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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... historical archaeology that it is in a unique position to write the histories of the forgotten . Archaeology can indeed uncover the remains of the oppressed and of those who evaded the record - keepers . However ... historical archaeology ?
... historical archaeologists , is the contention that ' cups , plates , knives and forks , chamber pots , toothbrushes ' and houses were also instrumental in the process ( see , amongst many others , Deetz 1977 ; Glassie 1975 ; Leone 1995 ...
... history nor prehistory : the questions that count in historical archaeology ' , Historical Archaeology 22 : 7-12 . Deagan , K. ( 1991 ) ' Historical archaeology's contributions to our under- standing of early America ' , in L. Falk ( ed . ) ...
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List of illustrations 7 | 8 |
Words and objects in the middle ages | 33 |
The Word and the press | 54 |
Copyright | |
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