Archaeology and TextArchaeology 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 concise and original book is that both must be seen in terms of their efficacy in the past, in particular as technologies of power and resistance. |
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... action as epiphenomenal . As in Braudellian Annalisme , human action , responding to the dic- tates of underlying ( and largely unrecognised ) structures and processes , had little place in the making of History.1 Similarly , the belief ...
... action in the past and the field in which human action takes places in the present ( Giddens 1979 : 69 ; also Giddens 1981 : 54 ; Barrett 1988 ) . People are born into communities which are structured through knowledge , rules and ...
... action , and it is in- volved in the reproduction of meaningful action in determinate social and historical contexts ' ( Moore 1990 : 112 ; also Moreland 1991a : 20-1 ; 1998 : 101-2 ) . However , the question of whether we can now read ...
Contents
List of illustrations 7 | 8 |
Words and objects in the middle ages | 33 |
The Word and the press | 54 |
Copyright | |
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