The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing / Edition 1

The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing / Edition 1

by Rosemary A. Joyce
ISBN-10:
0631221794
ISBN-13:
9780631221791
Pub. Date:
07/19/2002
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0631221794
ISBN-13:
9780631221791
Pub. Date:
07/19/2002
Publisher:
Wiley
The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing / Edition 1

The Languages of Archaeology: Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing / Edition 1

by Rosemary A. Joyce

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Overview

This volume provides the first critical examination of the relationship between archaeology and language, analysing the rhetorical practices through which archaeologists create representations of the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631221791
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/19/2002
Series: Social Archaeology
Pages: 186
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Rosemary A. Joyce is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and former Director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. She was previously Assistant Director and Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Her publications include Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2001), Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies (ed. with Susan D. Gillespie, 2000), Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica (ed. with David C. Grove, 1999), Women in Prehistory: North American and Mesoamerica (ed. with Cheryl Claassen, 1997), Encounters with the Americas (with Susan A. M. Shumaker, 1995), Maya History by Tatiana Proskouriakoff (ed. 1993), and Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery (1991).

Table of Contents

Introduction.

1 Introducing the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.

2 Writing the Field of Archaeology: Rosemary Joyce and Robert W. Preucel.

3 Dialogues Heard and Unheard, Seen and Unseen: Rosemary Joyce.

4 A Second Voice: Crafting Cosmos: Jeanne Lopiparo.

5 Voices Carry Outside the Discipline: Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer, and Michael Joyce.

6 The Return of the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.

7 Final Dialogues: Rosemary Joyce.

Bibliography.

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From the Publisher

"Joyce takes on archaeology's major themes, writing, and practice in her own engaging text. She has indeed produced a telling story. The book disentangles the enmeshed terrain of representation and narrative, and promises to make a lasting contribution to archaeological theory."
Lynn Meskell, Columbia University

"This is an engaging and readable study of a profoundly neglected topic in archaeology. The Languages of Archaeology constitutes an open and disarmingly honest investigation of how archaeologists write and indeed construct the past through this process. This is a highly innovative and groundbreaking piece of research, in which the aim of retrieving dialogue from its marginalized position is successfully achieved."
Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton

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