Synopses & Reviews
This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists.
Review
"I consider
Interpretative Archaeology to be an important book worth reading." --
Ethnos
Synopsis
The ten papers in this collection integrate recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. Contributors include: T Yates (Frameworks for an archaeology of the body); J Thomas (The hermeneutics of megalithic space); M Edmonds (Interpreting causewayed enclosures in the past and the present); T Kirk (Megaliths and long mounds in earlier Neolithic Brittany); J Thomas & C Tilley (Symbolic structures in the Neolithic of Brittany); M Johnson (Notes towards an archaeology of Capitalism); C Tilley (Prospecting archaeology); C Evans (Novel archaeologies and literary traditions) .
About the Author
Edited by
Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology, University College London.