Agency in ArchaeologyMarcia-Anne Dobres, John Robb Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group |
Contents
Tables | 9 |
PART 2 | 21 |
Figures | 28 |
A thesis on agency | 61 |
sacred propositions | 71 |
1 | 101 |
3 | 110 |
The tragedy of the commoners | 113 |
Agents of change in huntergatherer technology | 148 |
deposits quarried for soapstone and archaeological occurences | 157 |
social practices and the subversion | 169 |
21 | 182 |
40 | 194 |
human agency and material | 196 |
Selfmade men and the staging of agency | 213 |
agency and resistance in American | 232 |