Agency in Archaeology
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Description
Ed. Marcia-Anne Dobres, PhD. and John E. Robb.
Agency in Archaeology
is the first critical volume to scrutinize the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognize that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group.
Agency in Archaeology
brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.
ISBN
9780415207614
Publication Date
2000
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York, NY
Keywords
Archaeology, Social Archaeology, Congresses, Human Ecology, Social Ecology, Philosophy
Disciplines
American Studies | Anthropology | Archaeological Anthropology | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | History | Latin American Languages and Societies | Near Eastern Languages and Societies | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Dobres, Marcia-Anne, and John Robb. Agency in Archaeology. Routledge, 2000.
