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Agency, Practical Politics and the Archaeology of Culture Contact
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In this paper, the trajectory of the agency concept in archaeology is intersected with the development of the theory of theories of agency in the field of archaeology, and the authors summarize the state of "agency" in archaeological research and its deployment in theories of science.Abstract:
I use this paper to intersect the trajectory of the agency concept in archaeology. On a theoretical front, I summarize briefly the state of ‘agency’ in archaeology and its deployment in theories of...read more
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Reading the past : current approaches to interpretation in archaeology
Ian Hodder,Scott R. Hutson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of post-processual archaeology has been addressed and an ethnohistoric example: reconsideration of ethnoarchaeology and middle range theory.
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Culture Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America
TL;DR: The authors examines the conceptual foundation of archaeological "culture contact" studies by sharpening the terminological and interpretive distinction between "contact" and "colonism" to understand indigenous and colonial histories, focusing on short-term encounters rather than long-term entanglements.
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Change and continuity, practice and memory: native american persistence in colonial new england
TL;DR: The role of practice and memory in identity and cultural persistence in the Eastern Pequot reservation in North America has been explored in this paper, where three reservation sites spanning the period between ca. 1740 and 1840 are analyzed.
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Unintended Consequences? Monumentality as a Novel Experience in Formative Mesoamerica
TL;DR: In this article, a model for the initial steps in monumental construction in Formative period Mesoamerica (ca. 1100-700 B.C) is presented, which explores the changes in spatiality, connection to place, and materialization of time at multiple scales that these construction projects produced.
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PostScript: Doing Agency in Archaeology
TL;DR: It is argued that since agency and structure are indivisible parts of a single process through which society is continuously created over time, everything that persists or changes in archaeological sites is evidence of agency.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole as discussed by the authors.