Anthropology and Archaeology: A Changing Relationship

by Chris Gosden

Overview

Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects.
This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It takes a broad historical approach, setting the early history of the disciplines with the colonial period during which the Europeans encountered and attempted to make sense of many other peoples. It shows how the subjects are linked through their interest in kinship, economics and symbolism, and discusses what each contribute to debates about gender, material culture and globalism in the post-colonial world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134716203
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Chris Gosden is presently lecturer-curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. He has held teaching positions both in Australia and the UK, and has published widely on a range of issues in archaeology and anthropology.

Table of Contents

List of Plates List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgements 1. Anthropological Archaeology and archaeological Anthropology Section 1. Histories 2. Colonial Origins 3. Instituting Archaeology and Anthropology: the Role of Fieldwork 4. Evolutionary, Social and Cultural Anthropology 5. The Post-War Picture: Neo-Evolution, Marxism and Structuralism Section 2. 6. Bodily Identities: Gender, Sexuality and Practice 7. Material Anthropolgy: Landscape, Material Culture and History 8. Globalism, Ethnicity and Post-Colonialism Bibliography Index