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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... discourses . Among the Bedouin , poetry is the language of dissent and subversion , and songs of lament provide the ... discourse , especially one as socially restricted and as ' overt ' as writing , or in seeing all other discourses ...
... discourse ' ( Parry 1995 : 251 ) . It might also be argued that these names served to legitimise this discourse , and thus show the implicit priority he accorded to the written word ( see also Parry 1995 : 257 ) . The point of this ...
... discourse , as the only technology of oppression . Writing was important for all the reasons outlined above , but , as I have tried to emphasise throughout this book , we have to consider its efficacy in the context of other discourses ...
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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