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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction: the polarities of post-processual archaeology |
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Part I On the Character of Archaeology |
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Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology |
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23 | (10) |
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Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view |
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33 | (23) |
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56 | (15) |
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Materialism and an archaeology of dissonance |
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71 | (15) |
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Part II Interpretation, Inference, Epistemology |
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83 | (3) |
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Symbolism, meaning and context |
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86 | (11) |
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Hermeneutics and archaeology: on the philosophy of contextual archaeology |
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97 | (21) |
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Is there an archaeological record? |
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118 | (27) |
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On `heavily decomposing red herrings': scientific method in archaeology and the ladening of evidence with theory |
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145 | (13) |
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Archaeology through the looking-glass |
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158 | (43) |
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Part III Social Relations, Power and Ideology |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (10) |
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Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation |
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211 | (17) |
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Building power in the cultural landscape of Broome County, New York, 1880-1940 |
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228 | (18) |
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Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study |
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246 | (20) |
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Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans |
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266 | (17) |
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Part IV Feminism, Queer Theory and the Body |
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281 | (2) |
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Homosexuality, queer theory and archaeology |
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283 | (7) |
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Power, bodies and difference |
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290 | (14) |
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The social world of prehistoric facts: gender and power in Palaeoindian research |
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304 | (13) |
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Bodies on the move: gender, power and material culture: gender difference and the material world |
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317 | (12) |
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Engendered places in prehistory |
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329 | (34) |
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Part V Material Culture |
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361 | (2) |
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Interpreting material culture: the trouble with text |
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363 | (14) |
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The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process |
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377 | (21) |
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Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus |
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398 | (20) |
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Interpreting material culture |
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418 | (13) |
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Part VI Archaeology, Critique and the Construction of Identity |
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429 | (2) |
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Can we recognise a different European past? A constrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England |
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431 | (14) |
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Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past |
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445 | (13) |
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Toward a critical archaeology |
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458 | (16) |
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This is an article about archaeology as writing |
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474 | (19) |
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Part VII Space and Landscape |
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491 | (2) |
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The Berber house or the world reversed |
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493 | (17) |
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The temporality of the landscape |
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510 | (21) |
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Past practices in the ritual present: examples from the Welsh Bronze Age |
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Monumental choreography: architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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