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J Social Archaeol 3 (2)
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Title:
J Social Archaeol 3 (2)
Series
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Series:
Journal of Social Archaeology
Volume
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Volume:
3 (2)
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Publication Type:
Journal
Editor
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Editor:
Lynn Meskell
Chris Gosden
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Publisher:
Sage Publications
Year of Publication
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Year of Publication:
2003
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Source:
BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://jsa.sagepub.com/content/vol3/issue2
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Created Date:
18 Feb 2004
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Abstract
Seeing things: perception, experience and the constraints of exca...
Richard Bradley
151 - 168
Recent attempts to problematize archaeological fieldwork have been concerned with excavation at the expense of surface survey, and with questions of procedure more than interpretations of the past. In fact these two kinds of fieldwork offer quite different possibilities and suffer from different constraints. Thought must be given to ways in which they can be combined if they are to make a real contribution to social archaeology. The argument is illustrated by a project carried out at the megalithic cemetery Balnuaran of Clava, near Inverness, Scotland.
Archaeological visions: gender, landscape and optic knowledge
Marisa Lazzari
194 - 222
It is argued here that the desire to make things visible that underwrites archaeological research is an effect of the Western split between subject and object. This conforms a matrix of `optic knowledge', or the totalizing gaze of an all-knowing subject, that infuses our language and practices with visual metaphors. The critical consideration of visual metaphors is particularly relevant for gender studies in archaeology and their desire to make women visible. However, this desire also enables the re-signification of vision as a connected experience within a field of social and material forces, thus exposing gender, or any other aspect of social difference, as part of a field of relational practices.
Growing metaphors: the agricultural cycle as metaphor in the later pr...
Mike Williams
223 - 255
By reviewing the theory of metaphor, it can be shown how metaphors need not solely be linguistic but can include actions and objects. This allows for metaphors to be found and recognized in the archaeological record. Furthermore, some metaphors can be so pervasive and all-encompassing that they can determine the way people think and understand their world. During the later prehistoric period in Britain and north-western Europe, this article suggests that the agricultural cycle formed such a metaphor. Elements of agricultural production can be found in many diverse contexts and an examination of these indicates the way in which people understood and conceptualized their lives. Their aim was to situate social reproduction in the timeless and unchanging cycle of agricultural production. If people could show that they were as permanent as the land upon which they lived then possibly they could claim that land with equal permanence and, thereafter, keep it as their own