. Chapter 13

      Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic (pages 287–312)

      Ian Lilley

  5. Part IV: Politics

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      Politics (pages 315–334)

      Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel

    2. Chapter 14

      The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and the Production of Heritage in the Middle East (pages 335–352)

      Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock

    3. Chapter 15

      Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism to Globalization (pages 333–373)

      Gustavo G. Politis and José Antonio Pérez Gollán

    4. Chapter 16

      Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans (pages 374–395)

      Randall H. McGuire

    5. Chapter 17

      Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan (pages 396–414)

      Koji Mizoguchi

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      Index (pages 415–430)

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