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Archaeology and Text

John Moreland
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      "Archaeology and Text" challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past. Previous attempts to create a rapprochement between the disciplines have been undermined by a failure to see artefacts and documents as anything more than simple sources of information about the past. The central argument of this book is that both must be seen in terms of their efficacy in the past, in particular as technologies of power and resistance. Drawing upon recent work in theoretical archaeology, John Moreland puts forward a series of case studies from early medieval Europe, early modern North America, and the prehistoric Near East to illustrate the ways in which both documents and artefacts were 'activated' in the reproduction and transformation of power and identity. A concluding chapter warns that any contribution these arguments may make to the better understanding of the historical past will be negated if we fail to appreciate the very real dangers posed, to all the peoples of the past, by the recent 'linguistic turn' in both disciplines.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John Moreland EAN: 9780715629987 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 202 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-07-12 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

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      Archaeological theory

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      John Moreland is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Sheffield.
      "Archaeology and Text" challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past. Previous attempts to create a rapprochement between the disciplines have been undermined by a failure to see artefacts and documents as anything more than simple sources of information about the past. The central argument of this book is that both must be seen in terms of their efficacy in the past, in particular as technologies of power and resistance. Drawing upon recent work in theoretical archaeology, John Moreland puts forward a series of case studies from early medieval Europe, early modern North America, and the prehistoric Near East to illustrate the ways in which both documents and artefacts were 'activated' in the reproduction and transformation of power and identity. A concluding chapter warns that any contribution these arguments may make to the better understanding of the historical past will be negated if we fail to appreciate the very real dangers posed, to all the peoples of the past, by the recent 'linguistic turn' in both disciplines.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: John Moreland EAN: 9780715629987 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 202 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2001-07-12 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

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      Archaeological theory

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      John Moreland is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Sheffield.

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