Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical EmpiricismRonald F. Williamson, Michael S. Bisson Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he has been an effective voice for non-oppositional forms of argument in archaeological theory. In The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger, leading scholars discuss their own approaches to the interpretation of archaeological data in relation to Trigger's fundamental intellectual contributions Contributors include Michael Bisson (McGill), Stephen Chrisomalis (Toronto), Jerimy J. Cunningham (Calgary), Brian Fagan (Lindbrior Corporation), Clare Fawcett (St. Francis Xavier), Junko Habu (California at Berkeley), Ian Hodder (Stanford), Jane Kelley (Calgary), Martha Latta (Toronto), Robert MacDonald (Archaeological Services Inc.), Randall McGuire (Binghamton), Lynn Meskell (Columbia), Toby Morantz (McGill), Robert Pearce (London Museum of Archaeology), David Smith (Toronto), Peter Timmins (Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants), Silvia Tomásková (North Carolina), Bruce G. Trigger (McGill), Alexander von Gernet (Toronto), Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier), Ronald F. Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc.), Alison Wylie (Washington), and Eldon Yellowhorn (Simon Frasier) |
Contents
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2 Triggering Postprocessual Archaeology and Beyond | 16 |
3 Moderate RelativismPolitical Objectivism | 25 |
An Unheralded Crosscultural Method | 36 |
Situating Triggers Contribution to Social Archaeology | 52 |
6 Marx Childe and Trigger | 61 |
Direct and Indirect Influences of V Gordon Childe | 80 |
Shamanism and Archaeologys Many Histories | 92 |
The Ethnohistory of Bruce G Trigger | 142 |
12 The Influence of Bruce Trigger on the Forensic Reconstruction of Aboriginal History | 174 |
13 The Awakening of Internalist Archaeology in the Aboriginal World | 194 |
Bruce Trigger at McGill University | 210 |
Ambassador for Archaeology | 221 |
16 Retrospection | 225 |
Bibliography of the Works of Bruce Trigger | 259 |
Honours Awards Special Lectures | 289 |
9 Bruce Triggers Impact on Ontario Iroquoian Studies | 114 |
10 Bruce Trigger and the Children of Aataentsic | 135 |
Graduate Student Dissertation and Thesis Titles | 293 |
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